Monday, March 05, 2012

All you need to know about Sandra Fluke in 30 seconds

Here's the real Sandra Fluke:

Fluke is a liar: during her testimony, she claimed that birth control had cost a stunning $3,000 during her three years of law school. Unfortunately, it turns out that Walmart and a nearby Target have offered $9-a-month birth control since 2007. Not to mention the fact that there appear to be four Planned Parenthood offices within walking distance of Georgetown Law School, where they seem to dispense contraceptives like candy.

Fluke is a kook: among her prior positions (policy positions, that is...), she argued that insurers be required to cover sex-change surgery and other "transgender services".

Fluke is a professional abortion rights activist: and that's her own description of herself - "A Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies major at Cornell, [she] is also a past president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice."

No, Fluke is an activist and a plant.

My only question: what did George Stephanapoulous know and when did he know it?


Hat tip: BadBlue.com.

What Would Breitbart Do? Rally for Rush! #WWBD

Jeffrey Lord's latest must-read in the American Spectator is a call to action to defend free speech, inspired by Andrew Breitbart's example. It traces the advertisers that have abandoned Rush's program, many after decades of support. Lord notes that only a pathetic 21 percent of Americans identify themselves as liberals. And he rightly observes that disenfranchising 79 percent of Americans is a decidedly flawed business strategy.

The time to be bullied is OVER. You hear me? It's OVER.

Here's how we're going to fight back against "The Cowardly Seven", as I like to call the advertisers who abandoned Rush over calling Sandra Fluke a "slut", when a more apt description for her is "a lying plant".

Sleep Train: This gutless company says it has been advertising with Rush for 25 years. They should be ashamed of themselves. Absolutely ashamed...
This is the e-mail for Sleep Train's customer service: customerservice@sleeptrain.com. This is the 800 phone number for Sleep Train: 1-800-919-2337. This is the 800 fax number for Sleep Train: 1-866-293-5719.

Legal Zoom: The Co-founders of this company are Brian Liu, Brian Lee, Eddie Hartman & Robert Shapiro... The address for e-mails is here. The Corporate Headquarters phone number is: 1-323-962-8600. The fax number is: 323-962-8300.

Citrix: Mark B. Templeton is the President and CEO... The contact info for the Citrix Corporate Headquarters is... Toll Free Phone: 1-800-424-8749, Phone: 954-267-3000, Fax: 954-267-9319.

Quicken Loans: Quicken, under the leadership of its Founder and Chairman Dan Gilbert.... has gone the extra mile to antagonize the 40 percent. It has this statement on its website: Due to Rush Limbaugh's continued inflammatory comments -- along with the valued feedback we have received from our clients and team members -- Quicken Loans has suspended all advertising on the Rush Limbaugh radio program.

Note: Quicken is so skittish the above message appears for mere seconds before vanishing. It took repeated tries to copy verbatim the simple, highly provocative message above.

The Quicken contact info is found on this page of their website. Note: The company has an online chat function on this page. Also: Phone, Client Relations: 1-800-863-4332.

Pro-Flowers: Their contact info is here.

Carbonite: ...contact info here...

...DO YOU GET the picture? The American Left -- whether it pops up in the form of Media Matters, Color of Change, MoveOn.org, Texans for Truth or other groups -- is determined to shut off conservative dissent from their agenda by whatever means necessary. Fueled in part by money like that they received from David Friend of Carbonite. To do this they are quite specifically going after conservative talk radio hosts and television commentators one by one by one. The fact that David Friend of MoveOn.org/Carbonite is there to stick it to Rush is all the better. The fact that Ed Schulz called Laura Ingraham a slut is one big no-big-deal to Sandra Fluke herself when she wants air time on with Mr. Ed. Why should David Friend care if Ms. Fluke doesn't? So, Carbonite continues as Mr. Ed's sponsor, sluts be damned.

As noted earlier, what began with Don Imus, Lou Dobbs, and Glenn Beck has just hit Pat Buchanan... Now, they want Rush's scalp...

In his last speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) just weeks ago, Andrew Breitbart stood at the podium and said: "Conservatives used to take it and we're not taking it anymore."

...By doing what they have now done, these one-time sponsors of Rush Limbaugh's show have now startlingly indicated that they are signing on with anti-First Amendment thugs.

We've got work to do, friends. It's time to Rally for Rush.

And, please: pass it on.


Hat tip: R.L.

Photo: Gas Pump Sticky Note Campaign Makes a Comeback

Wanda:

If you're having trouble reading the note, here's what it says:

Hey there voter!

Do you remember that on Inauguration Day (Jan. 20th) 2009, the national average for a gallon of gasoline was about $1.78? How's that "Hope & Change" working out for you?

