Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel, a man in the mold of Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan [Amalaur]

Correspondent Amalaur reports from southwestern Ohio's Hamilton County -- possibly the most important single county in the U.S. for the presidential race -- where Senate candidate Josh Mandel spoke at a fundraiser.

Brian Thomas, morning host of WKRC 550-AM, introduced Ohio's treasurer and U.S. Senate candidate with the following existential question:

I struggle with this every day. Are the people on the other side of the aisle nefarious or stupid? After many years of consideration, I've finally arrived at the answer: they're nefarious and stupid.

With that statement as ice-breaker, Thomas quickly gave way to Mandel.

Josh Mandel spoke with an impressive, eloquent and deeply passionate voice. Mandel sounds like Paul Ryan's younger brother. All of the facts, statistics and salient details of state and national policy positions were at the tip of his tongue.

Curiously, the man speaks sans teleprompter and notecards.

Mandel said that when he entered the Treasurer's office, the agency was an "ethics nightmare". Since the takeover, Ohio's credit rating has been ratcheted up (not down, got that, Democrats?) and his department has voluntarily cut its budget two years in a row.

Contrast that with the philosophy of today's Democrats who treat businesses -- small and large -- as enemies of government, not partners. Who believe that people don't build businesses on their own, and therefore don't deserve the rewards they achieve.

Mandel highlighted the ideological differences between conservatives and the modern Democrat Party: "It's not two shades of gray... it's two completely different philosophies."

This is why, Mandel insists, that Obama and his opponent -- the Marxist kook Sherrod Brown (my words, not Mandel's, for the most liberal Senator in Washington since Obama surrendered his seat) -- are trying to make the campaign out of small things, tiny things.

Do you care if Mitt Romney released two years or 10 years of tax returns? Do you care if Mitt Romney used to have a horse? How does that affect your life?

80% of Sherrod Brown's (and the vast majority of Barack Obama's) ads are negative. Mandel asserts that 80% of his ads are positive, focusing on what should be done to repair Washington.

Mandel is 34 years old, served two tours in Iraq with the U.S. Marines, received a Bachelor's from Ohio State and a law degree from Case Western.

Many of his family members are entrepreneurs and involved with the medical industry and therefore understand how destructive Obama's policies are. Consider, he said, a businessman who grows his company from 1 person, to 2, to 20, and then to 200.

According to Obama, Pelosi and Brown, you are to be vilified and castigated.

Importantly, Mandel observes, "You cant grow employment when you vilify success."

And Sherrod Brown cast the deciding vote for, well, Mandel doesn't call it Obamacare or the ludicrous "Affordable Care Act". He calls it as he sees it: a federal takeover of healthcare industry.

Why would we want the government running health care? Just look at the Post Office, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Amtrak? Amtrak is a perfect example: why are citizens of Ohio having wealth confiscated to fund train rides for investment bankers riding between Boston and New York City?

Changes are needed in the health care system, first and foremost related to medical liability and tort reform. Mandel's brother is a pediatrician, his sister-in-law is a doctor at the Cleveland Clinic, and he has four other close relatives who are physicians. Yesterday, he said, at his family's Labor Day picnic, all of the docs in the family discussed how goverment dictated a smothering system of defensive medicine.

Health care can be reformed with free market principles: allow companies to cross state lines, stop suppressing physician-owned hospitals and facilities. Encourage more choice and quality goes up while costs go down. It's something easy to understand for anyone who's run a business, which excludes the entire Obama administration (that last bit was my description, not Mandel's).

When it comes to energy, Mandel believes that our natural resources are assets, not liabilities as Democrats would have you believe. Our natural resources are blessings -- force multipliers that strengthen our national security posture and simultaneously boost the economy.

When it comes to fiscal responsibility, Mandel asked the rhetorical question: could you family or company go three months without talking about a budget or finances? It has now been three years since Democrats last passed a budget.

