More "hope" and "change"

Complaint hits Rezko land deal.

George Will

On the "fairness doctrine" ...

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Week 14.

The UK creeps towards totalitarianism

Absolutely frightening.

JEB Bush to run for Senate in 2010?

Mel Martinez is retiring, so this is a perfect opportunity.

Saxby Chambliss wins!

Thank God for Georgia.

Pat Buchanan

On the economy.

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Week 13.

Derb Radio

On public school education, piracy, and Afghanistan.

Mark Halperin Decries "Disgusting" Pro-Obama Media Bias In Election Coverage

It's a little too late now, asshole!

McCain sabotaged his own campaign

Just so that he wouldn't be accused of playing the race card. Of course, that didn't stop the Left from accusing McCain of playing the race card anyway...

Found outside a local shopping center


Yes they did!

The American Sheeple

Frightening:

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday.

Ordinary citizens did not fare much better, scoring just 49 percent correct on the 33 exam questions compiled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).

"It is disturbing enough that the general public failed ISI's civic literacy test, but when you consider the even more dismal scores of elected officials, you have to be concerned," said Josiah Bunting, chairman of the National Civic Literacy Board at ISI.

Read the whole thing.

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Week 12.

"Media Malpractice"

Documentary reveals how little Obama voters knew about issues.

Chris Dodd

Pwned.

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Week 11.

Rabid homosexual mob attacks helpless elderly woman



If they find the political climate in California to be so "oppressive," perhaps they'd prefer living in Iran or Saudi Arabia?

Write something negative about "The One" and get investigated

What is this, Russia?

Al Franken stealing Senate election in Minnesota

Disgusting.

Ken Blackwell column

On "Affirmative Action."

Michael Barone column

He makes mention of Obama's unethical fundraising tactics:

[Obama] used his unprecedented ability to raise money by breaking his promise to take federal funds and by disabling the address verification system that would have screened out many illegal credit card contributions.

Once all the facts are known, this will be a major scandal. Mark my words.

Oregon town elects nation's first transgender mayor

He/she/it is a Democrat, natch:



Talk about "change" ...

The Washington Post admits they were biased in favor of Obama

No shit. Too bad they didn't have the guts/honestly/integrity to admit this until after Election Day.

Rahm Emanuel is insane

From The New York Times:

The best Rahm Emanuel story is not the one about the decomposing two-and-a-half-foot fish he sent to a pollster who displeased him. It is not about the time - the many times - that he hung up on political contributors in a Chicago mayor's race, saying he was embarrassed to accept their $5,000 checks because they were $25,000 kind of guys. No, the definitive Rahm Emanuel story takes place in Little Rock, Ark., in the heady days after Bill Clinton was first elected President.

It was there that Emanuel, then Clinton's chief fund-raiser, repaired with George Stephanopoulos, Mandy Grunwald and other aides to Doe's, the campaign hangout. Revenge was heavy in the air as the group discussed the enemies - Democrats, Republicans, members of the press - who wronged them during the 1992 campaign. Clifford Jackson, the ex-friend of the President and peddler of the Clinton draft-dodging stories, was high on the list. So was William Donald Schaefer, then the Governor of Maryland and a Democrat who endorsed George Bush. Nathan Landow, the fund-raiser who backed the candidacy of Paul Tsongas, made it, too.

Suddenly Emanuel grabbed his steak knife and, as those who were there remeber it, shouted out the name of another enemy, lifted the knife, then brought it down with full force into the table.

''Dead!'' he screamed.

The group immediately joined in the cathartic release: ''Nat Landow! Dead! Cliff Jackson! Dead! Bill Schaefer! Dead!''

Hope and change?

Election prompts extra security at Palm Bay school

From the article:

PALM BAY – Police officers turned up at Bayside High this morning after concerns for a potential politically tinged confrontation spurred on by Tuesday’s presidential election.

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The concern began during the breakfast hour in the cafeteria when a number of students loudly chanted the name of President-elect Barack Obama repeatedly before being quieted.

What is not mentioned in the article is that the chanting was being done by black students who were apparently taunting and attempting to provoke some of the White students in the cafeteria. This was a potential race-riot in the making, according to my sources. Yet the Florida Today decided not to report that, for some reason.

