Not Your Average Joe

Ann Coulter "-- On Clinton: "Once again, his defenders, furiously attacking the prosecution and equating opposition with 'conspiracy,' don't dare mount the best defense: 'He's not that sort of man.' It's because Clinton is, supremely, 'that sort of man' that this whole thing has happened. He's a lying lecher, a prevaricating pervert, an utterly slimy crook, without a trace of honor or loyalty, desperately trying to save his own skin one last time." " Quoting Joe Sobran, a writer who died this week. See if you recognize some of his memorable lines.

Why Patriotism Is Indispensable for Democracies

Bruce S. Thornton "In short, democracies have been able to overcome their weaknesses in times of crisis because of political virtue: courage, self-sacrifice, duty, and patriotism. For many today, however, patriotism has been discredited, tarred with the brush of a xenophobic and bigoted nationalism allegedly responsible for the great slaughter of the two World Wars. A naive internationalism and fealty to some fantasy “global community” is supposed to be our true object of affection. Worse yet, we have institutionalized in our popular culture, schools, and media the historical guilt and self-loathing that for decades has comprised left-wing intellectual fashion, and that legitimizes distaste for one’s own country. For how can anyone love such a global villain, the font of all suffering, war, exploitation, poverty, and environmental degradation, let alone kill and die for her?"

President Obama lacks the will to fight in Afghanistan.

Charles Krauthammer  "First, isn’t this the party that in two consecutive presidential campaigns — John Kerry’s and then Obama’s — argued vociferously that Afghanistan was the good war, the right war, the war of necessity, the central front in the War on Terror? Now, after acceding to power and being given charge of that very war, Obama confides that he must retreat lest that very same party abandon him. What happened in the interim? Did it suddenly develop a faint heart? Or was the party disingenuous about the Afghan war all along, using it as a convenient club with which to attack George W. Bush over Iraq, while protecting Democrats from the charge of being reflexively antiwar?"
National Review Online

It's Time to Fight Back Against Death Threats by Islamic Extremists "...The "warning" included the names, photos and work address of "South Park's" creators, a graphic image of Van Gogh's mutilated body and pictures of other targets of Muslim extremists. Overlaying this was audio of Awlaki preaching about assassinating anyone who defamed the prophet. Panicked, Comedy Central heavily censored the episode.
"This rather obvious threat could not be prosecuted. New York Police Department officials explained it did not rise to a crime. Were the FACE Act applicable here, a civil suit would have been available, and precedent suggests it would have been successful." Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Daniel Huff,  LA Times. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former member of the Dutch parliament, is a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute and the author of "Nomad: From Islam to America." Daniel Huff is director of the Middle East Forum's Legal Project.

Obama believes your paycheck is not your own

Keith Riler  "The President clearly believes differently, that my paycheck does not begin its life as mine, from which taxes are taken. Rather, he believes that my paycheck begins life as his, from which residual amounts are beneficently granted to me for living expenses. He clearly believes that the yet untaxed portion of my paycheck is still his, to be "spent" on me at his discretion."   American Thinker

Fighting Back Against Arbitrary Government Rule

Heritage  "By the end of 2007, the U.S. Code included more than 4,450 federal crimes, with an estimated tens of thousands more located in the federal regulatory code. Civil liberties attorney Harvey Silvergate estimates that the average working American unknowingly commits Three Felonies a Day. Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Research Fellow Brian Walsh explained to last week’s Judiciary Committee hearing why this is happening:"...

Obamanomics

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Rep. Loretta Sanchez and the Bathos of Race

Victor Davis Hanson  "...most of the president’s “like a dog” recent petulance understandably arises from his furor that skeptical voters are not push-over Harvard deans. Therefore he must for the first time in his life perform and be judged as Barack Obama, a working president — and not as Barack Obama, an image to be manipulated for careerist purposes."

Change!… Team Obama to Doctors: Start Working Weekends

Steve Breen, Townhall

Gateway Pundit  "Team Obama wants doctors to start working weekends.
"Former failed White House economic advisor Peter Orszag demanded this in his op-ed today in The New York Times:"...