One of the reasons we have $16 trillion in debt -- with Social Security and Medicare spiraling out of control -- is that we have no roadmap. Democrats and the old guard GOP are both to blame. That's why the Balanced Budget Amendment, supported by Senators DeMint, Rubio, Johnson, Lee and Paul, is so important.

Mandel closed by making a commitment to the audience: there will be a day in DC when someone powerful puts a hand on my shoulder and says, "You better vote for this bill" if you want that committee assignment, or that endorsement, or whatever.

He promised to look that lobbyist, politician or journalist in the eye and tell them, "Sorry. I don't serve you. I serve the people of Ohio... and when I tell them that, I'll mean it."

Folks, Josh Mandel is the real deal. He's another Marco Rubio or Paul Ryan. If you've got a couple of bucks to spare, consider helping him defeat the radical Leftist Sherrod Brown. Brown needs a pink slip in the worst way imaginable. Maybe he'll gain a new appreciation for the private sector in his next gig, preferably servicing drive-up customers at JiffyLube.



The mask slips at the DNC: government is all that matters

The exact quote of the opening video at the Democrat National Convention?


"The Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To"

In all of America's political history, you could probably not find a single opening statement at a convention more at odds with America's founding.

Democrats do not believe in the Declaration of Independence, a universal proclamation of individual sovereignty for all times.

Nor do they believe in the Constitution, the most elegant system ever created in order to constrain a government from growing too large and encroaching upon the rights of the individual.

History teaches us that the decline of a society and the demise of a government comes with the institutionalization of corruption and a wanton disregard for the written law. Such is our situation today, wherein the states have become puppets of an all-powerful federal government that confiscates more and more private property while exerting increasing control over every aspect of our lives.


Light bulbs, car bumpers, student loans, mattresses, refrigerators, gasoline, personal computers, toilet tanks -- every aspect of our day-to-day lives now suffers from some extra-constitutional intrusion by the federal government. In fact, little you do, say or touch each day could be construed as out of government's control.


And now, it has grown so enormous it threatens to capsize the fiscal stability of our society with trillions in deficits and unfunded entitlement programs, with no plan by Democrats to repair any of this hemorrhaging mess.

If we are to protect our society from decline and despotism, whose counsel should we then cherish? Should we honor thousands of years of human experience and the wisdom of history's greatest philosophers -- Polybius, Cicero, Aristotle, Montesquieu, Locke, Jefferson, Adams and Madison among them? Men who understood how governments have failed throughout all of human history and sought to construct a system to counter it?

Or should we disregard their guidance and instead follow the Fabians? Are these philosophers and founders to be replaced by the likes of Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Richard Trumka?

The greatest bulwark against tyranny in America has always been the Constitution, which instantiates our exquisitely designed system of private property, God-given individual liberties and free enterprise.

This is our generation's fork in the road and the stakes of our decision could not be higher. If we are to protect our society from the inevitable decline and despotism that has infected so many societies since the beginning of time, in whom should we trust? If we are to shield our children from the tyranny against which our founders fought and so many Americans shed blood, in whom should we put our faith?

In this single video, the Democrats have revealed their true face: and it is the face of tyranny, decline and despotism. It the face of failure, writ large through all of human history.

Which path will you choose in November?



Are you an attorney enjoying the riches of the Obama economy? Have I got an opportunity for you

My brother serves as both a lawyer and an attorney (to quote from Gilligan's Island) and he recommends Lawyers for Romney.

In all seriousness, its mission is an important one: to protect the integrity of the ballot box against, uhm, some of the more nefarious elements of the Democrat Party. You know, the felons, the illegal aliens, and the walking dead that somehow manage to vote Democrat in every election.


If you're an attorney and looking for a way to help protect this great country, click on over.

And tell 'em Doug sent you.


Congratulations, Democrats! On the eve of your convention, you've hit the progressive trifecta!

1. The national debt just surpassed $16 trillion, a level some experts believe is past the point of no return.


2. The number of Americans on food-stamps just hit another record high.


3. Last month, three times more Americans entered poverty than found jobs.


Let me repeat: three times as many Americans entered poverty than found jobs last month.