Anyone but Obama
Nov. 2012

I would have added: "Can you imagine what another four years of Obama will mean for gas prices?"


Related: Gas Pump Sticky Note Campaign Makes Its Way to Grocery Stores

List of words monitored by DHS on social media

According to AllGov, the Department of Homeland Security -- led by the beloved baritone, Janet Napolitano -- is monitoring a range of words and phrases on social networks.

• Soetero     • AttackWatch     • Vera Baker     • Alinsky     • Larry Sinclair

Just kidding. Here's the real list. As far as you know.

If not getting enough attention in your life is a problem, there’s one surefire way to get the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to notice you: Use any of its proscribed watch words on social media sites.

According to a DHS document, the agency is maintaining a lengthy list of “Items of Interest”—in other words, words. The words are categorized by subject, such as those falling under “Domestic Security,” “Southwest Border Violence,” “Health Concern + H1N1,” “Terrorism” and more.

Besides the obvious ones like “Al Qaeda (all spellings),” “weapons cache,” “meth lab” and “jihad,” the words being monitored on Facebook and Twitter include:

    • airport     • sick     • gas     • cloud     • mud slide or mudslide     • canceled     • interstate     • recovery     • home grown     • marijuana     • incident     • police     • infection     • symptoms     • North Korea     • China     • Tucson     • San Diego     • pork     • help

By the way, if you -- in your personal lives -- detect any discontent with administration policies among friends, family and colleagues, be sure and notify AttackWatch.com or one of your local Obama "Truth Teams". Even if it means turning in your parents.


Larwyn's Linx: Wikileaks: Obama secretly took Russian money for his campaign

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Nation

Wikileaks: Obama secretly took Russian money for his campaign: NoisyRm
The Vetting, Part I - Barack's Love Song to Alinsky: Breitbart
David Axelrod’s Red Roots: Obama Adviser’s Communist Ties Exposed: RSM

Can we tell the truth about Barack Obama?: Protein Wisdom
Malice in Wonderland as Barack’s Presidency Finally Runs Out of Gas: CFP
Obama Invites Self to Deliver Commencement Address: Malkin

Never Give Up the Ball: Sultan Knish
Let’s Fight Back on the Left’s Ridiculous Birth Control Narrative: VS
Karen Harrington Lands Major Tea Party PAC Endorsement: Shark Tank

Economy

ObamaCare and RomneyCare Will Hurt Ohio Families: Santorum
Obama’s Texas “Truth” Team Unveiled: MNR
Are You Willing to Pay the Moral Price for the Welfare State?: CDN

GOP Primary

2009 Romney glad to hear Obama copying RomneyCare: Scoop
Rasmussen OH: Santorum 33%, Romney 31%, Gingrich 15%: FAM
Santorum Maintains Lead in Tennessee: PolWire

Scandal Central

America Has “No Confidence” in Holder: CDN
Grassley: Where’s report on ‘Fast and Furious’?: Times
Is Abound Another Solyndra?: NRO

Climate & Energy

This Was the Moment: SDA
Another solar study: this one suggests no significant solar influence: Watts

Media

Make an example of Carbonite (Update: ProFlowers joins Rush boycott): LI
Carbonite Drops Ads from Rush Limbaugh but Not Ed Schultz?: RS
Another lesson in how the Dems run circles around the GOP with "progressive" issue framing: York

Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist: Daily Beast (Kirsten Powers)
Wasserman Schultz Says Calling Women Sluts Isn't Funny - Two Months After Doing Maher's Show: NB
'Rush'ing away: 7th company yanks ads from Limbaugh show: Post

White House Launches Hamfisted Campaign to Silence Iran Critics: Commentary
Since We Can’t Call Sandra Fluke a ‘Slut,’ Would ‘Lying Liberal Bitch’ Be OK?: RSM
Whom do you believe, HBO or the Secret Service?: Breitbart

World

Daylight - The Story of Obama and Israel: Glick
The Deceits of Seymour Hersh: Commentary
Saudi Arabia raises Arab light oil price to Asia: Reuters

Obama's Lie-Filled "Jews Please Love Me" Speech at AIPAC: Lid
Bob Graham and Bob Kerrey on a Saudi Link to 9/11: Atlantic
Now That's a Welcome: Israpundit

Nigeria: Boko Haram planning "war on Christians" in coming weeks: JihadWatch
Border Patrol Agents Engage in Cross-Border Gunfight: KRIS-TV
Prayer for Iraq: Modicum

Sci-Tech

Giving Up Your iPhone: NetworkWorld
Has the Time Come to Start Taxing Online Game Currency?: AllGov
Teachers embrace social media in class: USA Today

Cornucopia

One year later: Marizela is still missing; Plus: A public appeal to Google: Malkin
The Weekly Address and Fractured Fairy Tale: MOTUS
The OWSers Are Making A Movie!: Spew

Image: USA Today
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "The reason that Obama's Alinskyite past, and his many appearances in political photography and video from the 1990s, are conspicuously missing from the national dialogue is that State Senator Barack Obama's reinvention as a reasonable and moderate Democratic politician could not withstand scrutiny of his political life.

