Poor Richard's News

So what did Polanski actually do?
Warning. It's bad.

So Rublicans are angry that Obama and Oprah used Air Force 1 to fly halfway around the world in one of the most crucial points in American history to talk about the Olympics. It's interesting that only Republicans are angry about it because it seems like pretty much every should be angry.
By the way, the trip cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.5 million
UPDATE: flight-hours will be $1.5 mill. Total trip cost: $10 million?

More school kids singing praises
"mmm mmm mmm, this is really scary"

GLOBAL WARMING ALERT!!!
Coldest winter in quite some time in New England

The gov't hard at work
pardon the pun

Year round school
surrendering the youth vote

Public Option looking bleaker and bleaker
right direction

Violent Chicago gang murder caught on tape.
terrible

So much for freedom of the press
Olympics

Don't you know that Gibbs must get tired of defending this guy?
dirty job

Even after the G20, we should fear the violent right?
good call

Hollywooders say that more than 80% of the country supports obamacare
give or take 40%

The gov't should force you to have exhaustive electronic health records available to them.
Oh, and by exhaustive, I mean except for records regarding abortions and STDs.
This sounds both fair and constitutional.
Ugh

Andy Williams gets it right
"Obama...wants the country to fail"

Collapse of Liberalism
fingers crossed...

The more I think about the staggering amount of damage done by a small group of radicals who happen to be in charge, the more I am optimistic that the United States will reposition itself as a conservative country in the long run. Just like the old frog-in-a-pot analogy, when Americans see so much progressivism manifest itself at once, they're likely to jump out as fast as they went in.

Turns out Joe Wilson was right
shocker

A liberal bastion mag being sold
It's about 'time'

NYT is biased?
I don't believe it

Iran, you can either choose to disarm peacefully or you can choose to continue attaining nuclear weapons and face absolutely no consequences.
Now what's it gonna be?

Washington Post bias
yep yep

How 'bout that youth unemployment
aww yeah

The Dems blew a golden opportunity to live up to at least one of their campaign promises: transparency. Senator Jim Bunning (R., KY.) offered up an amendment that would make any health care amendment public for 72 hours before voting. This way, the public and the legislature could have time to, you know, read it and, uh, actually know what's being voted on. Sounds ludicrous, I know. Anywho, in a shocking turn of events, the dems appear to have been disingenuous in regards to their promise of transparency as they voted down the measure in committee, 12-11, with only one dem defecting. To add insult to injury, the "honorable" Senator Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) said that Senator Bunning's proposed bill was nothing more than a stalling tactic used by government run health care opponents. He claims making the bill public would do no good as only 5% of the public would actually be able to understand its legalese.

Hey Mr. Conrad, EXACTLY THE PROBLEM. What makes you think something this complicated will work?
Shameless

There have got to be tears welling up in Nancy's eyes at all the lefty protest violence.
Yet no one seems to want to report on it.
Death of the Media

Gadhafi: Obama should 'Stay forever as president'
a recurring nightmare

Iran with a second nuke plant
not shocking but scary

Dems like Czars
apparently

'The Onion' makes fun of Reagan's Alzheimer's
Onions stink and may make you cry

Apparently this NEA/White House thing has been going on for quite some time
The list of grantees
More details

What Bias?
90% think media helped Obama win the election
Ya think?

Obama "Safe School Czar" covered up pedophilia:
Disgusting

from FOX NEWS:

President Obama's "safe schools czar" is a former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, expressed his contempt for religion and detailed an incident in which he did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men.

British media call out Obama on his rudeness to our allies:
Fed Up

Czech president sees Obama's UN speech exactly for what it is:
Propaganda

Fidel Castro sings high praise to Obama:
Good Company

Not out of the woods yet-  home sales decline:
Uh Oh

Further indoctrination of our children into the Obama youth:
Frightening

TARP inspector general frustrated by lack of transparency in bailout procedures:
What did he expect?

Pelosi digs her heels in, insists on a public option without a trigger:
Why are all those people outside yelling?

Obama follows Bush's lead on indefinite detention without charges for terror suspects:
Hope and change, anyone?

