A Tea Party Manifesto

DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE "The movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party. It is aiming for a hostile takeover."

MORE HOPEY CHANGEY STUFF

Neal Boortz "Eureka!! We now have Barack Obama's official midterm election slogan: "Let's reach for hope." Got that? Look where that hopey-changey stuff has gotten us thus far. Let's see what I can list in 60 seconds: "....
"Perhaps Barack Obama is right ... some conservatives do want to "go backwards." But backwards does not mean to George W. Bush. If that were the case, then we would still have massive increases in government spending, entitlements the growth of federal government. No .. we are talking about going back to George Washington, not George Bush. While we living in different times, the principles of Washington's era still apply. That is the beauty of our Constitution. What is so wrong with "going back" to that?"

Obama's "Teachable" Shariah Moment

Frank Gaffney "As he hosted the Ramadan fast-breaking dinner at the White House on Friday, President Obama showed his true colors on shariah. Trying to dress up the Ground Zero mosque or any other aspect of this brutally repressive, totalitarian and inherently unconstitutional program as a matter of "religious freedom" does not pass the giggle test. Shariah is about power, not faith, and no amount of Obama subsidies, solidarity or spin on behalf of that agenda will persuade the American people to allow the so-called "tradition of Islam" to supplant our civil liberties, form of government and way of life."

Music Industry Sexualizes Your Children

Townhall "Take, for example, pop star Katy Perry. Wildly popular with the pre-teen set, she has long left her Christian roots behind. In her latest album, “Teenage Dream,” her nearly naked, pornographic romp flashes between beach flirtations and sex in a hotel room. She boasts about resisting record company efforts to tone down her song Peacock, baldly sexual in its connotation, because she spells success “s-e-x.” The same Katy Perry was just featured on Nickolodeon’s “Kid’s Choice” music awards, guests on Sesame Street this fall, and appears in the 2011 kids’ movie, The Smurfs. [The fourth grade girls in my neighborhood love her.] "....
"How to save your family by monitoring your child’s music." :

Reality TV Trash: Do Advertisers Have Children? "Where perception is indeed reality a half a world away, and where America is already perceived as the “depraved culture of the Great Satan”, you may want to reconsider the entertainment you’re financing abroad — if not for the sake of children around the world at least as a matter of national security. Read Boston University’s post 9/11 poll entitled, “The Next Generation’s Image of Americans”, and then take stock of the direct role you’re playing in America’s deadly and spreading global image crisis. Finally, for God’s sake, please give our sons and daughters fighting for your freedoms better international “air support” than low-life, indecent American youth programming. "

Thomas Sowell: Dismantling America

Townhall "The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, it has been a continuing challenge-- to this day-- to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters, whether an elite of blood, or of books or of whatever else gives people a puffed-up sense of importance."

Fed Unveils Slew of Mortgage Rules

Wall Street Journal "The Federal Reserve unveiled a slew of rules Monday aimed at protecting consumers from abusive lending practices blamed for luring millions into unaffordable home loans. The rules include a ban on yield-spread premiums, controversial payments that mortgage brokers have historically received in exchange for guiding consumers toward higher-interest rate mortgages. “This will prevent loan originators from increasing their own compensation by raising the consumers’ loan costs, such as by increasing the interest rate or points,” the Fed said."

DISASTER IN THE GULF

Houston Chronicle "Resumption and expansion of deep-water drilling across the Gulf of Mexico will be more costly and time-consuming for oil companies such as BP as a result of changes the Obama administration ordered Monday."

ObamaCare Woes

Townhall "June surveys from Rasmussen Reports show that voters believe ObamaCare will increase costs, decrease quality and want the new massive program repealed. "

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Under Dr. Berwick, Death Panels Coming to Life

Verum Serum "Obviously the decision isn’t final yet, but assuming Medicare does refuse to cover this drug…How is this different from a death panel? Would someone on the professional left who railed against Sarah Palin’s use of that phrase please explain the difference?"

Bean-Counters and Baloney

Thomas Sowell "One of the things that got us started on heavy-handed government regulation of the housing market were statistics showing that blacks were turned down for mortgage loans more often than whites. The bean-counters in the media went ballistic. It had to be racism, to hear them tell it. What they didn't tell you was that whites were turned down more often than Asians. What they also didn't tell you was that black-owned banks also turned down blacks more often than whites."....
"The bean-counters are everywhere, pushing the idea that differences show injustices committed by society. As long as we keep buying it, they will keep selling it-- and the polarization they create will sell this country down the river."

The Mosque: Deal or No Deal?

Powerline Blog "Haaretz headlines: "Muslim leaders to abandon plans for Ground Zero community center."".... "But the New York Daily News says Haaretz is all wet:"...

Haaretz Muslim leaders to abandon plans for Ground Zero community center. "Insiders say Muslim spiritual leaders behind the controversial initiative are considering giving up on the former World Trade Center location, in a gesture of appeasement."

NY Daily News "UPDATE from our Sam Goldsmith, who's been following this issue and just got off the phone with Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of the project: "That's complete misinformation. That's crazy," El-Gamal said."