Saturday, September 29, 2012

REAL LIFE INDIANA JONES STORY: Scientists say Nazis even took art from outer space

Who needs fiction when there are real-life stories like this?

An ancient Buddhist statue that a Nazi expedition brought back from Tibet shortly before World War II was carved from a meteorite that crashed on Earth thousands of years ago... according to European researchers publishing in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science this month.

...Elmar Buchner of the University of Stuttgart said Thursday the statue was brought to Germany by the Schaefer expedition. The Nazi-backed venture set out for Tibet in 1938 in part to trace the origins of the Aryan race — a cornerstone of the Nazis’ racist ideology.

The existence of the 10.6-kilogram (23.4-pound) statue, known as “iron man,” was only revealed in 2007, when its owner died and it came up for auction, Buchner said.

German and Austrian scientists were able to get permission from its new owner, who wasn’t disclosed, to conduct a chemical analysis that shows the statue came from the Chinga meteorite, which crashed in the area of what is now the Russian and Mongolian border about 15,000 years ago.

The meteorite was officially discovered in 1913, but Buchner said the statue could be 1,000 years old and represent a Buddhist god called Vaisravana.

...The Nazis were probably attracted to it by a left-facing swastika symbol on its front. The swastika has been used by various cultures throughout the ages, but the Nazis tried to appropriate it as the symbol of their ideology, going so far as to put a right-facing version of it on their red-and-white flag.

Rumors that Organizing for America had attempted to steal the statue and emblazon it with the creepy, circular Obama logo could not be confirmed at press time.


Homer Bailey Delivers a No-Hitter for the Republican Cause

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Homer Bailey tossed a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates last night. It was a much-needed victory for the Reds as they're battling the Washington Nationals for the best record in the National League heading into the post-season.

Lee forwards a note pointing out that Bailey's not only an ace on the mound, he's also a top gun when it comes to protecting the Republic:

You just never know who may show up at the Republican Victory Center in Kenwood [a northern suburb of Cincinnati].

Reds Pitcher Homer Bailey showed up last Saturday to encourage the volunteers to keep up the great efforts for the Republican Party. We still need volunteers and we are going to WIN this election!


Don’t pay attention to the polls which are aligned to the media. They want you to believe that the race is over. We need our voters to come out and vote. So let’s do everything possible to do just that and we WILL WIN!

Click here to find your local Victory Center. Take action. Your country needs you.


Bumper Sticker o' the Day: The Mental Deficit



Idea: @VodkaPundit.

Larwyn's Linx: The Benghazi Scandal Widens

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Nation

The Benghazi Scandal Widens: Hayward
The Polls’ History of Underestimating the GOP: Geraghty
Benghazi-gate: New Evidence White House Lied About Attacks: Breitbart

Media Has Manipulated Polling Since 1980: HillBuzz
Great Debate Questions: JRubin
Allen West kicks Patrick Murphy in the butt: Lane

BenghaziGate: President Obama Is A Lazy Liar: IBD
What the Hell Is Everybody So Scared Of?: Scoop
"Moderate" New Jersey Imam Calls for Blasphemy Law: IPT

Economy

California Debt Bigger Than Brazil, Mexico or India: Greenfield
Michelle Obama chows down on pizza as kids beg for more food: WZ
Did Flaws in Democratic System Cause Crisis?: CNBC

Obama - utterly indifferent to a sputtering economy: GayPatriot
Why Americans Won’t Invest in Themselves: Spengler
US spent 200 times more on Obamas than UK does on royalty: TAB

Gold Glitters: RWN
Top Five Worst Obamacare Taxes Coming in 2013: ATR
Obama Weekly Address: Hey, Let's Fix Housing Again!: RWN

Scandal Central

Treason at 1600: Obama denies airpower to U.S. forces in Afghanistan: Owens
Rep. Peter King: ‘Susan Rice Should Resign’: NRO
Obama Cabinet Biggest Violator of Public Records Laws: JW

