Wither free speech; America still the greatest nation in the world?

Atlas Shrugs; FREE SPEECH UNDER SIEGE IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL
"...we had the sad misfortune of watching a U.S. District Court Judge discard, denigrate, downplay and dismiss our most basic law of the land: the freedom of speech."
.... "Free speech is in its death throes. Clearly, Collyer is trying to establish a precedent that will allow for the criminalizing of "hate speech" -- which will mean any speech the political elites want to silence. It is indeed a very dark day."

Caroline Glick weighs in on the left's war against free speech and the truth about jihad.  "The Left’s support for Obama’s bid to repress freedom of speech in relation to the movie was not an isolated incident. Today the enlightened leftists of New York and Washington are apoplectic because a federal judge required New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to post paid advertisements by the Stop the Islamization of America human rights group calling for Americans to support Israel against jihad.
"The content of the ads is self-evidently reasonable. They read, “In any war between the savage and the civilized man, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”"SIOA’s founder Pamela Geller submitted the ads to the MTA last year in response to a rash of anti- Israel ads calling for the US to end its support for the Jewish state. Those ads were published on New York buses and subways and on public transportation around the US."

Top Five Obama-Biden Tax Hikes Burying the Middle Class

Americans for Tax Reform  "On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden said the middle class has ‘‘been buried the last four years.’’ Taxpayers agree."

"The following are the top five tax increases on the middle class signed into law by the Obama-Biden administration:"
     1. The Obamacare Individual Mandate Non-Compliance Tax:...
     2. The Obamacare Tax on Union Member and Early Retiree Health Insurance Plans:....
     3. The Obamacare Flexible Spending Account Tax – a.k.a. “Special Needs Kids     Tax”:....
     4. The Obamacare Medicine Cabinet Tax:....
     5. The Obamacare High Medical Bills Tax:....

So, what does Obama do now?  "We know that despite being president of the Harvard Law Review, he never wrote a signed scholarly article for that journal, an unprecedented (to use his favorite word) dereliction of duty for one holding that office. We know that despite teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, he never published a scholarly article, or even participated in the intellectual life of the faculty.
"So there is good reason to suspect that Obama has never in his life had to buckle down and actually deliver an intellectual product."

From American Thinker:

Poll: Uncommitted voters give Romney debate victory

Liberal heads exploding all over the net
Obama's Got The Blues
PJ Media;
Knockout: Mitt Romney Crushes Barack Obama in First Presidential Debate
"At the 30 minute mark, moderator Jim Lehrer abandoned his designated role and coached President Obama to explain his belief that in order to close the deficit, you have to cut spending and raise revenue.  This happened after Romney used Obama’s own 2010 vintage argument for maintaining current tax rates instead of letting Bush-era tax cuts expire. Lehrer offered Obama what amounted to a lifeline. A pattern soon developed: The president would pick out an unpopular figure and bash them to argue for more taxes. The first time, he used Donald Trump. The second, he bashed Exxon-Mobil."

UK Mail; Lucianne, as usual has some great posts beginning with this one:
Was it a lack of a teleprompter, poor body language, or 'the smirk' now being mocked by the GOP in new video? Why Obama failed
"One culprit for Mr Obama's failure could have been his body language - the President looked at his lectern and scribbled notes rather than fixing his gaze on his opponent.

His sometimes surly demeanour has already been exploited by the Republican National Committee, which has released an online video entitled 'Smirk' featuring a montage of the President's 'visibly uncomfortable' expression alongside extracts from Mr Romney's performance."

And this one: Why was President Obama so bad?
"Below we take on a few of the likeliest reasons for Obama’s out-of-character performance — culled from conversations with Democratic strategists and our own observations."

Obama the debater: Making Jimmy Carter look awesome

Here's another list for you: Six reasons Mitt Romney won the first debate
"While Romney’s workman-like performance may have lacked one single big moment, there were a lot of reasons he came out ahead."

Obama's "Lazy": A Stunned MSNBC Host Gives Romney Surrogate Opportunity To "Take It Back"

Greg Hengler at Townhall  "The tension is so thick during this segment with Romney surrogate, John Sununu and MSNBC host, Andrea Mitchell. She seems like a lovely lady. Alan Greenspan should consider himself the luckiest guy on earth.
"Be sure to stick around for the "look" by Mitchell at the end."

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Does Obama want out?

Steve McCann  "After all there is a purported $12 million house waiting for him in Hawaii, he will be wined and dined as well as feted as America's First Black President for the rest of his life.  Not to mention he has solidified a place in the nation's history books for that one reason alone.  Nothing is more important to Obama than celebrity and adulation as well as the attendant wealth that goes with it.  With the economic and international turmoil over the horizon, which would be blamed on him, the next four years will not be the same fun and games as the first four."

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