By every conceivable measure, things are getting worse under this president, not better. And why anyone would vote Democrat under these circumstances is beyond me.



Exhibit A: why Colin Powell must be excommunicated from the GOP

I know that Powell likes to appear on the Sunday talk shows from time to time, marketing himself as a Republican or a demi-conservative. He's neither, as evidenced by his incoherent and bizarre endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008.


This picture -- found on Twitter during the London Olympics -- demonstrates just how outrageous a personality Colin Powell has become.

Socializing with the loathsome Louis Farrakhan?


Larwyn's Linx: Obama's Dreams

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Nation

Obama's Dreams: Sowell
Obama Doesn't Realize His Ideas Predate Black-and-White TV: WH
#EmptyChairDay : Angry?: RSM

From Republic to Nanny State: CFP
We've Heard It All Before: JWF
GOP revs up its counter-convention at NASCAR site: Riehl

The Terrifying New Normal: Hanson
DNC Chairman Says He's an "Honorary Girl" for Folding Towels: DTG
Ryan throws down challenge to Obama in NC: Breitbart

Economy

Who pays the bill for handing out $2.2T in entitlements a year?: Knight
We Need a Creators Day: Chicago Boyz
O’Malley Does an About-Face: Yes, We are Better Off: NatlJrnl

Union Money In Elections: Foundry
Labor Day alert: Support the Delphi workers: Malkin
Obama's Accelerating Downward Spiral For America: Ferrara

Scandal Central

New York Times Reveals Eastwood Was Correct: Forbes
With landmark lawsuit, Barack Obama helped spur mortgage crisis: DC
ABC, CBS and NBC Bury Bumbling Biden's Most Embarrassing Moments: MRC

Climate & Energy

Not All Union Bosses Support: UMWA Refuses To Endorse Obama’s Campaign: LUR
The price of tyranny by bureaucracy: Cold Fury

Media

Dreaming Up a New America: Progressive Education and the Perversion of American Democracy: AT
New experience for Obama: GOP attacks and mockery: York
MSNBC Redefines American History in the Context of Obama: AT

"MSNBC pundits: Eastwood’s GOP convention speech a 'bizarre' and 'embarrassing' 'disaster'": Althouse
National Empty Chair Day a Roaring Success!: GWP
Patches O'Hoolihan Would Be Proud: Scared Monkeys

Privileges and responsibilities: Thomas
Robert Gibbs Says Obama’s Decline With Youth Vote Is Bush’s Fault: iOTW
Scott Walker: Obama’s broken promises: Politico

I almost feel sorry for the guy…almost: Cold Fury
Dem Panic Watch: Busing in Crowds to Fill Stadium for Obama Edition: Riehl
More On The Rumors That The Obama’s Are Moving To Hawaii In January.: Waznmentobe

World

Aiding An Enemy, Stabbing An Ally In The Back -- Obama Tells Iran It Will Not Back Israel: HySci
Jewish Democrats on the Defensive: Barone
U.S. does not intend to back Israel in a strike against Iran: ynet

A Free Iraq? Young Iraqis face religious fashion crackdown: Riehl
Egypt: Kill a Christian, Collect a Reward: Gatestone
Johnny Depp Flees France Over Tax Hikes: Townhall

Sci-Tech

How The Telecom Company Free Disrupted The Mobile Landscape In France: Crunch
Oracle appeals five-year US copyright case against SAP: ZDNet
Acer to release six smartphones in 2013, including Windows 8 device: CNet

Cornucopia

Caption Contest Winners: MB
The Republican War On Chairs: We Are All Chairs Now!: Cube
Clint Eastwood v's Obama The Re-Match: Jenna Garlock

Image: Happy Empty Chair Day! - Fausta's Blog
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QOTD: "Aides say [Valerie Jarrett] never uses her private time with the president to relitigate decisions. Even so, the White House is organized around the principle that the president’s time is an administration’s most valuable commodity, not to be spent on low-priority matters or those not fully vetted. Yet several officials say that is what happened with one of Ms. Jarrett’s pet projects, Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics.

