Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Demotivational Photo o' the Day


The president likes to compare himself to Reagan and Lincoln, but I'm just not seeing it.



Larwyn's Linx: The Truth Behind President Obama’s Attack on Success

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Nation

The Truth Behind President Obama’s Attack on Success: Sundries
Legalized Looting on the Rise: ObjStd
Tyrants and Human Nature: Williams

Levin: Romney's speech today was superb: Scoop
Democrats gladly accept big bucks from Bain: Lid
Romney Campaign Disses Palin: Throws Party Unity Overboard: Lord

Obama campaign: Screw military voters; sues Ohio: Riehl
Schumer wants limits on free speech (yours): Hot Air
DNC Head Gets Heckled At Synagogue Rally: Lawrence

Economy

The “Central Banks’ Central Bank” Slams the Federal Reserve: BigPic
Teachers Union Kills Bill to Remove Criminals From Classroom: CityJrnl
Cartoon: the Logic (or lack thereof) of Keynesian Economics: Cato

Your Guide to Sleazy Democratic Party-Backed Banks: Malkin
Millionaire taxes hurt the masses, from Newark to Paris: Fortune
Saturday night flash mob takes over Jacksonville Walmart: Jacksonville

Scandal Central

Exclusive: Brian Terry's Killers Let Go: Pavlich
Obama Ends Welfare Reform as We Know It, Calls for $12.7 Trillion in New Welfare Spending: Foundry
"Green" Stimulus Money Was Like “A Hooker Dropped Into A Prison Exercise Yard”: Sooper

Climate & Energy

New paper blames about half of global warming on weather station data homogenization: Watts
Obama Energy Policies Are Working: Patriot Coal Goes Bankrupt: CFP
Plunge In CO2 Output Due To Natural Gas Fracking: IBD

Media

A Serious Suggestion for the Romney Campaign: Hawkins
Krauthammer: Romney shouldn’t release past tax returns: Scoop
Obama switches off his teleprompter: Hill

NRO caves on Romney over tax return issue, stabs him in the back: Riehl
Star of Pro-Obama Super PAC Ad Unleashed: 'Obama Is a Jerk, a Pantywaist, a Lightweight, a Blowhard': WS
Brides Not A Big Fan of Obama's Wedding Registry Fund-Raising Strategy: HyScience

Reason to Hate: AIM
Media Fail: Chevy Volt Makes NO Money, Costs Taxpayers Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Per Car: NB
DNC rebrands Bank of America Stadium as ‘Panthers Stadium’: Twitchy

World

Congress Rightly Seeks Details on Defense-Devastating Sequestration: Foundry
Our Non-Entity U.N. Ambassador Perfect For Obama: IBD
22 NATO supply trucks destroyed in Afghanistan: AP

Awesome: The Samuel Williams Gun Control Video You Have To See: Riehl
Dept of State – General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World: MagNote
Chapo Now Controls Juarez and Western Texas: Borderland

Sci-Tech

AT&T to Restrict or Charge for FaceTime Over 3G/4G in iOS 6? [Updated With AT&T Statement]: MacRumors
No-Lose Situations: Reformed Broker
Women Beat Men on IQ Tests For First Time: ABC

Cornucopia

I'm a Sowell Man!: Sooper Mexican
That game was the pits. Next time we’re getting a real Brazilian: MOTUS
Arpaio Reveals Findings from Hawaiian Investigation: Nice Deb

Image: iOwnTheWorld
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QOTD: "Does anyone know who [U.S.] Ambassador [to the United Nations] Susan Rice is? Certainly no one remembers anything she has ever said during her more than 3-1/2 years as America's voice within that corrupt nest of vipers in the Turtle Bay section of New York City...

...Susan Rice is a non-entity who says nothing even when she speaks. No surprise since she represents a foreign policy built on President Obama's supposedly irresistible charisma, approved by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and accompanied by a guarantee that "Any Change Is Change You Should Believe In."" --Investors Business Daily

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

A Slight Difference of Economic Opinion

I'm not sure I see any patterns here, but perhaps you're better at econ than I am.


Is it true that facts, logic, reason and human experience all tell us that Obama's vision of collectivism works?



Great news: Google targeting gangs, jihadists, militants and... wait for it... "right-wing extremists"

Because the Tea Party is so violent compared to, say, the Occupy movement, right?