I wonder why?

Welcome to the Obama economy

U. S. Stocks Tumble In Market's Worst Two-Day Slump Since 1987.

LOL

Much truth is said in jest.

Stocks plunge as investors ponder Obama presidency

It's 1933 all over again. Wake me when Germany Russia invades Poland.

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Week Ten.

Obama supporter admits to CNN he voted multiple times in Pennsylvania



I hope for his sake the ballots were printed out in Ebonics.

President Barack Hussein Obama



Oh, goody.

Confirmation of Obama goon tactics



Expect more of this if Obama wins. Like, four years of it.

Obama goons openly wielding weapons outside polling place in Philadelphia!



Are those Black Panthers???

Obama's family in Kenya celebrate (prematurely) by slaughtering bulls, sheep, chickens, and goats

From the article:

There's only thing to take to a Kenyan election victory feast: a goat. Preferably still breathing - “a sign of freshness“ - and with big testicles, apparently the sign of quality breeding.

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“This is a fine animal,” said Abongo Malik Obama, at the lush family homestead in the far west of Kenya, surrounded by grazing cattle and fields thick with maize. “You are certainly welcome now to stay and sit around the fire tonight.” By then John will be nyama choma - the Swahili term for grilled meat.

He was to be only one small part of a vast celebration feast starting last night and comprising four bulls, 16 chickens and assorted sheep and goats.

“We are Africans, so our plan is to slaughter a bull and have friends come over,” said Abongo, the candidate’s oldest half-brother.

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Children rehearsed their songs ahead of a party being held at a neighbouring school, the Senator Barack Obama Secondary School, while gospel music pumped from a marquee where priests were praying for victory.

Abongo, sitting in front of the tin-roofed shack that once belonged to Obama’s father, a government economist who died in a car accident more than two decades ago, said dozens of family members had congregated for a historic event.

Somehow I don't think "The One" will be feasting on grilled goat tonight. "Let them eat goat," and all that.

Obama praises "gracious" media

More like "sycophantic" ...

Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers, and Barack Hussein Obama all vote at the same precinct!

Birds of a feather...

Toledo police brace for possible "civil unrest"

In other words, local law enforcement officials expect the city's blacks to riot if McCain wins.

Democrats stealing election in Philadelphia

This isn't a good sign...

Vin Suprynowicz endorses McCain-Palin

Great column.

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At Blogcritics.

Obama seeks to "bankrupt" coal industry!

Unbelievable.

Left-wing homosexual activist and talk radio show host calls for the death of "Joe The Plumber"

More proof that leftists are insane.

Iowahawk

Hilarious, as usual.

Obama in 2012

A look back.

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Week 9.

Obama's Aunt An Illegal Alien!

You can't make this stuff up!

Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign

The study also found that "the first half of Fox News Channel's "Special Report" with Brit Hume showed more balance than any of the network broadcasters."

Obama's Coming Caracas on the Potomac

This is an appropriate post for Halloween, because it's downright scary.

How much has Obama raised...

...in illegal campaign contributions from foreigners? It could be quite a lot.

Al Qaeda Endorses Obama!

News you likely won't hear on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, or NBC, or read in the NYT, LAT, WaPo, or USA Today.

Obama’s ‘Redistributive Change’ and the Death of Freedom

Great column.

Leftists are insane

Proof.

Slate writers voting 55-1 for Obama over McCain

But I'm sure they try hard to be objective...

Obama Family Values

Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango.

Media's Presidential Bias and Decline

A superb column by Michael S. Malone.

“I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me.”

That a direct quote from Barack Hussein Obama.

Venezuela's Chavez wants to jail rival

Not at all surprising, to anyone who's been paying attention.

Most Voters Say News Media Wants Obama to Win

Results of a Pew poll:

Voters overwhelmingly believe that the media wants Barack Obama to win the presidential election. By a margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want to see Obama, not John McCain, win on Nov. 4.

Alternate headline: "Nine percent of Americans completely fucking clueless" ...

Neal Boortz

To The Undecided Voter.

Biden: Obama Ready for Armageddon Showdown He Will Provoke

Hilarious.

