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The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the Citizen — Dennis Prager
It doesn’t matter how smart you are, unless you stop and think. — Thomas Sowell
- The Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama over-read his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them. – Charles Krauthammer
- Okay, all kidding aside, try to imagine Obama hosting a Christmas party for Southern Baptists at which he praises Christianity’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. Now, picture the president cutting the ribbon at a Jewish housing project in East Jerusalem. …It’s a mistake to think of Obama’s belief system in the context of traditional religion. The president of the United States is an orthodox, dogmatic, doctrinaire, devout leftist. Leftism is modernity’s most popular heretical religion. It has a rigid belief system which is impervious to reason and science. It offers a secular vision of heaven (confiscatory taxation and the abolition of private property) and hell (the free market, Sarah Palin and Global Warming). Its sacraments are income redistribution, distributing condoms to third-graders, surrender in the war on terrorism, and destroying industrial civilization to fight carbon-emissions.– Don Feder
- Music video – The bomb, the bomb, now I’ll have the bomb, because you have waited way too long. (click here)
- U.S. Park Service is building a huge mosque at Ground Zero where 9/11 plane crashed in Pennsylvania. Check it out here.
- As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the Administration forged ahead with plans to stop all drilling in water depths over 500 feet until November 30, even though its own estimates showed the ban would cost some 23,000 jobs…. Throughout this extended nightmare, I’ve wondered whether we have a) an Administration that’s truly naive and ignorant of the impact of their policies on our region, or b) an Administration that fully intends for their actions to kill domestic jobs, irreparably damaging an industry and a region. Their own evidence now points to b).– Vladimir
- We are going to build an enormous mosque and cultural center at Ground Zero to promote peace, understanding, and tolerance, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!!!
- The current GOP fault line is not exactly conservatives vs. moderates or new guard vs. old guard. For 2010, the rivalry is the Tea Party wing against the K Street wing. To tell which kind of Republican a candidate is, see how the Democrats attack him: If he’s branded a shill for Wall Street, he’s from the K Street wing. If he’s labeled an extremist outside the mainstream, he’s a Tea Partier. – Timothy P. Carney
- The number one racist in America is the fellow who spent 20 years soaking up Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s vicious attacks on white Americans. It’s probably not a coincidence that Barack Obama is also the biggest liar who’s ever sat in the Oval Office….The latest proof that in looking for a role model, Obama …patterned himself…on a used car salesman was his announcement that he was “surprised, disappointed and angry” when Scotland released Lockerbie bomber Abdel al-Magrahi. It seems that Richard LeBaron, Obama’s deputy head of the U.S. embassy in London, let Scotland know a week ahead of the event that the U.S. preferred that Magrahi receive compassionate release than that he be locked up in a Libyan prison for what was supposed to be the final few weeks of his life. …The U.S. government had tried to keep LeBaron’s letter secret on the alleged grounds that it would prevent “frank and open communications with other governments.” I don’t know about you, but to me that sounds like a married man begging his mistress not to spill the beans, lest it prevent future frank and open communications with his wife! – Burt Prelutsky
- Interview of congressional candidate Todd Lally – click here to view video
- On August 9th, speaking in Austin, TX, Barack Obama said, “Right now all around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running millions of dollars of ads against Democratic candidates all across the country. And they don’t have to say who exactly the Americans for Prosperity are…. It was the planned launch of what appears to be a well coordinated and long term assault on Koch Industries, the owners of which fund Americans for Prosperity…. Barack Obama is so used to demagoguing and is the first Democratic President to really believe the rich are evil, and not just preach it for the base, he needs an enemy. The Koch family will be that enemy. The New Yorker has an eleven page, 6,000 word article on David and Charles Koch, who own Koch Industries. The article, “Covert Operations,” appears in the August 30, 2010 copy of the magazine. In other words, this article was being manufactured well before Mr. Obama launched the opening salvo on August 9, 2010. – Erick Erickson
- Texans want to take the country back – report from a delegate to the convention
- While government leaders in the USSR gave speeches about the welfare of people, they themselves enjoyed luxuries and services denied everyone else; this is the general structure of all centrally planned, “fair and equal” societies. I’m not surprised that Democratic leaders, surrounded by like-minded ideologues, are pursuing power-grabbing policies by replacing the free market with central planning. It is hard to comprehend there are people born in a free country who willingly support its transformation. They are ready to give up their personal liberties, freedoms and choices to submit themselves and their children to the control of a soulless state apparatus. – Svetlana Kunin (Russian immigrant to theU.S.)
