tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74418121974624327342012-02-16T00:01:03.079-08:00Common sense for folks who increasingly find the world around them harder to recognize. Issues will include school choice, tax reform, climate change, creeping socialism, voting fraud, culture wars, race relations, illegal immigration, pop culture, and the 2008 elections. PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE COMMENTS WHETHER YOU AGREE OR NOT. Thanks for reading.Jed Swartzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15828070950189444107noreply@blogger.comBlogger1401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7441812197462432734.post-76030031219037936162008-12-17T09:21:00.000-08:002008-12-17T09:38:28.168-08:00

Check out this story from Britain, where a mother pregnant with twins was transferred between four hospitals in five days (250 miles in all) because the hospitals lacked the needed equipment.At the end of the whole ordeal they still had to take one of her babies to another hospital because of a lack of incubators. Still think universal healthcare sounds like a good idea? The US is already facing

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This story by Dick Morris is a must read.I'll admit it's not a subject I'm terribly knowledgeable about, but if he's on the money about this it's good news. What he lays out is how the slumping oil prices are creating hardship for all the right dictators (namely Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Morales, and the general Russian machine). He points out that many of these leaders are not so popular in the first

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This is one of those stories you keep in your bookmarks and pull out whenever you need to take a breathless gun control advocate down a notch. A woman who was raped by a man last Saturday shot and killed him as he broke in her house again six days later. Remember that in places like Washington D.C. it would have been illegal for this woman to have a loaded gun in her home as recently as last year

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THE 22lb. list of union regulations that GM is subject to. Some on the web are suggesting that the wages UAW workers command may not be as detrimental to their competitiveness as are the union regulations (regarding demotions, transfers, task delegation, etc.) the company is bound to follow. By the looks of the photo above that may well be true.Get the Shout List Icons widget and many other great

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With the spectacularly audacious corruption being uncovered in Illinois Governor Rob Blagojevich's case I can't help but wonder if any of the Obama faithful -now hopefully sobered by time and several quickly broken promises- will at least validate the concerns of those weary about electing a Chicago machine politician to the most powerful seat in the world. The idea that Obama can spend 20 years

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I was reading an article about Obama's choice to send his daughters to an exclusive private school in DC when I came across this quote by Polly Williams. She is the woman credited for initiating the voucher school project in Milwaukee. What a great quote 'The president shouldn't be the only person who lives in public housing who gets to send his kids to private schools.'"Get the Shout List Icons

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As I've pointed out many times before, liberalism will eventually lead to a point where it is virtually impossible for the government to say "no" to any outlandish request. Nothing will be too absurd when everybody believes the mantra : Who are we to judge? When victimhood is so lionized that success and fortitude lose their appeal, we will resign to retreat from all that sets the Western World

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This article from the New York Times sheds some light on the rationing that is inherent in any universal health care system. They look into Britain's universal health system where some people are being denied life-extending drugs because they're too expensive. In the United States, such people would have the option of joining higher premium pools in return for nearly unlimited care- not an ideal

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Sour grapes I know, but since I took the time to write it I thought I might as well share it. Below is a letter to the editor- or Voice of the People as it's called in our paper- which I submitted twice to the Kenosha News weeks before the election. Unfortunately it wasn't printed and my efforts were for naughtIn one campaign stop Barack Obama told what he probably thought was an endearing story

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It is just beyond belief that something like this wouldn't make the news. Here's a United States Senator actively campaigning for a presidential candidate of another country and nobody even heard about it. Even if you put aside the fact that said candidate promised to apply Sharia law, even if the candidate was not educated by communists, even if the candidate didn't name his son after Fidel

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Those of you who have followed closely no doubt know that Democrats fought fiercely to stop further regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by Republicans. Here's a great video of what actually went down in the hearings. Send it to everybody you know.

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This article on a recent study of vegetarians/vegans must have some very self-righteous people rather conflicted. MELBOURNE: Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage. This explains a lot- particularly the existence of the Green Party.

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I've got to hand it to McCain's advertising team, they're doing a great job of getting key points across.

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The LA Times has an article today about a Canadian doctor who's "warning" people that Sarah Palin's new found visibility may cause more women to pass on having abortions. As it stands, 9 out of 10 babies suspected of having Down's Syndrome are aborted in Canada. Apparently any less than that is unacceptable for our most compassionate liberal friends.

