-By Warner Todd Huston
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, here are a few pictures that makes me wonder who the heck won World War II?
Hiroshima, Japan at the close of WWII
Hiroshima, Japan today
Detroit Today
Also Detroit Today
So, did we win, or not?
Well, we certainly won the battles of WWII. But, thanks to the American left, we’ve lost the war… so far. Now if only we can defeat liberalism and win another battle!
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Who Won WWII, Anyway?”
-By Warner Todd Huston
People often wonder what is the difference between a conservative and a liberal. The simple fact of the matter is that the major difference is that conservatives wonder first what it is they are responsible for while liberals wonder first what everyone else should be doing for them.
Here are some brief rules of thumb:
What’s the Difference Between a Conservative and a Liberal?”
-By Warner Todd Huston
As long as Obamacare passes, the good folks at the extremely leftist site FireDogLake.com don’t seem to mind too terribly if that old saw of “free speech” is violated. At least it is easy to come to that conclusion after reading a posting on the FDL main page by a fellow aptly calling himself “Scarecrow.”
In a piece ridiculously headline, “Defeated: Kyl’s Amendment to Let Insurers Frighten Medicare Enrollees,” this “Scarecrow” fellow celebrates the fact that the iron boot heel of government was slammed down on the neck of folks opposing a government policy. Yes, that old useless idea from the Founders, those long-dead white guys, of free political speech is apparently all stuff and nonsense.
What provoked “Scarecrow’s” ire was an email message that Humana healthcare insurance group sent out to its members warning that if passed, Obamacare will reduce Medicare benefits.
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FireDogLake Stands Against Free Speech to Sell Obamacare”
-By Warner Todd Huston
Just wondering, has Obama appointed anyone that is an upstanding American for one of his so-called czar positions? We’ve had tax cheaters, 9/11 truthers, and all sorts of crazed anti-Americans appointed to these czar positions by this radically leftist president. Well, now we have another example of an extremist lurking around the halls of power in the person of Kevin Jennings, the purported “safe schools czar.”
So what’s wrong with Jennings? Well, he’s former school teacher that is an admitted drug user, a pusher of the homosexual agenda and a hater of religion. Not only that, but he once found out that a teenage boy was having sexual relations with an adult male and he did not report the incident.
Obama has appointed to a position in our federal government a man that wants to impose the homosexual agenda on our children. Obama has put in place a man that has celebrated abusing drugs. Obama wants to expose our children to a man that smiles when a child tells him that he’s being molested by an adult. This is the sort of man that Obama wants to lead our children.
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Obama’s Newest School Czar, a Drugged Out Sexual Deviate that Hates Religion?”
Here at Publius Forum, we support the people of Iran in their quest to shake off the oppression of the religious Mullahs and their iron-fisted control of the Iranian government.
Dan Scott will be posting updates here about the developing situation in Iran as time goes on.