- Poor Roger Clemens – Imagine going to jail for doing something that nearly every other person in the room gets paid to do…..
- For years, [Barney] Frank was a staunch supporter of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant government housing agencies that played such an enormous role in the financial meltdown that thrust the economy into the Great Recession. But in a recent CNBC interview, Frank told me that he was ready to say goodbye to Fannie and Freddie. “I hope by next year we’ll have abolished Fannie and Freddie,” he said. Remarkable. And he went on to say that “it was a great mistake to push lower-income people into housing they couldn’t afford and couldn’t really handle once they had it.” He then added, “I had been too sanguine about Fannie and Freddie.” — Larry Kudlow
- The federal housing finance system officially exists to help people buy homes, mainly by absorbing the risks of residential mortgages through a huge secondary market. What it really has done, especially over the past decade, is inflate home prices while pumping up homeowners’ debt. … Washington engineered a bubble that made homes much less affordable — precisely contrary to its stated aim. … plenty of people may have gotten rich off the massive taxpayer-backed subsidies to housing finance. But it wasn’t the homeowners.– Investors Business Daily
- Proposed divorce agreement
- Men and women are now declared interchangeable….That is why Judge Walker and his supporters dismiss the argument that, all things being equal, it is better for children to be raised by a married man and woman than by two men or two women. If Walker or GLBT activists and their supporters admitted that children need a mother and father, they would be affirming that there is great significance to the differences between men and women….Ask anyone who supports same-sex marriage this: Do you believe that a mother has something unique to give to a child that no father can give and that a father has something unique to give a child that no mother can give? One has to assume that most people — including supporters of same-sex marriage — would respond in the affirmative.– Dennis Prager
- Americans – and freedom-loving people everywhere — must awaken to the threat of radical Islam, which may well be the greatest existential threat to safety and liberty of the 21st century. Jihad has been declared on Christians, Jews, non-Muslims and secularists worldwide by Islamic radicals…simply because we are infidels according to their belief. This “jihad” can take on many forms – from violent terrorism to societal subversion through the vehicle of “cultural jihad.” – Brigitte Gabriel (a Christian from Lebanon)
- “If the Islamic community in the United States wants to send a signal that they are very much opposed to what happened on 9/11 — and there are many very good Muslims in our country who do believe that — I think the better symbolism would be to give a donation to the memorial fund to show that they are for reconciliation rather than building a mosque that is doing the opposite right now….I think [Obama] is a liberal elitist and that he believes that he knows what is best for people. And this is true of a lot of liberals…. They think they can tell us what to do and that most Americans aren’t smart enough to take care of themselves, and I think that’s a really arrogant approach to the American people…. We empower people by getting government out of their way and not trying to orchestrate and tell them what to do in their daily lives.” – Rand Paul (see interview)
- President Obama has appointed Maria del Carmen Aponte to be Ambassador to El Salvador. Three United States Senators have a hold on her nomination. Why? Because she had a longterm relationship with a top Cuban spy. She withdrew as a Clinton appointee back in the 90’s because of it. – Erick Erickson
- The real costs of Social Security far exceed the taxes collected: The compulsory pay-as-you-go retirement system has denied people the choice of using those funds for private investment, diminished the culture of responsibility and strengthened the redistributive state. People have become more dependent on government, and the retirement decision has become politicized. Social Security now accounts for 20% of the U.S. budget, with expenditures of $686 billion last year. – James Dorn
- River City Lodge 614, Kentucky’s largest Fraternal Order of Police, voted to endorse Hal Heiner in the Louisville race for Mayor. The River City FOP represents over 2,000 active and retired officers from the Louisville metro area. (click here)
- One of the talking points, shared by some Republicans and all the Democrats and talked about by many reporters as if it is fact, not opinion, is that the tea party activists have elected a host of extremist candidates who cannot win and are badly out of touch with America. Consider, however, what isn’t being bullet pointed:57% think the Democrat agenda is “extreme”; 60% favor repeal of Obamacare… – (click here)
- Interesting 8-minute video about Islam – click here
- There was a time when most Americans would have resented the suggestion that they wanted someone else to pay their bills. But now, envy and resentment have been cultivated to the point where even people who contribute nothing to society feel that they have a right to a “fair share” of what others have produced. The most dangerous corruption is a corruption of a nation’s soul. That is what this administration is doing. – Thomas Sowell
- The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, it has been a continuing challenge– to this day– to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters, whether an elite of blood, or of books or of whatever else gives people a puffed-up sense of importance. While the kings of old have faded into the mists of history, the principle of the divine rights of kings to impose whatever they wish on the masses lives on today in the rampaging presumptions of those who consider themselves anointed to impose their notions on others. – Thomas Sowell
- Jefferson County Republican Party Volunteer Opportunities – Get Involved!
