Islam and the Prospect of World War Three

February 20, 2011 | Filed Under Alan Caruba, Christianity, Egypt, Foreign Countries, Islam, Islamofascism, Jews, PCism, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Alan Caruba

“I against my brother, I and my brother against our cousin. I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors. All of us against the foreigner.”
– Bedouin proverb

Almost from its beginning, Islam has been a religion divided by warring camps. The tragedy of Islam is that Muslims are far more likely to die at the hands of their co-religionists than by those outside their faith. All religions have their sects and divisions, but Islam’s history is particularly defined by the violence that began shortly after the death of its founder, Mohammed.

If the turmoil in Egypt is about freedom than recent history gives little evidence that Arabs have any talent for it. Iran is a prison-nation. Syria is ruled by the son of its former dictator. Hamas rules Gaza. Monarchies. Et cetera.
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Tom Cross Intentionally Misleading on SB600

February 19, 2011 | Filed Under Chicago, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Republicans, Tom Cross, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

For years now thousands of rank and file Republicans have been trying to get SB600 passed in Springfield. This bill would allow us regular, lowly voters to actually vote for our GOP leadership on the GOP State Central Committee.

Unfortunately, Republican voters are not allowed to vote for their own leadership in Illinois. This good old fashioned way of electing leaders is not only truly American, but, heck, even the Democrats in Illinois have this capability! But we Republicans do not.
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Getting Rich Off the Taxpayers: School Administrators Double Dipping Pensions

February 19, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

It must be nice to work for the government. Sadly it’s the most lucrative way to make a living in American history. To “win life’s lottery” all you have to do is get a job with the government — whether the federal or state government — at practically any level and voila, welcome to easy street. Here we have yet another case of the milking of the taxpayer by our “public servants,” this time it’s school superintendents that jump from state to state in order to double or triple their pension takings.

The Chicago Trib revealed the newest way for “public servants” to rip off the public by reporting that it has become common practice for school superintendents to “retire” from a school district in one state only to migrate to another state and take the same job in order to earn another lucrative pension. Some of these guys are making upwards to $500,000 a year off the backs of the taxpayers.

When questions over their greed are put to them these “public servants” demur from being characterized as fatcat, double dippers. They say that they are acting entirely within the law. They claim that there isn’t a single thing wrong with what they are doing. Well, maybe legally. Morally is another question.
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The Battle of Madison is only the Beginning

February 19, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Children, Dan Proft, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, Nanny State, Republicans, Taxes | Comments Off

-By Dan Proft

Let me understand this, Illinois is sending jobs to Wisconsin and in exchange we receive more liberal Democrat politicians? That’s a trade only the Cubs would make. Similarly, it might be another 103 years before a business again locates in Illinois.

No one can say Wisconsin Senate Democrats aren’t willing to go the distance for their financiers. They went all the way to Rockford seeing as Illinois is a sanctuary state for public sector union shills.

What choice did they have? It isn’t right that one party should just ram through legislation without bi-partisan support unless, of course, you are Chicago Democrats in Washington ramming through Obamacare or Chicago Democrats in Springfield ramming through the largest tax increase in Illinois history.
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Kinzinger to Offer Amendment to Block Taxpayer Funding for DOJ Lawsuit against Arizona Immigration Law

February 19, 2011 | Filed Under Adam Kinzinger, Anti-Americanism, Congress, Constitution, DOJ, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Immigration/Immigrants, Mexico, Regulation, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the office of Congressman Adam Kinzinger (11th District)…

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Adam Kinzinger (IL-11) will offer an amendment on the House floor that would eliminate taxpayer funding for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit filed against Arizona last July over its immigration enforcement law (SB 1070).

Washington’s failure to secure borders, has led states like Arizona to take matters up themselves. Kinzinger says it is unfair to ask hardworking citizens to fund the DOJ’s agenda.

“Rather than wasting time and taxpayer dollars suing states, the DOJ must turn its focus toward enforcing current immigration laws,” said Kinzinger. “The federal government should be working to make Arizonians feel secure rather than using money from their own paychecks to fund an attack against them in federal court.”
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Chico Calls for Same-Day Permitting

February 19, 2011 | Filed Under Business, Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Gery Chico, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Regulation, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Gery Chico for Chicago Mayor campaign…

Under Chico, slow pace and brick wall of bureaucracy would no longer stifle job growth

(CHICAGO) Mayoral candidate Gery Chico today pledged to make 24-48 hour permitting a reality in Chicago city government. Chico would inject a new sense of urgency and speed in the notoriously slow permitting process.