Media

The Normative Power of Law and the Emotional Power of Drama: Ace
Deafening silence about the Camp Bastion attack: Malkin
It's Over!: AT

NBC Caught Doctoring Audio Again: Ace
Leno: ‘We Wasted Four Years Waiting For Obama To Do Something About The Economy’: NB
Film claiming Obama's mother once posed for pornographic pictures is sent to a million swing voters: Daily Mail

Samuel L. Jackson fires the first shots in an American cultural civil war: WinterSoldier
ABC Reports White House Knew Terrorists Carried Out Libya Attack; NBC, CBS Out to Lunch: NB
James O’Keefe investigates the SEIU and political corruption: Scoop

World

Obama Continues To Align US With Islamists: Joint US-Egypt Naval War Games Scheduled: JoshuaPundit
Libya: The Timeline: NRO
Krauthammer Destroys The Obama Administration On Libya Lies: HayRide

Attn Liberals: This Is What Islamic Supremacism Looks Like: Cube
Obama Free On Day He Declined Netanyahu Meeting: Beacon
Skidmarks on China’s aircraft carrier?: DefTech

Obama speaks often but does little : AEI
Ex-Military Mock Obama For Spiking Football on Bin Laden With Toon: Breitbart
'Ridiculously photogenic Syrian soldier': A weapon of mass seduction: ForPol

Sci-Tech

All credit card PIN numbers in the World leaked”: DataGenetics
Facebook's MySpace Moment: Why Twitter Is Already Bigger Than Facebook: Forbes
Animals suspected in spread of new virus: ap

Cornucopia

Free ObamaPhone: Facts and Fiction: Cube
One Hell of a Blown Call: Instapundit
One Of The 47%: Denny

Image: MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: Voter ID Laws Discriminate Against 'Transgender Americans'
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QOTD: "• Last summer, with our gargantuan debt approaching its legal limit, the debt ceiling, Congress and the president needed to reach a deal.
• Because this president wouldn’t budge upon his desire to raise taxes, the only compromise that could be reached was this “sequestration” nonsense.
• Sequestration is a terrible patchwork of a compromise, because it cuts defense so deeply it endangers the country, and what’s worse is that it was deliberately designed to be a terrible compromise, because the theory would be that it was so bad, it would force Congress and the president to get serious and come up with a better deal.
• Yet here we are, nearly a year and a half later, and there’s no better deal on the table. Obama’s been too busy golfing, going to fundraisers, and hanging around the couch with the ladies of The View, apparently.
• Sequestration could go away anytime this president got serious about cutting spending. It can also go away anytime a president-elect gets serious about cutting spending, too." --Jim Geraghty

Friday, September 28, 2012

GOOD NEWS: ABC and Univision Join Forces to Attack Immigration Law

It would seem that ABC and Univision have teamed up to -- wait for it -- keep an eye on law enforcement. In this case, the two channels are doing their level best to promote illegal immigration.

How? They've started by monitoring Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Long-term, they've said they intend to create a 24-hour channel. Short-term, they're documenting every move the Sheriff makes. It's for the children, I suppose.

Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio was denied an appeal yesterday that would have let his deputies take Arizona's SB 1070 a step further.

The "show me your papers" law says that police must first engage in a lawful stop -- broken tail light, reckless driving, whatever -- before they can start asking someone about immigration status. Arpaio's office was in court yesterday trying to skip the broken tail light phase and go straight to the "papers, please" part...


[However,] there has never been a finding by a court that Arpaio's office has racially profiled Latinos...

In related news, 50 convicted sex offenders, pedophiles, and other criminal aliens were just arrested by ICE.

The Obama strategy? Support unchecked illegal immigration, let unvetted aliens commit the most heinous of crimes, and only then try to find them.

So maybe it's not for the children.


Hat tip: J.T.