Violent illicit networks represent a trillion-dollar problem that affects every society in the world and claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year. For example, more than 50,000 people have died in the past five years as a result of the ongoing war in Mexico between rival drug cartels...


We think Google can help [combat these networks]. Eighteen months ago we launched Google Ideas with the belief that Google is in the unique position to explore the role that technology can play in tackling some of the toughest human challenges in the world. Our first area of focus was counter-radicalization; last year we convened the Summit Against Violent Extremism with former gang members, right-wing extremists, jihadists and militants as well as survivors of violent extremism. Among the many outcomes of the summit was a platform that we established as a one-stop shop for tackling violent extremism through formers and survivors.

Curious how the term Left-Wing Extremists couldn't make Google's short list, eh? At last check, the far left Occupy movement has been responsible for:

• 6,800 arrests

• $12 million in property damage

• 500 thefts and/or robberies

• more than a dozen rapes

• and three murders and a dozen deaths

I wonder how many crimes the Tea Party and other Constitutional Conservatives -- people who believe in America's founding principles -- have been responsible for?



My, my, my: this may explain why Debbie Wasserman-Schultz won't release her tax returns

In a stunning case of "turnabout is fair play", Democrat National Committee Chairperson-woman-man Dee Wasserman Snider has been silenced quite effectively after her calls for Mitt Romney to release all of his tax returns since 1917. Turns out that she has refused to release any of her recent tax returns.

Javier Manjarres, writing at The Shark Tank, arrives at a possible explanation for DWS' abject refusal to release her own tax data.

• On a recent 7-day cruise, Manjarres estimates that DWS spent between $17,000 and $33,000 housing her family in a two-story "Royal Loft Suite" equipped with spiral staircase: "Debbie Wasserman Schultz may be a Member of Congress and the Chair of the DNC, but she’s not the Sultan of Brunei."

So did the Schultz’ pay the full ticket price of the cruise or did they pay for a less expensive boarding arrangement and then receive an upgrade from the cruise ship? If Wasserman Schultz did receive a complimentary upgrade, it’s possible that she would be in violation of the House Ethics Gift Rule.

• Even more perplexing, DWS also appears to have acquired an additional -- and previously undisclosed -- luxury property in New Hampshire valued at more than a half-million dollars. This accompanies her $400,000 home in Florida.

Ah, the tragic, spartan life of a public servant.

Mitt Romney made his money in the private sector.

I wonder how Debbie made all of her money, since she lives on the public dole?

She would never, ever do anything unethical, like -- say -- her parents?

Although in some families, the nut doesn't fall far from the tree.

So what is Dee Wasserman Snider hiding?


You didn't build that: a gallery of Obama entrepreneurship

After spotting this...


...I simply couldn't resist:




I'm truly shocked that America's most liberal senator (according to National Journal) turned out to be a radical leftist who hasn't the first clue about the economy.


Larwyn's Linx: ALEC Shakedown Shows Danger of DISCLOSE

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Nation

ALEC Shakedown Shows Danger of DISCLOSE: AmCom
Beware the Ides of October: Hanson
NC looks worse by the day for Democrats: Times

The Most Anti-Business President Ever: DLim
Axelrod lies again: yes, Obama uses tax shelters: Patterico
Obama Wants To Restore ‘Decency’ To US Politics: S&L

A Letter to Young Voters: Prager
Senate to vote on Orwellian DISCLOSE Act--again: Malkin
King expects immigration lawsuit against Obama in weeks: DC

Economy

Stunner… Most Illegal Immigrant Families Collect Welfare: GWP
Farewell, Welfare Reform: NRO
President Obama Is Wrong about Businessmen: Cato

Companies Fire Workers To Avoid O-Care Penalty: S&L
Look Who's Holding the Economy Hostage Now: IBD
The Socialist State's Insatiable Demand for More Taxes: AmPower

No Joke: Obama Says 'Proudest Achievement' Is...Economy: WZ
JPMorgan just gave a calamitous economic forecast for Obama: Peth
Retail Sales decline 0.5% in June: CalcRisk

Scandal Central

Obama’s Gutting of Welfare Reform Is Illegal: Foundry
SEIU Subpoenaed in Milwaukee Investigation: Breitbart
At U.S. Treasury Golf During Work, Hookers, Illegal Gifts: JW