“Thanks to the new digital economy, commerce is moving faster than ever. It’s time to move government up to speed,” Gery Chico said. “We’ll break down the brick wall of bureaucracy and make the city permitting process move faster so we can bring more businesses to our city and create more jobs for our citizens.”
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Keynesian Philosophical Assumptions

February 19, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Keynesian, Liberals, Taxes, Thomas Brewton | Comments Off

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Keynesian macroeconomics is inconceivable without Darwinian evolution and secular socialism.

Keynesian macroeconomics is, at heart, a rationalization for collectivized state planning . Its progenitor was the 18th century quest to discover social science laws of behavior paralleling Newton’s mathematics and laws of motion that explained movements of the planets and of the earth around the sun. By the early 1800s French socialist intellectuals were confident that they had identified sociological laws that would enable them to create a secular paradise here on earth. A hundred years later, economist John Maynard Keynes propounded his ideas in the same tradition.

Along with Darwinism and socialism, Keynesianism sees humans as subject to manipulation by material factors such as government regulation. All three discount free will and what Austrian economists view as the basic fact in economic activity: purposeful, individual human action.
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Wisconsin State Senators Hide in IL to Prevent Voting

February 18, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Chicago, Children, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Lobbyists, NEA, Public Employees Unions, Republicans, Taxes, Tea Party, Teachers Unions, Unions, Warner Todd Huston, Wisconsin | Comments Off

From the Chicago Tea Party…

Stand with Governor Scott Walker This Saturday in Wisconsin

What is happening in Wisconsin right now could prove to be a turning point in the fight against big government. Democrat State Senators in the state of Wisconsin have decided that the public sector unions are more important than representative democracy and the consent of the people. The voters in Wisconsin elected a Republican Governor, U.S. Senator and state legislature in November, but the Democrats don’t appear to think elections matter. The public sector unions are proving they are only interested in one thing: power.

Increasingly all over the country, Democrats and the unions are trying to create mayhem and disorder in hopes that hardworking taxpayers will just give up. But we’re not going to give up. We need to stand with Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin.
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Great: One of the Most Violent Union Thugs Now Appearing With Thug Teachers in Wisconsin

February 18, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Children, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Education, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Lobbyists, Nanny State, Republicans, Richard Trumka, Taxes, Teachers Unions, Uncategorized, Unions, Warner Todd Huston, Wisconsin | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has decided to flock to the side of thug Wisconsin teachers on Friday. This should not be much of a surprise. Trumka understands that this battle could serve to galvanize anti-union sympathies all across the country, and rightfully so. With the hate and “violent rhetoric” being employed by these thug teachers with very little legitimate provocation these teachers are quickly proving that they aren’t sympathetic figures. In any case, Trumka hopes to turn the sliding sympathies back in his favor.

It should also not surprise anyone that Trumka, one of the most vile, violent thugs in upper echelons of uniondom, has flocked to the side of unionistas that have employed some of the most vile rhetoric and characterizations of their enemy, the people of Wisconsin.
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These Hatemongers Are in Control of Our Children!

February 18, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Children, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Lobbyists, Republicans, Taxes, Teachers Unions, Unions, Warner Todd Huston, Wisconsin | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

In Wisconsin teachers are calling everyone that opposes them a Nazi, they are creating signs with crosshairs over the faces of their political enemies, like the grown-ups they are they are calling political foes “dicks,” calling Republicans “terrorists,” and saying that they “hate people.” And why all this vitriol from the Party whose president wants more “civility” in politics? Why because they are being asked to pay a few dollars more into their own healthcare each month, what else?

Doug Ross has a compilation of some 15 of the most egregious signs being toted around by the union thugs in Wisconsin.

Here are a few of them:

Check out Ross’s post for more.

These public employee unions need to be eliminated. They are entirely undemocratic and antithetical to good government.
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Dueling Interviews With Texas Senate Candidates Cruz and Williams

February 18, 2011 | Filed Under Congress, Elections, GOP, Government, Republicans, Senate, Texas, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

At CPAC this year, I interviewed two of the candidates for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s soon to be vacated Senate seat in the great state of Texas. And with two such fine candidates as these you really do have to call it the great state of Texas!

