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Lech Walesa: “America Is Moving Towards Socialism”

Gateway Pundit "Lech Walesa: “The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope that whenever something was going wrong one could count on the United States. Today we lost that hope.” " More here: Founding Bloggers "Lech Walesa tells his American audience that the United States no longer leads the world politically or morally"

Obama Organizing in High School

Atlas Shrugs "Children must be advised to expose this ugly propaganda. Children must tell their parents how they are being used and manipulated. Parents, warn your kids. Better yet, home school. Check out the recommended reading list page 4: Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky The New Organizers, Zack Exley Stir It Up: Lessons from Community Organizing and Advocacy, Rinku Sen Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle, Zack Exley, Huffington Post Dreams of My Father Chicago Chapters, Barack Hussein Obama" umm umm umm. Be sure to follow some of the enclosed links.

Democrats at Risk

Jennifer Rubin "A tactic that would have seemed far-fetched a year ago, when the new president was sworn in with a 67 percent job approval rating, is now emerging as a key component of the GOP strategy: Tie Democratic opponents to Obama and make them answer for some of the unpopular policies associated with the chief executive."

Rep. Jeb Hensarling Corrects Obama’s Inaccurate and Dishonest Statements on the US Deficit

Gateway Pundit "Hensarling, in criticizing government spending, told Obama that the yearly deficits Democrats complained about under George W. Bush had now become “monthly” deficits in lengthy remarks that clearly frustrated the president."

Obama's Nuclear Lie

Brian Sussman, AT "Nuclear power is a clean, green, carbon-free source of electricity. However, it's also an energy source that is completely opposed by Obama and environmentalists at large. The primary scare tactics this crew employs are Three Mile Island and Chernobyl." Don't forget the movie, "The China Syndrome".

Obama Gets Real with Republicans, Without His Teleprompter

Andy Wickersham, AT "However, it was part of the president's response (begins at 36:40) to Tennessee Representative Marcia Blackburn's question about health care that I thought was most interesting, and telling:"...."Earth to Barack Obama: It isn't the Republicans on Capitol Hill that have blocked your attempts to put America on the path towards government-run health care. It was the American people -- the same people that punished your party in 1994 when they tried to pull this stunt the last time."

ObamaCare Rocks the Dolt Vote!

Bernard Chapin , PJM "A new ad encourages young people to withhold sex from all who oppose socialized medicine." This happens when you get a rock star president supported by rock stars and voted in by rock fans.

Heavyweight Showdown in Texas GOP Primary for Governor

G.M. Roper, PJM "Medina’s numbers are showing an upswing, but whether she can catch the two career politicians depends a lot on whether Perry or Hutchinson stumble in the debates or on the campaign trail. Another question is whether Medina can project the conservative values that attract the typically conservative Texas Republican primary voter. Medina believes that she can. Regardless of how the race turns out, this year promises to be one of the most interesting Republican primary elections in Texas in a very long time."

What's Wrong with Celebrating Life?

American Thinker "Even though the ad won't be run until Super Bowl Sunday on February 7, Mr. Tebow is already becoming a household name. His premature celebrity comes not from his athletic ability on the gridiron, but from the mere fact that he's alive. .... Ms. Tebow repudiated her doctor's advice to abort the child, and she gave birth to Tim. Ordinarily, this would rank up there with many other heart-warming success stories that celebrate life. However, abortion proponents don't view life as something to celebrate.

Don’t Mess With Success/ Is now the time to overturn Don't Ask, Don't Tell?

William Kristol "The advocates of repeal say, it’s a matter of basic rights. No, it’s not. Leave aside the fact that there are difficult and unresolved questions of how our society should deal in various areas of public policy with questions of sexual orientation. There is no basic right to serve in the military. That’s why forms of discrimination we would ban in civilian life are permitted: Women have less opportunity to fight than men. The disabled are discriminated against, as are the short, the near-sighted, and the old."

Eight reasons why KSM will be tried by military commission.

Bill Burck & Dana Perino, NRO "8. Trying KSM in a military commission will kill the story before the midterm elections. The election of Scott Brown, who made his advocacy of enhanced interrogation techniques and opposition to trying KSM in civilian court central parts of his campaign, was a wake-up call that national security remains an important issue, particularly after Abdulmutallab’s failed attack, and one that does not favor the Democrats. The administration has begun to backtrack by signaling that the trial will not be held in New York City. Their next step will be to kill the controversy entirely by announcing that charges against KSM and his co-conspirators will be reinstated before a military commission. "