Abetting Vote Fraud in the Name of Fairness: Conservatory
Minnesota: The Latest Shameful Attack on Voter ID: Foundry
Cherokees to Elizabeth Warren: “You can’t even look me in the eye”: LI

Climate & Energy

Vindication: We Told You So: Elephant

Media

Perpetuating Obama’s Tax-Cut Lies: Sowell
Book: Obama’s Communist mentor influenced his political beliefs: DC
As A Teen, Obama Deeply Influenced By Communist Mentor: Kengor

Florida: the Crazy State: RSM
No, Edolphus, Health Care is Not a “Right” or a “Privilege”: ObjStd
Another Hollywood Millionaire Outs Self as Faux-Socialist Hypocrite: Zombie

Are Race Riots News?: Sowell
I Am Offended by Obama’s ‘You Didn’t Build That Business’ Comment: VaRight
Mark Levin: The RINOs are wrong, again (he means Bill Kristol): Scoop

World

Israel Preparing for al-Qaeda on its Borders: Gatestone
Peugeot Has 51% Chance of Debt Default; France Will Not Let Peugeot Lay Off Workers: Mish
US Navy Ship Fires on Boat off Dubai, Killing 1: ABC

Suicide of the Western Media: Spencer
Death Panel Update: UK Article Recommends Dehydrating Dementia Patients to Death to Save Money: GWP
France's Wealthy Flee The Country And Go Galt: JoshuaPundit

Sci-Tech

An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7: Crunch
What To Look For During Microsoft’s Announcement Of Office 2013 Today: Crunch
Flummoxed by Failure—or Focused?: WSJ

Cornucopia

******PLEASE STAND BY FOR A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT******: Kuznicki
Photo: the sports car stolen 42 years ago and recovered after owner spotted it on eBay: AP
Sly and Lovable Gadsden Rattlesnake on People's T-Shirts: Cube

Image: "I Am Offended by Obama’s ‘You Didn’t Build That Business’ Comment"
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QOTD: "Americans generally admire people who've built up their own successful businesses through hard work, investment of money and huge amounts of time - so much so that this is a key component of the American Dream. So when politicians talk about making these businesses - particularly small ones - pay much higher taxes and fees, it also seems unfair that those who've made risks and worked very hard to build something should be the very ones to be singled out to have more of their earned wealth taken away. That also sets the unfairness neurons a-twitchin'.

The left knows this which is why they're always looking for some way to disqualify and devalue the achievements of successful entrepreneurs. So it's no surprise that both Elizabeth Warren and Obama (using nearly the same words) claim that no one really builds a business by themselves - it's really the result of government help, the work of other people, and plain luck." --Maetenloch at Ace o' Spades

Monday, July 16, 2012

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Survey Says: Look Out Below!

Free Enterprise phrases it a bit more diplomatically than I would have: "Uncertainty Holding Back Hiring".

Some of the charts are all you need to see. The situation is dire, exacerbated by feckless executive leadership, a complete failure to budget, and a regulatory regime bent on "crucifying" companies (their words).


I guess these misguided business owners haven't yet learned the lesson President Obama has tried to teach us for lo these many years: "If you've got a business, you -- you didn't build that!"



Oh, teh humanity

Heh.


Hat tips: Bookworm Room via BadBlue.



Boortz speaks truth to power: "Obama is a fascist"

It would seem that Neal Boortz is a tad peeved at the president's unconscionable statements about free enterprise.

...after a week of batting around successful business owners, Caesar Obammus went to Roanoke, Virginia to deliver a speech. In this speech Obama finally spoke the words that left no doubt --- no doubt at all – not one infinitesimal grain of doubt – that he is an anti-free enterprise, controlled economy, big-government economic fascist and a grave threat to our style and standard of living in the United States.

Yes … I called Obama a fascist. Unlike occutards and assorted proggies, I can back up my words with fact.

A brief review of the three general ways to formulate an economy:

Free Enterprise: Private ownership and control of the means of production with only necessary and limited government involvement.

Socialism: Government ownership and full control of the means of production.

