Friday, April 27, 2012

The new yard signs are here! The new yard signs are here!








One Chart to Rule Them All

I spotted this chart (courtesy Larwyn, of course) at The Jacksonian Party. It explains a great deal about our current situation; one in which the people find themselves pitted against their elected officials.

Prior to 1902, Congress had never reached a 70% reelection rate.


Jacksonian argues that when the Senate became a directly elected body and no longer represented Statehouses, taxation and other federal usurpations of Constitutional bounds became rife. In other words, the federal government could and did use its power to begin punishing the states, regulating local affairs and interfering in every sort of arcane transaction.

That change triggered an ever-increasing federal budget that went far beyond national defense. Budget-busting initiatives, politically motivated in nature, purported to help retirees, the sick, the elderly and so on, while concentrating ever more power in Washington.

The federal government now consists of a body of lifetime bureaucrats, many of whom couldn't power a flashlight with all of their brainpower combined, who are reelected automatically through their use of federal tax funds. They reward, they punish, they anoint.


And they continue to aggregate more power at the federal level -- and to build their own personal wealth -- ignoring and flouting the law. Rangel, Feinstein, Frank, Reid, Waters, Conyers -- to name but a few -- have repeatedly thumbed their noses at financial disclosures, ethics violations, criminal complaints, FOIA requests, and the like.

If government worked as Obama and the National Socialist Democrats say it will, then why would we care about separation of powers? Why would we care about different levels of government?

Why would we care about the Constitution?

Why was this nation founded in the first place?

If government is so beneficent, so effective, so humane and compassionate, how is it that throughout all of human history, the great philosophers and thinkers were so fearful of it?

Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Montesquieu, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and so many more.

Were they all wrong about government and Obama right?

Were they all wrong about limiting, balancing, placing checks on government? Were they all wrong about liberty?

Is human history all wrong and Obama right?

Is human history all wrong and Nancy Pelosi right?

Is human history all wrong and Harry Reid right?

Do you really think Obama, Pelosi and Reid hold a candle to the greatest thinkers civilization has ever seen?

Because for Obama to be right; and for his party, now in the hands of the radical left, to be right; the Founders had to be wrong.

For Obama to be right, the Declaration of Independence has to be wrong.

For Obama to be right, the Constitution has to be wrong.

For Obama to be right, Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Montesquieu, Burke, Smith and the founding fathers all had to be wrong.

And so it is clear how all of this will end.

Government-run health care will be used as a tool by government officials. As these programs always are. It will be used to punish political enemies, to reward friends, to entice supporters and -- always -- to aggregate more power.

It must be repealed. It must be obliterated.


Hat tips: The Jacksonian Party, Thirty Thousand and Mark Levin.

Top 20 #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama Tweets

Another day, another hijacked Obama hashtag. Hashtag #EpicFail.

20. @MattDycus (Matt Dycus):
He flew to Afghanistan and killed Bin Laden, then built cars and saved GM. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama

19. @MattDycus (Matt Dycus):
Jimmy Carter is no longer the worst President in history. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama

18. @VodkaPundit (Stephen Green):
Sent flowers to Heidi Klum after Seal dumped her. #saysomethingniceaboutobama No, wait -- that was Clinton.

17. @toddstarnes (toddstarnes):
He likes dogs #saysomethingniceaboutobama

16. @johnhawkinsrwn (John Hawkins):
I admire how low he's able to get when he bows to foreign dictators. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama

15. @LunaticLair (Ree F.):
#saysomethingniceaboutobama his Obama2008 and 2012 bumper stickers made it easier to find the stupid drivers

14. @VodkaPundit (Stephen Green):
Can kill a carton of Newports in four days, easy. #saysomethingniceaboutobama

13. @BarrySux (BarrySux):
He's the best reason to vote for Mitt Romney. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama #cspj #tcot #twisters #lnyhbt #p1 #p2 #p21 #tlot

12. @ih8hippies (I. Hate Hippies):
He apologizes really well. #saysomethingniceaboutobama

11. @P_H_Watts (P. H. Watts):
He hasn't quite bankrupted the US. Yet. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama

10. @slamjoe (Slam Joe):
He knows more about the @NBA than the economy. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama

 9. @TheMorningSpew (The Morning Spew):
#SaySomethingNiceAboutObama He never wants anyone punished with a baby.

