You Can’t Keep the Plan You Have

National Review  "But this year, the same insurance company is denying the test, having clamped down on several elective services while also raising its premiums. This company now has to cover children with pre-existing conditions and can place no lifetime limits on care. It is struggling to preserve its profits as Obamacare kicks in — profits that, to begin with, are only approximately 4 percent of its total revenue." 

A Terrorist Speaks

Powerline blog  ""No propaganda purpose"? I don't understand that claim. No doubt every pro-terrorist news outlet in the Muslim world will hail Shahzad as a hero, quote his words in open court, and urge other Muslims to follow his example. Was that not, in fact, the principal intended audience for his self-justification? The Obama administration needs to get over the idea that every time a terrorist is caught it is America's system of justice, not the terrorist, that is on trial."

“Defensive” Jihad Is In the Eye of the Beholder "... it does not matter if those Muslims are wrong about Islam. What matters is that there are a lot of them and they constitute a mainstream current of Islamic thought. They have the support of influential Islamic scholars who tell them Islam is under siege, and they don’t care in the slightest whether Western intellectuals (at whom they scoff) or Muslim reformers (whom they regard as apostates) think they have interpreted Islam incorrectly." Andy McCarthy in National Review

PUNISHING THE PRODUCTIVE

Neal Boortz  "Come on, folks. The data is clear ... it's non-refutable. If you want to punish the rich for their success and hard work, an income tax will achieve exactly that: punish people. Punishment is meant to alter your behavior, to "teach" you that your actions were unacceptable. Is that the message we want to send to the producers? I didn't think so."

 The Bill Gates Income Tax  "To imagine what such a large soak-the-rich income tax would do to Washington, we need only examine how states with the highest income-tax rates perform relative to their zero-income tax counterparts. Comparing the nine states with the highest tax rates on earned income to the nine states with no income tax shows how high tax rates weaken economic performance."

Taxes and Presidential Math "Now compare the size of the tax cuts to the total amount of spending and you will see where the problem lies. Compare $700 billion—the tax cut the president said “would drastically expand the deficit”—to $41.9 trillion ($41,911 billion).
"If Washington is serious about reducing the debt level it could easily extend the tax cuts—it’s spending that must be cut." 

Obama’s Middle East Policy vs. Reality

Jennifer Rubin  "But the upside-down view of the Middle East does explain why the non-peace talks are in disarray, the Iranian regime is gaining allies, and the Israelis will have to fend for themselves when it comes to the Iranian nuclear threat. Unfortunately, there is no adult supervision of the Obama foreign policy."

Dinesh D’Souza; Explaining President Obama, rereading Dreams from My Father.

Kathryn Jean Lopez  "Socialism is clearly part of the picture. Remember that many Third World countries, in opposing Western colonialism, allied themselves with the main alternative, which was Soviet socialism. Obama’s father, Barack Sr., was by his own account an African socialist. He wrote a paper in 1965 proposing tax rates of up to 100 percent. He said that there was nothing wrong with 100 percent taxation as long as the benefits accrue to the state and to society as a whole." Hat tip to Neal Boortz.



Mike Ramirez, Townhall



Conservatives, Forever on Trial (Updated)

Brent Bozell  in Townhall  "The bias is so thick out there you can step in it. But it shouldn't be forgotten that all this biased sludge obscures the real picture of a wave election. When networks like NBC are mortified that a man they would typically ignore like Paladino might just deny Andrew Cuomo his daddy's mantle in New York, that means the polls are really, terribly bad out there for Democrats."

CNN’s Bold New Strategy to Win Over the Heartland: Guests Who Bash Sarah Palin  "The  show "Parker Spitzer"  debuted on CNN Monday, and I think one strategy to increase ratings is to have on at least one leftist a night who is thrown the “Sarah Palin” bait and letting the lib-in-question go into a feeding frenzy of name calling."

A Letter from a Republican to Hispanics

Dennis Prager   "...you must understand that that having millions of people in our midst who feel no bond to our country and who do not want to become one of us is a serious problem. You would feel the same about people who came to your countries to make money and use your country's medical, social, educational and other services paid for by the people of your country." Yet, liberals want you to be able to choose our legislators.
Via Townhall



Gary Varvel, World Magazine



Iran Admits It Could Pull Nuke Trigger on US, Israel

Infidel Bloggers Alliance  "For the first time since the expansion of Iran’s nuclear program was exposed in 2002, the Iranian government is dropping the pretense that it is developing nuclear technology purely for peaceful purposes. Iran has developed nuclear war plans to deter U.S. and Israeli aggression and retaliate against it, a top adviser to Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced in a strategic analysis."

Obama-Clinton ticket 'on the table,' Woodward says

CNN  "The scenario – whereby Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would switch positions - has been bandied about by political observers for months, seen by some as a potentially savvy strategy to gin up excitement among what appears to be a depressed Democratic base."
Hat tip to: Astute Blogger

Growing percentages of Americans have described the Democratic Party as “unfriendly” toward religion.

Jennifer Rubin  "As with so many other disappointed voters, faith-based voters, it is fair to conclude, were misled by candidate Obama, who has turned out to be, as his critics predicted, a run-of-the-mill leftist."