Hmmmmmm. That doesn’t cover everything, does it? What if the control of businesses are still in private hands, but the government is pretty much running the show with excessive rules and regulations. For instance, what if banks and financial institutions invest literally billions of dollars into the development and deployment of a bank debit card system by which consumers can pay for purchases simply by swiping a plastic card through a reader and entering a secret personal identification number --- and the government comes along and tells the banks just how much they will be allowed to charge merchants to use this system. Private ownership – government control. What do you call that?

Fascism … that’s what you call that. Economic fascism. And fascism is the Barack Obama game.

Now in his Roanoke speech not only did Dear Ruler show his complete disdain and outright animosity toward free enterprise. He has truly hated capitalism his entire life. He learned if from his mother and father, and from the people he chose to associate with throughout his life – people like Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and many more.

I read the speech --- all 13 nauseating pages of it --- and my heart sank with every paragraph. Here is a man who, thanks to the government-educated dumb masses in this country, may very well be reelected for another four years who is completely clueless as to how our economy works. Not only does he consider the free market to be – in his own words – the “enemy;” but it is a system he simply does not understand at ANY level. There are thousands of high school Junior Achievement members across this country who know more about free enterprise than Dear Ruler...

...Obama sees every successful and wealthy businessman as someone living off of the spoils of an exploitive system that has victimized those at the lower end of the income scale --- and he sees it as his job to make things right by taking money from the evil rich – who, after all, don’t need it – and giving it to the poor. Pure absolute Marxism.

I've asked it over and over again of you Leftists and no one can answer this question: when did it become acceptable for the Democrat Party to embrace and integrate Marxists, Fascists and Communists into its party?

Because, back during the Cold War, it was called treason. For that is what it is.


Related: The Wiktionary Definition of Fascism (2009).


The Government's Unseen Helping Hand


Who knew?



Rush speaks truth to power: "Barack Obama hates this country"

Okay, Leftists: if you think Dr. Limbaugh is over the top with this statement, pray tell me how someone who loves America seeks to "fundamentally transform" it?

This is well-known Indian squaw Elizabeth Warren. It was in September of 2011 in Andover, Massachusetts, during a "Talking Tour" running for her Senate against Scott Brown:

I hear all this, "You know, well, this is class warfare. This is whatever." No! There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you! But I want to be clear: You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You, uh, were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.

Now, a couple of interesting things about this. Let's look at roads, for example. Which came first, the paved road or the car? Well, which necessitated which? I would submit to you that the car came along, and then the government (and all of the people that really made this thing work) built the roads. What Obama and Elizabeth Warren want you to believe is that government is the center of everything, that government starts everything. And government doesn't. Government reacts...

...It was a bunch of people that built cars. It was a bunch of people who invented the assembly line to make them efficiently and quickly. Government had nothing to do with it! The second point about this is, you know what this really is? This is a bunch of people that don't count. This is a bunch of people with miserable, meaningless lives who are lying to themselves; trying to tell themselves that they matter...

...Here's Obama in Roanoke on Friday night...

Look, i-i-if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own... You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, "Well, it must be because I was just so smart!" ... here are a lot of smart people out there. "It must be because I worked harder than everybody else." Let me tell you something. There are a whole bunch of hardworkin' people out there! ... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges! If you've got a business, you -- you didn't build that!

Yeah, well, you know who really invented the Internet? It was the military. It was a DOD project, and Obama hates that. But, folks, look. Here he is repeating it: Roads and bridges. The roads and bridges came after what was necessary, or what made the roads and bridges necessary. They came after that. I'll tell you what. I think it can now be said, without equivocation -- without equivocation -- that this man hates this country.

He is trying -- Barack Obama is trying -- to dismantle, brick by brick, the American dream...There's no other way to explain this.

He was indoctrinated as a child. His father was a communist. His mother was a leftist. He was sent to prep and Ivy League schools where his contempt for the country was reinforced. He moved to Chicago. It was the home of the radical-left movement. He hooks up to Ayers and Dohrn and Rashid Khalidi. He learns the ruthlessness of Cook County politics. This is what we have as a president: A radical ideologue, a ruthless politician who despises the country and the way it was founded and the way in which it became great.

How do you destroy a resilient United States? Well, you spend it into oblivion with wild, trillion-dollar deficit spending. And then you tack on a brand new, massive entitlement for good measure.

You destroy the value of the dollar through currency manipulation.

And then you begin destroying the American work ethic.