Because the mainstream media did not explore his roots, the American public remains largely ignorant of the degree to which Obama’s work with ACORN and his love of Alinsky were symbolic of his true political will.

If any of the candidates can resist the media, and parlay Newt’s strategy into a nomination, we’ll have the choice between an imperfect but well-known Republican and the real “Baraka” Obama, not the manufactured one the media prefers." --Andrew Breitbart

Sunday, March 04, 2012

Carbonite caves in to the Left's efforts to silence Rush Limbaugh $CARB

William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection is closely following the Left's efforts to silence Rush Limbaugh through advertiser boycotts.

Liberal groups have seized on a strategy I didn’t think would be effective, but has had some success, to go after advertisers of prominent conservative media personalities. ... ...Media Matters explicitly seeks to bring down Fox News and investigate its executives, and Fox News advertisers have been targeted by groups like Color of Change, which has targeted Glenn Beck, Eric Bolling, Lou Dobbs, Pat Buchanan and Andrew Breitbart.

Now Rush Limbaugh advertisers are the target because of an analogy he used... [and the controversy] distracted from the attack on religious freedom which is the heart of the controversy.

As has become the pattern, Rush’s advertisers immediately were attacked and threatened, and several gave in quickly, like Quicken Loans and Sleep Number, pulling their advertising.

No advertiser was more associated with Rush than Carbonite, an online computer back up company. Rush often would read Carbonite’s ads himself, and would tout their service.

Carbonite initially took a principled position, asserting that it advertises on both conservative and liberal shows, and that its advertising does not constitute an endorsement of what any particular host says... Indeed, Carbonite still advertises on the show of Ed Schultz, who makes unhinged attacks on the Tea Party and conservatives daily, and called conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham a slut (for which he later apologized).

...Saturday night, the CEO of Carbonite issued a statement withdrawing advertising from Rush’s show notwithstanding that earlier in the day Rush has issued an apology... This is an attempt find something, anything, to force Rush off the air. Ms. Magazine has launched a campaign do do just that by going after Clear Channel Communications, whose stations carry Rush’s program.

Today's Leftists have a totalitarian mindset. They despise free speech.

Unable to win in the marketplace of ideas (remember Air America?), the would-be despots of the hard Left instead try to silence the voices of those with whom they disagree.

The Statists, the Marxists, the progressives -- what ever name you prefer to call the hard Left kooks that now dominate the Democrat Party -- would be at home in the Soviet Union, or North Korea, or Venezuela. They are an appendage of centralized government and bent on retaining their white-knuckled death-grip on power.

Their anti-American efforts must be stopped. And Carbonite is as good a place to start resisting these regressives as any.


Update: Dan Riehl has more details on Carbonite's P.R. debacle (hat tip: BadBlue.com).

Funniest article I've seen in years: a mystified Washington Post wonders 'What's ailing the Chevy Volt?'

No, I'm serious.

What’s ailing the Chevy Volt?


On Friday, GM announced it was halting production of the Chevrolet Volt until April, so as to maintain “proper inventory levels.” Sales of the electric vehicle have been disappointing, with the company missing its target of 10,000 Volts sold last year. Why hasn’t the car caught on?

Might I venture a few answers?

• The Volt has an annoying habit of sometimes blowing up

• It's incredibly expensive

• It's a coal-powered car

• It's the result of central planning, as opposed to actual market demands

The whole focus on electric cars is, in my opinion, borderline insane. Battery technologies are decades away from real suitability in automobiles. And, even more concerning, the Obama administration is waging a war on America's electric generation, thanks to an out-of-control EPA:

GenOn Energy just announced it will be shuttering eight power plants over the next couple of years, taking about 15% of its total generating capacity offline

Two Chicago-area power plants are slated to close

Three midwest power plants owned by FirstEnergy will be forced to close

And the list goes on and on and on. Obama's war to de-industrialize America continues apace.


Exclusive Photo: Lost Jonas Brother Wants Free Contraceptives

The entire handling of this affair is deserving of severe mockery.

As an aside, Newt Gingrich obliterated David Gregory on Meet the Depressed this morning.


For those voting on Tuesday: we have a country to save

If Constitutional Conservatives and Tea Party Activists are to stop Mitt Romney in Ohio, it's imperative they support Rick Santorum.

