Happy New Year from Mike Ramirez

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/IBDEditorials.aspx

Raging Against “Them”

Victor Davis Hanson  "By May 2009 we were lectured that the nascent tea-party was an Astroturf fake movement, then a racist dangerous movement with Nazi undertones, and then a splinter nihilist know-nothing movement without political consequences.
"By November 2011 all the above vanished in a blink. Furor followed from the Left that Obama was not a Great Stone Face savior, that the Tea Party was all too real, that the conservatives were back, and that liberalism had suffered its worst electoral defeat since 1938. How can all this be? Whom to blame?"

ObamaCare repeal vote Jan 12th

HouseRepublicans "Today, the House Republicans released their proposed package of rules changes for the 112th Congress. These changes will be considered during the continued organization meeting of the House Republican Conference in early January and on the opening day of the 112th Congress."

It's On: Vote to Repeal Obamacare Scheduled for January 12

ObamaCare Repeal Vote Next Week, Bill to De-Fund Abortion Soon  "“Obamacare is a job killer for businesses small and large, and the top priority for House Republicans is going to be to cut spending and grow the economy and jobs,” Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring said in a statement. “Further, ObamaCare failed to lower costs as the president promised that it would and does not allow people to keep the care they currently have if they like it. That is why the House will repeal it next week.”"

The Spaghetti Strategy: Advice to Republicans ""You might start to feel as we have felt these last few years; you know that sick feeling in your stomach? We got it when we realized how your policies were designed to harm our country. You will get it when you realize that all of your socialist dreams for America or the dreams of your father for America are crumbling under the weight of a renewed American patriotism. If the GOP can deliver, it will be a rather delicious irony. The American people would finally have a chance to impose something on you for a change, Mr. President."

With Air Force's Gorgon Drone 'we can see everything'

washingtonpost.com "This winter, the Air Force is set to deploy to Afghanistan what it says is a revolutionary airborne surveillance system called Gorgon Stare, which will be able to transmit live video images of physical movement across an entire town."  



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 Gorgon Stare Broadens UAV Surveillance "The U.S. Air Force’s new Gorgon Stare Wide Area Airborne Surveillance System, described as a revolutionary intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) technology, will make its combat debut in December, flying over undisclosed locations in Afghanistan on board MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). " AVIATION WEEK

Christians attacked in Egypt

Muslims Chant "AllahuAkbar" After Car Bomb Kills 21 Christians "Eyewitnesses confirmed that security forces guarding the church withdrew nearly one hour before the blast, leaving only four policemen and an officer to guard such a big church and nearly 2000 people attending the midnight mass. "Normally they would have waited until the mass was over," said el-Gezeiry. He also comment More..ed on the Muslim's schadenfreude at the massacre at the church, who were heard chanting "Allah Akbar."
""Is this a victory?" He asks. "Whoever saw this fire and people dying and body parts all over the place and could still chant 'Allah Akbar' is a terrorist.""

'Suicide bomber' attacks church in Egyptian city of Alexandria

Our valiant, courageous press

http://www.worldmag.com/editorialcartoons/

Leftist media in full court press backing warmism  "Everyone knows how fickle the mainstream media is, and how they are ultimately driven to out-scoop each other for ratings gains. If they smell blood in the water of an imminent collapse to this entire so-called crisis, they will turn on each other and promoters like Romm and Gelbspan in a heartbeat, no doubt with yells of being hoodwinked or assumptions that other news outlets had initially checked the voracity of the "warming" science everyone else relies on."

How fiction became news "Pick up a copy of the New York Times or the Washington Post any day of the week when they run an article on Israel and you're apt to find prominent quotes from reporters and columnists of Haaretz, a far-left newspaper with limited circulation that is treated as gospel by Western reporters based in Jerusalem"

http://townhall.com/cartoons/mikelester

 Chicken Littles: AP Report Casts Texas v. EPA Fight as Risking Health of Texans

Cagle Cartoons

"In his report on the escalating dispute between the State of Texas and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, one thing you cannot accuse Ramit Plushnick-Masti of the Associated Press of being is a master of understatement. He claims that "Both sides and conservation groups agree the battle has put the health of Texas residents and the environment at risk."

