Government Grab of Retirement Accounts a Matter of ‘Social Justice’

Pajamas Media "Uncle Sam wants your retirement money. The Obama administration has just solicited public comment on their proposal to take money from Americans’ private 401(k) retirement accounts and convert it into government-backed annuities. In other words, they want to take your money now to purchase U.S. Treasury bonds, then pay you a monthly sum later after you’ve retired." We had promised to give you more input on this topic. Here it is.

We Have Race on the Brain

Victor Davis Hanson "In contrast, one reason I disliked academia was that in such a dry, bored self-created landscape, pretense trumped action, and one’s tribe, not one’s essence, was the key to career advancement. I never heard a Mexican neighbor say he was Mexican or an Armenian vineyard grower talk of his vaunted heritage or the German claim privilege — they all succeeded or failed on their own ability, or lack of, to grow food at a profit."

Al Gore a lightning rod at Apple shareholder meeting

CNET "...a longtime and well-known Apple shareholder--some would say gadfly--who introduced himself as Sheldon, stood at the microphone and urged against Gore's re-election to the board. Gore "has become a laughingstock. The glaciers have not melted," Sheldon said, referring to Gore's views on global warming. "If his advice he gives to Apple is as faulty as his views on the environment then he doesn't need to be re-elected." "

Mike Ramirez cartoon

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DeMint for president? Not as crazy as it sounds...

Washington Examiner "DeMint, in this scenario, would run as a spoiler/insurgent candidate in 2012, setting himself up for a full-on presidential run in 2016. DeMint, running in 2012, would knock Sarah Palin out of the primaries, crushing any momentum she received out of Iowa ..."

HCR Summit: Six Hours and Counting (Updated)

Weekly Standard "Why is the health care reform summit going over time? The answer is simple: President Obama. He's decided to try to refute -- at length -- every single Republican criticism of the Democratic health bill." Matthew Continetti More here: The Main Event: Ryan v. Obama "The expression on the president's face as Ryan made his case was absolutely priceless. Simply put, he looked like someone who realizes he's met his match."

Army, Air Force Warn Against Quick Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

CNS News "The testimony by the service chiefs is considered crucial to the debate. As the top uniformed officials in each service, the chief is in charge of recruitment and preparing troops for deployments. If the policy on gays is overturned, they would have to decide how to implement the changes." My problem is that this campaign is coming from people that have historically held the US military in contempt and supported anti-war movements.

Congressional Budget Office Report on Healthcare

Congressional Budget Office Report Excerpt: "All of those considerations serve to emphasize the considerable uncertainty that surrounds any estimate of the impact of any proposal that would make substantial changes in the health insurance or health care sectors, given the size and the complexity of those sectors. That uncertainty applies to the estimated effects of proposals on the federal budget and insurance coverage rates, as well as to their impact on premiums." From page 28 of the report.

Early "returns" good for Republicans

Powerline Blog "CNN's David Gergen: The folks in the White House just must be kicking themselves right now. They thought that coming out of Baltimore when the President went in and was mesmerizing and commanding in front of the House Republicans that he could do that again here today. That would revive health care and would change the public opinion about their health care bill and they can go on to victory. Just the opposite has happened."

Jihadis Incite South African Blacks to kill all Whites

Atlas Shrugs By Adriana Stuijt. "Members of my Facebook site recently alerted me to a number of ‘Africanist’ websites in volatile South Africa where radical islamists are very actively inciting black South African members to ‘kill all the whites’ there. This incitement to kill all Europeans is often targetted towards the increasingly besieged Afrikaans-speaking minority -- but has also been targetting all the Western football fans planning to travel to the World Cup 2010 tournaments in South Africa in June."

An Orchestrated Campaign Against Toyota in Overdrive?

Pajamas Media "Let’s be clear: If the company is proven to have seriously erred and knowingly compromised driver and public safety, it should be made to pay an appropriate price. The developments of the past weekend, though, seem much more sinister, supporting the idea that the goal of many critics is really to drive the company’s public perception, and perhaps the company itself, into the ground."...."I do hope that the folks at Toyota fully appreciate the ugliness they’re up against."

Terrorists’ Lawyers at the DOJ

National Review Online "...they’re not serving their client well by returning our country to the September 10 approach to counterterrorism, meaning prosecution in the civilian courts. In such an approach, the Justice Department is the most significant agency. With the United States still at war and our enemies still plotting to carry out more 9/11s, the American people are entitled to know what attorneys at the Justice Department worked for the enemy combatants detained at Gitmo."

Terrorists in the Military: The Legacy of Political Correctness

BigJournalism "Our government is blindly working with Islamic front groups to try to find ways to prosecute the war on terror without offending Muslims. They’re telling them our tactics and secrets. No wonder they think they can beat us."

How Israel's Biggest Drone Could Take Out Iranian Nukes

Popular Mechanics "But in a "big war" operation, when enemy radar and missiles are robust, as they are in Iran, the way Israel could use its UAVs is worth watching. Israel's long-distance Eitans are not that new, but the way they could be used during a complex air raid could be groundbreaking. Literally and figuratively."

Is Obama a Muslim or an Apostate?

Translating Jihad "Through these Islamic judgments, in comparison with the autobiography of President Barack Hussein Obama, we find that this president is either a Muslim or an apostate from Islam according to the strongest viewpoints of Islamic jurisprudence." By Mu'ammar Ahmad 'Abd-al-Latif Rajeh, for the Watan Voice, 30 January 2010.

American Support for Israel at Near Record High

Atlas Shrugs "And in any war between the civilized man and the savage, you always side with the civilized man. Obama, OTOH, ................... better get a clue. The country does not share his anti-semitism."...."Even on this longer-term basis, support for Israel among Democrats has been relatively flat. And the Jews cling to the Democrat party, like the Gazans cling to "occupation." "

ObamaCare Strategy Sabotages Bipartisan Summit

Big Government "Furthermore, the American people explicitly reject ObamaCare and don’t want it. So much for consent of the governed. This Summit is going to be a day long press conference for President Obama and the ObamaCare Cheerleading Squad to try one last time to sell the President’s health care plan that includes unpopular mandates, higher taxes and cuts to health care providers."

Too Little, Too Late, Too Cynical

Victor Davis Hanson "But the problem is that a now jaded public believes that Obama is changing both course and tone not because he wants to for the country, but because he is forced to for his own survival.In other words, the “hope and change” of last year’s messiah has devolved into this year’s “whatever it takes” of a cynic."

Flashback: Obama, Reid Blasted Idea of Majority Rule in the Senate

American Spectator "BreitbartTV has posted a great compilation video of the arguments that top Democrats, including President Obama, made against the prospect of Republicans using the "nuclear option" to break Democratic filibusters in 2005. Their words stand in stark contrast to Democrats current statements ..." H/t to Boortz.

What the GOP Should Say at the Health Summit

Karl Rove, WSJ "The congressional Republicans at today's televised health-care "summit" at the White House naturally want to prevent the president from turning it into a PR stunt. This is no easy task. They'll not only have to point out problems with his plan and offer their own ideas, but correct the president when he makes statements that are not true. The GOP participants appear ready for the first two tasks."

The Summit to Nowhere? (UPDATED)

Commentary "But unless a dramatic shift in public and congressional opinion occurs, he will not get his bill. Indeed, we now see signs that he realizes this. This report explains that Obama is preparing an alternative plan to cover 15 million people and do a small fraction of what his ObamaCare scheme envisioned:"...Jennifer Rubin

The Brutal Truth About Californians

Pajamas Media "...you’ll have an unelected judge making California’s budget decisions. And if you think that’s bad… the California electorate’s taste for endless government got the state into this mess — and who elected them?" Well, the left brought Russia seven decades of misery and they STILL won't acknowledge they were wrong.