Based on her assurances that his personal appeal to the Olympic committee could clinch the deal, the president flew to Copenhagen. During the flight back, CNN reported that Chicago had not survived the first round of voting.

“There was total silence,” one official recalled. “It was a long trip home.”

...she can also be imperious — at one event ordering a drink from a four-star general she mistook for a waiter — and attached to the trappings of power in a way some in the White House consider unseemly for a member of the staff.

A case in point is her full-time Secret Service detail. The White House refuses to disclose the number of agents or their cost, citing security concerns. But the appearance so worried some aides that two were dispatched to urge her to give the detail up.

She listened politely, one said, but the agents stayed." --Jo Becker (hat tip: JTT)

Monday, September 03, 2012

Funniest #EmptyChairDay Photos Yet!

I literally fell off my... er... chair:


Stay tuned for updates later in the evening.

Update: The Right Scoop (@TRScoop):


@Romniac:


@NoToSerfdom:


Update II: @BrightStarAir:


@TBradleyNC observes POTUS registering voters:


@IowaHawkBlog:


iOwnTheWorld:


Dinah Lord writes, "Col. Boudreau was excited when his Empty Chair in Chief invited him for lunch. Until he realized that he was lunch.":



Absolutely Brutal Ad

"We've heard it all before":


As Jammie observes, "The best offense against Obama is... Obama."



That Roar You Hear in the Distance May Be a Tidal Wave Building

I truly believe that the American people -- all races, all creeds, all colors, all religions, all income levels -- are marshaling together to try to save this Republic in November -- first and foremost, by rejecting the Cloward-Piven Democrat Party. Consider the following data points, all collected over the last 24 hours:

Obama doubles field offices in "leans Dem" New Mexico:

Real Clear Politics currently has New Mexico leaning toward Obama by ten points...

...Given Obama’s troubles raising cash and Mitt Romney’s distinct campaign dollar advantage, you do not suddenly open up twice as many field offices in a state in which you’re polling ten points ahead, unless you are seeing something troubling going on.

There’s also the added advantage of the stress it places on Obama’s campaign purse. He can’t re-distribute tax dollars to pay for extra field offices he didn’t anticipate needing in the first place.

Losing the Independents

Carville and Greenberg have just released a new poll, and it’s devastating for Obama. Among independents — the precious, eagerly sought, oh-God-everybody-loves-them independents — Romney leads Obama (this is a poll this week) by 15 points, 53 to 38 in independents. This is remarkable. This is a Stan Greenberg and James Carville poll. “Independents disapprove of Obama’s job performance 56 to 40%. And when looking at intensity, disapproval is greater than two to one, 47 to 20%.”


...Now, according to exit polling, Obama won a majority of independents in 2008. It was 52 to 44, an eight-point majority in the election of 2000, according to exit polls. “His cratering of support among swing voters reflected in this Carville poll,” and in many others, “is the equivalent of losing more than 5.3 million independent voters from his 2008 total.”

Number of Republicans in America Reaches Record High

During August, 37.6% of Americans considered themselves Republicans. That’s up from 34.9% in July and 35.4% in June. It’s also the largest number of Republicans ever recorded by Rasmussen Report since monthly tracking began in November 2002. The previous peak for the GOP was 37.3% in September 2004.

Boston Globe: Predictive Model Yields Romney Landslide

The Lexington economic forecasting firm takes two economic indicators plus three political variables, plugs them into a formula, and out pops the percentage of the popular vote the incumbent party is expected to win. The formula has correctly predicted the outcome in 14 of the last 16 presidential elections...


...The most recent update of the formula, using July economic data, shows President Obama losing decisively, with just over 45 percent of the popular vote.

Scaled-Back DNC Due To Fundraising Shortfalls

At first pass, a shorter convention might not seem like a big deal. While convention organizers say it helps to open the convention to the people, even if only for another day, others see the curtailment as a potential red flag of fundraising woes.