First up is former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz. His website can be found at www.tedcruz.org.

Next up and in alphabetical order follows Mr. Michael Williams. Mr. Williams is currently a commissioner on the Texas Railroad Commission. His site can be found at www.williamsfortexas.com.

Texas has an embarrassment of riches for senate candidates for sure.
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Tweets Regarding The State Of The Union 2011

February 18, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Frederick Meekins, Government, Corruption, Liberals, President | Comments Off

-By Frederick Meekins

Too bad no member of Congress possessed the courage to blurt out “You lie”, especially in light how everyone was suppose to make bipartisan goo-goo eyes at one another.

Obama says cutting stimulus is akin to taking the motor out of an airplane taking off. But how can a jetliner even take off when the flue supply has already been burned up?

The camera panned the congressional gallery and showed the head of Xerox sitting in the crowd. Guess they need her to help make all that money that really isn’t there.
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Roskam On Failed Stimulus Birthday Eve: We Don’t Need a Budget Like the Stimulus

February 18, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Jobs, Liberals, Peter Roskam, Republicans, Stimulus, Taxes, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

From the office of Congressman Peter Roskam (6th District)…

Roskam: “The President recently said that people were getting impatient about the pace of reform and that things weren’t changing fast enough. Yeah, two years out people are plenty impatient. You bet your life they’re impatient.”

WASHINGTON – Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam (IL-06) released the following video on the eve of the second anniversary of President Obama signing the trillion dollar “stimulus” law. The White House promised that the “stimulus” would prevent unemployment from rising above 8%. Two years later, and for 22 months straight, national unemployment remains at or above 9%:

Emanuel’s hard truths turn out to be cynical lies

February 18, 2011 | Filed Under Business, Chicago, Cook County, Economy/Finances, Elections, Gery Chico, Government, Illinois, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Gery Chico for Chicago Mayor campaign…

(CHICAGO) In the wake of today’s Chicago Sun-Times report that once again proves Rahm Emanuel will say and do anything for power, Gery Chico denounced Emanuel’s cynical attempt to mislead voters about his pension position. While Emanuel has made his plans to slash existing pensions for city workers well known in editorial and business elite circles, this week he sent personal letters to city workers promising to protect their pension benefits, according to the Chicago Sun Times report.

“Rahm Emanuel is once again proving himself to be a pathological evader of the truth,” Gery Chico said. “When he needs donations and editorial support, he talks tough about slashing existing pensions but when talking directly with the city workers who depend on those pensions, he promises to protect their benefits. Either way, you can’t believe a thing this guy says.”

Emanuel’s desperate, dishonest letter to city workers comes just days before Feb. 22 as the Chico campaign is surging to the runoff. For more information, visit GeryChico.com.

Kinzinger and Kirk’s First Order of Business in Congress: Get Spending Under Control

February 18, 2011 | Filed Under Adam Kinzinger, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Mark Kirk, President, Republicans, Senate, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the office of Congressman Adam Kinzinger (11th District)…

Washington, D.C. — A little over a month after his swearing-in to Congress, U.S. Representative Adam Kinzinger (IL-11) today introduced the Spending Control Act, legislation that will force Congress to control federal spending.

“I’m pleased to join my colleague, Senator Mark Kirk (IL), to introduce legislation that will work toward ending the Washington spending spree,” said Representative Kinzinger. “We have tough decisions to make and the Spending Control Act will force both sides to roll up our sleeves in order to implement these solutions that will get our economy back on solid ground while living within our means.”
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Gov. Quinn’s Budget Address More of the Same

February 18, 2011 | Filed Under Americans For Prosperity, Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From Americans for Prosperity, Illinois…

Governor’s Budget Address Reveals More “Buy Now, Pay Later” Rhetoric That Will Bankrupt Illinois Taxpayers

-AFP calls for meaningful and aggressive reforms to state budgetary process-

CHICAGO- In the Governor’s budget address today, Quinn identified the immediate need for reducing the state’s $8.75 billion deficit, but was unwilling to make the necessary budget cuts to get the job done.
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A President of Scorn, or a President with Cajones?