Obama administration attempts to cover up ACORN/big labor connection:
Transparency!

NEA scrubbs "health care resource" from their website:
More coverups

Well, the stars are out and they're in strait up propaganda mode. Why is it that the people with the most money and the least connection with reality have the most contempt for freedom?

Dave Matthews thinks you're a racist
"...Look in the mirror, my friend."

George Clooney and Matt Damon to make a super-duper accurate movie about Gitmo
ironically they could play this movie to torture the detainees

And Will Farrell, who averages $20 million per movie, thinks insurance execs make too much
hypocrite

Obamapalooza
ugh

The NEA in trouble again...
White House connection
More

Stein rips Carville a new one
Bueller...Bueller...

Obama gives Paterson some concrete shoes
Chicago Style

A crooked Obamanite?
No. Way.

Speaking of Corruption...
SEUI

NEA=ACORN=Obama=SEIU
shocker

Coverage in the Times?
Two Miles

What will Obamacare look like?
Britain

Gerald Walpin - a few days back
Still at it

GLOBAL WARMING ALERT!!!
Snow. Already.

A lot of the focus on President Obama's new Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein has centered on the absurd notion that animals should have the right to attorney, but aside from this radical and ridiculous idea, Poor Richard's News thinks a more dangerous idea can be found Sunstein's 2006 paper written for the Yale Law Journal.

"Beyond Marbury: The Executive's Power to Say What The Law Is"

"There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by the inclinations and predispositions of federal judges. The outcome should instead depend on the commitments and beliefs of the President and those who operate under him,"

Clearly Sunstein's paper advocates a circumvention of our legal system in favor of a grossly empowered Executive branch.  Notice he says "the President and those who operate under him."  In his own words, Sunstein believes HE should be able to interpret the law. 

Read the paper for yourself:

http://yalelawjournal.org/images/pdfs/113.pdf

Somedays the media reports on the fireman rescuing the treed cat. But some days, you have this:

Iran can make the bomb
Scary

And Obama cuts missile defense
seems like a well-thought-out strategy

The good news? House votes to defund ACORN
yay

The bad news? They decided to take over student loans
ugh

As an aside, here's what's wrong with the bill:

Sure, it might save the taxpayers money, but that's only relative to what we have now. The smart thing would have been to get OUT of student loans altogether. Never back a loan. Get your greedy hands out of the system. Economists agree that the reason tuition is so high is because the government is involved. If a bank knows that, regardless of the student's success, they will be reimbursed by the feds, then they are more than willing to give unsecured loans. Furthermore, if a university knows this, then they know they can charge whatever they want for tuition. The entire problem was created by the government but, once again, they look like they are saving taxpayers money. More government intervention is NOT the solution. It's nothing but a shell game.

Pelosi warns of politcal violence.
Wait. Wasn't she the one who called conservatives Nazis?
hypocrite

Another ACORN vid
shameful

Try as he might, Obama can't shake off his obvious ties to ACORN
nuts

CNN and Time hate Glenn Beck
Kind of funny when you look at the ratings
idiots

Fringe climate psychos ticked that the Earth isn't heating up anymore
It's almost like there's another agenda here.
hmmm...

The feds control the banks, student loans, the car companies, countless other bailout companies and soon health care. But at least they're not invading your privacy.
Wait, they're tracking your computer too.
Dang.

I am a huge college football fan. Years ago, in college football, when a team ran a reverse, it would almost inevitably gain at least 15 yards. Defenses weren't fast enough in recognizing it or containing it and before they knew what hit them, the ball carrier was in the back field running track. Defenses today, however, are much faster, more prepared and more disciplined. They have to be prepared for countless offensive looks at a moment's notice. Consequently, the reverse is old news. Sure, it might grace the pages of a few playbooks but, chances are, it'll never be used.
Let's take this analogy and apply it to politics. Remember when liberals, who were losing arguments based on fact and principles, could always, in a panicked state, scream "racist" and conservatives would back down? After all, who wants to be called a racist? However, the problem for libs is that times have changed and that play doesn't work anymore. It's actually been quite comical in recent months to hear the accusations of racism made by desperate libs who find themselves losing every battle they face. Yet they continue to run the same, tired play over and over. Let's look some examples from the past couple of days:

Jimmy Carter says most Obama criticism is racist. MOST. What?
No censure of Wilson then KKK will rule. LOL. Literally. LOL
You crazy teapartiers.
Bill Maher to Drudge. This is another gem of ridiculousness.