Iran’s Mousavi calls for new opposition demo – – 02/27/10
IRAN: Opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi calls 22 Bahman celebrations ‘engineered’ – – 02/27/10
Iran’s fight for press freedom – – 02/26/10
The truth about Iran’s campus attack – – 02/23/10
Heavy clashes continue in West of Tehran – – 02/11/10
Iran protests: live blog – – 02/11/10
Iran Arrests Activists Before 2/11 Rallies – – 02/10/10
Video Update: Lar residents clash with anti-riot police – – 02/05/10
Iran puts 16 protesters on trial – – 01/30/10
Infernal Iran; The Death Spiral Accelerates – – 01/28/10
Divisions in Iranian Police Forces Could Spell Trouble for Government – – 01/21/10
Majid Tavakoli sentenced to eight years imprisonment – – 01/21/10
Iran Leader Warns Opposition Ahead Of Revolution Day – – 01/20/10
Iran arrests 4 suspects over prosecutor’s killing – – 01/19/10
Iran’s top prosecutor wants action against opposition – – 01/11/10
Iran Supreme Leader urges firm action over riots – – 01/09/10
Five Iranians facing trial belong to exile group: report – – 01/08/10
Iran renews execution threat against protesters – – 01/05/10
High-ranking clerics undermining Iran government – – 01/04/10
Judiciary Says Speedy Punishment Awaits Iran Rioters – – 01/04/10
Spotlight on Iran Update – – 01/03/10
Iran cleric demands “force” against rioters – – 01/02/10
Opposition head Mousavi: Iran in “serious crisis” – – 01/01/10
Iran:Protesters chanting “Down with Khamenei” in Esfahan and Shiraz – – 12/31/09
Iranian authorities hold bodies to dampen riots – – 12/31/09
Students, militia clash on Tehran university campus – – 12/30/09
Iran opposition leader’s nephew buried after riots – – 12/30/09
Iran police still holding 300 over Sunday protests – – 12/30/09
Beginning of the end? – – 12/30/09
Ahmadinejad blames US, Israel for Iran protests – – 12/29/09
Iran arrests pro-reform opposition figures – – 12/29/09
Iran protests turn violent as demonstrators confront police – – 12/28/09
Iran unrest isn’t a riot, it’s an earthquake – – 12/28/09
Dubai TV journalist missing in Tehran riots – – 12/28/09
Amazing video of Iranian Protesters beating up a cop to free prisoners – – 12/27/09
Protests erupt at Montazeri funeral in Iran – – 12/21/09
Iranian Leaders Issues Stern Warning To Opposition – – 12/13/09
Iran: Student Day Demonstrations on Youtube – – 12/07/09
Iran Demonstrations Students – – 12/07/09
The Latest Round Of Iran Demonstrations – – 12/07/09
More Harsh Sentences in Iran Protests – – 12/01/09
Iran Tehran, five death sentences for anti-government riots – – 11/18/09
University Demonstrations – – 11/17/09
Dissidents Mass in Tehran to Subvert an Anti-U.S. Rally — 11/04/09
Suicide bomber kills 30 in attack on Iran’s Guards — 10/18/09
Iran will execute 2 for election protests — 10/11/09
Obama Cuts Off Funding for Iranian Human-Rights Documentation — 10/06/09
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
Death to dictator; chanted demonstrators in Tehran — 10/02/09
Student Protests Against Ahmadinejad Continue In Tehran– 09/29/09
Website Cites Antigovernment Protest By Iran Students — 09/28/09
Iran’s nuclear stand-off reaches new heights — 09/28/09
Jews turn out for anti-Iran demonstrations in N.Y., D.C. — 09/24/09
Iranian Rally Leads to Violence — 09/22/09
The Death Spiral of the Islamic Republic — 09/21/09
Iran detains about 35 people over Quds Day protests — 09/20/09
Qods Day security forces. Tehran — 09/18/09
IRAN: Riots in Tehran and Other Cities — 09/18/09
YOUTUBE: ran protest , CNN report 1, sept 18 2009, 27 shahrivar
Mirdammad street Tehran Iran protest
YOUTUBE: News from Iran, Protest in Tehran Sep 18 part1
YOUTUBE: Iran Tehran Karimkhan St 18 Sep 09 Quds Protest
Iranian Opposition Protests Resurface During Anti-Israel Rallies — 9/18/09
Clashes erupt on day of dueling demonstrations — 9/18/09
-By Warner Todd Huston
In a September 23 Senate Finance Committee Hearing Senator Max Baucus (D, Montana) was heard uttering a damning quote about the Democrat’s progress on Obama’s nationalization of our healthcare system. In fact it is a frightening quote that should give every single citizen pause whether he is for Obamacare or against.
“We’re doing this all on the fly,” Baucus was heard to say, “so it’s a little bit, makes me a little bit nervous.”
What is so telling about this short quote? Baucus has done no less than admit that the Senate is pursuing this massive enlargement of federal power “on the fly.” The Senator is admitting that they have not thought this through, that they are not taking the time needed to plan this out and consider all the alternatives. Baucus has admitted that Congress is flying by the seat of its pants.