NBC/Marist Poll: Santorum Has Small Edge in Ohio


A new NBC News/Marist poll in Ohio shows Rick Santorum just ahead of Mitt Romney among GOP primary voters, 34% to 32%, followed by Newt Gingrich at 15% and Ron Paul at 13%.

"A Romney win, following his victories last week in Michigan and Arizona, would cement his front-runner status and keep him on his path (no matter how rocky it's been) toward capturing the GOP presidential nomination. But a Santorum win would signal that his close second-place finish in Romney's native state of Michigan wasn't a fluke, and it would likely ensure that this Republican nomination battle remains competitive -- perhaps through April and maybe even June."

To be clear, I will walk on broken glass to vote for Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum or a Mall Santa in order to defeat Barack Obama in the general election.

That said, did the Tea Party go away? Did it disappear into the ether after the GOP's crushing victories in the 2010 midterms? Did it shatter after a million internecine battles?

Or is it merely simmering at a low boil while grassroots groups canvas for its primary favorites?

To my friends voting on Super Tuesday...

The time for action is now. The situation our country faces is too dire and the stakes too high to sit on the sidelines. You may, as I do, feel the fatigue of negative attacks, experience anger at the proctological scrutiny of your favorite candidates, or disgust at the blatant bias of the Democrat-media complex.

But you must, like an Olympic athlete, put all of that aside and vote on Tuesday.

If I could vote in one of your states, I would be casting my vote for Rick Santorum. Praised by no less a set of conservative luminaries like Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and Sarah Palin, Santorum has been a consistent conservative throughout his career.

Architect of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, a proponent of the original Balanced Budget Amendment and an expert at national defense issues, Santorum's appeal is far wider than legacy media would have you believe.

This election will be about the future of America

Do Americans want a nation flooded with food-stamps and welfare payments, a European-style decline, and an out-of-control president who flouts the very Constitution upon which he took an oath to uphold?

Or do they want a return to founding principles, fiscal discipline and respect for the rule of law?

This election will be about founding principles, the most important of which are faith, family, private property rights and individual liberty. Those tenets were foundational to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Our rights are God-given, not offered in a bill by some bureaucrat in Washington. How can someone articulate the nature of American exceptionalism without a grounding in our founding document and our highest law?

The "Great Society" proved the defective nature of the Democrats' philosophy. Even if they were inspired by altruistic desires, Democrats have utterly destroyed the two-parent family, especially in the urban core.

Dozens of studies have proven that easy access to food stamps and welfare payments inflate the percentage of single-parent families. And single-parent families are linked directly to violent crime: in fact, no matter what race you are, you have the same chance of going to prison if you are raised in a single-parent household.

As for private property rights and the rule of law: the Constitution means what it says. To the extent that temporary politicians dismiss the genius of the Framers; strip away the bonds on the federal government placed explicitly upon it; and confiscate more and more private property in pursuit of a Utopian, benificent state that can't be and never was; they are corrupt and lawless. A government that takes your private property for purposes other than those specifically enunciated in the Constitution is operating outside of the law.

These lines are crystal clear and it will take an articulate conservative grounded in the founding principles to draw the sharpest contrast between the European nanny state that Obama seeks and the kind of government our Framers created.

You can cherry-pick the man's record all you want, but Santorum's record is one of consistency.

Santorum has a legislative record...

Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
Voted YES on $40B in reduced federal overall spending. (Dec 2005)
Voted YES on prioritizing national debt reduction below tax cuts. (Apr 2000)
Voted YES on 1998 GOP budget. (May 1997)
Voted YES on Balanced-budget constitutional amendment. (Mar 1997)

Rated 25% by CURE, indicating anti-rehabilitation crime votes. (Dec 2000)
Rated 27% by the NEA, indicating anti-public education votes. (Dec 2003)
Rated 0% by the LCV, indicating anti-environment votes. (Dec 2003)
Rated 100% by CATO, indicating a pro-free trade voting record. (Dec 2002)
Rated 0% by APHA, indicating a anti-public health voting record. (Dec 2003)
Rated 0% by the AFL-CIO, indicating an anti-union voting record. (Dec 2003)
Rated 81% by NTU, indicating a “Taxpayer’s Friend” on tax votes. (Dec 2003)

--Source: Issues 2000 Legislation Tracker

Rick Santorum is a true, God-fearing, Constitutional conservative in the mold of Ronald Reagan. If we are to begin repairing this country, we need him or someone like him as President.

This election won't be about access to condoms. It's going to be about freedom. What it means to be an American. And Rick Santorum would be an outstanding choice as president.

So, to my friends voting on Tuesday: I urge you to consider supporting Rick Santorum for president. Send a message to Washington: the era of big government is over. The time for action is now.