Obama to offer "street money" for votes in Philadelphia?

Hope and change, for sure.

Bill Ayers

Communist.

Iran prefers Obama

Gee, I wonder why...

Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?

A must-read column.

Study: McCain coverage mostly negative

No shit.

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Week Eight.

Pat Buchanan Column

Definitely worth a read.

No National Anthem At Obama Event In New Hampshire

The singing of the national anthem was "scratched" in order to make room for another speaker.

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Week 7.

Central Florida 7th grader called "racist" for wearing Palin t-shirt!

Unbelievable.

Late-Night Comics Skewer Republicans 7-to-1, Study Finds

I'm surprised it was that close.

Howard Stern exposes the cluelessness of some Obama supporters

Pathetic.

On Columbus Day, Google Honors Paddington-Fucking-Bear

I love this comment:

I'm glad someone else notices this stuff like I did. Google did the same thing on June 6, 2008 but to me it was even worse than today.

June 6th is of course is the remembrance of D-Day and all the men that died there fighting for our freedom. So instead of posting something to remember D-Day, Google posted the birthday of Diego Velázquez — Born: June 6, 1599. That's right, the famous painter!

I'm not sure if Google does this to be completely hard left and go out of the way to avoid anything that's considered remotely patriotic, or if they are just trying to be as snooty as possible.

Would you be so kind as to pass me the wine and cheese please, I'm admiring this eloquant painting by Diego Velázquez...

Happy Columbus Day Google!

Maybe on January 15th, 2009, Google will celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of The Pentagon (1943) or the playing of the first Super Bowl (1967) or the declaration of independence by the Vermont Republic (1777) instead of MLK's birthday (1929)...but somehow I doubt it.

Obama's 95% Illusion

I've been saying this for weeks:

One of Barack Obama's most potent campaign claims is that he'll cut taxes for no less than 95% of "working families." He's even promising to cut taxes enough that the government's tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% -- which is lower than it is today.

It's a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he's also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of "tax cut."

For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase "tax credit."

...

Here's the political catch. All but the clean car credit would be "refundable," which is Washington-speak for the fact that you can receive these checks even if you have no income-tax liability. In other words, they are an income transfer -- a federal check -- from taxpayers to nontaxpayers. Once upon a time we called this "welfare," or in George McGovern's 1972 campaign a "Demogrant." Mr. Obama's genius is to call it a tax cut.

The Tax Foundation estimates that under the Obama plan 63 million Americans, or 44% of all tax filers, would have no income tax liability and most of those would get a check from the IRS each year. The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis estimates that by 2011, under the Obama plan, an additional 10 million filers would pay zero taxes while cashing checks from the IRS.

The total annual expenditures on refundable "tax credits" would rise over the next 10 years by $647 billion to $1.054 trillion, according to the Tax Policy Center. This means that the tax-credit welfare state would soon cost four times actual cash welfare. By redefining such income payments as "tax credits," the Obama campaign also redefines them away as a tax share of GDP. Presto, the federal tax burden looks much smaller than it really is.

Obama lies, and the MSM buys. But the facts tell a different story.

Many convicted felons remain on Florida voter rolls

From the article:

More than 30,000 Florida felons who by law should have been stripped of their right to vote remain registered to cast ballots in this presidential battleground state, a Sun Sentinel investigation has found.

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Of the felons who registered with a party, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one.

Convicted felons are more likely to support Democrats? Gee, who would have thought...

Obama vs. Free Speech

Great column by Michael Barone.

Barack Obama and Raila Odinga



Yet another troubling relationship that the junior Senator from Illinois has yet to fully explain.

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Week Six.

Fury over cat eating festival

Apparently some Peruvians eat cats. I'm with PETA (sorta) on this one.

Obama money from foreigners could total $3.3 million

Or more:

The $3.3 million total does not include donors who have given less than $200 and whose contributions do not have to be itemized. Some of that money could also have come from overseas. About half of Obama's $455 million in contributions so far are unitemized. The campaign does not identify those donors.

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod, speaking to reporters en route to Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, noted that anyone can donate to the campaign through the Internet. "We monitor these things as best we can," he said.

