UNTANGLING THE SPAGHETTI By Mark Steyn

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/2341/26/ "If you expand the bureaucratic class and you expand the dependent class, you can put together a permanent electoral majority. By “dependent”, I don’t mean merely welfare, although that’s a good illustration of the general principle. In political terms, a welfare check is a twofer: you’re assuring the votes both of the welfare recipient and of the vast bureaucracy required to process his welfare. "

Gary Varvel Cartoon

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YOU FOLKS ARE ONLY GOING TO GET ONE SHOT AT THIS

Neal Boortz "...They only have to be lucky once. Just once if they can get some version of government health care passed, they'll be able to use that program -- as weak or strong as it may be - to chip away at the private sector year after year until control is complete. Those who believe in freedom - those who believe that the private sector can do the best job of delivering health care to the people (if the government would just get out of the way) are going to have to fight this battle time and time again. "

The illustrated guide to Obamacare human props

By Michelle Malkin http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/12/the-illustrated-guide-to-obamacare-human-props/ "Little Julia Hall is just the latest in-the-tank questioner with Obama campaign/Democrat ties to turn up “randomly” at presidential health care forums. Here’s your illustrated guide to Obamacare human props."

Obama Says Grandmother’s Hip Replacement Raises Cost Questions

Bloomberg "Obama said “you just get into some very difficult moral issues” when considering whether “to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill. " You can always let that, y'know, like, "panel" decide for you.

Trinkets that stick it to Obama start to sell

WashingtonTimes "You see it as a direct response to some of the promising messages that happened a year ago. Whereas we had the campaign of Obama centered around hope, and it was a very optimistic message, now they're asking: 'How's that hopey-changey thing going?' "

All Honor to Jefferson

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2009&month=05 "...Jefferson sought to rally the country around the principles of limited government. His First Inaugural Address reminded his fellow citizens that their happiness and prosperity rested upon a “wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.” This, he thought, was “the sum of good government”..."

Democracy in Danger: What States Can Do to Safeguard America's Election System

http://www.heritage.org/Research/GovernmentReform/hl1129.cfm "While there are some steps that only Congress and the federal government can take, these are improvements to voter registration and voting procedures that states can implement."

Hypocrisy Flashback: ‘It Is Political Dissent That Created This Country and Sustained It and Improved It.’

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2009/08/11/hypocrisy-flashback-it-political-dissent-created-country-sustained-it-im "PBS’s Bill Moyers in 2003 found it “galling” to see “all those moralistic ideologues in Washington...attacking dissenters as un-American.” In 2003, Olbermann saluted protests: “It is political dissent that created this country and sustained it and improved it.” "

Obama: "I don't find Canadians particularly scary."

http://townhall.com/blog/g/71666e73-7539-456c-83c8-f79a23f678e8 Neither do we; its their national health care that scares the bejeebers out of us.

Drop the Investigation of CIA Interrogators

By Andrew C. McCarthy http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGExNzdjMTMyODc4NTRhMmU3MzllMGZhZDNiZDRmMTI= "The CIA interrogators are having a rougher time with prosecutors than did the Black Panthers. They are retaining counsel and preparing for a lengthy investigation that likely will prove personally and professionally ruinous."

Premature Panic in Afghanistan? By Max Boot

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/75802 "Note the lack of quote marks around any statement in the lead or in the headline. If General Stan McChrystal had actually said “the Taliban are winning,” why did the Journal rely on a paraphrase? Turns out because he didn’t actually say it."