We have a country to save.


Exclusive: Full Schematic of Chevy Volt



Hat tip: Whited Speulchre.

Larwyn's Linx: After Calling Citizens 'Tea-Baggers,' Obama Sensitive to 'Slut'

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Nation

After Calling Citizens 'Tea-Baggers,' Obama Sensitive to 'Slut': AT
Rush Limbaugh Is Not The Problem: RWN
SlutGate: Obama’s Manufactured Media Tactic: BigJourn

Cartonite Drops Rush: LI
Obama’s Intimidation Tactics Continue: Publius
Air America Host Urged Bachmann To Kill Herself: FAM (2009)

Economy

Truth Behind America's Fiscal, Employment Picture: Durden
White House Memo: Plans to Raise Taxes on All: LoneCon
Dems Threaten Tax Retaliation Over GOP Donations: Townhall

Obama bundler Corzine unlikely to face charges: WyBlog
White House using taxpayer cash to pay for media spin: Times
Mostly peaceful Occupy Oakland urged to arm itself: Marathon

GOP Primary

Santorum Could Be Ineligible For 18 Ohio District Delegates?: NatlJrnl
Romney notches fifth straight win with Washington state caucuses: Fox
GOP Headwinds: Charlie Cook

Climate & Energy

Strategic Petroleum Reserve is for emergencies - not political disasters: Barrasso
Activists: Birth control can fight global warming: DC
New Study Shows A Clear Millennial Solar Impact Throughout Holocene: Watts

Media

Levin rallies for embattled Limbaugh, tells media ‘you can go to hell’: DC
It's Time to Fix the Bill of Rights: Post
The Girl With the Dead Eyes: Misfit Politics

NOW Forced To Respond To Slur On Palin: S&L
Sandra Fluke is not a “slut.” She’s a femme-agogue tool; DCCC, Emily’s list fund-raise off of Rush: Malkin
Consequences of Voting for Obama: MB

Something missing from Georgetown Law’s condemnation: LI
Now, This Is Just Mean: ConCom
Sandra Fluke: D.A.M. Member, Political Activist, Phony Victim: CDN

Newt faults media for Limbaugh 'slut' focus: Politico
Sarah Palin: Allen West should be considered for VP: Scoop
With Breitbart gone, what becomes of his empire?: MyWay

World

Taliban Defense Attorney now No. 3 at Obama DOJ: Creeping
Obama's AIPAC speech pivotal for holding Jewish voters in 2012: Hill
'Five pillars of Islam' taught in public school: JihadWatch

North Korea Has Allegedly Tested Nuclear Warheads For Iran: ZH
France: Sarkozy nixes halal meat in schools for Muslims: IIE
Swine flu kills nearly 200 in Mexico already in 2012: Global Post

Youcef Nadarkhani Executed: Christian Pastor Hanged in Iran for Being Christian: BlueStar
The thing about Vladimir Putin is that he doesn’t give a damn: Spectator
Fury over attack on British war graves in Benghazi: BBC

Sci-Tech

Highlight, the people discovery app that could change the world: CNet
Anonymous Supporters Tricked into Installing Zeus Trojan: Symantec
The guru who surfs the web to make a fast buck: smh

Cornucopia

Breitbart Is Here: iOTW
MOTUS: It's a Slam Dunk!
Black Republican History: NBRA

Image: iOwnTheWorld
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QOTD: "During a discussion series on Monday at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., speaker and activist Kavita Ramdas argued that contraceptives should be part of a strategy to save the planet, calling lower birth rates a “common sense” part of a climate-change reduction strategy... Ramdas told The Daily Caller that the research shows “empowering women to time their pregnancies” and avoid unwanted births would reduce carbon emissions between 8 to 15 percent globally." --Jason Howerton

Saturday, March 03, 2012

BREITBART IS HERE

The irreplaceable iOwnTheWorld has the idea (note: the site appears to be either too busy or under DDOS attack at the moment, but special thanks to Atlas Shrugs for relaying the idea).

Okay, we are flying by the seat of our pants here. We’re going to do this frenetically and impulsively, just like my idol Andrew Breitbart, I’ve negotiated a deal with Anthem Studios to have these opened up for ordering. I will have the link asap.

Just to be clear, this is going to be done at cost, which includes labor, shipping and materials. More details to follow.

The owner of Anthem Studios was a friend of Andrew Breitbart and he just showed me the most beautiful picture of his wife and himself with Mr. Breitbart. This project is in good and well-intentioned hands.

UPDATE 2: I smell a prairie fire. Some biggies have e-mailed and are of the opinion that Breitbart, in death, has more impact than most in life.

I will be working on the different files and formats necessary to get this rolling. I will update again later.