The original plan started with a typical Monday opening and included four days of convention business -- just as Democrats have done for years... But in January, organizers announced they were scaling it back.

Finally, I'm even seeing signs of conservatism emerging at The New York Times. No, not by the editors and reporters. But if the comments at the Times are any indication, Barack Jarrett Obama is in deep, deep trouble.

I refer, of course, to the New York Times' stunning expose of Barack Obama's puppeteer, a classic, inept Chicago political apparatchik named Valerie Jarrett. Some of the highlighted comments include:


Can we take this country back and return it to its Constitutional roots? I believe we can. Take nothing for granted, however, because the time to save this Republic grows short.


Urgent Labor Day Notice From the White House

The Looking Spoon relays the following urgent notice:


It's really not all that funny. Consider the labor-force participation rate:


Things keep getting worse. And now we're hitting Jimmy Carter malaise territory: a 30-year low in the labor force, achieved thanks to the same failed Democrat philosophies Carter tried. Spreading wealth really means spreading poverty and misery, with the government as middleman. Progressivism -- punishing successful people in the name of arbitrary guidelines of "fairness" -- can't work, won't work and has never worked in all of human history.

Maybe every 30 years or so the American people need to be reminded of the greatness of free enterprise and capitalism.


Larwyn's Linx: What would Obama do with another four years?

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Nation

What would Obama do with another four years?: Driscoll
Who’s Ready For Empty Chair Day?: Nice Deb
Convention Mash Up: PolWire

Forward: a Look Ahead to the DNC: RWN
Obamanation of the Day: Kimball
Why the Democratic Convention Plan Shows Obama Will Lose: BRubin

My kindhearted attempt to help that poor dear Kathleen Parker: ProWis
Inspiring, but not slick, Romney showed the right stuff: RWN
Golden State No Longer: My Escape from America's Greece: Hoffman

Economy

Inside America's Most Indebted City: Harrisburg, PA: Mish
Plouffe dodges ABC News 'Better Off Four Years Ago' Questions: NB
Federal Budget Visualized: MB

New Video of Obama Surfaces: Vindicates Ryan: Sooper
Is 11% This Election's Most Important Number?: ZH
One Picture: Your Choice in November: IMAO

Scandal Central

Why Democrats Fear Voter I.D. Laws: Babalu
Just in Time for the DNC: 30,000 Dead North Carolinians Registered to Vote: JWF
Elizabeth Warren, rather than firing thug staffer, lies and tries to cover it up: EBL

Europe's Eco-Fascism on Display: RWN
How feds' Arpaio case unraveled: AzCentral
John Cusack Interviews Law Professor Jonathan Turley: Obama’s War On the Constitution: TruthOut

Climate & Energy

The Green War on the Poor: Zubrin
How California's Carbon Market Will Work: AtlCities
Tesla: Walking a tightrope with cash; stock is heavily shorted: Trading Floor

Media

Why Does MSNBC Want to Go Backwards?: Foundry
GOP convention viewership down more than 40%?: Instapundit
Pics of the Day: Obama Sux and is Washed up: Nice Deb

President Empty Chair Awfully Critical of Convention He Didn’t Watch: JWF
You Want a Unity Speech? I'll Give You a Unity Speech: RSM
Bill Clinton on Obama: 'A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags': WS

Sandra Fluke Outed As Complete Tool of Corrupt Democrat Party Infanticide Industry: AmPower
Mark Levin: We need Todd Akin to beat Claire McCaskill and Karl Rove needs to shut the f up: Scoop
Doing just fine: Sand Obama intact despite rumors of demolition for ‘security reasons’: Twitchy

World

Time Exclusive: Obama bails on Israel, Affecting Potential Iran Strike: Riehl
Navy SEAL’s firsthand account of Osama Bin Laden's death: Post
Machine Gun Preacher: Kesler

Wall Street Journal blasts Obama's attitude towards Israel: Hayom
Israel: Time’s Up: NoisyRm
Tunisia: Leave While You Can: JPress