So tell me, Leftists: how do you live with yourselves? How do you sleep at night, knowing the president you support is trying to crush the most magnificent society the world has ever seen?


Larwyn's Linx: ‘They’re Demoralized as Hell!’

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Nation

‘They’re Demoralized as Hell!’: RSM
Look to Canada for The Ghost of Obamacare Yet to Come: Ricochet
Let's Apply the Harry Reid Dog-Catcher Standard to Obama: Breitbart

What has Obama done to change the tone in Washington?: GayPatriot
Suburban Illinois Jews Embracing GOP: PJM
Jews and American Conservatism: Fischer

Economy

Get ready for the 3.8 percent Medicare tax!: GWP
Auto Bailout Czar: We Did It All for the Unions: NPLC
Obama: Capitalism is the problem: Ricochet

Dancing on the Global Fiscal Cliff: NoisyRm
CBO Reports Tax Reality; Inadvertently Reveals Path to Flat Tax: Razor
Dem Senator Displays His Business Acumen: Anchor

Did Government Got Him Where He Is Today?: Erickson
Man With a Plan: WS
Don’t Buy Investor-Government Scheme: RWN

Scandal Central

Outsourced: Obama campaign raises money in China... again: Breitbart
Thanks to Obama Team's 'Felon' Claims, Rezko Back in Spotlight: Reaganite
Obama Campaign Outsources Fundraising to Switzerland, Sweden, Paris and Red China: GWP

Climate & Energy

The Democrats’ Clown War On Science: FDA caught snooping on its own scientists: Moe Lane
Obama's War on Coal Raises Energy Prices Despite Falling Natural Gas Costs: Breitbart
F.D.A. Kept "Enemies List," "Spied on E-Mails" Despite "Substantial and Specific Danger to Public Safety": Riehl

Media

David Brooks Says Our Elite Is Talented and Open: CEPR
You Have Every Right to be Concerned Regarding Obama’s Internet Control Executive Order: Kuznicki
The big bad basic lie of the deceitful Obama Campaign: TAB

Dee Wasserman Snider Has Conservative Blogger Booted- Me: Shark Tank
Rep. West lays the wood on a MSM reporter: MB
This Week Points Out Outsourcing Happening Under Obama: ABC

Just In: Mark Levin to Romney: You NEED to go on OFFENSE!: Scoop
AP beclowns itself once again, tries to dis successful GOP governors: Blumer
Are Conservative Bloggers Too Independent to Organize for November Elections?: MagNote

World

Europe's Lessons for the U.S.: Campbell
Oldest functioning Christian monastery at risk from... Militant Quakers: Creeping
Newborn girl 'buried alive by her father in Pakistan because she was deformed': Daily Mail

Islamist Generation: Steyn
Perhaps This “Arab Spring” Thing In Egypt Isn’t Working Out So Well: Lid
Hilarity Ensues as Russia Criticizes Saudi Arabia's Human Rights Record: Forbes

Arab Spring Comes Late This Year: Instapundit
US tells Egypt okay to break treaty if Israel doesn't withdraw to 1949 armistice lines?: Matzav
Egyptians pelt Clinton motorcade with tomatoes: Reuters

Sci-Tech

Wine and Bone Health, Oh Joy!: MagNote
Twitter 6th Anniversary: How Mentions, Hashtags, and Retweets Came To Be: ABC
New reporter? Call him Al, for algorithm: AFP

Cornucopia

The Emoticons of 1881: AmDig
Channeling our inner Cherokee: a social contract story: MOTUS
Justice Roberts is Wrong, Nullify: CFP

Image: American Power
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QOTD: "This is, I believe, a moral tale. It goes far to prove the revolutionary axiom that if you wish to destroy a nation you must corrupt its currency. Thus must sound money be the first bastion of a society's defence" --Adam Fergusson, When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Collapse, 1975 (PDF)

Sunday, July 15, 2012

USA Today disgraces itself again: praises China's "green cities" in the midst of an environmental nightmare

The praise for the People's Republic of China isn't just coming from the likes of Barack Obama and Thomas Friedman, both of whom pine for a simpler, more -- eh -- totalitarian form of government.

The PRC party line is also gleefully recited by the hacks at USA Today, who claim that "China builds [the] most ecologically friendly cities."

Designed to be low-carbon and energy-saving, China is building more eco-cities, as they are known, than any other country, according to a survey by the University of Westminster in London. The United States ranked second.