Republican John McCain's campaign lists all his donors, even those who give less than $200, on his Web site.

I wonder just how much of Obama's record fundraising total comes from foreigners who hate America?

"Affirmative Action" is just discrimination against Whites and Asians

Proof.

The New National Anthem?



Yeah, we're fucked.

Chris Matthews

Possibly gay for Obama.

It Be Racism!

Black Congressmen declare "racism" in Palin’s rhetoric...

Do Facts Matter?

Great column on the housing and financial crises by Thomas Sowell.

Liberals Rethink Free Speech

The First Amendment, under assault by Obama and co.

Boy, 7, goes on killing spree in zoo

Can you say "future serial killer?"

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Week Five.

Gwen Ifill

Completely in the tank for Obama.

George Will

Another great column.

Missouri Governor Matt Blunt issues a statement on the Obama campaign's abusive use of law enforcement

The statement:

“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.

“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.

“Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts - not a free society.”

Apparently Obama wants to imprison his critics. That's the sort of thing a dictator does. Not exactly the kind of "change" I can believe in...

The Illustrated Road To Serfdom

Here.

The Ant and the Grasshopper

2008 edition.

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Week Four.

Obama campaign tries to silence the NRA

Apparently Obama doesn't respect the Second Amendment or the First Amendment...

Police May Stop Responding To Some Crimes

Oh, that's just great.

Tony Blankley column

Media covering for Obama.

Ann Coulter column

On the housing crisis:

This crisis was caused by political correctness being forced on the mortgage lending industry in the Clinton era.

Before the Democrats' affirmative action lending policies became an embarrassment, the Los Angeles Times reported that, starting in 1992, a majority-Democratic Congress "mandated that Fannie and Freddie increase their purchases of mortgages for low-income and medium-income borrowers. Operating under that requirement, Fannie Mae, in particular, has been aggressive and creative in stimulating minority gains."

Under Clinton, the entire federal government put massive pressure on banks to grant more mortgages to the poor and minorities. Clinton's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, investigated Fannie Mae for racial discrimination and proposed that 50 percent of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's portfolio be made up of loans to low- to moderate-income borrowers by the year 2001.

Instead of looking at "outdated criteria," such as the mortgage applicant's credit history and ability to make a down payment, banks were encouraged to consider nontraditional measures of credit-worthiness, such as having a good jump shot or having a missing child named "Caylee."

Threatening lawsuits, Clinton's Federal Reserve demanded that banks treat welfare payments and unemployment benefits as valid income sources to qualify for a mortgage. That isn't a joke -- it's a fact.

When Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches, political correctness was given a veto over sound business practices.

In 1999, liberals were bragging about extending affirmative action to the financial sector. Los Angeles Times reporter Ron Brownstein hailed the Clinton administration's affirmative action lending policies as one of the "hidden success stories" of the Clinton administration, saying that "black and Latino homeownership has surged to the highest level ever recorded."

Meanwhile, economists were screaming from the rooftops that the Democrats were forcing mortgage lenders to issue loans that would fail the moment the housing market slowed and deadbeat borrowers couldn't get out of their loans by selling their houses.

A decade later, the housing bubble burst and, as predicted, food-stamp-backed mortgages collapsed. Democrats set an affirmative action time-bomb and now it's gone off.

In Bush's first year in office, the White House chief economist, N. Gregory Mankiw, warned that the government's "implicit subsidy" of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, combined with loans to unqualified borrowers, was creating a huge risk for the entire financial system.

Rep. Barney Frank denounced Mankiw, saying he had no "concern about housing." How dare you oppose suicidal loans to people who can't repay them! The New York Times reported that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were "under heavy assault by the Republicans," but these entities still had "important political allies" in the Democrats.

Now, at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, middle-class taxpayers are going to be forced to bail out the Democrats' two most important constituent groups: rich Wall Street bankers and welfare recipients.

Political correctness had already ruined education, sports, science and entertainment. But it took a Democratic president with a Democratic congress for political correctness to wreck the financial industry.

Of course, Obama and his allies in the MSM are spinning this as all Phil Gramm's fault...

Al Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants

This guy is simply batshit crazy.