 8. @chungjodad (Joe C.):
#SaySomethingNiceAboutObama Had excellent grades at Occidental and Columbia, so I'm told.

 7. @SallyGolf (Sarah Johnson):
He looks good in "mom" jeans. #saysomethingniceaboutobama

 6. @crhaney25 (Charles Haney):
I know nothing about basketball so I copied his NCAA bracket and won money in my office pool. #saysomethingniceaboutobama

 5. @KeauxbiTweets (Coby Clark):
He added more debt in 3 than Bush did in 8 RT @karlyyann Obama has done more in 1 year than Bush did in 8 years. #saysomethingniceaboutobama

 4. @BaseballCrank (Dan McLaughlin):
He didn't keep his promise to repeal all the Bush tax cuts, yet. #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama

 3. @virginiahume (Virginia Hume):
He speaks excellent Austrian. #saysomethingniceaboutObama

 2. @tazmania3333 (BD):
#SaySomethingNiceAboutObama - since he is part black and white neither race is totally accountable for his failures.

 1. @rsmccain (Robert Stacy McCain):
He hasn't eaten any dogs, recently, that we know of. #saysomethingniceaboutobama


Democrat Hot or Not

Please put your numerical ratings (1 to 10) in the comments.


A: Ms. O'Donnell




B: Ms. Albright




C: Ms. Clinton



D: Ms. Thomas



E: Unknown




Yes, Speaker Boehner: Democrats Think You're Stupid and Weak. Yes, They're Laughing At You.

How else to explain President Obama's shameless ripoff of $8.3 billion in taxpayer money, which he has turned into a de facto campaign contribution?

Let me explain: when Democrats passed the 2,700-page Obamacare bill -- you know, the one that not one person bothered to read -- they didn't realize it contained several electoral time-bombs.

One of its dictates shredded the popular Medicare Advantage (MA) program starting in... October. Yep: just before the 2012 elections. Realizing their mistake, HHS head Kathleen Sebelius decided to steal $8.3 billion from another part of Medicare to hide the mistake from seniors until after the election.

A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows that a demonstration program created by the Obama Administration in Medicare Advantage (MA) is primarily designed to "demonstrate" how to hide politically unpopular parts of Obamacare.

...Obamacare’s cuts to MA would severely reduce the quality of the program and force enrollees back into traditional Medicare... "Phased in between 2012 and 2017, the MA cuts will substantially restrict the ability of Medicare beneficiaries to choose the health plans that best meet their needs and will result in substantial reductions in coverage for many millions of seniors and disabled Americans." Medicare’s Office of the Actuary predicts a 50 percent drop in enrollment by 2017.

...The GAO’s review of the [bogus] demonstration’s budgetary impact shows that it is “at least seven times larger than that of any other Medicare demonstration conducted since 1995.” The estimated cost of the program is a whopping $8.35 billion... The GAO recommended that the White House “should cancel the MA Quality Bonus Payment Demonstration and allow the MA quality bonus payment system established by [Obamacare] to take effect.”

In short, the GAO exposed the ripoff and strongly recommended that HHS cease and desist. Even The Washington Post has urged the Obama administration to stop this unlawful activity, because it is intended only to temporarily disguise the damage that Obamacare will bring.

Should HHS fail to cancel this illicit campaign contribution, the House of Representatives needs to subpoena Kathleen Sebelius and demand an explanation. And if she perjures herself, it must hold her in Contempt of Congress.

It's time to stop playing around, Speaker Boehner. It's time to fight back against this lawlessness. They're laughing at you, Mr. Speaker. They're laughing at Seniors. And they think you're stupid and weak.


Obama's Third Annual Summer of Recovery™ -- By the Numbers

The Obama "recovery" is just as ephemeral as the media's coverage of Operation Fast and Furious. Which is to say: it sucks.

Here are the critical numbers that you won't see covered in legacy media.

• Strategas Research believes corporate profits may have declined on a quarterly basis for the first time since 2008.

• The U.S. economy grew at an anemic 2.2% annual rate in the first quarter.

• Citigroup and IHS Global believe that the first quarter may represent the best growth we see all year. In other words, that economic growth will dip below 2% for the remainder of 2012.