February 17, 2011 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, ACLU, Kevin Roeten, President | Comments Off

-By Kevin Roeten

Drinking, AIDS in Africa, failed stimulus programs, torture, terrorism, ESCR, Abu Ghraib, North Korea, al-Qaeda, Hussein, WMD, AGW, Katrina, 9/11, surge, and financial crises are just a very few of the occurrences in this presidency. Even the Great Depression almost paled in comparison this presidency’s trials and tribulations. Not many leaders could survive this onslaught.

Amazingly, George W. Bush had completely cleaned up his drinking problems long before being elected president. He endured, and it sufficiently steeled him for the vicious storm to come.

He incorporated PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) to eliminate AIDS/HIV in Africa. Africans called it the Lazarus Effect. In each of the first five years, 150,000 babies were saved. Bush stated those lives (over 750,000 saved) aided America’s strategic and moral interests. He knew societies mired in poverty and disease foster hopelessness, which leaves people ripe for recruitment by extremists and terrorists. As a result, many more terrorists were not recruited, and more Americans were not killed.
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Teachers Union Thugs Comparing People to Hitler, Shutting Down Schools, Losing Their Argument

February 17, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Pensions, Public Employees Unions, Taxes, Teachers Unions, Unions, Warner Todd Huston, Wisconsin | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

One cannot be a leftist without being a hypocrite. It really is just that simple. The last several days in Wisconsin has again born that truism out, too, as teachers union thugs in the Badger State have indulged every manner of behavior that they have constantly condemned the right for engaging in — even as no one on the right has actually done the things the left charges them with doing.

With the protests that swept down upon the State Capitol in Madison we are seeing the sort of behavior that is the antithesis of democracy. These teacher thugs are flooding into the capitol disrupting the state senate chambers, these teacher thugs are sporting signs with Governor Walker depicted as Hitler, these teacher thugs are attempting to thwart the will of the voters that put a Republican Governor into office to do exactly what he is trying to do, these teacher thugs are even making a pig sty out of the capitol grounds with piles and piles of garbage.
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New ACU Chief Al Cardenas Puts Ron Paul on Notice

February 17, 2011 | Filed Under Conservatives, GOP, Government, Republicans, Ron Paul, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

The American Conservative Union (ACU) is the entity that runs the biggest annual conservative event, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Next year CPAC will be headed by a new face, Al Cardenas. Now former Chairman David Keene turns over the reigns to Cardenas after the 2011 CPAC event.

Cardenas has a compelling story, indeed. He was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948 and came to America in 1960 when his parents fled Castro’s communist takeover. Cardenas has been heavily involved in the Florida State GOP and he worked for Ronald Reagan’s campaigns in Florida starting in 1975.

I had an opportunity to interview Mr. Cardenas about his new role with the ACU and this naturally led to questions of the current controversies going on at CPAC. I focused on the Ron Paul fans that caused so much ruckus this year and Cardenas seemed to put the Paulites on notice that they may not be invited again.

At about 5 minutes into our interview I asked Cardenas about the disruptions that occurred specifically during the appearances of Vice President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Cardenas replied that, “those who decide to consciously breach [civility] maybe shouldn’t be part of CPAC and we’ll keep that in mind for the future.”

It sure seems as if Cardenas just put the Paulites on notice that they may not be invited next year.

How Obama’s Big Labor Pals Warp the System

February 17, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Free Trade, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, President, Republicans, Taxes, Transparency, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Last September the Senate refused to reverse a rules change made out of pocket by Obama’s National Mediation Board. The rule change reversed a 75-year-old practice and made it possible to unionize a company even if less than half of its employees wanted to be unionized.

Previous to the rules change, any company in the transportation industry (rail, airlines, etc.) that had employees wanting to unionize had to count 51% or more of its employees voting in favor of the union. It seems only natural, after all, that a union should not be able to force itself on employees unless the majority wills it, right? As it happens the union stacked NMB summarily changed the rules so that a company could become unionized by a majority of those voting at the time instead of a majority of a company’s employees. That means if a company has 100 employees but only forty were present at the vote, then only 21 employees voting yes would force a union on all of them.
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Union Rhetoric Against Rahm Emanuel Heats Up

February 17, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Free Trade, Gery Chico, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Jobs, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

At a recent rally for Chicago Mayoral candidate Gery Chico, the head of the Operating Engineers Local 150, James Sweeney, said that Rahm Emanuel was a “Judas” to the union cause. Now Emanuel, himself Jewish, is attempting to make this common phrase into some sort of anti-Semitic attack on him.

