Networks Claim ‘Responsibility’ To Air Obama Speeches… But Often Skipped Bush’s

March 20, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Liberals, Media Bias, Patriotism, President, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Hollywood Reporter’s (THR.com) James Hibberd is reporting that the TV networks are “reluctantly” shuffling their on air schedules to fulfill their “responsibility” to air President Obama’s important campaign speech… er, I mean address to the nation next week. The Nets are solemnly claiming the mantle of the patriotic American fulfilling their civic duty to air presidential addresses, it appears.

It is all well and good that they should do this, of course. Keeping the nation informed is one of those long-held, self-proclaimed charges of TV news organizations, of course. But, curiously enough, that same attention to a patriotic, civic duty to air presidential speeches didn’t seem so compelling to them while Bush was in office because they often refused to air his speeches to the nation. Or, as in at least one instance, they left the speech early to go on to primetime programing.

Name That Party: Top NM Dem Sentenced, Party Affiliation Deep Sixed

March 20, 2009 | Filed Under Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media Bias, Name That Party, Society/Culture, State Government, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Manny Aragon was one of New Mexico’s most powerful law makers and power brokers. A former Senate president, Aragon was this week convicted and given a 67 month sentence for lining his pockets and that of his co-conspiritors with millions in fraudulently billed state contracting money.

While his “iconic” status is mentioned and his long standing position as a “Senate leader” is dutifully chronicled, his status as a Democrat doesn’t seem to make the cut of a large portion of the stories on his sentencing.

Kiss Me, I’m Irish

March 20, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, History, John Armor, Society/Culture | Comments Off

-By John Armor

On St. Patrick’s Day, everyone is Irish. Maybe just for the moment, or for the next few beers. O’Hara, O’Leary, O’Bama. But some of us have real, biological connections to the Emerald Isle.

One of the reasons I was delighted to make a trip to Ireland last year was the chance to close the circle. By a happenstance the year before, I found the oldest proof of my European ancestors. On the Internet I stumbled across the website of the Compass Inn in Ligonier, Pennsylvania.
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Barack Hussein Obama is a committed Marxist – what are Americans going to do about it?

March 19, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Communism, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Marie Jon, Media Bias, President, Socialism, Society/Culture | Comments Off

As heard on LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF CONSERVATISM for 3/19/09

-By Marie Jon’

On Nov. 5, 2008, Americans woke up to a very real Marxist coup — although most didn’t realize it. I sat down and cried while a huge crowd gathered and were cheering. I intuitively knew something was very wrong. After watching Barack Hussein Obama aggressively pursue his agenda as president, I now understand why.

Most Marxist coups rely on deception — and that was certainly true of this one. Just about everything Obama said during the campaign was a calculated lie. His handlers and key supporters were equally willing to lie and deceive to gain advantage.

Once Marxists seize power through deception, manipulation, exploitation, and corrupt interference with the political process, they never give it up. It is entirely possible that we will never see the end of the current regime of Marxists in America. In 20 years, the President of the United States might still be a man named Barack Obama. At the very least, we can expect Obama and his fellow conspirators to do everything in their power to ensure that outcome.

Why Does Obama Want Illegals Legalized Quick? So They can Join Unions!

March 19, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Business, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, News, President, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

According to reports, President Obama said it’s important to have a quick path to citizenship for illegal immigrants so that they can join unions to “get protection” from evil employers.

Speaking at a town hall meeting in Southern California, Obama broached his newest cause celebre, “comprehensive” immigration reform, in Costa Mesa.

“If they stay in the shadows in the underground economy, they are oftentimes pitted against American workers since they can’t join a union. They can’t complain about minimum wages.”

Obama also claimed that we need to make sure illegal immigrants don’t flood across the border uncontrolled saying that we need to secure our border with Mexico. Yet, even as he told Californians that he is an advocate of a tighter boarder, reports have emerged that his administration is going to take money away from immigration workplace enforcement programs allowing immigrants to more easily take jobs illegally in the U.S.