Shhh. Don't tell them, but it's not working anymore.
See?

And in other news...

Oympia Snowe finally does something right
it's about time

I wish I had the opportunity for being rebuked by congress for telling the truth
Thank you, Wilson

Obama demonizes dissenters
I remember when it was patriotic

What Bias?
Mark Levin's Book still not reviewed by the NYT
hilarious

More crap from the NYT
shameless

Senate votes to stop all funding for ACORN
Why? They seem like good, upstanding folks.
Proof

83-7; 9 didn't vote
Who were the Nays?

And the media is really getting the word out about it
well, they probably thought about getting the word out

Case in point
Gold, Charlie Gibson. Pure Gold.

"It’s entirely possible — nay, likely — that Obama will lose on all three big issues."
fingers crossed

Huffington Post's unconstitutional views about conservative media
almost unbelievable

What Speech?
Polls

9-11 museum to contain hijacker perspective.
PC-ness run amok

How is it possible that 39% of the population think that the deficit is fine?
Head in sand

On a different note:
Where's Al Sharpton?
Shameful

Grounds after 912 Rally:


Grounds after Obama's Inauguration:




 

There are too many great videos to embed them all.  Here's some links for your viewing enjoyment:

Complete CSPAN coverage of entire rally:
http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2009/09/12/HP/R/23055/Conservatives+to+march+on+Washington.aspx

Crowd gathers and sings "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0wCSDL2Qvk

"Angry Mob"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QtK6BxUfqA

Time Lapse of the march:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoPud1TeubM

NBC is shocked at the turnout:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBKhBAc4-CE&feature=related

Great footage from the whole day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VMXz6xGeqc

CBS's coverage of the "Angry Crowd" actually looks awesome:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5306095n&tag=related;photovideo

Britain's Daily Mail now reporting up to 2 million showed up:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213056/Up-million-march-US-Capitol-protest-Obamas-spending-tea-party-demonstration.html

NY Times downplays numbers but still admits
"the magnitude of the rally took the authorities by surprise"

Glenn Beck asks if we can find 56 people in Congress to stand up.
http://www.breitbart.tv/put-the-country-first-glenn-becks-9-12-message/

I'm updating this post as I find more info/photos

Can't...argue...facts
Racist!

Obama lied in a speech?
surprise

Pro-Life activist shot and killed
terrible

one. point. three. trillion. dollar. deficit. (thats trillion, with a 't')
change

ACORN corrupt?
I'll never believe it

STILL ignoring facts. Resorting to namecalling.
Wait. That's all the left has.

Over the past few days, much has been made of the resignation of the radical, "green jobs czar", Van Jones. But apart from the right-leaning political blogs, virtually all coverage was spun to make Jones appear like an innocent victim. And, as usual, facts and logic have been abandoned for name-calling and outrageous defenses. Among this pathetic display of bias, this CNN guest lamented that anytime a liberal says something controversial, they're "labeled as a radical"; As if he only made one, off-hand remark ten years ago. Another example: this MSNBC guest decides to ignore the evidence and kill the messenger. Even this article in the 'unbiased' Politico defends the vetting process and portrays Van Jones as an innocent bystander who was the scapegoat of mean republicans. I would mention how NBC, ABC and CBS spun it but they really didn't cover it. Inevitably, when Van Jones' statements and actions were discussed in the MSM, they were incomplete and vehemently defended by 'journalists' as if they were the accused.

In the past, this sort of blatantly biased tactic would have been discouraging to conservatives. Not anymore. In fact, conservatives have banded together more in these last tyrannical months than at any time in the history of these United States. In part because we understand the freedom at stake but also because we now understand the depravity of the tactics of the fringe left. We've identified it and now know that we can and will stop it. It's only a matter of time.
Gone are the days when the left would scream racism and the right would cower. Gone are the days when name-calling won debates. Gone are the days when the mainstream media were the only source of news to a gullible public. Gone are the days when conservatives wouldn't protest. Gone are the days when the Constitution of the United States of America wasn't revered. We have the facts on our side. We have logic on our side. We have the Constitution on our side and, perhaps most importantly, we have more to fight for. Don't become complacent. Be bold. We will be victorious.