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Sen. Baucus Admits Haste and Lack of Planning on Healthcare”
-By Warner Todd Huston
**Update** below from children’s book author Charisse Carney-Nunes
As school kids in New Jersey are being indoctrinated to think that Barack Hussein Obama is a suitable replacement for Jesus of Nazareth, the extremist leftist website FireDogLake rose to defend the propaganda. But even the left-wingers over at FDL must realize how indefensible their support of this indoctrination effort in Jersey is because a recent post they made to defend the incident is weak tea, indeed.
At the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, New Jersey, the author of the book “I Am Barack Obama,” a children’s book propagandizing kids about the president, was allowed the opportunity to teach kids a couple of cult-like songs about The One. The author, one Charisse Carney-Nunes, claims to have been a Harvard classmate of President Obama.
Carney-Nunes wrote an absurdly hortatory series of songs for Black History day for the grade schoolers to sing at the Jersey elementary school one of which appropriated a stanza of the ages old Christian standard, “Jesus Loves the Little Children” — suitably altered to make Barack Obama the focus instead of Jesus Christ, of course.
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FireDogLake’s Weak Reply to Obama as Jesus School Song Video”
-By John Armor
Two days ago we were sitting on the dock in Como, having a gellato, waiting for our ship to come in. Not actually a ship, just a small commuter boat that connects the small communities on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy.
It is a breathtakingly beautiful place. I can see why VIPs come to a small hotel, built by a mediaeval Cardinal as his residence, just up the Lake. No wonder that George Clooney has a villa here, that is reached only by helicopter, or so the gossip says.
And, this area’s history reaches deep into the mists of time. The streets of the town were laid out about 2,500 years ago, when Julius Caesar conquered the city from its previous conquerer. I came to talk about the sweep of time and history, and how gellato in Italy is a divine concoction, compared to what bears that label in the US, and how going on vacation is good for the soul.
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Julius and Julius (Caesar and Genachowski)”
-By Warner Todd Huston
Once again, welcome to fascism Friday. We’ve given one story about Canadian fascism, and one from Michigan. Finally, here we have the third one also from the Wolverine State. And there are your three stories for fascism Friday.
You read that headline right. A woman who was watching her neighbor’s kids each school morning for 40 minutes before the bus came is being accused of being a criminal by the State of Michigan.
It takes a village, right? Remember when you were a kid and the next door neighbor looked after you for an hour or so until your parents got back from shopping or work? Remember when your neighbor might even pick you up from school at one time or another? Remember that your parents returned the favor whenever it was necessary? Remember when neighbors felt a responsibility to each other? Well thank God we don’t have to rely on friends and neighbors any more. After all, we have the glorious state to take care of us now. We have our fathers and mothers in government to watch out for us. Who needs neighbors?
This is what has happened in the people’s state of Michigan where a kindly maternal woman is being ground under the iron boot heel of authorities from the State of Michigan because she dared to watch her neighbor’s children for about 40 minutes before school each weekday in violation of the state’s child daycare center registration laws.
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Michigan Authorities Attack Woman for Babysitting Neighbor Kids”
-By Warner Todd Huston
Once again, welcome to fascism Friday. We’ve given story one about Canadian fascism, and now the first one from the U.S.A. And like the one that will follow, this one is from Michigan, the Wolverine State. This time we see Michigan authorities creating fatuous taxes..
Who said that government ever made any logical sense? The State of Michigan has lighted upon a brilliant plan. It has been suggested that the state tax doctors so that it can pay doctors more via its Medicaid expenditures. Yes, the Wolverine State wants to tax doctors so it can pay doctors better. No logic need apply.
This sounds like to sort of scam that normal people would get arrested for!
And talk about an unfair tax. Doctors already pay personal income tax and taxes through their businesses. And now, if the State legislature in Lansing has its way, doctors will be taxed just because they are doctors.
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Michigan to Tax Doctors to Pay Doctors”
-By Warner Todd Huston
Once again we see that Barack Obama cannot be relied on to tell America the truth. During the late presidential campaign, Team Obama attacked Hillary Clinton for having mandates for health insurance yet now he is himself touting forced mandates on the people.