You Can’t Keep the Plan You Have

National Review  "But this year, the same insurance company is denying the test, having clamped down on several elective services while also raising its premiums. This company now has to cover children with pre-existing conditions and can place no lifetime limits on care. It is struggling to preserve its profits as Obamacare kicks in — profits that, to begin with, are only approximately 4 percent of its total revenue." 

A Terrorist Speaks

Powerline blog  ""No propaganda purpose"? I don't understand that claim. No doubt every pro-terrorist news outlet in the Muslim world will hail Shahzad as a hero, quote his words in open court, and urge other Muslims to follow his example. Was that not, in fact, the principal intended audience for his self-justification? The Obama administration needs to get over the idea that every time a terrorist is caught it is America's system of justice, not the terrorist, that is on trial."

“Defensive” Jihad Is In the Eye of the Beholder "... it does not matter if those Muslims are wrong about Islam. What matters is that there are a lot of them and they constitute a mainstream current of Islamic thought. They have the support of influential Islamic scholars who tell them Islam is under siege, and they don’t care in the slightest whether Western intellectuals (at whom they scoff) or Muslim reformers (whom they regard as apostates) think they have interpreted Islam incorrectly." Andy McCarthy in National Review

PUNISHING THE PRODUCTIVE

Neal Boortz  "Come on, folks. The data is clear ... it's non-refutable. If you want to punish the rich for their success and hard work, an income tax will achieve exactly that: punish people. Punishment is meant to alter your behavior, to "teach" you that your actions were unacceptable. Is that the message we want to send to the producers? I didn't think so."

 The Bill Gates Income Tax  "To imagine what such a large soak-the-rich income tax would do to Washington, we need only examine how states with the highest income-tax rates perform relative to their zero-income tax counterparts. Comparing the nine states with the highest tax rates on earned income to the nine states with no income tax shows how high tax rates weaken economic performance."

Taxes and Presidential Math "Now compare the size of the tax cuts to the total amount of spending and you will see where the problem lies. Compare $700 billion—the tax cut the president said “would drastically expand the deficit”—to $41.9 trillion ($41,911 billion).
"If Washington is serious about reducing the debt level it could easily extend the tax cuts—it’s spending that must be cut." 

Obama’s Middle East Policy vs. Reality

Jennifer Rubin  "But the upside-down view of the Middle East does explain why the non-peace talks are in disarray, the Iranian regime is gaining allies, and the Israelis will have to fend for themselves when it comes to the Iranian nuclear threat. Unfortunately, there is no adult supervision of the Obama foreign policy."

Dinesh D’Souza; Explaining President Obama, rereading Dreams from My Father.

Kathryn Jean Lopez  "Socialism is clearly part of the picture. Remember that many Third World countries, in opposing Western colonialism, allied themselves with the main alternative, which was Soviet socialism. Obama’s father, Barack Sr., was by his own account an African socialist. He wrote a paper in 1965 proposing tax rates of up to 100 percent. He said that there was nothing wrong with 100 percent taxation as long as the benefits accrue to the state and to society as a whole." Hat tip to Neal Boortz.



Mike Ramirez, Townhall



Conservatives, Forever on Trial (Updated)

Brent Bozell  in Townhall  "The bias is so thick out there you can step in it. But it shouldn't be forgotten that all this biased sludge obscures the real picture of a wave election. When networks like NBC are mortified that a man they would typically ignore like Paladino might just deny Andrew Cuomo his daddy's mantle in New York, that means the polls are really, terribly bad out there for Democrats."

CNN’s Bold New Strategy to Win Over the Heartland: Guests Who Bash Sarah Palin  "The  show "Parker Spitzer"  debuted on CNN Monday, and I think one strategy to increase ratings is to have on at least one leftist a night who is thrown the “Sarah Palin” bait and letting the lib-in-question go into a feeding frenzy of name calling."

A Letter from a Republican to Hispanics

Dennis Prager   "...you must understand that that having millions of people in our midst who feel no bond to our country and who do not want to become one of us is a serious problem. You would feel the same about people who came to your countries to make money and use your country's medical, social, educational and other services paid for by the people of your country." Yet, liberals want you to be able to choose our legislators.
Via Townhall