• 56 iterations of "I"
• 19 iterations of "school"
• 10 iterations of "education"
• 8 iterations of "responsibility"
• 7 iterations of "country"
• 5 iterations each of "parents", "teachers"
• 3 iterations of "nation"

Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama

Back to School Event

Arlington, Virginia

September 8, 2009

The President: Hello everyone - how's everybody doing today? I'm here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we've got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. I'm glad you all could join us today.

I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it's your first day in a new school, so it's understandable if you're a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now, with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade you're in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer, and you could've stayed in bed just a little longer this morning.

I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn't have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday - at 4:30 in the morning.

Now I wasn't too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, I'd fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I'd complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster."

So I know some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I'm here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I'm here because I want to talk with you about your education and what's expected of all of you in this new school year.

Now I've given a lot of speeches about education. And I've talked a lot about responsibility.

I've talked about your teachers' responsibility for inspiring you, and pushing you to learn.

I've talked about your parents' responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don't spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox.

I've talked a lot about your government's responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren't working where students aren't getting the opportunities they deserve.

But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world - and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.

And that's what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.

Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.

Maybe you could be a good writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor - maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine - but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice, but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.

And no matter what you want to do with your life - I guarantee that you'll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You're going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can't drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You've got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.

And this isn't just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.

You'll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You'll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You'll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.

We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don't do that - if you quit on school - you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country.

Now I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.

I get it. I know what that's like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn't fit in.

So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been. I did some things I'm not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.

But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn't have much. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.

Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don't have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job, and there's not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don't feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren't right.

But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life - what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home - that's no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That's no excuse for not trying.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

That's what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.

Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn't speak English when she first started school. Hardly anyone in her hometown went to college, and neither of her parents had gone either. But she worked hard, earned good grades, got a scholarship to Brown University, and is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being Dr. Jazmin Perez.

I'm thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who's fought brain cancer since he was three. He's endured all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer - hundreds of extra hours - to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind, and he's headed to college this fall.

And then there's Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods, she managed to get a job at a local health center; start a program to keep young people out of gangs; and she's on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.

Jazmin, Andoni and Shantell aren't any different from any of you. They faced challenges in their lives just like you do. But they refused to give up. They chose to take responsibility for their education and set goals for themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same.

That's why today, I'm calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education - and to do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending time each day reading a book. Maybe you'll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you'll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all kids deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you'll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines, I hope you'll all wash your hands a lot, and stay home from school when you don't feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.

Whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.

I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work — that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you're not going to be any of those things.

But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won't love every subject you study. You won't click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.

That's OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most failures. JK Rowling's first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

These people succeeded because they understand that you can't let your failures define you - you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time. If you get in trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave. If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.

No one's born being good at things, you become good at things through hard work. You're not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don't hit every note the first time you sing a song. You've got to practice. It's the same with your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right, or read something a few times before you understand it, or do a few drafts of a paper before it's good enough to hand in.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new. So find an adult you trust - a parent, grandparent or teacher; a coach or counselor - and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.

And even when you're struggling, even when you're discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you - don't ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.

The story of America isn't about people who quit when things got tough. It's about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.

It's the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.

So today, I want to ask you, what's your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?

Your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I'm working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn. But you've got to do your part too. So I expect you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don't let us down - don't let your family or your country or yourself down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

Closing thought:  Isn't it amazing how he extols the American dream while at the same time pushes policies like "cap and trade," card check, and universal healthcare that rob people of that very dream. 

David Axelrod insists Obama "absolutely [did] not" order Van Jones to resign:
Exit question: "why the heck not?"

Van Jones' resignation letter claims "lies and vicious smears" sullied his reputation:
there were no lies, just video tape


Now on to more frightening matters, Obama's science czar:  John Holdren:
Compulsory Abortion? Mass Sterilization?  Single Mothers should have their babies taken by the government?

