APPALLING IGNORANCE: these people make the laws we must live under

Astute Blogger "The Preamble of our Constitution reads as follows:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

"The Fourteenth Amendment is HERE. Excerpt:

...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...

"Apparently, Congressman John Lewis does not comprehend the document he took an oath to uphold."

Lewis no stranger to anti-conservative comments

Washington Post Now Not Even Trying To Hide Its Hatred Of Sarah Palin

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion "Rarely do we get such a clear example of the bias of the mainstream media and the extent to which it fears and hates Sarah Palin.
"But since she is "not electable" because of this media bias, we should throw Palin overboard and demand she not run and not be taken seriously by Republican voters, right?
"Because Dana Milbank and the Editors of The Washington Post get to pick our candidates, right?"

Glenn McCoy, Townhall

The Barack Hussein Obama 2011 State of the Union Drinking Game!

Cagle Blog  NEEDED TO PLAY:

• Four taxpayers of any sex: One rich, white banker- type wearing dark suit with loosened tie. Two ordinary folks wearing jeans; one in a blue or flannel work shirt, the other in a white shirt, sleeves rolled up. One poor, bedraggled person wearing clothes that look like they were retrieved from the bottom of a rodeo dumpster behind the animal-performer stalls.

• One living room with a TV tuned to the State of the Union Address...

Czechs Demonstrate Against the Persecution of Christians

Big Peace  "A line of renowned speakers was headed by Prague’s Catholic Archbishop who used the words “well-planned extermination amounting to genocide” and reminded the audience that “the map of the democratic world is identical with Biblical civilization”. He welcomed the participation of “our brothers of the Mosaic faith” who opened the meeting with blasts of the shofar (the ancient Biblical ram’s horn). The Archbishop emphasized that anti-Christianism and anti-Semitism were now closely related and that Christians and Jews must support each other."

No way Olbermann's firing means MSNBC is moving to the right, um, is it?

Newsbusters  "When you look at MSNBC's new prime time lineup, you certainly can't conclude this is the last move:"
•"Hardball" at 5PM
•Cenk Uygur as substitute host of an un-named show at 6PM
•"Hardball" at 7PM
•"The Last Word" at 8PM
•"Rachel Maddow Show" at 9PM
•"The Ed Show" at 10PM
....
"In time slot after time slot, MSNBC continues to get killed by Fox News in the ratings often getting as little as one quarter the viewers of its right-leaning rival. Since the moment the merger was announced months ago, people in the industry have speculated what a new ownership team would do about this."  Notice how often MSNBC gets promoted in NBC shows such as "Law and Order"?

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Abruptly Calls It Quits

Was Olbermann a “victim of his own success”?

Krauthammer Attacks Media's 'Bogus' Call for Civility: Where Were They When Bush was Being Called Hitler?

Newsbusters  " "The worst in uncivil discourse that we have had in the last decade occurred in the Bush years when the President was vilified, attacked, he was demonized, compared to Nazis," he told Chris Wallace on Fox News's "Special Report." "I do not remember the Times or the mainstream media all of a sudden wagging a finger and pulling a chin about the rise of uncivil discourse at the time" "


Megyn Kelly Pushes Back When Guest Compares Rep. Cohen’s “Nazi” Comments To Fox News Hosts  "As the Washington Post pointed out, Kelly then asked Socarides if cable hosts’ words should be compared to the words of a member of Congress on the floor of the House."

US Warns China on North Korea Policy

GlobalSecurity.org  "According to the unidentified U.S. official, Mr. Obama said, if Beijing does not help curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions, the United States will have to realign its forces to protect against a possible North Korean strike on American soil."
I say good for President Obama if he means it and sticks to his guns, er-oops, too violent an expression. The Tunnel Wall sincerely apologizes for using that term. But remember that Obama's base considers the ChiComs as good, U.S.- bad.


The Ball Is in America’s Court for Improving China-U.S. Military Relations From China

Hu Jintao’s Visit and the South China Sea: “Whose/Hu’s Core Interests?”  "Understanding what China wants to be in Asia and globally is a foundational question for U.S. policymakers. It is a question shared by our treaty allies in Asia—Australia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand—as well as the rest of Southeast Asia." From Jan 11, 2011

Chip Bok, WorldMag

California Planning to Outlaw Fishing? (Updated)

Bully Pulpit  "California's trying to take the lead on marine protection with a new, and controversial, plan to ban or restrict fishing all along its Pacific coast. One of the excuses used to justify the new, over-reaching laws? Wait for it... Global Climate Change!"

Big Deer Blog

Remember PETA and the Sea Kittens?  "We've got it from here. And we're going to start by retiring the old name for good. When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving a hook through your head, it's time for a serious image makeover. And who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?" 

PETA Attempts To Make Fish More Adorable  ""PETA thought that by renaming fish sea kittens, compassionate people who would never dream of hurting a dog or a cat might extend that sympathy to fish, or sea kittens," PETA campaign coordinator Ashley Byrne says.
"Byrne says that rebranding fish as sea kittens was obvious."
And these people vote.

Animal Rights group's Latest Pigheaded Victory Causes Problems  "Many corpsmen will face a time when he or she will have to pack a gunshot wound, stop a bleeding artery, or cut into a fellow soldier to restore a breathing airway. It is during the first attempts at such procedures that most mistakes are made. I'd rather see it happen on a pig than on one of our military men or women."

House Republicans offer own healthcare legislation

LA Times  "The House passed a resolution Thursday instructing GOP committee chairs to write legislation that meets 12 criteria, including lowering premium costs, assuring access to coverage for people with preexisting conditions and increasing the number of insured Americans, all without raising taxes."

Should Have Listened to George

http://www.newsbusters.org/cartoons

The Post-Tucson Era

Victor Davis Hanson  "Hillary Clinton was especially embarrassed: one day she was sermonizing on foreign soil in morally equivalent fashion about an American version of an “extremist”; the next day, her boss told the world that the only thing extreme about the killer was his own nihilistic madness (and by implication damned those vultures [e.g., Ms. Clinton included] who clumsily try to make political points from tragedy)."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/bobgorrell

Paul Ryan To Give GOP State Of The Union Response

Rep. Paul Ryan

Ace of Spades   "A very good choice I'd say. Ryan is an up and coming star who is now head of the House Budget Committee, so yeah, fiscal issues are going to be the main thrust of his talk.
"The last time Ryan went up against Obama was at the "Health Care Summit" and he pretty much schooled him. "