Underappreciated: How Thoroughly Fox News Trounced CNN, MSNBC on Election Night

Newsbusters  "It looks like lots of viewers preferred their election coverage fair and balanced. After some of the Election Night shenanigans reported at NewsBusters relating to MSNBC, I can't say I blame them."

California: The Lindsay Lohan of States

WSJ  "Your government's run by a brothel of environmentalists, lawyers, public-sector unions and legislative bums. When they're not taxing or spending, they're creating regulations and commissions like the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology and the California Blueberry Commission. Many businesses would leave if it weren't for your sunny climate. " ALLYSIA FINLEY
I saw this last night and bypassed it. Now the article has gone viral and the TW is behind the curve. As long as we're on this subject, here are two by Victor Davis Hanson:

America Just Checked into Rehab   "Republicans should be willing to be demagogued by a weakened Obama as heartless and cruel budget cutters — even if the president may well be the ultimate beneficiary by being able to run on the new theme of fiscal responsibility and a recovering economy in 2012."

What the Election Was Not About  "So naturally he is angry and has turned to almost everything in the past that worked: the race card, the get-out-the-minority vote card, the enemy Republican bad actors, the greedy rich takers, etc. But now none of the old “them” bogeymen work; the more that tactic is tried, the more the economy stalls and the people get angry. It’s that simple. He can talk all he wishes, but until he offers fiscal responsibility, private sector encouragement, reassurance of adhering to singular American capitalism, and pro-jobs tax policies, he will continue more of these Orwellian, thinking-out-loud press conferences."

Five Reasons Unilateral Declaration of a Palestinian State Will Haunt the West

Big Peace  "The U.S. cannot afford for its one complete act in the Middle East to be the creation of a violent failed state. The American missions in Iraq and Afghanistan are far too important, complex, and precarious to be tossed away by a petulant Mahmoud Abbas and a guilt ridden, enabling Western Europe."

Mandate Challenge Could Prevail

ILYA SOMIN | TIMES-DISPATCH COLUMNIST   ""When 21 states and several private groups initiated lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health care law earlier this year, critics denounced the suits as frivolous political grandstanding. But it is increasingly clear that the plaintiffs have a serious case with a real chance of victory.

"The suits focus primarily on challenges to the new law's "individual mandate," which requires most American citizens to purchase a government-approved health insurance plan by 2014 or pay a fine."

Soros Group Says Progressives Won Midterms, Wants Obama to Rule by Executive Order…

Weasel Zippers "It was progressives who won the mid-term elections, particularly incumbents in a socialist-founded congressional caucus that emerged from last week’s ballots virtually unscathed, boasted an article published by the George Soros-funded Institute for Policy Studies, a Marxist-oriented think-tank in Washington, D.C.

"The article recommends that President Obama govern from executive order to push through a progressive agenda."

Stopping Judicial Imperialism / If judges are going to act like politicians, then they should be voted out like politicians.

Thomas Sowell "That is ultimately a question of deciding what kind of country this is to be — one ruled by “we the people,” or one where the notions of an arrogant elite are to be imposed, whether the people agree or not."

Mileage Rules Prompt Backlash .

Wall Street Journal  ""If the economics for high fuel-economy vehicles is so overwhelming, why do so few consumers today choose to buy high fuel-economy vehicles?" the letter asks.
"The alliance added that at the very least, the price of a car would increase $4,448 under the 62-mpg rule.
"The National Automobile Dealers Association warned that the "economic risks associated with such speculation are simply too great," and that the proposal could lead to job losses."

For businesses, no more 'go along to get along'  "Extreme mileage standards, backdoor CO2 regulations and overpriced electric cars that no one wants are all reflected in Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood's desire to "coerce people out of their cars."
"The government claims the proposed new rules "could raise the price of a model-year 2025 car by between $770 and $3,500 but that consumers would buy them because they would recoup that added expense through fuel savings.""

Patriots Versus Hateful Westboro Baptist Church Funeral Protesters…..Patriots Win!

Gateway Pundit "Hundreds of residents in Weston, Mo. — as well as people as far away as California and Australia– rallied in support of Sgt. First Class C.J. Sadell, who died from injuries suffered during a surprise attack in Afghanistan.
"The residents sought to block Fred Phelps, leader of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., and his followers from picketing Sadell’s funeral, according to the station."
Where they plan to picket next: Picket schedule

Obama's Ignorance of World Affairs on Full Display in India

American Thinker  "It's clear that the Obama foreign policy isn't based on sophistication or even a basic knowledge of world affairs. It's based purely on fatuous P.C. sentiments that meet with approval in faculty lounges, but are downright dangerous to American security in the real world."   Weasel Zippers photo

NATIONALIZING PENSION FUNDS

Neal Boortz   "The real reason? Unions. Yup .. there you go. Unions. You see many, if not most (perhaps all?) union plans are underfunded. Why? Well, maybe this is because union leaders, in love with their positions of power, spend too much from union dues to promote political candidates. Make that promote Democrat candidates. I haven't seen the study, but I am wondering how many of these pension plans would be in trouble if that money funneled to candidates was used instead to fund pensions?"

Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki trained Pentagon’s Muslim chaplains

Big Peace  "An Al-Qaeda cleric’s participation in training military chaplains is less surprising since the program itself was established by Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was tapped by the Defense Department to create the program and who hand-picked the first 16 Muslim chaplains for the military, was himself an Al-Qaeda operative. Alamoudi is currently serving a 23-year federal prison sentence.

"But what exactly happened to the Pentagon’s Muslim chaplains and lay staff that Anwar Al-Awlaki helped train and Abdurahman Alamoudi helped select is still unknown."

First US targeted assassination in Gaza pre-empts next Al Qaeda offensive

DEBKAfile "A missile fired from an American warship in the Mediterranean hit the car in which Muhammad Jamal A-Namnam, 27, was driving in the heart of Gaza City Wednesday, Nov. 3 and killed him, debkafile's exclusive counter-terror sources report. Namnam was an operational commander of the Army of Islam, Al-Qaeda's Palestinian cell in the Gaza Strip. He was on a mission on behalf of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – AQAP to plan, organize and execute the next wave of terrorist attacks on US targets after last week's air package bomb plot."

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