During the rally, Sweeney attacked Emanuel’s long record of supporting the North American Free Trade Act (NATFA) that he helped Bill Clinton pass in the 1990s.

We don’t need to be told that there’s an economic problem, we live it every day. Rahm Emanuel doesn’t live it, he’s nothing but a Wall Street Judas… a bag of silver that he collected when he went and passed NAFTA. That’s exactly what he is.

For his part Emanuel is saying the whole thing is “blatantly antisemitic.” But come on. It is obvious that Sweeney had no intent to inject any anti-Semitism into his campaign rally when he said that Emanuel was a Judas to unions. Using the term Judas is a common term that properly fits any situation and isn’t just a Jewish reference.
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Union Thug Whines That People Are Mistreating Union Thugs

February 17, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, James Hoffa, Jobs, Liberals, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

This one is hilarious. Union chief James P. Hoffa of the Teamsters has an op ed in the Detroit News where he’s crying that everyone is turning against unions these days. Yes, ole Jimmy is yelling, “leave unions alone!”

Hoffa’s headline whines out, “American ills not caused by unions.” We call that a straw man argument. No one said, “Americas ills are caused by unions.” Some of America’s ills are caused by unions, but certainly not all of them. After all some of America’s problems find union being but a symptom thereof!

Straw man isn’t all Hoffa’s up for in this uproarious op ed, though. Get a load of this fearmongering hyperbole…

Some vastly powerful corporations and billionaires want to cripple all unions and turn America into a low-wage banana republic.

Nice try. The REAL people that are mad at unions is all of us regular, poor and middle class folks that are forced to foot the bill for all the union fatcats in government making double what we are making, retiring at 30, and living the high life for forty years afterward on our tax money! With all their free healthcare and whatnot. That’s who’s a bit peeved, there, Jimmy.

The wailing goes on…
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Analyzing The Open-Border Mentality

February 17, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, Paul A. Ibbetson, Taxes | 1 Comment

Paul A. Ibbetson

How special is America? Is it truly a unique place where people can find opportunities for a better life that surpass those of other countries? Many think this to be true and the country has had a long history of being a welcoming place for people from all across the world. From 1892 to 1924 the port of New York at Ellis Island processed over 20 million foreign immigrants to legally enter the country. According to the National Park Service’s Ellis Island site, as many as 11,747 immigrants legally entered America in a single day in 1907. It is estimated that as many 100 million Americans are descendants of the process of legal immigration that took place at locations such as Ellis Island.

Unfortunately, the mentality that gave America such a large infusion of hopeful and hardworking immigrants to this country has vanished and has been replaced with something much different. For one, immigrants entering America through Ellis Island came in with no preconceived beliefs that the United States owed them anything. Instead, immigrants entered the country with gracious humility to seek out the “American Dream.”

Traditional immigration encompassed a mutually respectful exchange between country and immigrant for the right of admittance. Foreigners had to show that they had a trade or other ability that would be useful to the country in order to be allowed in. Also, immigrants had to show that they were not carrying harmful communicable diseases that would be a detriment to the American people. Some immigrants were held for observation due to fear of disease and about two percent of those seeking to enter the country were turned away. America’s policy at that time was most certainly pro-immigration but it also encompassed a secure border element that is sorely lacking today. The next time you’re faced with an argument for open borders by someone who declares we are all descendants of immigrants, remember that a majority of this country’s classical immigration was conducted legally.
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The FUUUUTURE of America is… High Speed Trains?

February 16, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Joe Biden, President, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Train systems are losing money all across the country. Billions of dollars have been sunk into trains that Americans don’t want to ride. Yet our president and vice president think that high speed trains are “the future”?

A future boondoggle, maybe.

CPAC 2011: Some Random Photos

February 16, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Congress, Conservatives, Economy/Finances, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Jobs, Republicans, Senate, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

[Note: I apologize for not posting the last few days. When I got back from Washington I was struck with the worst sickness I've ever had. Don't know if it is developing into strep throat or pneumonia, but it's hit me hard. I slept 1 hours last night! Haven't done that since I was a kid. Coughing so hard I pulled a muscle under my ribs.]