In 2008 an Obama flyer slammed Hillary for her forced insurance purchase suggestion. That flyer told Obamaites that, “Hillary’s health care plan forces everyone to buy insurance, even if you can’t afford it.” This was bad, Obama thought.
That was then.
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Obamacare: It’s War on the Middle Class”
-By Warner Todd Huston
Well, welcome to fascism Friday. Today we have three cases of government fascism in places where it should never be. Unfortunately those places happen to be Canada and the U.S.A. First up a the fascism of the Great White North.
If this isn’t the perfect evidence of why any freedom loving western citizen should be against gun registries, then you can’t make the case at all. Over the last few weeks the police in Toronto, Canada have been stormtrooping through the homes of average, everyday Torontonians that have had the misfortune to have appeared on the area’s gun registry and confiscating their legally owned guns.
What has been the pretext for this massive gun confiscation program? Unfortunately, the restrictive gun laws in Canada allow authorities to stomp through any citizen’s home and demand to see where that citizen stores his legally owned firearm. At that point, if this brownshirted police thug decides that the citizen is not storing the firearm to the law’s liking, then that citizen may have his firearm immediately stolen by the state.
Toronto’s jackbooted cops have confiscated nearly 400 firearms from basically law abiding citizens claiming that they are making the city safer. How? Why, because now criminals won’t be able to steal these guns from the public, naturally. So, because a few criminals might steal a gun here and there, these government tyrants feel that they should take everyone’s rights from them.
Catch this pretzel logic from one of Toronto’s top tyrants.
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Canadian Police Use Gun Registry to Confiscate Guns”
-By Warner Todd Huston
How many times have we heard the president’s wild claim that we can “keep our healthcare plan if we like it”? Well, if that were true we’d also be able to keep our doctor, right? Hasn’t the president said that we won’t have to lose our favorite doctor with “his” healthcare policies?
So, how easy will it be to keep your doctor and access his services under the Baucus bill now under consideration in the Senate?
The Senate Joint Economic Committee recently addressed this question by creating a nice visual representation of how easy it will be to access your doctor through Obamacare. The JEC crated an interesting flowchart so that we can follow the steps that the Baucus bill will impose on us all as we try to access the care we usually get by just going to our doctors and asking for it.
Unfortunately, if you like your doctor, Obamacare will make it so much harder to deal with him in the future.
Here is a small snippet of the chart:
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Senate Economic Committee Report: How Easy to Keep Your Doctor With Baucus Bill?”
-By Frederick Meekins
Those who have bent their knee in homage to our nation’s magnanimous liege will no doubt one day denounce me in a People’s Court (not the TV show but rather a Soviet-style show trial) for daring to nitpick the Chosen One to this extent. However, it is their beloved leader, ladies and gentleman, that insists that the COMMUNITY play a prominent role in your every life decision.
In a campaign speech, Barack Obama lamented that, during the Dark Ages before his ascent to the throne, Americans were able to drive around in SUV’s, eat what they wanted, and kept their homes climate controlled at 70 degrees. Liberals, Communitarians, and other related socialist types who think that only those agreeing with them should be permitted to open our mouths will shriek, “You’ve already made this point in previous commentaries.” And I am going to keep making it whenever Comrade Obama violates these key tenets of leftwing dietary policy.
On 5/6/09, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden motorcaded to an eatery in Northern Virginia where our wondrous benefactor and one of his foremost disciples supped upon the finest of ground bullock for their midday meal. When average Americans engage in these kinds of activities, few give it second thought and pretty much the same response would be elicited if other occupants of the Oval Office such as Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush engaged in this gastronomic act. However, seldom did these Chief Executives blatantly declare their enmity to the minutest details of the American way of life and vowed to remake the nation along new lines.
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Obama Gluts On Ten Ounce Burger”
-By Thomas E. Brewton
Keynesian macroeconomics, the mythology favored by liberal-progressives ranging from President Obama to New York Times propagandist Paul Krugman, is a rationalization for massive expansion of deficit spending and socialization of the entire economy.