SEAL Book No Easy Day Out 9-4-12: MagNote
Support Jewish Students at the University of California: Hoffman
Anchor dons hijab for 1st time on Egypt state TV: JPost

Sci-Tech

Congress members question Homeland Security over seized domains: Verge
Max Planck Institute sequences genome of Siberian girl from 80,000 years ago: Engadget
War-Droid: Smartphone app 'that could CALL IN drone strikes': Register

Cornucopia

Rumor: Obamas Are Moving To Hawaii In January 2013: GWP
What the Hell is With the Tooters?: iOTW
Live Blogging Here At Zilla’s For The 2012 DNC Freak-show!: Zilla

Image: Ed Driscoll: Let It Go
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QOTD: "If you’re one of those leftists, unable to sort out how the world works nowadays and unable to win an honest debate with your political and intellectual opponents, it makes you very angry, and you lash out at them with a violence that often surprises observers who are less engaged in the political or intellectual wars. The left has died as an intellectual force worth taking seriously. Its mission belongs to another time. It is reduced to fighting for political power alone, and its weapons are what we recently called “the politics of personal destruction.” It’s the only way they can hope to win. None of us should be surprised when the leftists accuse the righties of pushing old women off of cliffs, or murdering cancer-afflicted employees, or waging war on women, and so forth. They have to destroy their opponents one by one. They no longer have a “movement” of any significance.

That’s what happens when you become an anachronism. For me, the greatest line of the week was Ryan’s, the one about the fading Obama poster on the wall of an unemployed young American.

Once upon a time, the left was able to lay claim to intellectual and moral superiority, and to look at the conservatives with imperious disdain. No more. Their heroes are fading to the point where a cultural icon, from Hollywood of all places, sees that the seat of authority is entirely empty, and that it’s time to just let its nominal occupant go. Away." --Michael Ledeen

Sunday, September 02, 2012

Poster: Democrats really pulling out all the stops to get people to attend the convention

Democrats must be very worried about filling Charlotte's stadium. Its posters are getting more hysterical by the day.


Is there anyone more talented than the illustrators at The People's Cube?



Stop-Action Photo Sequence: Elizabeth "Fauxcahontas" Warren's Driver Attacks Citizen Journalist

After pushing around the cameraman on public property and trying to destroy his camera, the midget punk says "You're messing around with the wrong people."

He got that right. These people have no business serving in public office. They're the wrong people to be entrusted with anything as complex as government. We're messing around with would-be despots, who apparently lie their way into positions of responsibility and despise a true free press.


Do the people of Massachusetts really want to be led by lying weasel-sacks surrounded by goons with Napoleon complexes? I find it hard to believe they are.

If you know folks in Massachusetts, help make this story go viral.



Best Sign From Yesterday's R&R Rally in Jacksonville

Instapundit was emailed several photos of yesterday's monster rally in Jacksonville:


But the best sign was this one:


A reader of Legal Insurrection described the same rally as "insanely packed".



David Axelrod's not gonna fall for a banana in the tailpipe again!

Methinks it will be quite a while before the President's Senior Red Diaper Baby appears with Chris Wallace again.

Want a preview of the presidential debates? Then spend two and a half minutes with this clip from today’s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and David Axelrod. Wallace asks Axelrod the quadrennial question: are voters better off now than four years ago?

...When the man running Team Obama tries to run away from the question by talking about the tough environment Barack Obama inherited, Wallace lays out the comparison on economic statistics between January 2009 and today, and asks Axelrod again: are voters better off now than four years ago? Answer: Er...


Here are the stats Wallace uses:

• Unemployment: 7.8% then, 8.3% now
• Median income: $54,983 then, $50,964 now
• Gas prices: $1.85 per gallon then, $3.78 now
• National debt: $10.6 trillion then, $15.9 trillion now

Expect Mitt Romney to memorize these statistics, and perhaps toss in the civilian participation rate, which was at 65.7% in January 2009 and in June 2009 at the start of the “recovery,” but fell to a 30-year low of 63.6% in April and is at 63.7% now.