- Conservative Health Care Solutions – Marilyn Parker, Louisville Grassroots Tea Party
- Colonel Robert Howard, MoH Recipient – Have you Heard of him?
- WWIII started in 1979
- The proposed “Ground Zero” mosque, despite its humanitarian cocoon and politically correct marketing, would shout five times every day the contempt the American Muslim community has for thousands of innocent victims and their families. While Westerners who consider themselves chic and enlightened go to any lengths to avoid offending Islam, the Muslim community appears to think nothing of pouring acid in America’s open wounds. – Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a founder of Hamas, who has converted to Christianity and now lives in the U.S.
- Word definitions: In political speak, when the word “invest” is used, it really means “spend”. You might try using this in your personal life as well. For example, instead of admitting that you want to spend a wad of money you don’t have on new jewelry or a new car or new furniture, just say that you want to invest in those things. After all, what sensible person could possibly be against investing?!
- [L]ook at what’s happened here [in the Gulf region] because of a lie, …a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals, a bunch of noncritical thinkers…people who would not know common sense if it slapped them upside the head. Look at what’s happened. Jobs have been lost. Property values plummeted. Tourism devastated. At this moment, the oil industry is shut down in the Gulf of Mexico for no reason whatsoever. These are the some people that you’ve put in charge of health care. These are the same people you’ve put in charge of running Obama Motors; the same people you’ve put in charge of running our financial system; the same people that are responsible for the global warming hoax; the same people responsible for every other panic-oriented hoax. They get away with near criminality, irresponsibility for certain, and they are never, ever held accountable. If a terrorist had done to the oil industry in the Gulf what Obama has done, even Eric Holder would bring him up on charges….So far, the cost has been about 75,000 jobs and more than two and a half billion dollars in wages. – Rush Limbaugh
- [T]ens of billions of gallons of fresh water from the California mountain regions have been diverted away from the valley farmers, and redirected into the Pacific Ocean, all at the hands of Washington bureaucrats and all for the sake of allegedly saving the smelt. It is a classic and tragic case of radical, out of control environmentalism, and real people and families are having their livelihoods damaged because of it….this has awakened many Californians to the reality that their federal government is not only failing to serve their interests, but is also actively working against them. – Austin Hill
- Our federal government is on a spending spree unheard of since World War II… The Obama administration’s “Mid-Session Budget Review” predicts this year’s budget deficit will top $1.4 trillion. That’s 10 percent of the nation’s economy. Measured in constant dollars, it’s the largest deficit in American history. The president’s team expects another $1.4 trillion deficit next year. “These future deficits are driven almost exclusively by rising spending.”… This year the federal government is borrowing 41 cents out of every dollar it spends….Nobody knows how long this can go on. Yet as an economist once said, anything that must come to an end, will. – Ed Feulner
- Where Are Al Gore’s Hurricanes? Global tropical cyclone activity (comprised of hurricanes and tropical storms) continues to remain at its lowest level in at least 30 years, according to data from Florida State University. — NCPA
- KY Contract Review Committee Denies Funding for Extremist Environmental Group
- Louisville Tea Party chipping in for billboard – click here for info
- Happy Inflation Day! – From Bruce Layne
- What did it mean to be a slave? Your master guaranteed your food, your clothing, your shelter and a job! Sounds interesting doesn’t it?… That’s exactly what the Obama faction and the leftists and socialists and the so-called liberals want to pretend is what all Americans should aspire to, but I think having grown up wrestling with that heritage of slavery—understanding its true meaning—I have seen through that phony promise of socialism and government-dominated largesse. It simply means that we shall all become slaves on the government’s plantation. It simply means that we shall all sacrifice the dignity that God intended for us when he endowed us with those unalienable rights that are the basis for government by consent.” (also includes link to video of his speech) – Alan Keyes
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