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Though I still have no idea why celebrities are interviewed on such topics in the first place, Matt Damon went on a tirade against Sarah Palin. He called the situation a "bad Disney movie" and bemoaned her lack of experience. He apparently took it as self-evident that Obama had more experience. Not that I cared for him before, but I certainly won't be giving any of my money to his future ventures

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A poll of Russians finds that they like ex-KGB Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a man who has a penchant for making his critics disappear- literally. Oh, and they also prefer Barack Obama. 33% of Russians polled said they would vote for Putin if given another chance against current president Medved, though oddly a full 44% would not say how they would vote. It would seem to me that 44% abstaining

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At MTV's video music awards last night British comedian Russel Brand (how he's considered well known enough to host an awards show is beyond me) called George Bush a "retarded cowboy" and mocked teens who swear off sex and remarked "a little sex every once in awhile never hurt anybody" (in an extreme case of irony, this guy has gone to rehab for sex addiction). He also added this: "please ask of

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Here's a quote from one of the moonbats over at the Democratic Underground, showing just how unhinged the choice of Sarah Palin makes them: "I will attack her for whatever reason suits the purpose of making her look bad to my audience.When I am among secular people I will attack her for being a religious zealot. When I am among people from church, I will attack her for being of a heterodox

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Jonah Goldberg had another great article today, this one on the rampant gloom and doom at the Democratic Convention. Here are some of my favorite clips:To hear the Democrats at their convention this week, you would get the sense that a recession is merely a technical term for the worst human misery ever visited upon a once-great people. You'd think Americans were listening to the Democratic

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Todays liberals have for some time now been parodies of themselves. Now we finally have a Hollywood parody of the parodies. David Zucker, one of the guys who brought us Airplane and the Naked Gun series, has done a parody of our lefty friends. The movie is called "An American Carol" and in the spirit of "A Christmas Carol" follows Michael Moore (played by Chris Farley's younger brother) as he's

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I feel like a broken record, but once again every Democrat needs to ask themselves: "Why does this type of behavior only happen on our side of the political fence?".

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As if federal bureaucrats didn't already have it good enough with "Cadillac" benefit packages and jobs almost impossible to get fired from, now congressional Democrats are suggesting they work a four day work week. The reason they cite? "Saving gas". Really, what can you say about something like this? Here's the link. I'm more or less speechless by this point. How this party even still exists,

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This On the Bright Side... is the story of a terminally ill 8-year old who's last wish was to "marry" the girl he'd had a longtime crush on. Here's the whole story. I promise you'll like it.

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Last week's edition opened some eyes. Well it's another week and there's another boatload of liberalism run amok in Britain. This is what happens when nobody can stand up and say "NO" anymore, relativism is the fashion, and everything is tolerated except "intolerance". Once again I have to ask: Is this really the direction you want to go?This is July 15th -July 22nd's moonbattery:Times of

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First he refused to wear the customary American flag lapel. Next he scrapped the presidential seal and re-made it with his name. Then he just thought he'd give a speech in front of the old Berlin wall as if he was already a world leader. Now he's removed the American flag that once adorned the tail of his plane and replaced it with his trademark "O" symbol. This man's ego is gynormous.

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Anytime someone in Hollywood has the guts to question the lockstep liberal orthodoxy of the Left Coast its a cause for celebration. So hats off to Robert Downey Jr. for saying this in an interview with the New York Times: "I have a really interesting political point of view, and it's not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La

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Barack Obama is "embarrassed" that we Americans aren't as multi-lingual as Europeans and no doubt most of our liberal friends could only dream of a more European style society here in the states. But while naive Americans romanticize about a European utopia, in reality the place is becoming a parody of itself. I went through hundreds of stories in one newspaper (The Daily Mail) from one country (

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Details about the ridiculous lightbulbs the Democrat led Congress has now mandated, read straight from the EPA guidelines.

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These guys from a group called Minnesotans For Global Warming have put together a couple music videos mocking the global warming alarmists and even pointing out that climate change- whatever the cause- has both an upside and a downside. The first video is set to "If I Had A Million Dollars" by Barenaked Ladies and the second is set to "Imagine" by John Lennon.

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Obama shows his true colors in this clip where he suggests Americans stop worrying about hispanics who can't speak English and start worrying about making sure their kids speak Spanish. This is the sort of accomodation at any cost that has made Europe a sissified shell of it's once proud self. Though not shown in this clip he also mentions that it's "embarassing" when Europeans who speak multiple

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The New York Times editorial board ripped into Barack Obama yesterday and showed a level of naivete that previously had been reserved for Obama himself. They would do better to take the conservative approach to dealing with Obama's rhetoric: Don't believe a word he says. A couple clips:Now there seems to be a new Barack Obama on the hustings. First, he broke his promise to try to keep both major

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I'm short on time, but this story from the Ace of Spades paints a less than rosy picture of Obama as the heroic community advocate.