I have a few photos of some of the notables I encountered at CPAC still sitting around, so this post is as good as any to get them posted, I suppose.

I know you’ll be shocked, but some of these photos have me in them, too! I can be such a fanboy sometimes. But there is a method to my madness. Years ago when I first started this blogging thing I wrote about meeting a big name politician (at this point I can no longer remember who it was) and I wrote a post about the interview. I immediately had some mope reply in the comments section that I never met the pol and was just making the story up.

So now, if it is possible, I take photos of me and which ever pol I meet to prove to the skeptical Internet tubules that I really was there!

… well, that’s as good a story as any, isn’t it?

Former Virginia Governor and Senator George Allen

Iowa Congressman Steve King

Closing The Suez Canal

February 16, 2011 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Government, Liberals, Mark Mattingly, Military, Taxes | Comments Off

-By Mark Mattingly

What happens to the United States if the Suez Canal closes? What happens if the Suez Canal comes under the control of an Egyptian government that is hostile to the USA and The West?

Instead of closing the Suez Canal, maybe they will just increase the cost of a transit of the canal to an exorbitant level. Maybe the number and type of transits will be limited.

Why should anyone in the US even care? We will be forced to care even if any of the above happens. The reason that we will care is that the cost of gasoline at the pump will increase, and it will increase A LOT.
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Newsflash – Obama (Almost) Saves The World!

February 15, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Elections, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Nancy Morgan, President | 1 Comment

-By Nancy Morgan

According to media reports, President Obama (almost) resolved the spiraling Egyptian crisis in one “private message” to Hosni Mubarak. AP reports, “Mubarak Promise Comes After Private Obama Message.”

President Obama is firmly in charge and appears to finally be calling the shots. In a bold, presidential moment, Obama said Tuesday evening that he has told Mubarak that a transition to representative government “must begin now.”

For the millions of Americans who only watch CNN, it appears that our president has, once again, saved the day. Only problem is, it’s just not so.
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Palin Gives Time A Few Minutes of Her Time About Its False ‘Reporting’

February 14, 2011 | Filed Under Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Foreign Countries, GOP, Government, Liberals, Magazines, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Time Magazine, TV, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

The media is so sure that only the worst about Palin could possibly be true that false stories, out right lies, and even comedy bits are constantly presented as actual news. Time Magazine is the latest to fall into that trap by reporting a satirical Internet posting about Sarah Palin as hard news. It all just goes to prove that Sarah Palin lives in the heads of the Old Media and it must be awfully cramped up there.

Last week on Time Mag’s Celebrity Newsfeed, Nick Carbone reported satire as fact only to make a “correction” days later. Carbone had fallen for a “tongue-in-cheek” Internet posting that joked that in an interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity Palin said she wanted to deport Christina Aguilera for screwing up the National Anthem at the opening of the Superbowl.
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Why Islam is Different and Dangerous

February 14, 2011 | Filed Under Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Alan Caruba, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Liberals, Military, Republicans, Saudi Arabia, Society/Culture, State Department, Terrorism, Turkey, War on Terror, Western Civilization | 1 Comment

-By Alan Caruba

Imagine that every day of your life begins with a morning call to prayer from minarets around the city or village in which you live.

Imagine that you are required to pray five times throughout the day, every day.

Imagine that the law of the land is based on Sharia, taken from the Koran.

Imagine that you live in a nation where stoning women, beheading criminals, and other draconian, ancient punishments are deemed acceptable.

Imagine being Muslim and knowing that conversion from Islam is punishable by death.
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CPAC 2011: Ron Paul’s Last Straw With YAF (Time for Paulies to Grow Up)

February 13, 2011 | Filed Under Congress, Conservatives, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Republicans, Ron Paul, Senate, Warner Todd Huston, Washington D.C. | 5 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Ron Paul may have won the CPAC straw poll but he’s lost Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative, college Republican-style organization to which he used to belong. Just as the results of the straw poll were revealed YAF announced they were kicking Paul out of the organization.

This is a pretty big deal, too. If you aren’t aware, Paul served on YAF’s board of advisors for more than two decades, he’s commented positively about YAF on the floor of the House in the past, and was once awarded the Guardian of Freedom award, YAF’s top honor.

This break is a hard one, indeed, and it’s mostly over Paul’s simple-minded foreign policy ideas.
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