Rep Keith Ellison (D-MN) admits that public option is the path to single payer health care:
The truth is out there

Nancy Pelosi threatens that no public option now would mean stronger government control later:
Trigger

New Michael Moore film concludes that "capitalism is evil"
I smell an Oscar!

1.7 million potential Obama voters have left the country:
Illegal immigrants leaving the US

What Bias?
Keith Olberman enlists Daily Kos readers to dig up dirt on Glenn Beck and his producers:
Plans to dedicate his Nov. 8 show to smear Beck. 

Van Jones resigns...who's next?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjHS8S3jIndU2oI6WHB_KqB-pvwAD9AHJBMG1

it's hilarious

Pres. Obama presenting the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joseph Medicine Crow

More Evidence of Van Jones' Radical Racism

Exit question: Why is Obama still silent?

Van Jones was on the organizing committee for a 911 Truther march:
Proof

Flashback to 1999, Van Jones organized protest in support of convicted cop killer:
Sick

More audio surfaces exposing Van Jone's radical communism:
Green is the new Red

WH sticks by Van Jones, but why?
Because they agree?

What Bias?
NYT, WaPo, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News, CBS Evening News feature a collective 0 stories about Van Joness:
In the tank

Obama's Green Jobs Czar Van Jones signed his name to the 911 Truth petition, suggesting Bush deliberately allowed 911 attacks:
Obama's Radical Friend

Van Jones now denies being a part of the 911 Truth movement, doesn't explain signing the petition:
deny deny deny

911 Truth spokespersons says "No one's name was put on the list without them knowing it."
The Truth

Speaking of jobs, unemployment keeps climbing:
What stimulus?

IRS would be primary enforcer under Obamacare:
Power Grab

School districts flooded with parents angry about Obama's address to their kids:
Department of Indoctrination

Classrooms playing video encouraging kids to pledge allegiance to the president:
Among other things

Even liberal media now calling for Charlie Rangel's resignation:
It's about time

Obamacare oppenent gives supporter the finger...literally
Ouch!

National Skip-Shcool Day
September 8th, 2009


Van Jones regarging the 'repubs are A**holes' comment: "I apologize for the offensive words I chose to use during that speech," Jones said in a written statement to Politico. "They do not reflect the views of this administration, which has made every effort to work in a bipartisan fashion, and they do not reflect the experience I have had since I joined the administration."

Translation: "Obama says I should apologize or it might hurt his chances of reelection."
Give me a break


Preaching the gospel of individual responsibility
Old School


Coming to a Hospital Near You...
Frightning


L.A. Wildfires the fault of Libs?
No Surprise


Stimulus still not creating jobs
Wasn't that the point?


Beck is right about this guy
Push back harder

It pains me to write this one.  I LOVE Ben & Jerry's ice cream, even though I know the guys that own the company are raging liberals.  However, I think I might be opting for Blue Bell for a while. 

Ben & Jerry's just announced that for the month of September, they're renaming their famous "Chubby Hubby" flavor to "Hubby Hubby" in celebration of gay marriage rights in Vermont.   You think I'm kidding....



You know, I can totally live with all the "save the planet" crap, but this is ridiculous.  Talk about pushing an agenda. 

Another unbelievable, outrageous move from a pathetically desperate administration:  Obama's "Organizing for America" website issued marching orders for its network of "volunteers" in an attempt to get them to make coordinated phone calls on Sept 11th.  Here's a direct quote:

This is officially creepy, Orwellian, and outrageous.  Obama is planning to address ALL public school students via satellite broadcast on September 8th. 

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama%E2%80%99s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009

Department of Education issues teachers' "To-do" list includes:

• As the President is speaking, ask students to write down key phrases that are important and personally meaningful.
• Younger students can draw pictures and write as appropriate.
• Ask the students "What specific job is the President asking me to do?"
• Ask the students "Are we able to do what the President is asking of us?"
• Have the students write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the President.
• Track students' progress towards goals.

Call the White House right now and voice your disapproval of this indoctrination of our nation's children. 

202-456-1414