SoCons, Paultards, NeoCons, RINOS… TOSS ‘EM ALL OUT… or Maybe Not

March 19, 2009 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Conservatives, Elections, GOP, News, Society/Culture, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

We can’t stand RINO Arlen Spector. He’s not a Republican no matter what his name plate says. Most of Ron Paul’s supporters are just on the wrong side of tinfoil hattery. Social Cons need to get their head out of their rears and stop thinking abortion is the only issue in the game. Neocons really need to know that Israel isn’t the only thing that America should be worried about overseas. Country Clubbers just gotta remember that the business community isn’t all there is to this country. Foreign policy realists need to have it pointed out to them that principles DO matter not just “what works.” Strict constructionists should remember that compromise is a founding principle, too. The David Frums and Kathleen Parkers of the world have to be shown the door. You hear all these arguments and more coming from inside the GOP, these epithets used like clubs against our own with the result being that it always seems at any minute a party wide cage match could erupt. And I am often just as guilty in playing the purity game. Likely, so are you.

But why do we do it? Why do Republicans break out the pitch forks and light the torches every time there is perceived impurity around them in the party? Why do we enclave so well and why don’t we do “join” well? Even more to the point, why do Democrats seem to avoid this problem?

Ruling: Calif. City Can Void Union Contracts in Bankruptcy

March 19, 2009 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, News, Society/Culture, State Government, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Maybe the gravy train is finally beginning to grind to a halt at long last? Maybe the thievery by unions that is bankrupting governments all across the nation is starting to show signs of abating? If this court ruling in Vallejo, California is any indication, we just might be starting to see some common sense at last endangering the practice of heaping undeserved and unsustainable union benefits on government workers.

On March 13 U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael McManus held that union contracts “negotiated” by city worker’s unions can be voided by Vallejo if the city enters into bankruptcy proceedings. The judge said that city workers do not have the same protections that Congress bestowed upon union workers in private companies and that as public workers they cannot expect their full contracts to be forcibly upheld by courts during bankruptcy.

Should Church Leaders Obey Oppressive Laws?

March 19, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Dr. Don Boys, Family, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Religion, Society/Culture | Comments Off

-By Don Boys, Ph.D.

Well, the jerks in the Connecticut legislature are at it again. They are trying to control Roman Catholic Churches. It is time for religious leaders to tell the politicians and federal judges, “Come and get us because we will not comply with your orders.” Such leaders will be more likely to get away with that resistance if they repudiate their tax-exempt status which is the modern day golden calf that almost all pastors bow before.

A Jewish leader said of the proposed legislation, “You cannot tell a church how it can govern itself. The church is entitled to govern itself any which way it wants.” Well, that is both true and false! When a church forms into a corporation, it places itself under the authority of the state. However, the states and the feds are going after churches whether they are 501 (c) (3) or not. Politicians must understand this principle: “We must obey God rather than men.” And obeying God does not always entail obeying man.

Obama: A Study in Presidential Arrogance

March 18, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media Bias, Military, News, President, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The whole world was supposed to fall at his feet. He was supposed to spend the next four to eight years (or four to ten as he once said during the late campaign) just making airy pronouncements while everyone danced lemming-like to his tune of hope-n-change. It was supposed to be easy. Heck, The One himself even pronounced that he enjoyed being president. “And it turns out I’m very good at it,” he assured everyone during a luncheon with TV anchors a few weeks ago.

Obama simply didn’t imagine that he had to worry too much about those nagging details like making sure his nominees were vetted and had paid their taxes. He didn’t think that those silly 8,500 earmarks in his omnibus budget needed eliminating like he kept talking about in the campaign. For that matter, he didn’t even realize he was supposed to become involved in creating that stimulus bill. And foreign policy? Why our enemies were supposed to want him to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony while our allies were supposed to simply take it all on faith that we still love them like bosom buddies. Move along. Nothing to see here.

Teamster President Denies Secret Ballot is Basic Tenet of Democracy

March 18, 2009 | Filed Under Business, Communism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Socialism, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

James P. Hoffa tried his hand at some spin against opponents of the Orwellian named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) last week, denying that a secret ballot is a basic tenet of democracy.

“Since when is the secret ballot a basic tenet of democracy,” Hoffa is quoted as saying in a Teamsters press release.

