People Power; A wake-up call for America's political elites.

by Matthew Continetti "Congress returns this week, and here's hoping that its members, Democrats in particular, learned a little something from this summer's town hall meetings. The lesson to be drawn from these occasionally raucous events is that America is on the verge of--or already knee-deep in--one of those moments that periodically roil the country and rearrange our preconceived notions about public life. And not a moment too soon."

My Mother, the Czar: "List of Obama's Czars"

Glenn Beck "The Brainroom counts 32 czars in the Obama administration, based on media reports from reputable sources that have identified the official in question as a czar. • In addition, President Obama has said that he will create the position of cyber czar, and there have been media reports that there could be a health insurance czar and a copyright czar. When and if those positions are filled, that would bring the total to 35. • Since czar isn't an official job title, the number is somewhat in the eye of the beholder."

"Congress's Next Giveaway" By Sen. Jim DeMint

Washington Post "The $400 million Travel Promotion Fund, set to be created if the Senate passes the Travel Promotion Act (TPA) this week, is perhaps the perfect illustration of the disconnect between the American people and their representatives in Washington. "

Senator Tom Coburn schools a constituent about the painful truth of government-run healthcare.

SayAnything Blog

Whoa, Trigger / The latest gimmick to disguise a health-care 'public option.'

WSJ Online "Liberals should love the idea because a trigger isn't a substantive concession; it merely ensures that the public option will arrive eventually, instead of immediately. Democrats will goose the tests so that private insurers can't possibly meet them, mainly by imposing new regulations and other costly burdens."

Obama gets conflicting tips on health care speech

Yahoo News "The president, admired the world over for his oratory, has struggled to find the right message on health care. Polls show Americans are losing confidence in his vision of a revamped system with guaranteed coverage and lower costs."

THE BIG PUSH FOR LABOR UNIONS

Boortz "They want Democrats to pass their card check bill. Pass the card check bill and the labor unions can go on their merry way, bullying workers into a giant unionized work-force. And it seems as though the White House pandered right to them. .... Barack Obama says that "every American owes something to America's labor movement."

THE WAR AGAINST CAPITALISM

Nealz Nuze "At least Michael Moore realizes that our current system is not a democracy. Moonbats like Michael Moore like the idea of democracy because it is rule by man compared to rule by law. I'm more of a law kinda guy myself. Maybe that's because of what our founding fathers believed about the notion of democracy. Remember this one? "... the term "democrat" originated as an epithet and referred to 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.'" Yeah, that seems to fit for a moonbat like Michael Moore."

REPUBLICANS GET ROLLED ... AND DESERVEDLY SO.

By Neal Boortz "TeamObama must have loved this one. Talk about a hanging curveball. Once the manic inanity started all they had to do is sit back, prepare an innocuous speech for The One, and let the people scratch their heads wondering what in the hell the Republicans were so upset about! "

Venezuela's Chavez says hopes can work with Obama

Reuters "Chavez was in Venice for the world premiere of "South of the Border," director Oliver Stone's sympathetic portrait of a leader he says has championed the poor and who has been unfairly demonized by the U.S. media. "I have no reason to call him (Obama) the devil, and I hope that I am right," ..."

Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?

Big Hollywood "We saw our government allow Iranian protesters, who peacefully challenged a rigged election, get shot in the street. Concurrently, we demanded that a tin-pot dictator be reinstated after his government got wise to his schemes and legally booted him. All of these little vignettes, as well as countless others over the last month or two, do not bold well for our little leftist friends. "

Text of Obama's education speech released

SF Examiner "But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying. Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future." I say amen to that.