Axelrod needs friendlier questions, you see, which means only ABC, CBS, NBC, MNSBC and CNN will do.



Ryan's Home-Run Line Turned Into a Bumper Sticker

Paul Ryan's exquisite "close the deal" line at the RNC was an instant classic:

Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

The bumper-sticker just came naturally:


And some folks at Florida's The Villages had a similar idea:


Einstein's definition of insanity applies now more than ever.



Larwyn's Linx: Wave: GOP Voters at All-Time High

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Nation

Wave: GOP Voters at All-Time High: Breitbart
Obama's 'Confident Ignorance' At Root Of His Failure: IBD
Party Crasher: Debt slated to top $16 trillion during DNC: GWP

Team Obama Tries to Spin What “Hope And Change” Meant: RWN
New Florida poll shows vindication of Eastwood Strategy: Hot Air
The Obama Delusion, Explained: Ferguson

The One Line to Rule Them All: Power Line
Opposing Abortion is Now, Apparently, Racism: Cove
Oba-Panic Watch: New Mexico Edition: Riehl

Economy

Why QE3? Bernanke Says 25MM Unemployed Is Tragic: P&F
Look who parks their cash at Bain: Murdock
No Words: Ace

Welfare States, R.I.P.: Pelerin
American Character Is at Stake: Eberstadt
Wow: Obama Labor Sec. Says SEIU 'Part of the Solution': RS

Preparing To Answer The Left's DNC Mantras: Wolf Howling
The Assault on Paul Ryan II: WS
Charlotte Occupoopers get special treatment... again: Soderstrom

Scandal Central

Obama's second term: Abolish checks on his power: AT
Iowa city councilman: Obama has fundraised over touring flood damage before: DC
Arpaio Criminal Investigation Closed by Feds: Fox

Fact-checking the fact checkers: Malor
Bernanke's Cruel Hoax: Sun
Immigration official resigns over alleged lewd behavior: USA Today

Climate & Energy

Who needs Keystone? 94% Of U.S. Gulf Oil Production Remains Offline: FoxBiz

Media

Racist dog whistles and the men who hear them: Steyn
Anti-Obama Artist’s ‘Obamanation’ Interactive Painting Online: Riehl
2016 is the top conservative political documentary of all time: Knight

Donny Ray Williams, Jr. — Ex-Obama Staffer Accused of Drugging and Sexually Assaulting Women: AmPower
Clint turns rule #5 on Obama -- Updated with Music Video: Fausta
Guy With Laser-Like Focus on the Economy Releases His Home Brewed Beer Recipe: MenRec

The Hope & The Change: Citizens United
Why Eastwood? Look at the map: Hot Air
The Obama Marching Meme: Riehl

Documentary on Obama a Balancing Act: RWN
Confirmed: Line-up of speakers at Democratic convention is simply terrible: Hot Air
Pie Raper Deletes Tweets: Twitchy

World

Explosive Confrontation in Jerusalem: Power Line
Obama's 'intelligence' agencies urge preparing for a 'post-Israel Middle East': Matzav
Museum bans Muhammad dog artist, others pull out in support, exhibition canceled: Creeping

Sci-Tech

HP, Dell and the paradox of the disrupted: GigaOm
Citizen Eco-Drive Proximity watch notifies iPhone owners without betraying their nerd status: Engadget
Sorry, Larry, the Cloud Revolution Is Here: Barron's

Promiscuity Alters DNA and Boosts Immunity in Mice: MedicalDaily
NASA awards $100,000 grant for sideways supersonic plane concept, sonic boom not included: Engadget
Honda’s Miimo Robot Is Roomba For Your Lawn: SingularityHub

Cornucopia

Dirty Harry: In Obama's Kitchen, Punk!: MOTUS
Obama's Seat: iOTW
The REAL problem... from Rico: Theo Spark [NSFW]

Image: “At huge Jacksonville Landing Romney-Ryan event – place is insanely packed”
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: America's Comeback Team

QOTD: "We own this country.