"UNEXPECTED": Yet another downward revision of GDP confirms we're now in year four of the Obama Depression

Who would you believe? A man whose ads never refer to his track record -- or your lying eyes?

On Thursday, the Department of Commerce revised its second quarter estimate of economic growth (in terms of real gross domestic product, or GDP) down to 1.3 percent from 1.7 percent... Anything less than a 2 percent rate of growth is more typical of an economy wilting toward recession than an economy recovering from a recession...

Indeed, bad policies emanating from Washington are creating an environment where recession is more and more likely.


...Taxmageddon, a $500 billion tax increase, waits in 2013 if Congress and President Obama fail to act. The Heritage Foundation has argued that uncertainty associated with Taxmageddon is already dissuading businesses from investing in capital goods and hiring new workers. Domestic uncertainty is compounded by uncertainty about the future of Europe.

Confirming our analysis, the Census Bureau measured a 13 percent fall in new durable goods orders in separate data released Thursday. Orders of aircrafts fell sharply, leading an overall decline in investment.

Reagan inherited a far worse situation from Carter than Obama did. Inflation was nearing 20 percent. Unemployment was headed for double digits. Tax rates were crushing the private sector. And within two-and-a-half years -- working with a Democrat Congress -- Reagan had turned the entire economy around.

Obama's priority, on the other hand, was passing massive government programs: from housing "relief", to Obamacare, to cap-and-trade, to financial "reform", to a takeover of the student loan industry, to gutting welfare's work requirements, to expanding the food stamp state, and so on. He paid as much attention to his "Jobs Council" as he did to the bipartisan Deficit Commission. Which is to say: none.

Obama's priority isn't recovery. It's control. Control over you, the individual.

We have one chance to turn this mess around, and it comes on the first Tuesday in November. Tell everyone you know. This is it. It's the Superbowl for America.


AT LAST: President Obama Draws Red Line for Iran

Of course, it's not one that inhibits Iran's nuclear ambitions.


Reelection -- not national security -- appears to be the president's only priority, which helps explain the serial leaks coming from the administration.


EXCLUSIVE PHOTO: President Obama, Attorney General Holder and Secretary of State Clinton Announce Arrest of Blasphemer

The producer of the anti-Islam film "The Innocence of Muslims" was arrested in Los Angeles Thursday.


For "probation violations", of course, in a hearing closed to the media and public.

We have our marching orders, you and I: the president himself announced at the United Nations this week that "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.."

First Amendment? Never heard of it.


FUN FOR INFIDELS OF ALL AGES: It's the Obama Word-Search Game!


Send this word-search game to children and Democrats -- but I repeat myself -- as a reminder of President SCOAMF's many achievements over the last four years.

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VNUILRYSAPWARAMBHEI
USRYEIUDMWEEAETVS
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 Yes, this is a real word-search. Anyone needing the solution can request it in the comments and I'll post it a bit later.


Larwyn's Linx: Obama’s Libya Myth Continues To Decay

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Nation

Obama’s Libya Myth Continues To Decay: RS
Poll Watch: Mitt Romney’s Leading in Swing States: Nice Deb
Behind the Magic Trick: Rick Wilson

Benghazi: White House knew it was a terrorist attack, lied: Toldjah
After the election, I'll have more flexibility: Instapundit
Filmmaker arrested, denied bail, poses “danger to society” : ProWis

Obama's Libya Lies Collapse: Democrats Demand Answers: Breitbart
Tracking Ohio’s absentee ballot requests: Moe Lane
Hey, Pelosi. This Is What “Astroturfing” Really Looks Like: HillBuzz

Economy

“Taxpayers spent $1.4B on Obama family last year”: ProWis
Is the US too close to the fiscal cliff?: TradingFloor
43%-34% Expect Better Economy if Romney Wins: Rasmussen

Crazifornia: How California is Committing Suicide: PJM
Pethokoukis: Year Of Sub-2% GDP Growth Signals A Recession: Ace
Obama is choosing to cause a recession: Foundry