As soon as I get an order link, I will relay word.

Update: T-Shirt Order Page Is Here

Oh. And Breitbart is here, you leftist miscreants.


The Obama-Democrat-Media Complex In One Photograph

You're welcome.


Doctor's Ad from The News Herald, Panama City, FL [Papa B]

Papa B:

The attached is an ad that ran in the The News Herald, Panama City, FL:


For more on the President's demanding schedule, including his daily activity list, visit White House Dossier.


Government is their god

President Obama's recent attacks on the Catholic Church, which ignited a firestorm of controversy over First Amendment issues, are simply part of a bigger picture. Consider:

• In the words of Robert Bernal Aguirre, Obama's move to assuage the controversy that forces religious institutions to pay for contraceptives and abortifacients, is "nothing more than a shell game":

On February 10 Obama moved the immoral pea from one shell to another when he stood before the nation to announce a “compromise” and an “accommodation” -- one that he discussed with none of the offended parties. .. The great irony is that the very groups that put him in office – Catholics and Hispanics – have consistently been among those most offended by this administration...

...President Obama demeans our belief in life and he obliterates our constitutional protection of religious freedom. He is telling not just Hispanics and not just Catholics – but all people of faith – that our faith-formed opinions have no place in the public square. Such is the state of democracy in America in this election year of 2012.

• As the Heritage Foundation observes, President Obama has made five attempts to slash the charitable tax deduction, a critical source of funds for religious institutions.

...the President’s plan would likely dampen charitable giving at a time when nonprofits have been forced to do more with less. The greatest impact would probably hit organizations like hospitals and educational institutions... Sadly, many of these nonprofit organizations are the same charities whose religious liberty is under attack by Obamacare’s anti-conscience mandate... [He] has engaged in a pattern of weakening the status and identity of civil society institutions.

• Obama has, on multiple occasions, omitted references to God that are foundational to the Declaration of Independence.

• He has also routinely skipped thanks to the Lord during the President's traditional Thanksgiving address.

• And these omissions are entirely consistent with the secular, anti-American message promoted by the Democrat media complex, which routinely removes phrases like "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.

Why would liberals remove God from its rightful role in America's founding?

Because, in their view, government grants rights. Your God-given, individual rights mean nothing to them.

Government is their god. Government is all-powerful. Government comes first. And that is why they promote secularism. It's not about "separation of church and state". It's about power.

The power of government to dominate the individual.


Larwyn's Linx: Voting for the Empty Orange Juice Can

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GOP Primary

Voting for the Empty Orange Juice Can: McLeod
N.C. Poll: Santorum 31, Romney 25, Gingrich 23: WS
Republicans Fall For Manufactured Story: Loesch

Nation

Obama’s campaign bully brigade rides again: Malkin
Obama Makes Fifth Attempt to Slash Charitable Deduction: Foundry
DHS Caught Hiding Online Spying Program from Congress: NewAm

A Friday Reminder: the Goals of Communism: Babalu
Where'd the extra $111B of ObamaCare costs come from?: Hot Air
K Street Democrats warn clients on donations to GOP: Politico

TSA: Fail: G-Man Case File
20 Obvious Truths That Will Shock Liberals: Hawkins
The Fainting Again: Ace

Economy

ObamaCare Destroys Mutual Assent in Contracts: MB
Sebelius: Reducing population will pay for cost of contraception: Cove
Ponzi Plus: NY Cities Borrow From Pension to Make Contributions: Mish

One Month to Go Until We Have the World's Highest Corporate Tax Rate: ATR
How to Torpedo a State's Economy: The Jennifer Granholm Story: ATR
Taxpayers lose $100,000 for Dearborn’s illegal enforcement of sharia law: Creeping

TurboTax Tim Geithner's Amnesia: Cato
How One Bureaucrat Almost Succeeded in Banning Car Radios: Reason
Unions spending big in bid to damage Romney: Hill

Scandal Central

Media Ignores Not One, But Two Gun-Walking Scandals: Chastain
GM Halts Production of Chevy Volt. Lays Off 1300 Workers for 5 Weeks: Blogmocracy
Holder questioned about Agent Zapata murder’s link to Fast & Furious: CFP

Climate & Energy

President Obama's Lies Regarding U.S. Dependency On Foreign Oil: Mish
Another epic fail for the Eco-tards: Gasoline-powered cars are greener than electric: TAB
CNBC’s Santelli warns of ‘third-world’ status with progressive energy policies [AUDIO]: DC

It's Happening: 5 Coal-Fired Power Plants Shutting Down: Johnsen
Obama: To Reduce Gas Prices, Make Drilling More Expensive!: Geraghty
Global Warming Hysteria: Santa Claus Safe!: First Things