From the Mises.org website, John Maynard Keynes’s introduction to the 1936 German edition of his General Theory:
The theory of aggregate production, which is the point of the following book, nevertheless can be much easier adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state [eines totalen Staates] than the theory of production and distribution of a given production put forth under conditions of free competition and a large degree of laissez-faire.
Keynes’s bete noir was individual savings, his so-called liquidity trap, which he identified as the cause of economic depression. His ideology thus calls for displacing individualism with collectivized power of the political state, evidenced by rampant creation of Federal agencies, deficit spending programs, and punishingly higher taxes. This is what the Obama administration is pushing to do today.
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Keynesianism Loves the Total State”
-By Warner Todd Huston
The FBI announced today that it has arrested a man that thought he was about to blow up a federal building in the Illinois State Capitol, Springfield.
Michael C. Finton, alias “Talib Islam,” was arrested in a sting today officials announced. Federal officials charge that “Islam” drove a van up to the Paul Findlay Federal Building and then left the vehicle parked there. He then entered another vehicle some distance away and tried to use a remote detonator to blow up what he thought was a bomb in the van.
The FBI also reported that “Islam” had a secondary target after the Paul Findley Building.
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FBI:Man Charged With Trying to Blow Up Springfield Federal Bldg (Rep. Aaron Schock Targeted)”
-By Warner Todd Huston
The CBO is estimating that the total cost of Baucus’ Senate version of Obamacare will cost $1.7 trillion by 2023. To “pay” for this cost, the Baucus bill cuts $1 trillion from Medicare and Medicaid and raises taxes by $.7 trillion.
This is in stark contrast to Obama’s constant claims that “his” bill will not raise taxes.
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CBO: Baucus Bill Costs $1.7 Trillion By 2023″
-By Warner Todd Huston
Peter Fleckenstein spent a huge amount of time reading H.R. 3200 and found hundreds of provisions that do nothing less than give government complete control of our very lives. This is a stark list that should frighten any freedom loving American from any support for this anti-American president and his socialist Congressional majority. Aside from this frightening list, Fleckenstein has more at his site http://blog.flecksoflife.com.
Read on and be afraid… be very afraid of Obama’s un-American plans to control your life:
Obamacare is About Controlling Every Aspect of Your Life”
-By Warner Todd Huston
It has been estimated that employer mandates forced on businesses by H.R. 3200 and the other legislation barreling through Congress will cost America’s businesses $49 billion a year if passed.
According to the Heritage Foundation the mandates in the bills now under consideration will force employers to buy healthcare insurance for their employees or pay a per head tax to the federal government. This could affect between 95 million to 105 million workers and about 1 million small businesses.
What will this mean to America’s business community?
The mandates will cost businesses at least $49 billion per year and put 5.2 million low-wage workers at risk of unemploy_ment or reduced working hours. The prospect of fewer job opportunities in the future will put another 10.2 million workers at risk of slower wage growth and cuts in other benefits. Up to 382,000 low-wage unskilled workers are likely to lose their jobs.
Worse, these higher costs of doing business will be passed onto customers in higher prices and/or restricted availability of products. It cannot be ignored that higher prices will hurt low-income households the hardest.
This all amounts to a defacto tax increase for all Americans regardless of income level.
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Obamacare Mandates Will Cost Business $49 Billion a Year”
-By Warner Todd Huston
NBC5 TV found a rather amusing new website devoted to Chicago’s bid for the Olympics. Oh, the new site backs a bid to get the Olympics, alright. It backs Rio de Janeiro’s bid instead of Chicago’s. And I, for one, am 100% on this website’s side!
The main page of ChicagoansForRio.com reads “Chicagoans for Rio 2016” and goes on to cheer for Rio to get the games.
It would be exciting to host the Olympics here in Chicago. But you know what would be even better? Rio de Janeiro. Just let Rio host the 2016 Olympics. We don’t mind. Honest.