How does he justify this idiotic claim? Because, you see, the Soviet Union had a secret ballot “but those weren’t democratic,” Hoffa reminds us. A facile comparison, for sure.

New York Mag: Obama’s ‘Want Each Other’ Unlike Other Presidents?

March 17, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Liberals, Media Bias, News, President, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that no presidential couple ever “wanted each other” until the coming of The One and his Michelle? Well Stacy Schiff of New York Magazine knows, blurting out like a star-struck 13-year-old at a Jonas Brothers concert the question, “How long has it been since a First Couple seemed to want each other?” What about George W. and Laura’s love? Must have all been a head fake. H.W. Bush and Barbara, it’s all a sham I tell you. Nancy and Ron? Fuggedabout it. Bill and Hillary… OK, you might have something there. None of the rest really care about each other who can doubt? Not Schiff, anyway. No, as far as Schiff is concerned, love’s been reinvented by Michelle and her beau, The One.

It’s either a sole example of love in the Oval office… or it’s just another appalling exercise in Old Media sycophancy that takes slobbering devotion to a new level. I guess this is what passes for “reporting” these days, but it still seems like maudlin hero worship to me. It causes one to wonder what crackerjack box Schiff found her mind reading cap in to enable her to learn that no other presidential couple “want each other”? Still, Schiff has divined the fact for us like a late-night informercial psychic, nonetheless.

Living Like it’s 1899, What does ‘Sacrifice’ Mean?

March 17, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Family, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Newsweek has some prescriptions to save us all. We should live like it’s 1899 instead of 2009. Don’t use a dryer for your clothes, chop your own wood for heating fuel, buy a black and white TV because it’s “just as good,” and don’t get the Internet or cable TV. Sheese, talk about a kill-joy!

Of course, the piece by Steve Tuttle isn’t all stone-ageie, new-ageiness. Some of the points Tuttle makes are sensible enough — not buying what you can’t afford being the most salient. But, Tuttle’s harkening back to his parent’s depression era scrimping is a bit much and makes a mockery of the sensible suggestions he does make.

Naturally, a Newsweek piece isn’t complete unless it has some gratuitous (and in this case off base) Obamaisms as homage to the brilliance of The One. In this case, Tuttle invokes Obama’s exhortation for us all to engage in a little “personal sacrifice.”

Conflation Junction: Tenn. Columnist Thinks Criminals and Madmen Obey Laws

March 17, 2009 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

See, the thing that makes crazy people, well… crazy, is that they don’t do things like normal people. Laws, rules, even simple human kindness is meaningless to such unbalanced people. The same can be said of criminals. See the thing that makes them criminals is that they don’t obey laws. But the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s Rich Locker seems to think making a law will magically make a wacko suddenly heed reason. On top of that, to illustrate his allusion he conflates the criminal actions of a man in Alabama to laws in Tennessee in order to justify his anti-gun sentiment for Tennesseans. Will these disingenuous Old Media types never learn a love of logic?

The tragic and criminal actions of the nut in Alabama that killed 10 people in a wild traveling rampage served as Locker’s platform to advocate for a Tennessee law that would make illegal the carrying load guns in a vehicle. He seems to insinuate that such a law would have prevented the sicko in Alabama from driving around killing people. Locker neglects to reveal how some words on a piece of paper, though, could prevent a madman from transporting a loaded gun in a car.

The opening paragraph is a perfect example of this conflation in order to draw out an emotional reaction in the reader.

Time For Tough Love

March 17, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Dan Scott, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Dan Scott

Recently China’s Premier Wen Jiabao said out loud as a foreign leader what most of us have been thinking and saying for months now. The government headed by Barrack Obama needs to get its financial house in order and the policy chosen by him to borrow his way to prosperity is not what China is going to subsidize. Other Chinese government leaders have characterized President Obama’s current behavior as “reckless policies.” We, who are conservatives, wholly agree with this assessment. It’s ironic that US conservatives and the leaders of China who were formerly ideological enemies are in complete agreement in seeing Obama and the Democrats policies as reckless. This is not to say we agree on other issues like China’s one child policy for population control or their attitudes toward private property both indicating the Chinese government’s right to micromanage the affairs of individuals. To further underline the irony of this agreement both US conservatives and the leaders of China see nothing wrong in wealth disparity and furthermore it is beneficial to the uplifting of society as a whole. This is in complete contradiction to the President Obama’s stated enmity toward the top 1% of wealth producers in this country. Obama’s budget, a federal document, actually identifies the wealthy as the cause of the country’s woes!
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Illinois Republicans Can’t Stop Eating Their Own