Really? The only problem is that the AP reporter never found anyone who is currently on the Texas side of the dispute who is saying anything remotely resembling that."....

"Implication: Texas needs to be squashed like a bug."

The beginning of a trend? American companies rethink China

Phil Boehmke "It is just a trickle right now, but as China grapples with its “revolution of rising expectations,” the hard pressed U.S. manufacturing sector could see some real gains. No doubt Mr. Obama will claim victory for each job driven back home by conditions in China."

‘Compliance’: The Word That Sunk a Million U.S. Jobs

Pajamas Media  "Costs not related to the quality of the end product — costs created entirely by overbearing government — have destroyed our manufacturing sector."....
"Politicians have treated business as a painless source of social and monetary benefits for nearly forty years. In the end, regardless of their origin or intent, all costs of doing business must be able to fit into the competition model. A business that can’t recover all its costs must find a way to reduce them — possibly by relocating to where they don’t have those costs."

Neal Boortz: "OFFENDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS"

Neal Boortz "How about what's offensive to Americans? Here's some advice: Latinos, Hispanics, Mexicans ... whatever ... ought to spend a few momentos worrying about what is offensive to us. Here's a start:"
· Calling yourselves "reconquistadores" and claiming that the Southwestern United States really belongs to Mexico anyway.
· Raising unholy hell when Arizona tries to enforce an immigration law that is much less severe than the laws in effect and being enforced in Mexico.
· Refusing to extradite Mexican murderers who flee to Mexico if they will face the death penalty in America while Mexican border cities and towns are becoming lawless killing fields.
· Marching around with signs saying "we are not criminals" when you broke the law coming here, break the law staying here, and break the law working here. Maybe "criminals" means something completely different in Spanish.

True Wit

http://www.calchronicle.com/

Obama's Ship of Fools foreign policy recalls Ike's Atoms for Peace fiasco

James Carafano  "After swearing to modernize our decaying nuclear arsenal, he subsequently promised that America would never build new nuclear weapons. He pulled out all the stops to push a nuclear arms control agreement with Moscow though the Senate, but has spent virtually no political or diplomatic capital to slow Iran's or North Korea's nuclear programs, nor has he shown any real interest in China's increasingly ambitious military and nuclear programs."
 Washington Examiner  via Heritage

GOP plans assault on health law

Politico  "The new Republican-controlled House plans to schedule a vote to repeal the sweeping health care overhaul before President Barack Obama delivers his annual State of the Union address late this month, incoming House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said Sunday."

GOP agenda may mean more in 2012 than now  "The GOP is promising to use the new Congress that convenes Wednesday to cut spending, roll back President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and prevent unelected bureaucrats from expanding the government's role in society through regulations that tell people what they must or can't do."
Via Heritage

‘Civil Rights’ Gone Wild

National Review"There is no question that schools should not allow bullying or violence of any kind. But it’s ludicrous to launch federal investigations of schools for having dress codes that differentiate between males and females, or to equate such dress codes with “sex discrimination.”....
"One can only hope that the public will soon take notice of the Obama administration’s abuse of its civil-rights enforcement function. Otherwise, the division’s “enlightened” erosion of our culture and our real civil rights will proceed apace."
Hans A. von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department.

No Bailouts for Government Unions

Heritage   "The problem with government unions is that, unlike the private sector, governments have no competitors. If a union ends up extracting a contract from a private firm that eats up too much profits, that firm will lose out to the competition. But when a union extracts a generous contract from government, there is no check on that spending. Instead of being disciplined by more efficient competitors, the government just pays for higher spending with higher taxes or borrowing."

http://terrellaftermath.com/