• The Federal Reserve found that since 1947, if sub-2% growth occurs in two consecutive quarters, there is a 50 percent change of an immediate recession.

• This is the 11th quarter of the Obama "Recovery", during which time the economy has only grown a total of 7 percent. Conversely, during the first 11 quarters of the Reagan Recovery, the economy grew 18%.

• The Obama administration's forecasting skills leave much to be desired. Since 2009, the White House has consistently overestimated its ability at central-planning of the economy:

In 2009 and even after its $800 billion "stimulus", Obama predicted that GDP would grow 4.3% in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

In 2010 the White House said the economy would grow by 3.5% in 2012 and 4.4% in 2013.

In 2011 it forecast 4.0% growth in 2012 and 4.5% in 2013.

• The good news? According to the forecasting model developed by Yale University's Ray Fair, if forecasters are accurate about a continued slowing of the economy, Obama would win only 48.4% of the vote. And that, my friends, would be a crushing loss for America's worst president.


Based upon: "Weak GDP report clouds Obama’s reelection chances", By James Pethokoukis.

Larwyn's Linx: Summer of Loveless

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Nation

Summer of Loveless: ConCom
A Nobody With No Audience Gets Noticed by Mitch McConnell: RS
A Plea to My Fellow Conservatives: CFP

Decline or decadence?: Hanson
Obama Tax Rates Are 'Weapons Of Mass Destruction': FoxNation
KY Employees Can't Be Fired for Storing Guns in Cars: Volokh

Obama to begin campaign, aide says with straight face: Malcolm
CCW Holder Stops Stabbing Rampage in Utah: AllAm
Vacation backlash: Blue collar Dems jealous, angry at Obamas: Exam

Economy

Obama's Attack on Family Farms: Out of the Marxist Playbook: GWP
Obama Withdraws Farm Child Rule: Blogmocracy
The Rest of the Story on Student Loans: Foundry

Unexpected: New Jobless Claims At Three Month High: S&L
Illinois is running out of time and money: Will
Here’s Something Paul Ryan Really Said: Glob

Scandal Central

Michelle's Vacation in Spain Cost Taxpayers $500K: JW
DreamWorks Nightmare: Major Obama Donor's Studio Under SEC Investigation: Beacon
Sun Times’ report on Frawley sentencing in error: IP2P

Obama admin. let grenades walk in Fast and Furious; without regard for potential danger: DC
Boehner says Obama campaigned on taxpayer money: Times
Bailout Of The US Postal Service Begins: Cost To Taxpayers - $110,000 Per Union Vote "Saved Or Gained": ZH

2012 Elections

Stanley Kurtz on Obama's Socialism: Loudon
Report: The Georgia Democratic Party’s Political Director Is a Criminal Recidivist: Nice Deb
Virginia: Romney 45%, Obama 44%: Rasmussen

Climate & Energy

Y2Kyoto: Rise Of The Green Reich: SDA
Fear the EPA: WyBlog
EPA Official Has History of Unfair Attacks on Oil and Gas: FreeEnt

Gore and the Democrats' Green Graft Machine: AT
Caring, Helpful Public Servant of the Day: EPA Edition: Powers
Green Activists Boot Jesse Watters From Festival After He Confronts Commie Van Jones: GWP

Media

Even Liberal Media Mocking Obama for Faux Campaign: Beacon
Media’s Lack of Accountability Now Blamed on ‘Right-Wing Bloggers’?: RSM
27 Daily Affirmations for Bloggers: American Digest

The “Progressive” brand — for what does it stand?: LI
People Wonder Why I Call Obama ‘#OccupyResoluteDesk’: RSM
BUZZFEED: Democrats Focus On #MittsMissingYears: Glob

If Mormonism Is Fair Game, so Is Jeremiah Wright: Elder
Schooling the Supremes on our New Constitution: MOTUS
Obama's tall tale about student loans starts falling apart: JWF

World

Want to Know Just How Close the Muslim Brotherhood Is to the Obama Admin?: Gabbay
FBI: Number of Michigan IP addresses on jihadi websites is “staggering”: Creeping
The Piece of Paper That Killed Bin Laden: Atlantic