One of the biggest will be Tianjin Eco-City, a joint development between the Chinese and Singaporean governments that will cover almost 11 square miles of wasteland and salt pans near Tianjin, a major port city east of Beijing. More than 1,000 people will move in this year, joining 100 residents. The target is 350,000 residents by 2025, says Liu Wenchuang, a senior construction official.

China's buyers don't appear motivated by environmentalism, real estate professionals say. Saving money and preserving their health look to be the big selling points.

Pity USA Today is only in the business of reformatting PRC press releases and can't concentrate on the real environmental issues in Red China. As CBS News reports, 16 of the 20 most polluted cities on the planet are in China.

Here's a taste, if you can stomach it.

Hebei Province Shexian Tianjin Iron and steel plant (河北省涉县天津钢铁厂) is a heavily polluting company. Company scale is still growing, seriously affecting the lives of local residents.

Guiyu, Guangdong province, (广东省贵屿镇) rivers and reservoirs have been contaminated, the villager is washing in a seriously polluted pond.

In the Yellow Sea coastline, countless sewage pipes buried in the beach and even extending into the deep sea.

In Inner Mongolia there were 2 “black dragons” from the Lasengmiao Power Plant (内蒙古拉僧庙发电厂) covering the nearby villages.

Large amount of the industrial wastewater flowed to Yellow River from Inner Mongolia Lasengmiao Industrial District (内蒙古拉僧庙工业园区) every day.

Longmen town in Hanchen city, Shaanxi Province (陕西省韩城市龙门镇) has large-scaled industrial development. Environment is very seriously polluted there.

There are over 100 chemical plants in Jiangsu province coastal industry district. (江苏滨海头罾沿海化工园区) Some of them discharge wastewater into the ocean; some heavily contaminated sewage is stored in 5 “Sewage Temporary Pools”. During the 2 high tides in every month, the sewage then gets discharged into the ocean with the tides...

The remainder of the photos are quite graphic. Only click through if you have a strong stomach.

The only newsworthy stories about China and the environment are the humanitarian catastrophes unfolding as we speak. Which USA Today banefully ignores.



Holy Crap: Obama Tax Hikes Could Cost 1.2 Million Jobs

Well, this should have a delightful impact on small business hiring. Or should I say "firing".

President Obama has made raising taxes on “the rich” a central plank of his re-election campaign. Yet even many Democrats are questioning the wisdom of hiking taxing on job creators while the economy is still struggling and unemployment is still lingering at over 8 percent.

They are right to be concerned. According to calculations by The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis (CDA), the average American with $250,000 or more in income can expect an average $24,888 tax increase next year under Obama’s proposed policies.


...The $24,888 figure is often enough for a salary, and despite what some proponents of the tax hike have argued, many of these successful small businesses do have employees. According to the Treasury Department, 1.2 million small businesses both had employees and earned more than $200,000 in 2007. So the President is putting about 1.2 million jobs—perhaps even more—at risk with this tax hike...

Now, if Democrats had half-a-brain among 'em, they'd slash taxes across the board while stripping the size of government down to a manageable size. The entire, mammoth, federal leviathan is an enormous anchor on the private sector. It produces nothing but regulations, taxes, fees and dictates. It exists solely to leech the private sector of life.

But despite reams of evidence, Democrats refuse to allow businesses to thrive. They are bound and determined to crush entrepreneurship, innovation and liberty.

Which is why we must fire every Democrat in November. Let 'em have a taste of life in the private sector.


Don't fear the fiscal cliff -- fear the welfare cliff

I dream of a day when vintage media covers the important issues, such as how the president's policies are permanently condemning the nation's poor to lives of misery.

I wrote last year about the way in which welfare programs lead to very high implicit marginal tax rates on low-income people. More specifically, they lose handouts when they earn income. As such, it is not very advantageous for them to climb the economic ladder because hard work is comparatively unrewarding... Thanks to the American Enterprise Institute, we now have a much more detailed picture showing the impact of redistribution programs on the incentive to earn more money.


...Needless to say, there’s not much reason to earn more income when living standards don’t improve. May as well stay home and goof off rather than work hard and produce... This is why income redistribution is so destructive, not just to taxpayers, but also to the people who get trapped into dependency.