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When Barack Obama said from on high that some people cling to guns and religion in response to their lot in life it didn't take long before it was pointed out that gun owners were on the whole wealthier and happier than non-gun owners. These things tend to happen when you're in the business of talking yet don't know what you're talking about. So after hearing Barack Obama go on and on about "

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I had heard rumblings about this, but hadn't read the facts until now. Barack Obama is actually to the left of NARAL (National Abortion Rights Alliance) on an issue that should bother even the most hardened liberals. While in the Illinois Senate Obama voted against and then killed a vote on a bill that would have made it a crime to leave a live baby to die OUTSIDE of the womb after being

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Now the whole idea of flip-flopping doesn't necessarily bother me as much as some people. Having been generally liberal as a teen and college student I necessarily flip-flopped on a whole host of issues in becoming a conservative. If John McCain cares to flip-flop on his destructive stance against drilling in ANWR then I'll cheer that awakening wholeheartedly. The issue of Barack Obama breaking

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I came across this story on the Wisconsin Realtors Association website. Our governor Jim Doyle, apparently batshit nuts, is considering the recommendation of his Climate Change Committee that any house being sold has to be completely upgraded to "green" appliances and fixtures before the transaction can be completed. This includes large ticket items like boilers/furnaces and central air units as

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Here's Jonah Goldberg's spot on summary of the Democrats schizophrenic energy position: We need to be energy independent, but we can't use the energy sources we have. We need to switch to ethanol fast, but we can't import cheaper ethanol from Brazil. We must increase gas taxes to wean ourselves from fossil fuels, but when gas prices go up for any other reason, it's a crisis, even a crime. We're

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According to the latest Gallup Poll George Bush's approval rating is at a pathetic 13%, but the Democrat led Congress is at a near rock bottom 6%. The Congress's 6% is the lowest ever approval rating for any U.S. institution.If people are even more disgusted with the Democrat led Congress than they were the Republican Congress that led to the 2006 blowout then wouldn't it serve to reason that the

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A woman in the UK was forced to give birth on the floor in a hospital hallway. Why? Because with universal healthcare there's only so much of everything to go around and on this particular day the beds of three local hospitals were all full. This sort of reminds me of the scores of pregnant Canadian women shooed to the U.S. by unprepared Canadian hospitals. Still want universal healthcare?

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Neil Boortz has said "Democracy is three wolves and one sheep voting on what's for dinner." This story in yesterday's Journal Sentinal highlights that reality. Apparently one of the Wisconsin Democratic Party delegates to the national convention expressed her dissatisfaction with Barack Obama and announced her plan to vote for John McCain. Of course such insolance cannot be tolerated in the

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Many of you may have seen this week's On the Bright Side as it's from NBC, but it was new to me and very fitting for this Father's Day weekend.

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I had heard about this website/initiative before, but only happened across their website yesterday. The site is http://truththroughaction.org/ Here's their mission statement:TruthThroughAction.org brings independent filmmakers together to create edgy online film and video content to support the Democratic Party, its issues and candidates.Somebody should tell these guys there's been a group of

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Liberals might do well to refuse further participation in any surveys where ideological persuasion is noted. It seems every time a study of attitudes or habits comes out it leaves lefties with egg on their faces. A few years ago it was the study of charitable giving that showed 24 of the top 25 most charitable states were Red States. There's also been the ongoing General Social Survey where

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This is such a classic story. The Washington Post reveals that the Democrat led Senate voted to privatize their cafeteria service because the public, union run cafeteria has lost money for 37 out of 44 years it's been running. Dianne Feinstein called the food and service "noticeably subpar"Even funnier is that the House turned their cafeteria over to a private company back in 1980 and has since

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If progressive minded people have tired of being branded hopelessly naive souls held hostage to their emotions then Obamamania certainly comes at a bad time. 300 million people in the United States and the Democrats choose one with next to no experience and a host of formidable skeletons in his closet. Why? Because he sounds good (though the unspoken offer to forever absolve one's white liberal

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I keep saying it, but it doesn't always sink in: You don't have to be a rabid, hardly housebroken liberal to advance radical liberal causes. If you vote for Democrats and aren't actively working to marginalize their whacked out base then the radicals will be making the policies. Why? Because they care more about it than you. Activists find their reason for living in their pet causes, hence they