The site features all sorts of stats to prove that Chicago has too much crime and also has a video of residents telling watchers that they do not want the Olympics here. One fellow explains why he doesn’t want the games: “A lot of crowds, a lot of traffic, they’re going to build the facilities in parks so the people won’t be able to use the parks, and the city won’t be any better off than it was before.”
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Website: Chicagoans For the Olympics… to Stay Outta Chicago”
-By Warner Todd Huston
Steven Ertelt raised the alarm today that Congressional Democrats are looking for ways to sneak federally funded abortion into Obama’s massive take over of one sixth of the nation’s economy by nationalizing our healthcare system.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R, Iowa) is warning of the Democrat’s abortion funding plans, as well. “On abortion, despite commitments made by the President and Secretary Sebelius,” Grassely warned, “this bill does not follow the longstanding principle that federal funds should not be provided for elective abortions.”
But pro-life forces are not sitting idly by.
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Obamacare’s Abortion Fight Heats Up”
-By Warner Todd Huston
Tom Roeser recently wrote that National GOP Party Chairman Michael Steele is stepping back from his Kirk-only support now that Patrick Hughes’ campaign for U.S. Senate has started to make inroads into Kirk’s Illinois support base.
This is interesting news, if it turns out to be true. One of the things that has riled me, for one, is that the national party has swooped in to pick our candidate for us here in Illinois. I am all for the national party supporting our Illinois candidate for Senate but it would be a tad better if the party waited until we the actual voters of Illinois had the opportunity to chose our own candidate first.
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GOP Head Steele Withdrawing Kirk Support?”
-By Dan Scott
We have been hearing in the news lately that President Obama and his cadre of advisors are stumped as to what to do with Afghanistan. The Left is telling him to cut and run and the Right is accusing him of being soft on terrorism. Obama’s response so far has been to dither. Politically, Obama is in a tough spot because he painted himself in a corner. Only the incompetents paint themselves in a corner. If Obama doesn’t lay out a concise plan to get out of Afghanistan then Nancy Pelosi will have no choice but to throw Obama under the bus as she is beholding to the lunatic left fringe. Any plan that doesn’t involve a quick exit strategy or gives the appearance of slogging it out with terrorists (freedom fighters and aggrieved poor not on US welfare to the left) means he is merely following the policies of the hated George W Bush. On the other hand, if Afghanistan falls into chaos where the Taliban and al Qaeda go back to business as usual pre-911, Barack Obama will go down in history as the one who led the US (a superpower) to defeat at the hands of a group of people who don’t even own a tank or fighter jet. He will be known as Jimmy Carter the second, you know the guy who gave us Khomeini. The repercussions at the 2010 and 2012 elections would be decisive in toppling the Democrat Party from power.
Any reading of the liberal criticisms regarding both Iraq and Afghanistan will be consistent with Obama’s current remarks about his dithering on sending more troops to Afghanistan. This is the same group of people who said the Surge wouldn’t work.
fundamental objectives President Obama announced in his March 27 speech, “…to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future.”
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The Reason Why Obama Is Stumped On Afghanistan”
-By Ann “Babe” Huggett
Just a typical Wednesday, 2009:
6:30 am: Rise and Shine! Push-ups, sit-ups and cinch Michelle into her latest thick leather belt. Man! That woman looks more and more like a plow horse every day! I’ve got to talk her out of those harnesses!
7:00 am: See the girls before they go off to that private Sidwell Friends School of theirs. Those girls deserve the best!
7:15 am: Sneak a cigarette and sign papers killing vouchers for school choice. Who do those parents think they are by keeping their children out of the public school indoctrination into MY Personality Cult like that?
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A Sneak Peek Inside Obama’s Presidential Diary”
-By Frederick Meekins
With the Obama agenda, the New Age mindset shares the perspective that you are not so much a distinct individual worthy as such but rather a mere component emanating outward into larger and larger groups. For example, at the lowest level you are part of the COMMUNITY.