Scandal Central

It’s Obama’s Turn To Release Some Documents: CBS DC
Hillary: On second thought, the Benghazi consulate attack on 9/11 was connected to Al Qaeda: Malkin
Sebelius to Continue Campaigning for Obama Despite Hatch Act Violation: Foundry

Media

The Five False Assumptions Behind Poll-Skewing: Zombie
Quinnipiac Pollster Admits: ‘Probably Unlikely’ That Electorate Will Feature Massive Dem Skew: NB
Ann Coulter Causes Mass Hysteria on 'The View,' Whoopi Bleeped: FoxNation

No One Tell the Media: Huge Crowd Stands in Line in the Rain to See Romney!: RSM
Pat Caddell Says: Media Have Become “Enemy of the American People”: AIM
Obama Supporters on Parade: Amb. Stevens ‘Had It Coming': Bruce

Kirsten Powers: The media may be complicit in another terrorist attack on America: Scoop
Feds arrest Mohammed filmmaker on probation violation: Hot Air
‘Truth Team’ rushes to throw ‘Obama Phone’ woman under bus: Twitchy

World

Obama lectured world on "slandering" "Prophet" but was mute on 8 Americans arrested in Egypt for just that: Glick
'Everyone who has tried to destroy us, has failed': Hayom
MUST GO VIRAL: The truth about the Obama administration and Israel: Scoop

McCain: “C’mon Honey, Bring Your Mortars, We’re Going To A Spontaneous Demonstration”: GWP
Obama's Red Line: iOTW
A Chinese Mega City Is On The Verge Of Bankruptcy: ZH

UN-Real: Obama UN Ambassador Rice Blew Off Netanyahu Speech Today Too: GWP
U.S. Government Rounds Up 40 Illegal Alien Sex Offenders: Virtuous
Before Obama – The Media Told Americans About Radical Islam: Loudon

CNN: Obama Could Have Met with Netanyahu, ‘Afternoon Was Free’: Beacon
Report: U.S. Troops In Afghanistan Told No More Close Air Support: WZ
Explosion rocks Jewish community center in Malmo: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech

Microsoft’s browser choice ‘error’ could result in $7 billion fine from EU regulators: VenBeat
ABC News tracks missing iPad to the home of TSA officer: 9to5Mac
Dealing with Negative Comments Online from Your Employees: SocMedToday

Cornucopia

We Will Know You by the Friends You Keep: MOTUS
The Smummer: Feral Irishman
N.J. High School Students Planning Cafeteria Boycott To Protest Obama Guidelines: CBS NY

Image: Obama's Libya Lies Collapse: Senate Democrats Demand Answers
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QOTD: "The wheels appear to be coming off a two week attempt by the Obama Administration to cover up its fatal security failures at our consulate in Libya and to cover up the very fact that this was a successful pre-planned terrorist attack that cost four American lives, including that of our Libyan Ambassador, Christopher Stevens.

Not only has the scandal picked up steam in the mainstream press (Jake Tapper's ABC News report tonight is a must-watch), but high-ranking members of the President's own party are now demanding answers. This includes the man most often cited as a likely Secretary of State should Obama win a second term, Senator John Kerry..." --John Nolte

Thursday, September 27, 2012

SCUM OF THE EARTH: AP and Reuters Hit Bottom, Dig

Every time you think antique media has hit bottom, it breaks out the jackhammer and pounds out a new sub-basement.

Two shocking photos coming off the wire of Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the United Nations moments ago.


The first is from the Associated Press... The second is from Reuters.

Of the hundreds of professional photos taken at this speech, the AP and Reuters decided to push these onto the wire.

Indeed. Because these were the most offensive photos they could find.

Media extremists? What media extremists?


ACLU: Bush administration quadrupled warrantless wiretaps. Just kidding. It was Obama and Holder.