March 16, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, News, Society/Culture, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

There is a website in Illinois called Illinois Review that often has some of the best coverage of Illinois Republican happenings. It’s usually a good source for GOP info statewide. But today’s entry is just another example of Illinois Republicans eating their own. And in an unfortunate turn of events, it involves me.

Over the past weekend I was a visitor at a planning session for the Republican candidate aiming to take Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s 5th Congressional District seat. I wrote about my impression of the meeting and headlined it Planning to Turn Rahm Emanuel’s Seat Red.

But, Illinois Review got its tinfoil hat screwed down a little to tight and revealed a bit of arrogance that pervades so much of the Illinois Republican Party. This time imagining that Illinois Review was more important than RedState,com and deserved special attention.

Union’s Card Check is the New Jim Crow Poll Tax

March 16, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Communism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Corruption, History, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Socialism, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

One of the most odious aspects of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is the card check feature. This feature gives unions the “option” to supplant a secret ballot election held among workers for instituting a union with a publicly signed card that announces the voter’s intentions for all to see. In this way, unions clam, “elections” will be easier. Unions also point out that the language of the act still makes provision for the normal secret ballot election should all involved still so desire.

Because the act does not specifically say in plain language that the secret ballot will necessarily be eliminated in all cases, union activists and apologists claim that fears of the elimination of the ages old democratic practice of the secret ballot to assure a fair election isn’t being eliminated. They claim that opponents of this act are merely engaging in hyperbole and fearmongering by claiming the secret ballot will be a thing of the past if the EFCA is passed.

Planning to Turn Rahm Emanuel’s Seat Red

March 16, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Republicans, Society/Culture, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

On Saturday afternoon, in the midst of Chicago’s famous St. Patrick’s Day celebration with its tradition of turning of the Chicago River green, a cadre of concerned Republicans met to plan a way to capture the Congressional seat of Chicago’s 5th District, the one being vacated by Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

The candidate charged with this task is Rosanna Pulido and she only has about three weeks to do it. The special election for Emanuel’s seat is to be held as soon as April 7th.

Her supporters and other interested parties (me included) met at the top of a Michigan Avenue high rise in the comfortable setting of a decades old executive dining room of a Chicago insurance company. The rich wood decor was meant to invoke an old Irish pub, but carousing wasn’t on the schedule that day. Planning a political campaign was, however.

Cause For Celebration: An Examination Of The Cosmological Argument

March 16, 2009 | Filed Under Education, Family, Frederick Meekins, News, Religion | Comments Off

-By Frederick Meekins

Often the classics rank among the best. Even though time passes and intellectual fashions change, certain insights and perspectives address something so profound they forever earn a place as a steadfast pillar among sifting seas of opinion. Much of what comes after such a point simply serves as either confirmation, renunciation, clarification, or criticism. Though he lived and labored during the Middle Ages in the 1200‘s, the cosmological argument of Thomas Aquinas has withstood the test of time as one of those stalwart pillars of the mind pointing to a rational basis for belief in God.

Though the term “cosmological argument” sounds intimidating and the concept it strives to convey seems profound, this series of propositions endeavors to express a most elementary idea in a highly rational form. The thrust of the cosmological argument seeks to prove that the universe must have a cause and that only God can serve as an adequate explanation for the existence of the universe. Norman Geisler in Introduction To Christian Philosophy states the basic argument in the following manner: “(1) Finite changing things exist. (2) Every finite, changing thing must be caused by another. (3) There cannot be an infinite regress of causes. (4) Therefore, there must be a first uncaused cause of every finite changing thing that exists (page 267).” From here, Aquinas proceeds to argue that only God is powerful enough to serve as an explanation behind this uncaused cause.
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Publius Podcast

March 15, 2009 | Filed Under Abortion, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Science, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Should we use baby parts for science?

