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“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.” ~Samuel Adams

Friday, July 03, 2009

Helen Thomas: Not Even Nixon Tried to Control the Media Like Obama
by Penny Starr and Fred Lucas
...“What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them”...“It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame”...

Thursday, July 02, 2009

So Much for Wise Latinas
by Ann Coulter
...liberals think other people's jobs are a joke, so the testing must also be a joke. That is -- other than their preferred test: "Is the applicant black, female or otherwise handicapped?" There is no test that can prove all things about an employee and so there is no test that can't be derided by the race-mongers. Which is exactly the point...

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Justices Reject Sotomayor Position 9-0 -- But Bigger Battles Loom
by Stuard Taylor Jr.
...The broader questions lying behind the New Haven case are whether this nation will ever get beyond racial preferences and quotas such as those encouraged by both the Sotomayor and the Ginsburg positions, and whether it will ever realize Dr. Martin Luther King's dream of a nation where people are judged not by the color of their skins, but by the content of their characters...
Related: On Race, The Slog Goes On

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Stoning of Soraya M.: See This Film (or Stop Complaining About Hollywood)
by Dennis Prager
...now, released as if by Providence the week after the fraudulent elections in Iran and the suppression and murder of Iranian dissidents, is a film about the nature of the radical Muslims who govern Iran...

Radicalism, Rewarded
by Guy Benson
There’s never been a better time to be an enemy of the United States of America. Whether you’re a trained jihadist in US custody, a diminutive cult leader starving his own people while developing nukes, or part of a ruthless regime that murders dissidents in broad daylight, you can rest assured that the United States government is unlikely to act—or perhaps even speak—in a manner likely to disrupt your daily routine...
Related: Don't Forget Burma

Monday, June 29, 2009

Declaring War on the American Economy
John Steele Gordon
The Cap-and-Trade bill that passed the House yesterday will be a declaration of war on the American economy if it ever is enacted into law. It is ostensibly supposed to help the American economy transition from the old, carbon-based industrial economy to the broad, sunlit (and presumably unpolluted) uplands of a post-industrial one...
Related: Economic Impact of the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Conyers Abandons Plan to Probe ACORN
by S.A. Miller
...House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying "powers that be" put the kibosh on the idea...

Saturday, June 27, 2009

The Climate Change Climate Change
by Kimberly A. Strassel
...Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as "deniers." The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S...
Related: Electric Cars Will Not Decrease Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Says Federal Study

Monday, June 22, 2009

Dodge Facts, Skip Details, Govern Chicago-Style
by Michael Barone
We pundits like to analyze our presidents and so, as Barack Obama deals with difficult problems ranging from health care legislation to upheaval in Iran, let me offer my Three Rules of Obama...

Saturday, June 20, 2009

MN Lawmaker Vows Not To Complete Census
by Stephen Dinan
Outspoken Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she's so worried that information from next year's national census will be abused that she will refuse to fill out anything more than the number of people in her household...

The Obamacare Horror Story You Won't Hear
by Michelle Malkin
...Don't expect the president to support a probe. While a top executive at the hospital, Mrs. Obama helped engineer the plan to offload low-income patients with non-urgent health needs...Rewarding political cronies at the expense of the poor while posing as guardians of the downtrodden? Welcome to Obamacare.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Obama Protects Cronies at Taxpayers' Expense
by David Limbaugh
The more we learn about the White House's summary firing of AmeriCorps' inspector general, Gerald Walpin, the more it smells of lawlessness, cronyism and a flagrant disregard for transparency and government accountability...

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Obama Has Fired 2 Inspector Generals in As Many Weeks
by Ed Morrissey
...The sudden push to rid the government of independent watchdogs appears to coincide with Barack Obama’s plans to use government spending to get control over more aspects of American life, such as with stimulus spending, the financial sector, and volunteer organizations...

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Dear Iranians: Don't Count on America (or Any Country Led by Left)
by Dennis Prager
...For those who look to "world opinion," "the opinion of mankind," or to the United Nations for moral guidance or for coming to the aid of victims of oppression, the past few days and presumably the next few days in Iran, provide yet another example of their uselessness...

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Talking Jesus: Obama vs. Bush
by Paul Kengor
...The press has made it abundantly clear: there are different sets of rules for conservative Christian politicians and liberal Christian politicians.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Hovering on High: Obama Surveys the World
by Charles Krauthammer
...Distorting history is not truth-telling, but the telling of soft lies. Creating false equivalencies is not moral leadership, but moral abdication. And hovering above it all, above country and history, is a sign not of transcendence but of a disturbing ambivalence toward one's own country.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

The Next Great Crisis: America's Debt
by Shawn Tully
...when the two combatants agree on a fundamental threat to the U.S. economy, Americans should heed this alarm as the real thing. What's worrying both Krugman and Ryan is the rapid increase in the federal debt - not so much the stimulus-driven rise to mountainous levels in the next few years, but the huge structural deficits that, under all projections, keep building the burden far into the future to unsustainable, ruinous heights...