Gee, and all this time I thought Democrats hated wiretaps and warrantless surveillance. The ACLU reports:

Justice Department documents released today by the ACLU reveal that federal law enforcement agencies are increasingly monitoring Americans’ electronic communications, and doing so without warrants, sufficient oversight, or meaningful accountability.


...The reports show a dramatic increase in the use of ... surveillance tools, which are used to gather information about telephone, email, and other Internet communications. The revelations underscore the importance of regulating and overseeing the government’s surveillance power.

...During that same time period, the number of people whose telephones were the subject of pen register and trap and trace surveillance more than tripled. In fact, more people were subjected to pen register and trap and trace surveillance in the past two years than in the entire previous decade...


...During the past two years, there has also been an increase in the number of pen register and trap and trace orders targeting email and network communications data. While this type of Internet surveillance tool remains relatively rare, its use is increasing exponentially... Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that cellphone carriers received 1.3 million demands for subscriber information in 2011 alone...

But, but, but... Bush! Cheney! Halliburton!

Let me guess: Fox News personalities, conservative talk show hosts, bloggers and others who oppose this administration's politics are among those who have been targeted.

I'm so nostalgic. I remember when dissent was patriotic.

This administration needs to go.



SCANDAL: Bumper Sticker o' the Day

Our prestigious Bumper Sticker o' the Day award goes to iOwnTheWorld for this gem:


This a full-fledged scandal.

And even collectible media -- including The Washington Post and The New York Times has been forced to cover it.

An Ambassador and three other Americans are dead. And everything the Obama administration told us about the disastrous terror attack in Benghazi was a lie.


And now, a public service message from Obamaphone

The following is a public service message from ObamaPhone.


Yes, everybody in Cleveland who's a minority got an Obama phone!


Keep Obama in President, you know!


He gave us a phone!


He gonna do more!


You shine up, if you on food stamps, you on social security, you got low income, you disability...


Romney? He sucks! Bad.

For more more information about free government giveaways, visit ObamaPhone.com. And don't worry about who pays for it... that's for future generations to worry about!

Chart: The [holding two fingers up] recovery

We've been reading about the "recovery" ever since Barack Obama took office. For most Americans, however, the recovery has yet to materialize. Cafe Hayek relays the following chart from the St. Louis Fed:


In [an] interview I did with John Taylor, he pointed out that the ratio of employment to population hadn’t rebounded at all in the current recovery. How common is that? Here is data from FRED that looks at the ratio of employment to population. You have to go back to the recession of the early 1960′s (and it wasn’t much of a recession) to see anything like the lack of rebound.

The gray periods are recessions. The ratio usually rebounds sharply in the recovery. But not for this one...

Question for you drones: what makes you think that after three-and-a-half years of this miserable failure on the employment front that things are going to get better?

Here's a hint: with 2013's fiscal cliff, the deficit cliff, and the Obamacare cliff, things are about to get decidedly worse if this disastrous administration is returned to office.


Hat tip: BadBlue Money.

Larwyn's Linx: Spiking the Ball Early

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Nation

Spiking the Ball Early: RSM
The New Racial Justice System: FPM
NYT Beclowns Itself Again With Absurd Turnout Model: Breitbart

How Carter Beat Reagan: Lord
WI Military Voters Told to Submit Ballots Week After Deadline: Breitbart
Don't Let Bogus Polls Depress You: Rush

Election could mirror 1980 race: Hanson
Ruh Roh: Liz Warren In More Law License Trouble: LI
Former Obama Adviser Calls for Death Panels in NYT Op-Ed: LoneCon

Economy

Obama's war on young voters who elected him: Barone
We’ve Been Robbed $2.8 Billion – By The AARP: CDN
Speaking of taxes: here are 20 of Obamacare's new taxes: Q&O

Everyone's Winking at Drudge Right Now: Althouse
Obama caught on video in 2007: the ACORN advocate: JWF
Oscar's Farks o' the Week: HayRide