And which candidate continues to press for more and more dependency?

[Does the name] Julia ring a bell ... ? If you guessed Obama, pat yourself on the back. Why just yesterday he gutted the Work Requirements From Clinton-era Welfare Reform. As the chart indicates above, there is NO incentive to work and get off the government crutch and the Democrats are pushing forward with agendas to add more.

The problem for Obama and the Democrats is that eventually, you will lose many taxpayers as they give up the ghost and join those already on the teat of government. The reason will be that it is no longer worth having to work over 6 months of the year just to make enough to pay your taxes and then have only a few months of pay to spend on everything else.

Some call the inevitable result 'Going Galt'. Professor Glenn Reynolds describes it as 'Middle Class Anarchy':

When the backbone of a country starts thinking that laws and rules are not worth following, it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to anarchy...

TV has given us the illusion that anarchy is people rioting in the streets, smashing car windows and looting every store in sight. But there’s also the polite, quiet, far deadlier anarchy of the core citizenry—the upright citizenry—throwing in the towel and deciding it’s just not worth it anymore. If a big enough proportion of the populace—not even a majority, just a largish chunk—decides that it’s just not worth following the rules anymore, then that society’s days are numbered...

The whole idea of "The Cloward-Piven Strategy" may seem far-fetched for readers unaccustomed to the idea of a fifth column working -- within the government -- to collapse the financial system.

I think we have assembled more than enough proof: record use of food stamps (even Spanish language advertisements hawking the benefits of food stamps, presumably to illegal aliens), record use of welfare benefits, record dependence on government-funded health care, and much, much more.

Combined with annual trillion-dollar deficits, the only possible scenario is one of collapse. The laws of mathematics aren't partisan. The numbers are what they are.

And this president appears bound and determined to "fundamentally transform America" -- his words -- achieved via an economic catastrophe.

You and I have but one chance to stop this madness on November 6th.


Larwyn's Linx: The Big Lie

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Nation

The Big Lie: Flopping Aces
Hey, Look Who’s Holding a Fundraiser in CHINA…: Nice Deb
Will Reid also demand the Dems burn Ralph Lauren's donations?: Malkin

Oops: More than 30% of Obama’s gross income came from overseas: FAM
'You didn't build that business on your own!': RWN
Obama channels Elizabeth Warren: Hot Air

Economy

Obama's Five Year Plan: CDN
Can You Spot An AFL-CIO Lie?: LUR
Team Obama calls Romney a tax cheat, ignores TurboTax Geithner: Twitchy

AEI's Carbon Tax Flirtations: Ace
The Essential Lesson of the Auto Bailout: Conover
Who's the big outsourcer in this race?: Toldjah

Scandal Central

Nancy's Napa Valley Wine Train paid for with stimulus dollars: Twitchy
FTC: Healthcare ruling is prompting scams: Hill
On the vote fraud front: Conservatory

Climate & Energy

EPA Thumbs Nose At Private Citizen, Hides Behind Bureaucracy: POH Diaries
Chickens and cows now required to have government issued I.D. Voters, not so much.: Slack
EPA, why fine oil firms over fantasy biofuel?: Murdock

“Climate Science” in Shambles: Real Scientists Battle UN Agenda: NewAm
Oh great, yet another new EPA regulation making things more expensive for everyone: Hot Air
EPA Special Agents Visit NC Man Over Email: AWD

Media

NAACP Furthers Mission of KKK: Marcus
Murdering people in the name of “tolerance”: Hoosier Access
Oops! Obama tells supporters to get medical help from ‘paralegals’: Twitchy

CNN Accuses Obama of 'Swiftboating' Romney: NB
New Book Claims Obama Mentored By Perverted, Drug Using Communist Frank Marshall Davis: Riehl
Valerie Jarrett's Father-in-Law a Communist: Worked With Obama Mentor Frank Marshall Davis: Loudon (2011)

Brad Pitt’s mom gets a history lesson: JPA
The United States of Guilt: Sultan Knish
If a conservative speaks in the forest...: Tatler

Mitt Romney: Attacks Are "Beneath [Obama's] Dignity": Ace
Mainstream Media Remains Mum About Their Messiah: AWD
Viewpoints: Brown's tax hike would impede job growth: SacBee