Biden 'Holds the American Record for Wrong on the Most Issues in Foreign Affairs Ever': NB
OMG: In the event of war, J Street says they won't necessarily support Israel: Matzav
Thank God For The Arab Spring, Right?: HayRide

Sci-Tech

Young Readers Will Never Run Out of Books With MeeGenius: Wired
Apple Wants to Patent Its MacBook Air Design: Wired
Recovering Windows Passwords Remotely in Plain Text: Infosec Island

Cornucopia

The 10 Best Obama Ate A Dog Images From Around The Web: RWN
Justice Scalia Shares Gun Love with Justice Kagan on Hunting Trip: Guns
10 funniest fake pols on Twitter: Politico

Image: People's Cube
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QOTD: "Gotta hand it to the Muslim Brotherhood. Hard to come up with a more apt image of the Arab Spring than an aroused Islamist rogering a corpse." --Mark Steyn

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Allen West Locates Real WMDs

I would follow Allen West into battle anytime, anywhere.

Freshman Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) on Wednesday evening likened President Obama's preference for higher tax rates to "tax weapons of mass destruction" that Obama is aiming straight at Middle Americans.

"Although he has never served our country in uniform, or risked his life to defend its freedoms and liberties on distant shores, it seems President Obama understands a thing or two about weaponry," West said on the House floor. "But in the president's case … the current weapon of choice is tax policy, and the enemies are small businesses, investors, entrepreneurs and corporations, who seemingly are deemed undesirable.

"President Obama seems determined to punish and wipe out economic success in this country, leveling tax weapons of mass destruction on all taxpayers."

West said Obama favors the expiration of tax cuts on marginal rates, as well as reducing estate tax exemptions and increasing taxes on capital gains and dividends.

"Next year, unless changes are made to the tax code, America will be bombarded with the heavy artillery of the largest tax increase in the nation's history, causing massive economic injury and destruction," West said.

West also criticized Obama's understanding of tax policy, arguing that increased taxes would do little to reduce the deficit, which he said is caused by overspending. He also said people facing higher taxes would react to these taxes, leading to less new revenue than the Obama administration anticipates.

"The American people … want a constitutional republic, not a socialist, egalitarian welfare nanny state," he concluded. "The American people want an economic future so bright that they will have to wear sunglasses."

Da-yam. I love this man.

In a completely platonic way.


Hat tip: BadBlue.com.

Ohio Governor Reacts Appropriately to Liberal Media Inquiry

Hot on the heels of President Subprime McDowngrade's visit to Ohio -- during which he attempted to take credit for Gov. John Kasich's stunningly successful fiscal record -- comes the obvious question from a reporter. Obvious, that is, if you're a liberal Statist hack.

The governor's reaction is priceless.


Yes. That was Kasich cracking up.

Over the course of the past year, fiscal conservatives -- led by Kasich -- eliminated an $8 billion shortfall in Ohio's budget. How did they accomplish this feat? By slashing government, constraining spending, and cutting taxes by nearly $1 billion.

Ohio, which was 48th in job creation under Democrat governance, skyrocketed to fifth under Kasich.

And while the United States under President McDowngrade was McDowngraded, Ohio's credit rating was ratcheted up.

Now that Ohio is running a surplus, Democrats are doing what Democrats always do. Which, generally speaking, is trying to steal the taxpayers' money and slather it around. Under Gov. Kasich, at least, they're going to have a much harder time ripping off the private sector.


What's a "Fair Share" for Millionaires and Billionaires?

Although nearly 50% of Americans pay no taxes at all, Democrats believe that raising taxes on the private sector -- primary small business owners -- will somehow grow the economy. To illustrate just how twisted the Left's logic is, they term this despotic insanity "fairness":


The President has been jetting around the country demanding that “millionaires and billionaires” pay their “fair share” of income taxes. Apparently, he didn’t get the memo. As the above graph, based on data from the Heritage Foundation, shows, the 1 percent-ers are already paying a lot more than they should be, 2.18 times as much to be exact. The same goes for the 2-5% (1.47x) and the 5-10% (1.09x). Also notable, the 10-25% group rakes in about 35% more income than the top 1%, but pays less than half as much in taxes.

Put another way, relative to the bottom 50%, the top 1% currently pays over 14 times as much in income taxes for each dollar earned. The president’s solution to this glaring inequity: raise taxes on the top. I may not be a mathematician, but I’m pretty sure that would make the tax inequality gap bigger, not smaller.

Aside from demonstrating the canyon-like tax disparity, the graph also highlights another economic point generally lost on liberals: the 1% may control a vast amount of income, but they still can’t match the income earned by the rest of the country. As rich as the “millionaires and billionaires” may be, the 99% can still outspend them.

No matter: facts, logic, history and reason never get between the Left and their master plans.


'Breitbart Is Here' - The Music Video

Written and performed by Chris Cassone and directed by Big Fur Hat: "Breitbart Is Here."


I also had the pleasure of meeting one of the video's cameramen -- Mr. Pinko -- this past weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Except when he smacked me around.


Uh Oh: I Just Received a Crucifixion Order From the EPA

I guess my carbon footprint hit the EPA's threshold.



Larwyn's Linx: The Second Coming of American Liberal Fascism?

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Nation

The Second Coming of American Liberal Fascism?: Erickson
Obama's Fallon Appearance Violated Campaign Law: Breitbart
Supreme Court casts doubt on Obama’s immigration law claim: Times

Conservative Strategy for Winning the Fight After the Election: BG
'Vote Fraud is a Central Democrat Strategy for 'Winning Elections': HySci
A Bad Day in Court for the Obama Administration: Power Line

Economy

Labor Dept. Prepares Ban on Kids Working on Family Farms: Powers
Welfare At All-Time High Under Obama: JW
Most Useless College Majors: OTB

Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores: DC
Your B.A. won't get you a job, but Obama will buy your vote!: WyBlog
TSA screeners arrested for narcotics trafficking, accepting bribes: KABC

Obama's Rent-A-Thugs Storm Banks In New Shakedown: IBD
"Fair Shares" Would Be Payday for "Millionaires and Billionaires": E.S.
Medicare’s Unfunded Liability: $38,600,000,000,000.00: MB

Scandal Central

High-Ranking DOJ Official Soon to Resign Amid Scandals: Nice Deb
Obama Campaign Returning Ponzi Money: Beacon
George Zimmerman: Prelude to a shooting: Reuters

2012 Elections

America's Not Laughing: RNC
Y’Know, Somewhere Along The Line Romney Figured Out How To Give A Speech: HayRide
It Begins: Marco Rubio Receives Threat, Under Police Protection: JWF

Climate & Energy

Crush Your Enemies, EPA Edition: No Runny Eggs
EPA Announces Plan to Use Clean Water Act to Preemptively Strike Down Mine Permits: ResourcefulEarth
NHTSA to hold meeting on the safety of lithium-ion batteries: Torque News

Obama’s Interior Secretary: We’re Being “More Strict On Denying Drilling Permits”: WZ
Spinach: The Popeye energy policy: Fausta
Don't You Love It When Leftists Speak Their Minds?: Ace

Media

Raw Story: A Profile in Leftist Media Mattering D-baggery: ProWis
Exclusive: Kagan's Handwritten Notes to Bell on Critical Race Theory: Breitbart
RNC’s #Notfunny hashtag in response to Obama is a hit, causes Democrat meltdown: Twitchy

DWS: Don’t ask why Senate Democrats won’t pass a budget, because that’s process: Hot Air
Girlfriends, Let’s Talk About How to Convert a Democrat: Turner
The new Occupy poster is a unicorn killing a cop. Because, OBVIOUSLY.: NakedDC

World

What Happens In Cairo...: Glick
The Worst Places to Be a Woman: ForPol
Good News: Urban Outfitters Introduces Its 'Auschwitz' Line of Clothing!: Atlas

CAIR Suit Calls Questioning Muslims 'A Form of Torture': Times
Shark Tank Swims With the Fishes, Submerges with U.S. Navy Submarine: Shark Tank
Terrorist and Obama Pal Bernadine Dohrn Advocates Communism to Sheeple: NoisyRm

Sci-Tech

Did Google Patent the ‘Hot or Not’ Sexiness Ranking System?: Wired
First Android revenue numbers revealed: $278.1m in 2010, iPhone more lucrative: Verge
The A/B Test: Inside the Technology That’s Changing the Rules of Business: Wired

Cornucopia

British Game Show Contestant Thinks He's Captain Kirk Or Somethin': Ace
Exclusive: See 3-Minute Action Film Already Gone: Wired
Democrat Senator's Plan to Save the Post Office: Use Offshore Windmills to Charge Batteries in Electric Trucks: Marfdrat

Image: BarkingCrayon.com
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QOTD: "It seems to me the federal government just doesn’t want to know who’s here illegally." --Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., listening to oral arguments in the matter of Arizona attempting to enforce federal immigration law

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Question: what does the Obama EPA's stated policy of "crucifying" oil companies do to gas prices?

For you drones: that's a rhetorical question.

This nitwit is an EPA administrator who bemoans the fact that he "only has 150 enforcement people for five states". And his policy is to crush the oil and gas industries (uhm, and don't even ask about coal, which produces the lion's share of electricity in this country).

I thought EPA Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus telling Congress that his agency doesn't look at jobs losses when doing its economic analysis was something, but that's nothing compared to this video of an EPA administrator comparing what he does to ancient Romans soldiers conquering a village. The Washington Examiner's Joel Gehrke reports [emphasis mine]:

Al Armendariz, a regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, explained in 2010 that he understands the EPA policy to be to "crucify" a few oil and gas companies to get the rest of the industry to comply with the laws.

"I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff about my philosophy of enforcement," Armendariz said during a meeting in 2010. "It's kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they’d go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they’d run into, and they’d crucify them and then, you know, that town was really easy to manage over the next few years."

...Armendariz went on to say he believes in hitting oil and gas companies "as hard as you can" to "make examples out of them."

I'd like to make an example out of the EPA by completely de-funding it next year. It's the only way to be sure.

Oh, and just for fun, here's what the Obama EPA's policy of "crucifying" oil companies has done to gas prices:


These hypocrites should be required to forego all of the luxuries of the real energy economy: automobiles, airplanes, food transported by truck, plastics, etc. Because if they can't live what they preach, why the hell should we?


Hide This Chart From the Kids

Democrats and, to a lesser extent, RINO's have perpetrated the greatest act of fiscal child abuse ever seen on Earth:

Runaway spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will drive federal debt to unsustainable levels over the next few decades. Total national debt consists of publicly held debt and intergovernmental debt. Intergovernmental debt is the amount that the government owes to specific programs or agencies, such as the Social Security Trust Fund. Publicly held debt is more relevant to credit markets.


History proves -- beyond a shadow of a doubt -- that no country can survive these levels of debt.

And when thoughtful people propose reforms -- like George W. Bush's 2005 Social Security reform plan and Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity Budget Plan -- they are demonized and demagogued as "pushing Grandma off the cliff".

Unless we remove the Cloward-Piven Democrats from office -- and force RINOs to hew to the Constitutional line -- this country is headed for collapse, as surely as night follows day.

November is coming.

A Meal Fit for a Would-Be King

From the brilliant Sweasel:


It's what's for dinner. And, apparently, it's also the other white meat.


You Lying Sack of Schumer

If there's a more malevolent, anti-American force in the U.S. Senate than Chuck "Schmucky" Schumer, I have yet to read of him or her. I firmly believe that had Schumer been around during the founding of the United States, he would have been a Tory, collaborating with the Crown.

Case in point: the Soviet-style show trial Schumer held to "review" Arizona's immigration bill, which -- as everyone knows -- simply upholds federal law and explicitly prohibits profiling.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), convening his Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security, vowed to have a legislative response of his own should the justices uphold the state law that allows police to require proof of residency with probable cause... “It is simply too damaging to our economy and too dangerous to our democracy to have 50 different states be permitted to take their own direction when it comes to immigration policy,” Schumer said. “The Supreme Court should find the Arizona law unconstitutional, but if it doesn’t, Congress will be ready.”

Our founding fathers gave Congress plenary power over immigration law,” Schumer said. “The Supreme Court has consistently interpreted the naturalization language in Article I to mean that the establishment of the immigration laws and the manner of their execution are committed solely to the federal government.”

...[Former Arizona legislator] Pearce countered that “illegal is a crime, not a race,” and that the majority of illegal immigrants just happen to come across the southern border... “It’s simply the rule of law,” he said. “Laws without consequences are not laws at all,” and SB 1070 forbids racial profiling, he added.