Climate & Energy

Obama's War on Coal: NRO
Obama versus Obama, Part III: Sowell
EPA air chief defends effort to control message: Politico

Scandal Central

BOMBSHELL: No Wonder Obama Bowed to the Saudis – They Likely Funded Him at Harvard: GWP
Book: Tim Geithner Acted As CitiBank's Advocate, Rather Than The Government's or the Taxpayer's: Ace
CAUGHT ON TAPE: Democrat Congressional Candidate Tussles with Cameraman & Takes Camera: RS

Media

ABC, CBS, CNN, & MSNBC All Knock Obama For Campaigning Instead of Governing: Publius
Media Shocked GOP Hasn’t Conceded: Commentary
Now Even Victoria Secret Underwear Is Racist: S&L

Hilarious: Obama Lowers Debate Expectations ‘Because of the Demands of His Office’: JWF
CNN and MSNBC Pundit Arrested for Vandalizing Anti-Muslim Ad In N.Y. Subway System: NB
Mark Levin blasts drone: You’re committed more to party and ideology than to your own family!: Scoop

Fineman: It Sure Seems Like The Press Should Question and Criticize Obama Like a Regular Candidate: Ace
Roger Simon's Bad Joke Winds Up Humilitating Half of the Left-Wing Universe: Ace
Cartoon: President Oh-So-Busy: Ramirez

World

3 Reasons the Obama Administration Didn't Want to Admit Benghazi was a Terrorist Attack: Reason
The worst thing you will read today: ForPol
Nader: Obama's a War Criminal: Politico

“Pakistani minister offers $100,000 to kill filmmaker”: ProWis
The project: Defining radical Islam: GBTV
Ahamadinejad Spokesman Gets Behind Kicked on NY Street by Iranians: Tatler

Who needs reform most: Egypt or America?: Thomas
Why I Refuse to Vote for Barack Obama: Friedersdork
Don’t Break Out the Dim Sum Just Yet, China: Mellow Jihadi

Sci-Tech

How To Convince Fortune 500 Companies To Use Your Tiny, Insignificant Startup: Insider
Facebook Denies Leak of Private Messages on Timeline: SocialBarrel
Analysis of nearly 1.7 billion shortened URL links: NetSec

Cornucopia

Trust Me: LaughingCon
Hey Obama! Orwell called. He wants 1984 back.: MOTUS
Ex-QB Jim McMahon talks of early-stage dementia: AP

Image: Muslims tell DOJ to find a way to criminalize criticism of Islam
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QOTD: "6) The avalanche of negativity spewing from the liberal media can be discouraging to conservatives, but the liberal media have steadily lost clout over the past 20 years, and the alternative conservative media have never been more robust. Not only are the liberal media less powerful but also conservative talk show hosts, bloggers, tweeters, columnists and Fox News react with lightning speed to counter every single lie they promulgate.

7) The polls can be discouraging, too, but we’ve seen this in previous elections. Some pollsters showing Obama significantly ahead have a dubious history of distortion and have used their polls to manipulate instead of report public opinion. Most polls showing Obama ahead are either oversampling Democrats (using 2008 as a model instead of more recent elections) or understating Romney’s lead among independents. The Weekly Standard reports that through 2004, every incumbent whose Gallup approval rating was less than 50 percent at this point — as is Obama’s — lost. In Ohio, thousands more Republicans have ordered absentee ballots than Democrats. Also, I’m skeptical that all poll respondents are being completely candid in their positive responses about Obama for fear of being accused of racism or of being out of step with the manufactured media narrative that Obama is a likable person.