We own it. And it's not [Obama] owning it and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours, and...

So they're just gonna come around and beg for votes every few years. It's the same old deal. But I just think that it's important that you realize that you're the best in the world, whether you're Democrat or whether you're a Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever. You're the best, and we should not ever forget that, and when somebody does not do the job, we gotta let 'em go." --Clint Eastwood

Saturday, September 01, 2012

Completely clueless MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry believes America is the worst country on Earth...

Her exact quote: What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America?:

“What is riskier than living poor in America? Seriously! What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America? I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it will be a good school and maybe it won’t. I am sick of the idea that being wealthy is risky. No! …Being poor is what is risky!


We have to create a safety net for poor people. And when we won’t, because they happen to look different from us, it is the pervasive ugliness.

Never mind that the country has spent tens of trillions of dollars on Melissa's "Great Society", Section-8 plantations. Never mind that the U.S. has to borrow 40 cents of every dollar it spends. And never mind that Democrats have refused to pass a budget ever since Barack Obama took office.

Never mind all that. Simply consider the lunacy of this MSNBC crackpot.

In Pakistan, women are murdered or disfigured for failing to wear the Niqab (full body covering).

Yesterday, the Pakistani unit of the Taliban announced not only that it demands “unislamic” businesses to close (CD shops, cable service providers and internet cafes) - they also warned women that they have 15 days to start wearing hijab - or have their faces maimed with acid... These guys claim to be out to destroy the “traitors of Allah” - while they go against every Qur’anic command to respect human rights.

...Now, an acid-maiming campaign is being launched - openly - against Pakistani women. Unlike when communities have been taken by surprise, the Pakistani Taliban has stated their gruesome, disgusting mission publicly. We cannot claim shock this time around.

• In India, acid is thrown on women's faces for failing to cover up:

UNICEF once reported a story about a baby girl whose father poured acid into her mouth because she was not the boy he wanted his wife to bring into the world. She grew up unable to speak or hear...

...Despite his years of training, [Doctor] Jawad admits that he was shocked, "I had not seen anything like it before. I had seen bigger burns and on a younger patient, but never facial burns of this nature. Unless acid is neutralised it just keeps going deeper and deeper into your skin. All of the patients I had treated had been the victims of accidents – this was attempted murder." In a pioneering operation, Jawad used Matriderm – a synthetic skin substitute – to re-form her face. It had such impressive results that Piper referred to the surgeon as her "hero".

Consider Harris-Perry reason #5,034 never, ever to watch MSLSD.

She knows nothing of logic, or reason, or of world history, or of the default condition of human-kind. She's never learned philosophy or economics. She has no idea how precious and fragile America is. She's never had to balance a budget. She's never visited the Sudan, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Cuba, or the old Soviet Union.

She is a lifelong Democrat and a simpleton. But I repeat myself.

Vote accordingly in November.



Not an omen: Storm washes away portion of giant Obama sand sculpture at site of Democrat convention

If you're a drone committed Democrat, please don't panic. All is well! All is well!

A torrential downpour that struck Charlotte Saturday afternoon damaged the Mount Rushmore-style sand sculpture bust of President Obama — an ominous beginning to what many fear is a plagued convention.


The sand sculpture was protected from above, and Mr. Obama's face didn't see too much damage. But the storm was so strong that its heavy winds blew the rain sideways, pelting the president's right side and leaving the sand pockmarked and completely erasing his right elbow.

Democrats' choice of Charlotte has drawn criticism from unions who don't like North Carolina's labor laws, and the state seems to be tilting away from Democrats politically.

Very sad.

Some of the enhancements I proposed to the Obama sculpture, I fear, will never come to pass.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Exclusive Photos: POTUS Visits Storm-Ravaged Louisiana




Sorry. Couldn't help myself.

#Winning.


Idea: Sarah Noble.

Update: Vice President Sweet Lips made time to visit, too: