Breaking: Radical Union Organizer-Black Liberation Activist Slugs Tea Party Protester in Face (Video)

Big Government "On Tuesday June 8, the North Carolina Tea Party Patriots held a protest against government bailouts in front of Rep. Mel Watt’s (D-N.C.) Greensboro office. During the protest a raging leftist goon, Governor Spencer, turned out, disrupted the protest, confronted the patriots, argued with them and then… He started throwing punches!" So much for Obama healing the racial divide.
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Publisher puts warning label on Constitution; a response to the publisher

Charlotte Cushman "You said, "This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today." So tell me, what values are you talking about? Are you saying that freedom, recognition of individual rights, keeping what one has rightfully earned, living one's life for oneself, living without force in human relationships is outdated?"

The Rise of Illiberal Democracy (updated)

Fareed Zakaria "It has been difficult to recognize because for the last century in the West, democracy -- free and fair elections -- has gone hand in hand with constitutional liberalism -- the rule of law and basic human rights. But in the rest of the world, these two concepts are coming apart. Democracy without constitutional liberalism is producing centralized regimes, the erosion of liberty, ethnic competition, conflict, and war."

Barney Frank to young Dems: If you want to advance liberalism, “give us more authority”  Speaking to "useful idiots".

Conservative Pundits Strike a Chord as Nation Grows Wary of Liberalism  "On February 19, 2009, Rick Santelli helped create a movement whose political impact has not yet been fully realized. The "Rant Heard 'Round the World," as it has become known, was a profound, if hardly isolated example of the power of conservative pundits to enact political change."

Comedy Central's 'JC,'

Newsbusters "And if you aren't familiar with how Comedy Central does Christianity, watch this video and you'll get an idea of what can be expected should JC ever make it to the airwaves."

Antisemtic Face of American Left Revealed

Shawarma Mayor "It doesn't take much to figure out who the anti-Semites are. Those who came out in support of Helen Thomas. There are degrees to this disease here and I'll sort them as:"...

Obama Gives New Meaning to "Big Government"

RealClearPolitics "By virtue of his omnipresence, this President has given new meaning to the phrase "big government." He is everywhere. Try as you might, you cannot escape him. Mr. Obama has expanded the concept of the bully pulpit in ways we have never before seen. It is worth asking: in a country founded on the idea of limited government, is it good to have a President who appears to see no limits to what he can involve himself in?"

Will Higher Tax Rates in 2011 Cause an Economic Collapse? UPDATED

CATO  "It has always amazed me how tax cuts don’t work until they take effect. Mr. Obama’s experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011. …The result will be a crash in tax receipts once the surge is past. If you thought deficits and unemployment have been bad lately, you ain’t seen nothing yet."
Progressives: Ye Shall Know Them by Their Economic Ignorance  "The Zogby survey asked 4,835 American adults to identify their political ideology as either libertarian, very conservative, conservative, moderate, liberal, or progressive/very liberal. They were then provided eight fairly basic economic assertions, and asked to respond to each statement. "

The U.S. Economy Needs Fewer Public School Jobs, Not More

Andrew J. Coulson "Over the past forty years, public school employment has risen 10 times faster than enrollment (see chart). There are only 9 percent more students today, but nearly twice as many public school employees. To prove that rolling back this relentless hiring spree by a few years would hurt student achievement, you’d have to show that all those new employees raised achievement in the first place. That would be hard to do… because it never happened." Andrew J. Coulson is the director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom.

Hispanics flee Arizona ahead of immigration law

USA Today "Though no one has precise figures, reports from school officials, businesses and individuals indicate worried Hispanics — both legal and illegal — are leaving the state in anticipation of the law, which will go into effect July 29."

On the road to re-Carterizing America

Washington Times "Twice in modern U.S. history, irresponsible foreign policies have invited huge and costly disasters. The isolationism of the 1920s and 30s yielded World War II. And Jimmy Carter's 1970s experiment of putting a happy face on American power (much like we see happening today) wound up with crises in Iran and Afghanistan.
U.S. disengagement from international affairs after the First World War convinced our enemies that we would not resist aggression abroad. That misperception exacted a terrible price among friend and foe alike." ...
"Signs of instability amid a growing perception of American weakness are everywhere. Allies and friends are beginning to hedge their bets, distancing themselves from us:"...

Dems Go All-In On Health Care With New Ad Slamming GOP's Repeal Promise

TPM    "Democrats on Thursday will launch a new 60-second ad on national cable television accusing repeal-happy Republicans of wanting to get rid of health care reform and all its benefits."

How the White House is Making Oil Recovery Harder

Morning Bell "And when the federal government isn’t sapping the initiative and expertise of local governments, it has been preventing foreign governments from helping. Just three days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the Dutch government offered to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms and proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands. LA Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) supported the idea, but the Obama administration refused the help. All told, thirteen countries have offered to help us clean up the Gulf, and the Obama administration has turned them all down."....
"According to one Dutch newspaper, European firms could complete the oil spill clean up by themselves in just four months, and three months if they work with the United States, which is much faster than the estimated nine months it would take the Obama administration to go it alone."  Emphasis mine.
Options to plug the BP oil spill available, but Obama ignores them "During the Iraq War, President Bush sent in Red Adair's oil capping company into Kuwait. Red Adair's private company capped 628 sabotaged, booby-trapped, and blown up burning rigs in less than 9 months. Obama has capped exactly 0 oil wells in almost 2 months.  How's that government boot on the throat of BP working out for ya?"