Plenary power, eh? Which means all of those Democrat-run "sanctuary cities" and "sanctuary states" will be punished for violating federal immigration law? Of course not, because Schmucky is a lawless hack who is more interested in drumming up the votes of illegals than protecting lawful citizens and legal immigrants.

Earlier today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments concerning the constitutionality of Arizona's law. Some observers thought Schumer's hot-dogging was intended -- like Obama's pontificating about Obamacare -- to intimidate the Supreme Court.

But what the lawless Obama administration and Schmucky heard from the Justices must have been disturbing.

Supreme Court justices took a dim view of the Obama administration’s claim that it can stop Arizona from enforcing immigration laws, telling government lawyers during oral argument Wednesday that the state appears to want to push federal officials, not conflict with them...

...“It seems to me the federal government just doesn’t want to know who’s here illegally,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said at one point [and] even Democratic-appointed justices were uncertain of [the Obama administration's argument].

“I’m terribly confused by your answer,” said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who went on to say that the federal government can always decline to pick up illegal immigrants when Arizona officials call.

When the history of this Republic is written, Schmucky Schumer will go down in history as one of the most nefarious, vicious, and reckless political thugs ever to slither on the floor of the Senate.


Good News: Urban Outfitters Introduces Its Much-Anticipated 'Auschwitz' Line of Apparel

Because nothing says chic like those pencil-thin models in a Nazi death camp:

The norming of evil. As the depraved left tightens its chokehold on the culture, the media, arts, and popular culture in general reveal to us their true face -- monsters. This is how Hitler and his lovers overtook a country...... incrementally, step by step, mainstreaming hate, dehumanization and genocide via the culture. This is the MBO of the left/Islamic coalition in America. The banality of evil.

American clothing company Urban Outfitters is selling a holocaust T-shirt bearing the Jewish star that Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis in death camps. This Urban Outfitters T-shirt is labeled "Auschwitz chic" and retails for $100. The “patchwork Star of David on the left breast pocket goes back to 1930s and 40s Europe.” The “vintage yellow color” of the shirt is Nazi yellow -- obvious to students of Nazi Germany. This is just another in a long line from the antisemitic Urban Outfitters of Jew-hating clothing pieces using monstrous iconography. The latest Jew-hatred fashion follows on the heels of Arafat's war scarf (the keffiyeh) is this Auschwitz tee shirt. The store also generated anger in 2004 with a shirt bearing the words “Everybody Loves a Jewish Girl,” surrounded by dollar signs and shopping bags.

Atlas has the contact info for Urban Outfitters as well as a recounting of the company's bizarre history of hateful clothing choices.


Hat tip: BadBlue.com.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama and The Perfect Storm of Misery

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Nation

Obama and The Perfect Storm of Misery: Baldilocks
Obamacare's Newest Fraud: RWN
Earth Day 2012 Fizzles — Badly: Nice Deb

Conservative Consumers: Stand Your Ground: Malkin
Dems To Obstruct If SCOTUS Upholds AZ Law: S&L
Social Security’s in trouble? Why didn’t anybody tell us?: Troglo

'Now That's Justice for Trayvon': Ace
Obama Grabs Credit Again: Beatty
ANWR -- It's Been 10 Years: Wizbang

Economy

Your Obama reelection cheat sheet: Boortz
Trumka's Big Bucks: Free Beacon
Politics of Denial: Peth

It's another Obama record!: Hot Air Pundit
Public Unions Bankrupt Illinois: Unpaid Bills Top $9 Billion: Mish
Wanna Know Why California's Broke?: ConCom

Devious Taxation: Williams
Obama Fought Oil And Lost; Now It’s Back To Reality: IBD
Weeping four-year-old girl accused of carrying a gun by TSA: Daily Mail

2012 Elections

Shocker: Obama’s Popularity Falls Among Catholics: JWF
College students face a simple choice in 2012: Glob
Joe Kennedy III: Out. Of. Touch.: Sarah

Scandal Central

Cuomo Administration Caught Trying to Silence Whistleblower: MenRec
Valerie Jarrett’s Father-in-Law a Communist; Worked With Obama Mentor Frank Marshall Davis: Loudon (2011)
Nancy Pelosi's Top 10 Gaffes: Times