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This Memorial Day, while people across the country were paying their respects to our fallen soldiers, liberal troll "Chad Davis" found time to visit my blog and remind us all why "liberal" is still a dirty word. In response to my posting on soldiers being harassed on D.C. public transit "Chad" wrote: Oh no. Thugs who murdered innocent civilians are being verbally abused while riding a train. Too

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This week's On the Bright Side... is a real quick, but beautiful video (as always let it download a few seconds first): Past On the Bright Sides...:#1#2#3#4#5#6

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Via Little Green Footballs below I've got a letter sent to military personnel in the D.C. area from the DOT's Transit Administration regarding the harassment of members of the military on D.C. transit. How pathetic that this happens in our nation's capitol. Even more pathetic though is that fellow passengers would let something like this go on without responding in such a way as to make national

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Check out Joe Lieberman's round denunciation of his former party's foreign policy in today's Wall Street Journal. He puts the evolution of their current defeatism in a timeline that begins with the strong stances of Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy, then ends with the appeasment mentality of Barack Obama.That he called out Obama by name in the Wall Street Journal is no small sidenote. That he then

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ADVISORY: Dr. Arthur Robinson (OISM) to Release Names of over 30,000 Scientists Rejecting Global Warming HypothesisMay 15, 2008 12:39 PM EDT Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM)Who: Dr. Arthur Robinson of the OISMWhat: release of names in OISM "Petition Project"When: 10 AM, Monday May 19Where: Holeman Lounge at the National Press Club, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DCWhy: the Oregon

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I realize that Child Protective Services are necessary to protect children from parents who are chronically irresponsible and perhaps criminally minded. However I also realize that sometimes the providers of such services can get so caught up in the righteousness of their intentions that they actually make things worse. Here is one instance where it sounds like that was the case: In April a

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Sometimes a story comes along where you don't even need to say anything to make your point. This is one of those stories. You can read all the details here, but here's the short version: Afghan guys hijack a plane. They fly it to England and threaten to kill passengers unless granted asylum. England jails them then releases them. English government gives them roughly $300,000 a year to live on.

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This week's On the Bright Side... brings you to sunny Florida where the Marlins have found themselves with the poorest fan attendance in major league baseball. Their latest attempt to turn that around has also turned a lot of heads. Check it out:Past On the Bright Sides...:#1#2#3#4#5

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George Will had a great article yesterday which made a great point. His point is that those who drink the global warming Kool-Aid and those who are screaming bloody murder about the housing "crisis" both make one huge assumption. The huge assumption is that they can identify when things were perfect.Temperatures around the globe have been in constant flux since the beginning of time, but the

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Here's an interesting clip of iconic author Tom Wolfe being interviewed about his opinions on America and Presidents Bush and Reagan. He makes some rather obvious points that you're unlikely to hear many other people of his prestige in the literary world (though there might not be any of those living) making. Watch it here

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Here's some more Reverend Jeremiah Wright quotes from the past via The Weekly Standard. Considering that Wright warned Obama his church might be too perceived as too radical and now that it's public knowledge Oprah left because of such rhetoric, it's going to be hard for Obama to weasel out of the horrible judgement charge:--"White supremacy is the bed rock of the philosophical, ideological and

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This week's On the Bright Side... is a video journal shot and narrated by the father of a baby born with serious health problems. What will strike you is the amazingly positive outlook the parents maintain in the face of such trying circumstances: Past On the Bright Sides...:#1#2#3#4

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Here's some pictures from the Arizona desert after a group of immigrants moved through:

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A former Guantanamo Bay detainee recently released by the Kuwaiti government was found to have committed a recent suicide bombing in Iraq. Apparently 36 other released detainees have been found to be fighting against us already. I just read that a few more than 200 prisoners have been released so far making it almost a 20% "recidivism" rate. 20% is pretty bad when you're dealing with terrorists

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Please forgive me for being about 13 years late on this point, but if I'd never heard such a thing before then I suppose there's a good chance many of you didn't either. This came to my attention via this Christopher Hitchens article in Slate today. The article primarily asks how sure we are that Michelle Obama isn't a rather radical influence on her husband. He cites her college thesis

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Hillary recently sent out a mailer raising questions about Barack Obama's anti-gun rhetoric. You can't help but laugh at some of the responses. Click on this link to read a couple Obama supporters unbelievably petty comments on the ad.