Media

Dystopia in America: New Criterion
How Network News Has Twisted Obama's War on Religion Into a Conservative War Against Women: MRC
Andrew Breitbart: The Vandal and the Crusader: ABC

Breitbart’s Last Laugh: Labash
Obama: "Maybe Change Isn't Possible ... Maybe We Were Naive": RCP
NBC Nightly News goes after Rush Limbaugh: Scoop

Rush waiting for Bill Clinton to call Sandra Fluke to see if she’s OK: Scoop
23-Year-Old Georgetown Co-Ed Sandra Fluke Is 30-Year-Old ‘Reproductive Rights’ Advocate: ConCom
What Andrew Taught Me: BigJourn

Where is MY phone call, President @BarackObama?: Toldjah
Fluke Free Birth Control: CDN
SarahPAC to HBO: Get Bent: PCR

World

2-Mar-12 World View: In Iran’s Elections Friday, It’s Ahmadinejad Versus the Supreme Leader: BigPeace
LEAKED STRATFOR EMAILS: Analysts Didn't Believe Bin Laden Was Buried At Sea: Insider
Cuba releases photos of convalescing Hugo Chavez: CNS

Obama cautions against “a premature attack” on Iran, rejects red lines: Debka
To many Germans, Europe’s financial woes are horribly familiar: Daily Star of Lebanon
Russia upgrades radar station in Syria to aid Iran: Times

Sci-Tech

How do you shut off Windows 8?: CNet
The dark side of Facebook: Telegraph
Dell Sends Technician To Your Office To Break Your Laptop: Consumerist

Cornucopia

Sea Change: Haunting family photos pulled from the wreckage of Japan's tsunami.: ForPol
Sheriff Arpaio's Posse Surprise: AT
Hot Vodka: Ace

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QOTD: "[The TSA's] virtual strip search screening machines are a failure in that they cannot detect the type of explosives used by the “underwear bomber” or even a pistol used as a TSA’s own real-world test of the machines. Yet TSA has spent approximately $60 billion since 2002 and now has over 65,000 employees, more than the Department of State, more than the Department of Energy, more than the Department of Labor, more than the Department of Education, more than the Department of Housing and Urban Development---combined. TSA has become, according to the report, “an enormous, inflexible and distracted bureaucracy more concerned with... consolidating power.”" --Steve Moore

Friday, March 02, 2012

Got Slut? The Left Launches a Coordinated Attack Against Rush Limbaugh

If a ringer goes in front of Congress and demands that I pay for her birth control, then obviously she must suffer from nymphomania. Because contraceptives don't cost a heck of a lot of money. And, if she's truly needy, there's -- what -- a Planned Parenthood in every neighborhood?

I mean, she wants free contraceptives, but what about cancer patients? Should we be subsidizing Sandra Fluke's sex life? Or should we be spending that money on cancer research or other real women's health issues?

• Someone named "Sandra Fluke" -- if that is her real name -- testified in front of Congress in support of a "contraception mandate". That is, she publicly demanded free contraceptives as a matter of "women's health" and was treated to a liberal media smucker-fest.

• Well, it turns out Fluke, positioned by the media as a 23-year old law student, is actually a 30-year old "reproductive rights advocate".

• Rush Limbaugh, like any right-thinking American, was offended:

What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We're the pimps.

And he's right. Where are the advocates for cancer patients? How about heart attack victims? Or is the major "women's health" problem in this country access to contraceptives?

• Never ones to let a crisis go to waste, the totalitarian loons on the left -- who despise free speech -- began demanding that advertisers boycott the Limbaugh show. A couple of them actually caved, including advertisers Sleep Number and Sleep Train.

Turns out I need to buy a new bed and was thinking about a Sleep Number mattress. No more. They can go find some hippies to buy their products.

• Senate Democrats -- with no pressing matters to which to attend like the economy or the debt or passing a budget -- began circulating a petition and raising money for free condoms their campaigns.

• In response, Rush announced he was waiting for Bill Clinton to call Sandra Fluke to see if she is okay.

• And just a few hours ago, President Obama (with little else to do, since there are no looming economic or foreign policy crises) joined in the attacks: Obama considers Limbaugh’s remarks “reprehensible,” according to White House spokesman Jay Carney. He said the president called Fluke to “express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks” and to thank her for speaking out...

Meanwhile, Iran still is moving ahead with their plans for nuclear terrorism, gas prices are poised to hit $5/gal. and real inflation is moving toward 10%. And Obama wants free contraceptives. Happy to see that Democrats have their heads screwed on straight.