Note that the family has been skipped over entirely as the prerogatives of the reactionary fecund union between a monogamous man and woman must be overridden by the preferences of the bureaucracy administering the larger group. At the highest level, all identity is subsumed into an absolutist holism. Obama prophesizes, “…the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.”
Chesterton, or someone nearly as wise, once remarked that one shouldn’t take down a fence unless you know why it was put up. Ladies and gentlemen (especially ladies), if we are to live as one common humanity, do you really want a Pakistani tribesman with Taliban sympathies to have a say over how you live your life in terms of whether or not you can go outside without a bag over you head, be permitted to drive a car, or even have windows in your home not painted over so that you can look outside.
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Kooks Now Run The Asylum, Part 2″
-By Warner Todd Huston
This may shock many of my conservative fans, but I cannot remain quiet about my support for the singularly brilliant idea that Obama’s so-called science czar offered in the 1975 college textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment. Birth control, it was theorized, could save the planet. I have to say that I wholeheartedly agree.
In 1975, John Holdren argued for a perfect way to save the planet. “Compulsory control of family size is an unpalatable idea,” Holdren wrote in 1975, “but the alternatives may be much more horrifying.”
In essence, Obama’s operative Holdren is saying that preventing new births is the best way to save the planet from an out-of-control humanity. And I have to say, I cannot disagree.
We need to get this idea out to everyone in Holdren and Obama’s fandom. It is simply undeniable logic that if Obamaites, liberals, socialists, greens, enviro-nazis, communists, Democrats and anti-Americans everywhere cease having babies, this planet will be much, much better off.
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I Agree: Birth Control COULD Save the Planet”
-By Warner Todd Huston
Woodrow Wilcox, a fellow that operates a Medicare advice and assistance website, was contacted not long ago by a local Indiana doctor that read the entire bill of H.R. 3200. Once he was done he had some deep and troubling concerns about Obamacare. The doctor, Stephen E. Fraser, M.D., then sat down and wrote Senator Evan Bayh about these concerns.
Here is that letter:
Dear Senator Bayh,
As a practicing physician, I have major concerns with the health care bill (HR 3200) before Congress. I spent the last week reading this bill, which at over 1000 pages is quite difficult to get through. Have you read it? I’m shocked by the brazenness of the government’s intrusion into the patient-physician relationship. I’m especially concerned about the creation of a central committee to decide medical coverage decisions.
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A Doctor’s Deep Concerns About Obamacare”
-By Warner Todd Huston
Here is yet another story where union members undergoing disciplinary procedures can sometimes spend years being paid their full salary to sit home and watch TV, doing nothing, working not a minute of their day. In this case it is costing a local school system at least $2.25 million to pay teachers that aren’t teaching.
This story focuses on teachers in Buffalo, New York but it is a story repeated in unions of all sorts all across the country.
The problem is that unions are allowed to become so meddlesome in member’s disciplinary procedures, the unions are allowed to block them so easily, that disciplinary procedures take an inordinate amount of time. All too often boards of review and other provisions to determine the culpability of bad teachers and arrive at a suitable punishment are opposed tooth and nail by unions. Unions especially fight the ultimate punishment: firings.
To be sure, no one thinks that unions should be so powerless that teachers can be fired on a whim. There certainly must be fairness for both parties, teachers and school administrations (the employer) alike.
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Union Rules: Teachers Paid Not to Teach”
-By Warner Todd Huston
In his desire to slander capitalism and impugn the integrity of all insurance companies in order to play up his “public option” idea, President Obama’s main claim has been that those evil insurance companies need “competition” from a government sponsored plan. This purported competition is supposed to “keep them honest.”
Obama presents this idea as if there currently isn’t any non-profit health insurance group keeping those for-profits honest. He acts as if he has some sort of new idea, one that currently doesn’t exist. But the truth is many states already have non-profit health groups. On top of that one of these non-profits is usually one of the largest insurance groups around.
That group would be Blue Cross and Blue Shield. John Lott, economist and author of “Freedomnomics,” gives us some of the facts:
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Obama’s Gov’t ‘Non-Profit’ Insurance ‘Competition’ Idea is Uninformed”