Climate & Energy

British climate alarmist recants his alarmism: Q&O
EPA's Regulatory Train Wreck: FreedomWorks
The Last Days of Global Warming Theory?: AT

Media

An Indictment of Liberalism: DC
NY Times Pledges ‘Unbiased Political Reporting’, Laff Riot Ensues: Breitbart
Tammy Radio Beating Rush Head-To-Head on Interwebtubes?: Bruce

Journalism, Jihad, and the New York Times: AIM
#JusticeforTrayvon: Random acts of brutal violence, media complicit: Twitchy
War on Chelsea Clinton: Blogmocracy

Obama Loves America… When It Agrees With Him: Publius
Follow-Up: Atlantic Revises John Edwards Trial Article, Discloses Actual Facts About Edwards and Author: Blumer
The Assault on Food: Stossel

World

Communists Work on a New Improved, Pro-Obama “Occupy” Movement: Loudon
For Holocaust Day This Year – Obama Puts Jew-Bashing Crackpot on Atrocities Board: GWP
Elie Weisel puts Obama in his place: Matzav

Terror Defeated? Ask Afghans, Iranians and Egyptians: IBD
The elephant of Jew hatred: Glick
Free Speech Found Guilty by Europe: Gatestone

Segregated swimming for Muslim women creeps in Nashville & Virginia: Creeping
Portuguese Finance Minister Admits Keynesian Stimulus Was a Flop: Cato
Robert Spencer Book Talk/Reception for "Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry into Islam's Obscure Origins": UrbInf

Sci-Tech

The Fort Knox Approach to Security: Infosec Island
Eight Products the Facebook Generation Will Not Buy: Yahoo!
Facebook Passes the 900 Million Monthly Users Barrier: WSJ

Cornucopia

The Atrocities Prevention Board: Keeping the Horse We Rode in On.: MOTUS
Sean Penn and Mikhail Gorbachev Walk Into a Bar: Mellow Jihadi
The Tantrum: C&S

Image: Pirate's Cove
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QOTD: "...how is everyone adjusting to the knowledge that Romney is our nominee? It could be worse. He’s well-spoken, he has economic knowledge, and he’s never eaten a dog. We could win this." --Frank J.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Road to Freedom, Illustrated

Based upon "The Moral Case - Job Creation", by Arthur C. Brooks


Jobs do more than create wealth. Jobs give individuals the ability to pursue their happiness and earn their success, to find their dreams and turn them into reality. Jobs can bring fulfillment, matching individuals’ skills with their passions in a unique way. For this reason, persistently high unemployment is unfair, particularly to those who have had the fewest opportunities — the young and the poor.

In addition to lost happiness, unemployment brings financial hardship, which hits far more than the pocketbook. When times are hard, individuals put off marriage, starting a family or pursuing education. Our current policy path of regulatory uncertainty coupled with burdensome taxation keeps entrepreneurs on the sideline. This delays job creation and keeps millions dependent on the state for their survival rather than on themselves for their success and fulfillment.

Three core principles should be the center of any major job reform:

• The government has no role in picking winners and losers in the economy. The stimulus spending tried to do just this, and failed miserably.
• It is unfair for the government to steer public dollars toward favored industries or well-connected unions and corporations. When special interests cozy up to the government, job creation always suffers.
• The government should keep its payroll to a minimum. Clearly there are numerous important jobs for government to do, but the government should not grow beyond what is necessary to perform its basic functions.

Burdensome regulation has grown over the last few decades, and exploded with the recent health care and financial reforms. The uncertainty created by these regulations keeps businesses from hiring. The entire U.S. regulatory structure should be examined. Some regulation is necessary for a thriving society, but many of today’s rules have little benefit but massive cost, and should be repealed. Taxes should also be lowered and loopholes closed to reward productive businesses, not politically active ones.


Government spending also dampens job creation, as taxes and debt rise to pay for the spending. The federal workforce should be cut to only what is necessary for a well-functioning government and federal spending should be curtailed. Also, government should not endorse higher union membership. While unions can and do serve important functions, they also drive up labor costs and reduce hiring. It should be left to individual citizens to decide when union membership or union contracts are appropriate, not the federal government.


Based upon: The Moral Case for Job Creation", by Arthur C. Brooks.