Coinkadink: Obama rips small oil companies for their $4B in tax relief, which is roughly the same amount he blew on the Chevy Volt

Just yesterday, President Obama called on Congress to end $4 billion in tax breaks for small oil and gas companies. How this is supposed to reduce skyrocketing gas prices is best left as an exercise for the demented.

Speaking before a crowd of 1,000 at Nashua Community College in New Hampshire, Obama defended his energy policies for the second time in as many weeks, saying there were “no quick fixes” to escalating prices at the pump.

But the president insisted that lawmakers should vote in the next few weeks to repeal oil industry’s $4 billion federal subsidies, a demand he has made several times over the past three years. Ending the “industry giveaway,” Obama argued, would spur the development of alternative energy sources that could offer long-term relief from rising gas prices.

Alternative energy sources like Solyndra?

Well, those several billions of dollars were blown by Obama in pursuit of a coal-powered car, which has turned out to be L'Failure Epique, as they say in France.

After Obama Blew $3 Billion on the Chevy Volt – GM Suspends Production & Lays Off 1,300 Workers


Barack Obama blew more money on the Chevy Volt than the entire annual GDP of Belize...


General Motors announced today that the company was suspending production of the Chevy Volt and 1,300 workers would be laid off... The Chevrolet Volt, an extended-range electric car, is both a political lightning rod and a symbol of the company’s technological capability... Chevrolet sold 1,023 Volts in the U.S. in February and has sold 1,626 so far this year.

Of course, GM actually owes taxpayers in excess of $25 billion, so the Volt subsidy is just a down payment.


Simply delightful: In July 2009, Mitt Romney pressed Obama to use the Individual Mandate to Nationalize Healthcare

Erick Erickson has all of the details.

Had Michigan not been as close, the Democrats would have waited to spring this on us in the general election. Luckily we have it now and I hope Ohio voters are paying attention.

In July 2009, Mitt Romney wrote an op-ed in USA Today urging Barack Obama to use an individual mandate at the national level to control healthcare costs.

Health care cannot be handled the same way as the stimulus and cap-and-trade bills... There's a better way. And the lessons we learned in Massachusetts could help Washington find it.

...Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn't have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages "free riders" to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.

On the campaign trail now, Mitt Romney says the individual mandate is appropriate for Massachusetts, but not the nation. Repeatedly in debates, Romney has said he opposes a national individual mandate.

But back in 2009, as Barack Obama was formulating his healthcare vision for the country, Mitt Romney encouraged him publicly to use an individual mandate. In his op-ed, Governor Romney suggested that the federal government learn from Massachusetts how to make healthcare available for all. One of those things was “Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages “free riders” to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.”

Friends, if Mitt Romney is the nominee, we will be unable to fight Obama on an issue that 60% of Americans agree with us on.

Just a month after Romney penned his op-ed advocating the Individual Mandate, The Boston Globe ran a breathless report complaining about RomneyCare, headlined "Bay State health insurance premiums highest in country."

Massachusetts has the most expensive family health insurance premiums in the country, according to a new analysis that highlights the state’s challenge in trying to rein in medical costs after passage of a landmark 2006 law that mandated coverage for nearly everyone.

Oh, but that's right: Romney's the "only one who can win".

Of course, that's what they said about McCain and Dole.


Obama on Iran's nukes: dismisses "Holocaust fears", warns Israel against "premature strike"

Dan from NY:

Here’s a preview of the hopelessly naïve and sophomoric rationales Obama is taking into his meeting with Netanyahu on Monday.

From an interview Obama gave The Atlantic that was released today:

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Though he struck a consistently pro-Israel posture during the interview, Obama went to great lengths to caution Israel that a premature strike might inadvertently help Iran: "At a time when there is not a lot of sympathy for Iran and its only real ally, [Syria,] is on the ropes, do we want a distraction in which suddenly Iran can portray itself as a victim?"

He also said he would try to convince Netanyahu that the only way to bring about a permanent end to a country's nuclear program is to convince the country in question that nuclear weapons are not in its best interest. "Our argument is going to be that it is important for us to see if we can solve this thing permanently, as opposed to temporarily," he said, "and the only way historically that a country has ultimately decided not to get nuclear weapons without constant military intervention has been when they themselves take [nuclear weapons] off the table. That's what happened in Libya, that's what happened in South Africa."

And though broadly sympathetic to Netanyahu's often-stated fear that Iran's nuclear program represents a Holocaust-scale threat to the Jewish state, and the Jewish people, Obama suggested strongly that historical fears cannot be the sole basis for precipitous action: "The prime minister is head of a modern state that is mindful of the profound costs of any military action, and in our consultations with the Israeli government, I think they take those costs, and potential unintended consequences, very seriously."

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All of this is, of course, entirely consistent with Mark Langfan's (curiously rational) "conspiracy theory".