World

Why Illegal Immigrants Killing People Is Especially Galling: An Observation: Patterico
Is Assad Threatening Israel?: ynet
Hanifa Safi killed by car bomb in Afghanistan: GlobalPost

Where did Syria's chemical weapons come from?f: Breitbart
Afghan Suicide Bomber Kills 20 Including Prominent Politician at Wedding Party: GWP
Netanyahu lashes out at Iran 'terrorism' in Cyprus: AFP

Whose plane was it and who shot it down?: Matzav
Why Did Obama Hold A Fundraiser In Communist Red China?: IronicSurrealism
Syria Denies Heavy Weapons Used in Latest Violence: ABC

Sci-Tech

Former Pentagon analyst: China has backdoors to 80% of telecoms: ZDNet
New Analyst Report Rips Agile: ADT Mag
US urged to recruit master hackers to wage cyber war on America's foes: Guardian

Cornucopia

Every Designer Tells a Story: Every Story has a Designer: MOTUS
“King Obama” by Lenin and the Castros – (Chris Cassone, Jim Riley, Victoria Jackson): iOTW
Cripes - it's real!: Blazing Cat Fur

Image: American Digest
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "If I were Mr. Reid, Ms. Pelosi and the entire complement of Progressives and anti-war Democrats who cheered in politically opportunistic victory when no “stockpiles” of WMD were found in Iraq, the exact group who routinely ignored those who sounded the alarm about the transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria, I would be very concerned about what may very well be the ultimate vindication of George W. Bush.

I would also be worried about the implications this realization could have on the elections coming in November where Democrats are concerned. I mean, really, it’s one thing to be wrong about the economy, healthcare, immigration, taxes, etc., repeatedly and ad nauseum, but when your radical and rigid Progressive agenda and political opportunism leaves hundreds or thousands of bodies in its wake."--Frank Salvato

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Mitt Romney's Dad: Civil Rights Icon

My, my, my. Curious how this photograph hasn't made it into America's collective consciousness.


Thanks to The Looking Spoon for the illustration.



Ruh Roh: Even CNN blisters President Offshore McSandtrap for Lying About Romney's Record

I mean, off the top of my head:

Outsourcing NASA to the Russians: "If offshoring is so bad, Mr. President, why are we paying the Russians to take our astronauts to the ISS?"

Outsourcing oil drilling to Brazil's Petrobas: "The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field."

Outsourcing the Keystone XL pipeline to Red China: "President Barack Obama’s decision yesterday to reject a permit for TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL oil pipeline may prompt Canada to turn to China for oil exports."


Outsourcing automotive jobs to Finland: "With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work."

In fact, the Obama administration has offshored $29 billion in work: "President Obama, head of an administration that paid foreign companies almost $29 billion for services like food, gas, and space travel last year, is attacking Romney for 'offshoring,' when FactCheck.org declared, 'we found no evidence to support the claim that Romney — while he was still running Bain Capital — shipped American jobs overseas.'."

And with his oppressive regulatory regime, crony capitalism and promises of higher taxes, Obama is provably driving hundreds of thousands of jobs offshore.

He's the biggest outsourcer in history!

Got it, drones?


Update: CNN Accuses Obama of 'Swiftboating' Romney

Bain: Has Milhaus Hit The Bottom of the Barrel Already?

Dan from New York:

Obama’s pitiful Bain gambit reeks of desperation, and it’s only July. Is it possible the Attack Dog-in-Chief can sink even lower in the slime, or has he already reached bottom and left it in the gym? In due course, I’m sure we’re going to find out. Hey, and whatever happened to Hope and Change?

CNN: OBAMA'S BAIN PUSH 'DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE TRUE'


Yesterday, based on proven falsehoods, the Obama campaign floated the idea that Mitt Romney might be a "felon."

That is appalling behavior coming from a sitting United States President and, had Romney done the same to Obama, the media would've created a perfect storm demanding he either back it up or walk it back -- and rightfully so.

Obama's entire Bain spree has been nothing but lies and irresponsible, outrageous charges. Negative campaigning is one thing; lying and hurling words like "felony" is something completely different. That the media will not hold Obama accountable for this reprehensible behavior is as much a black mark on them as it is on Obama.

Dude. The media is dead.

And speaking of organized crime: The Top Ten Felons, Fugitives and Miscreants in Obama's Life.