8) Obama is having some difficulty with his base, which is why his campaign is increasingly desperate and shrill. Some blacks are so angry over his liberal social views they may stay home. Some Jews are awakening to Obama’s mistreatment of Israel. If Obama were so confident, he wouldn’t be so flagrantly neglecting his official duties to feverishly campaign." --David Limbaugh

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

BUT THEY'LL DO BETTER WITH THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: Postal Service to File For Second Default in Two Months

But I'm sure they'll do a much better job with 16 percent of the entire economy, i.e., the country's health care system:

Postal Service Prepares for Second Default in Two Months


The U.S. Postal Service will default this week on a $5.6 billion congressionally mandated obligation to pre-fund retiree health benefits, marking the second time in two months the cash-strapped agency has done this.

The Postal Service last month failed to pay $5.5 billion for its fiscal 2011 prepayment obligation, which originally was due in September 2011 but was deferred by Congress until Aug. 1. That was the first time it ever defaulted on a payment to the Treasury Department. The $5.6 billion due this week, on Sept. 30, represents this fiscal year’s obligation.

Before this year, Congress helped USPS defer pre-funding payments required by a 2006 congressional mandate. Postal reform has challenged this Congress. Lawmakers warn that when they revisit the issue after the November election they likely won’t reach agreement on as major an overhaul as some deem necessary. USPS lost $5.2 billion in the third quarter of fiscal 2012, $2.1 billion more than during the same time period in 2011.

Let me get this straight. The federal government's recent track record, just off the top of my head, is as follows:

• Medicare is bankrupt and headed for collapse in just six or seven years.

• Social Security is bankrupt and headed for collapse in the next 18 years.

• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac went bust in 2008, taking with it the entire housing sector.

• The Postal Service can't adjust to the digital age and is hemorrhaging cash like a giant version of Solyndra.

But Obamacare will be the first government program of its size -- in fact, the biggest government program in world history -- to succeed?

You have to have a serious mental disorder to believe that. Or be a hard-core Democrat. Not that I'm sure there's a difference at this point.

SHOCK POLL: Obama Up 99 points over Romney in Latest CNN-NYT-Zogby-NBC-Dreamworks Survey

The ludicrous Jan Crawford -- if that is her real name -- hardest hit:

CRAWFORD: Both candidates are focused on Ohio this week. It is getting tough here for Mitt Romney. Our latest poll now shows the president is up by 10 points. The poll shows the president also has a significant lead with women voters in all three of those swing states that we surveyed. But here in Ohio the president is up by 25 points with women voters. Now, today Romney will be focused on the economy. That's an issue that's been the cornerstone of his campaign, but there's trouble in our poll there for Romney, too! In our poll, for the first time, the president has taken a lead on that key issue in all three states.


RUSH: That makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? Obama's ahead by 25 points with women in Ohio, and is finally taking a lead over Romney on the economy. Yeah, 'cause the economy's gotten so much better in the last week. If it's this good for Obama, I have a bunch of questions, but one central question: Why is he there? Why is he campaigning in Ohio today? If it's that wrapped up and he's got a 10-point lead, why is he there? Why not go to some other state where it's not that big a lead?

Exactly. Obama is in Ohio because he's in trouble in Ohio.

Rasmussen August 31st: Latest national party affiliation, Republicans up four over Democrats. That's never reflected in any poll. If, by the way, you do that, if you take all these polls and you change the samples... Some guy did this at Unskewed Polls or some such thing the other day. It's been all over the Internet. If you do this, if you take every one of these polls and you exchange the sample for what Rasmussen found?

You find Romney up by anywhere from six to nine points, and in some cases ten points. That's if you use an accurate sample of Republicans and Democrats as reflected by Rasmussen's party affiliation reported on August 31st.

Vintage media wants the American people to surrender. And this we will not do.

This election is just as much about defeating old media as it is defeating the Statist Obama agenda. Voting Democrats out of office at every level of government therefore is a two-fer.

I can't wait to flip from ABC to CBS to NBC to MSNBC to CNN on election eve, just to watch the expressions on their faces. It's gonna be great. I've got the DVR cued up and the popcorn ready.