Monday, June 08, 2009

Assisted Suicide Endangers All
by Ken Connor
Will the "right" to suicide be transmogrified into a "duty" to commit suicide? Will the elderly who consume more than they produce be deemed "resource hogs" that have a duty to die and get out of the way?
Reality check: British Doctors Alreay Kill Patience by Involuntary Euthanasia

Sunday, June 07, 2009

'Inner Muslim' At Work in Cairo
by Wesley Pruden
...The great Cairo grovel accomplished nothing beyond the humiliation of the president and the embarrassment of his constituents, few of whom share his need to put America on its knees before its enemies. No president before him has ever shamed us so. We must never forget it.
More: Obama Taught Me: Wonderful Arabs, American Slavers, Wicked Jews Barack Obama's 10 mistakes in Cairo

Friday, June 05, 2009

Judge Sonia Sotomayor Advocates Use Of International Law
Traditional Values Coalition
...In a Foreword to the 2007 book, The International Judge, Judge Sotomayor says it is worthwhile to “learn from foreign law and the international community when interpreting our Constitution”...

Sunday, May 31, 2009

American Capitalism Gone with a Whimper
Pravda
...These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

Saturday, May 30, 2009

The Incredible Shrinking Clintons
by Dick Morris
...Once Obama’s equal — and before that his superior — [Hillary] now looks tiny compared to the president. She doesn’t look like a president in waiting; she’s more like a senior staff member hoping to rise in the bureaucracy. No longer at the head of a movement or the symbol of rising women all over the world, she has faded into the State Department woodwork...

Friday, May 29, 2009

Mandatory Census Survey Asks Detailed Personal Questions
by Chelsea Schilling
..."The questions are both ludicrous and insulting," [Ron Paul] wrote. "The survey asks, for instance, how many bathrooms you have in your house, how many miles you drive to work, how many days you were sick last year, and whether you have trouble getting up stairs. It goes on and on, mixing inane questions with highly detailed inquiries about your financial affairs. One can only imagine the countless malevolent ways our federal bureaucrats could use this information...

Thursday, May 28, 2009

The 'Empathy' Nominee
Wall Street Journal
...Judge Sotomayor's belief is that a "Latina woman" is by definition a superior judge to a "white male" because she has had more "richness" in her struggle. The danger inherent in this judicial view is that the law isn't what the Constitution says but whatever the judge in the "richness" of her experience comes to believe it should be...

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Home: No Place for a Bible Study
by Drew Zahn
...she was then told, however, that she must stop holding "religious assemblies" until she and her husband obtain a Major Use Permit from the county, a permit that often involves traffic and environmental studies, compliance with parking and sidewalk regulations and costs that top tens of thousands of dollars...

President Has “More Effective” Method to Get Intel from Terrorists – What Is It?
by Dennis Prager
...But if in fact, these methods exist, they have never been revealed. President Obama needs to share this discovery with the American people, or, if they must be state secrets, with a select few individuals from Congress and the intelligence community...

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Malaria, Politics and DDT
Wall Street Journal
In 2006, after 25 years and 50 million preventable deaths, the World Health Organization reversed course and endorsed widespread use of the insecticide DDT to combat malaria. So much for that. Earlier this month, the U.N. agency quietly reverted to promoting less effective methods for attacking the disease. The result is a victory for politics over public health, and millions of the world's poor will suffer as a result...

Cheney Bests Obama in Speech Duel -- By Sticking to the Facts
by Michael Goodwin
It was a tale of two speeches. One was clear, direct and powerful. Barack Obama gave the other speech. It would have been heresy to write those words any other time, so commanding has President Obama been with the spoken word. But the real Mission Impossible was to imagine that wheezy old Dick Cheney would be the speaker to best Obama...

Monday, May 25, 2009

Those Who Make Us Say 'Oh!'
by Peggy Noonan
...It's good to remember war is hell. But when we removed the warrior, we removed something intensely human, something ancestral and stirring, something celebrated naturally throughout the long history of man. Also it was ungrateful: They put themselves in harm's way for us. For Memorial Day, then, three warriors, two previously celebrated but not so known now by the young...

What America Means to Me
by Bruce Bialosky
The special nature of this country was brought to mind during a recent journey to retrieve my son after his first year of college at the University of Kansas. I was to fly to Kansas City and drive back to Los Angeles, but an unexpected diversion in that plan reminded me of our country’s greatness...

Make It Memorial Day Every Day
by Terry Paulson
...as we gather today to remember, may we cherish the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg address: "We can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract."

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Barack Obama is Giving Iran the Time it Needs to Build a Nuclear Bomb
By Con Coughlin
Has President Obama inadvertently given Iran the green light to develop an atom bomb? I only ask because it appears to be the logical conclusion to be drawn from his announcement this week that he is giving Iran until the end of the year to decide whether or not to co-operate...

President Above-It-All
by Rich Lowry
...Excoriating Bush is good politics for Obama, which is what makes his repeated exhortations to look ahead so disingenuous. In his speech, he rued that "we have a return of the politicization of these issues." In other words: Dick Cheney, please shut up. But when did the politicization of these issues end? Has the Left ever stopped...

Saturday, May 23, 2009

A Crown of Thorns for Miss California?
by Michael Kinsley
...Yes, yes, the Bill of Rights protects individuals against oppression by the government, not by other private individuals or organizations. But the values and logic behind our constitutional rights don't disappear when the oppressor is in the private sector. They may not have the force of law in that situation, but they ought to have the force of understanding and of habit...

Do You Want Your OTV?
by Jack Tapper
...It's perfectly fine, of course, for the White House to put out its own version of events -- but is it right to do so by preventing actual reporters from covering something? (Even something like a pickup basketball game). Do Obama White House officials think their media coverage isn't flattering enough?...