Feel free to visit the Publius Forum TalkShoe page to see my past podcasts. New podcasts appear approximately monthly, or whenever the mood strikes me to do one.

Sorry About Your Loss, Mom. Now Can We Use Part of Your Baby?

March 15, 2009 | Filed Under Abortion, Family, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Rights, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Professor Sir Richard Gardner, a leading scientist for stem cell research at Oxford University, England, proposed using parts of aborted fetuses as transplantable material for the ill last week causing great concern for those believing in the sanctity of human life.

Sir Richard called for studies into the feasibility of transplanting fetal organs into adults and found it curious that it hasn’t been done already. He claimed it would take much research to prove the feasibility of the idea.

Imagine what this concept would result in, however. Who cannot realize the Pandora’s box of horrors that would be opened with this idea? Should such an idea take hold we necessarily would find doctors telling mothers that it is OK to abort their children because it “might save a life” all so that researchers would have more fetal material to study.

And it could get even worse if such research would find the idea feasible. We would then end up with doctors pushing abortion so that we could begin to disseminate fetal tissue to prolong other people’s lives. We would therefore be setting up a system of purposefully killing infants to prolong the lives of older humans.

What sort of society kills its young to provide spare parts to make older people live longer?

Oh, it DOESN’T Take Away Secret Ballots? Um… YES, it Does.

March 15, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Communism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Rights, Socialism, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Obama: “I Am Not an Animal!”

March 15, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Liberals, President, Selwyn Duke, Society/Culture | Comments Off

-By Selwyn Duke

Actually, Obama said, in so many words, “I am not a socialist!” in a delayed-reaction response to a question from a New York Times reporter. That is to say, his initial answer was a very pithy “no,” but then he felt compelled to call the interviewer back and give the scribe a piece of his mind (how much, we don’t know. But rumor has it that it was sufficient to lower Obama from socialist to communist status). And here is what he said:

It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question . . . . I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn’t under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement -– the prescription drug plan — without a source of funding. And so I think it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word “socialist” around can’t say the same.

Ah, methinks he doth protest too much. Could this be, calling a reporter back to set the record crooked?

Obama’s Nominee to Justice Dept. Was a Terrorist’s Lawyer

March 14, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Media Bias, News, President, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

On March 9, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on one of Barack Obama’s latest nominees. This time it was to assess the suitability of Tony West, Obama’s nominee for the assistant attorney general in charge of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Division. Things went “smoothly” according to the San Jose Mercury News, also publishing a nice bio of West. The Washington Post merely mentioned the hearing was “notable.” Similarly the East Bay Express simply makes mention of the hearing having occurred. Apparently there was nothing of interest in West’s nomination.

Curiously enough, though, not one of these brief reports mention that Tony West was “American Taliban” terrorist John Walker Lindh’s defense lawyer. Another key bit of info left out of these announcements was that Tony West raised $65 million for Obama’s presidential campaign. Money well spent if it gets a cushy government job, I suppose.

Scandal on Scandal — Another One for Calif. Union

March 14, 2009 | Filed Under Communism, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Socialism, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The L.A. Times has done it again; reported on another California Service Employees International Union (SEIU) corruption scandal. SEIU California has had so many corruption scandals that it boggles the mind and they all center around union bosses double dipping salaries and misusing purported charities to enrich themselves, as well as getting family members into the game with pseudo jobs at these false-front charities. This report is no exception to that mode of business-as-usual for the powerful state employees union.

This time SEIU chief James Bryant has been found making more salary from the supposed charity he heads out of his home than the city job he is supposed to be working at. The union also funnels money his way and he has given his son a “job” that the union backed charity is funding.

Remember Chance the Gardener?

March 14, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, John Armor, Liberals, Media Bias, President | Comments Off

-By John Armor

Spring is a very special time, here on the Eastern Continental Divide. This was a particularly harsh winter. The first task on this first truly warm and sunny day was to patrol the grounds and see which plants had survived, and which had not.

We were worried about the red maple planted just last summer. It and the wisteria made it through with flexible small branches, not small and brittle ones. Both plants were presents from dear friends, and one of those friends did not survive the winter. So it was good to see that her plant survive.

Michelle is a bit of a gardener; I am not. But we both appreciate the results. And this tour reminded me of one of the most successful gardeners of all time. How many of you remember Chance the Gardener?
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Obama Wanted To Fire GOP US Attny To Fill Job With Dem

March 13, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Judges, Liberals, Media Bias, News, President, Society/Culture, The Law, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Is is being reported that President Obama wanted to fire a Republican US Attorney in Missouri and to replace her with a Democrat.

Now, can we revisit the agonized wailing that emanated in 2006 from the unhinged left when President Bush fired some US Attorneys? Remember how they screamed that it was all “just political” and that it might even be an illegal action? Remember how they gyrated over Bush’s supposed “destruction” of the US Attorney offices in the land, how he was trying to ruin our system?

Their wailing went on for several years quite despite the fact that these same US Attorneys serve at the discretion of the president in the first place. Quite despite the fact that past Democrat presidents also fired them at will. (Here is a perfect example of how the uniformed and unhinged left took this story back in 2006.)

Despite Massive Losses NYT Execs Enjoy Bonuses, Salaries Steady

March 13, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Business, Communism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Socialism, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Apparently the long knives President Obama has out for the blood of CEOs and high paid executives does not apply to the bigwigs at The New York Times. In a March 11 piece ABCnews.com posted a Reuters report that the suits at The Times are still doing quite well despite the downwardly spiraling fortunes of the newspaper they helm. Not only are salaries holding steady, even rising, but they are also receiving bonuses. All of this while profits have plummeted along with advertising sales.

While other large corporations are freezing executive salaries and or even cutting them, the top two NYT execs have seen salaries holding at the same rate since 2006 if not rising. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr, even got a one-time bonus of $38,045. NYT CEO Janet Robinson saw her total compensation rise from $4.1 million to $5.8 over last year.

So, where is President Obama to ask for their heads on a pike?

Former Union Leader Opposes Card Check Bill

March 13, 2009 | Filed Under Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, News, Socialism, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The City Wire of Fort Smith, Arkansas, published a piece giving a former union leader space to announce that he opposes the elimination of the secret ballot that is the card check feature of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).

His reasoning is spot on with why card check is a bad idea that will materially hurt American workers.

And then there is Neal Catlett, a former president of the union representing workers at Whirlpool’s Fort Smith plant who has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the local union.

Catlett, now retired from Whirlpool, opposes card check. He told The City Wire that he has seen plenty of “nonsense” among Whirlpool leaders and union leaders to know that anything other than a secret ballot will lead to intimidation, coercion and corruption on all sides.

ARE WE UNAFRAID? Are we powerful?

March 13, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Corruption, History, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Liberals, Military, News, Resa LaRu, "Warchick" Kirkland, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, War on Terror | Comments Off

-By Resa LaRu Kirkland

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid – Ronald Reagan

My dear friend Audrey Russo put a note up on her FACEBOOK page that inspired me to write this piece. The following excerpt explains it:

…the Revolutionary Guards Chief, Mohammed Ali Jafari…said, “Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran has missiles with the range of 2,000 km (1,250 miles), and based on that all Israeli land including that regime’s nuclear facilities are in the range of our missile capabilities.”

Jafari also believes that neither the US or the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) “had the ability” to strike Iran…

…The two greatest militaries in the world did not have the ability to strike Iran? Right…

…this is a simple illustration of how…PC paralysis has become the fuel for ‘the little regime that could’ and the mushroom cloud that it will produce. — Iran: The Little Regime That Could by Audrey Russo
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Look me in the eye when you say that, pardner

March 12, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Society/Culture | Comments Off

-By Ann “Babe” Huggett

It’s pretty much an open secret that President Obama is worthless as a public speaker without his teleprompter. What little media footage that does exist of him speaking extemporaneously has more “Uhs”, “Ers” and stammering than a gangly teen asking the object of his juvenile fantasy out on their first date. In fact, Obama’s groping for words and verbal dead ends make his predecessor, George W. Bush, seem positively flawless in his speech patterns and that is saying quite a bit.
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