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So I was glancing through my Yahoo homepage when I saw a headline saying a freed Sudanese cameraman declared Gitmo the worst jail in history. My first thought was why in the world would Yahoo make such an obviously egregious exaggeration one of their five or six headlines? Though in retrospect I suppose I know the answer. The second thought I had flashed back to "Midnight Express". Let's get

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Check out this ABC News video on charitable giving patterns. Would you think the compassionate liberals or the cold-hearted conservatives give more of their income to charity? How's about donating blood? Watch and find out:

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For this week's "On the Bright Side..." I've got three cases of autistic individuals who will blow you away. You've just got to see them to believe it. While these are uplifting stories, the sad part is that there's still people who think even the possibility of an autistic or otherwise disabled child is cause for an abortion (Heck, many of them think you shouldn't even have to have a reason).

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Turns out it's not just "bitter" gunslingers and bible thumpers that are uneasy with generally unrestricted immigration from third-world countries. This past month has seen several stories in international papers about growing frustrations with lax immigration policies. Americans would be smart to pay attention as these countries are are the "progressive" models that stateside liberals strive so

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As I've noted before, conservatives have reported being happier than liberals in each of the past 35 years that such data has been collected by the General Social Survey. If it was just "most" years then there might be room for argument on the merits, but 35 straight years? Nope. Sorry, there's no arguing here. Today this article in the Economist goes into detail about why this is the case. They

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It's unlikely anybody noticed, but Roseanne Barr has joined Air America Radio Network. Well she's wasted no time in reminding us all why liberal radio is doomed to failure (All emotion, no reason).In a recent segment she opined that Democrats should recreate the Chicago riot of 1968 at this year's convention in Denver. She said she would participate and would also spend some of her own money to

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Here's a little parody video called "Arab Girls Gone Wild" that should serve to remind people how we can bend and make concessions to Muslim sensibilities until we're blue in the face, but still never meet in the middle. The reason I say in the title that Democrats and Islamic fundamentalists make the same mistake is this: They both favor "compulsory virtue", an oxymoron if I've ever heard one.

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Whether you were aware of it or not, until the middle of last week you weren't working for yourself, but instead the federal government. The nearly four months worth of wages prior were what it took to pay your cumulative taxes. April 23rd was this year's National Tax Freedom Day. Depending on what state you live in your specific date may be earlier or later. Below is a graph of Tax Freedom Days

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In trying to dismiss the fact that Barack Obama launched his political career at the home of an ultra-radical domestic terrorist, I've heard it said several times that this was simply a "right of passage" and not reflective of him. Just how depraved does an organization have to be to have a "rite of passage" that runs through the home of a couple that saluted Charles Manson, told hippies "kill

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“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” Viktor

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It's almost become a law of the universe that any time there's a nugget of liberal "common sense" everybody thinks they know, it turns out to be wrong. Unemployment for the disabled rose after the American's With Disabilities Act, we had an export surplus during the Great Depression, mandatory bike helmet laws rang in an increase in bicycle-related head injuries,the top 25 most charitable states

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Via Conservative Grapevine, in this almost unbelivable story you'll read about a doctor at Children's Hospital in Boston who is, with the help of horomone injections, intentionally delaying the onset of puberty in children until they can definitively choose what gender they want to be. It seems almost every day you get another little peek at the brave new world that progressives envision, or at

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No that's not another tasteless junk-mail headline for insecure men, but instead the literal aim of a new PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) initiative. They are offering a $1 million prize to whoever can create a meat product grown in a laboratory and indistinguishable from it's naturally derived counterpart. The product can only use starter cells taken from an animal and no more

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I guess Earth Day festivities took a bit of a hit yesterday in Edmonton, where the cold weather kept people home. Naturally the main thrust of the event was to combat supposed man-made global warming. This is not the first time a global warming event was got a chilly reception.In '04 Gore gave a much ballyhooed speech in New York City on one of the coldest days in the city's history. And in

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“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” -Viktor

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Some of you might have heard clips of this before, but it's worth hearing again. Listen as a tipsy John Wayne reacts to liberal student shenanigans at Columbia University. He saw way back then that the left was squelching debate and called on decent men to stand up to them. How do you think he'd react today upon hearing that conservative speakers around the country are shouted down, dis-invited,

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You obviously can't say for sure whether it was intentional, but it looks, in this video, like Obama purposely scratches his face with his middle finger during a pause in remarks about Hillary. Whether he meant it or not it sounds like the crowd thought he did.

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Barack Obama got hit pretty hard in the debate Wednesday night over his relationship with former radical Leftist and Weather Underground member Bill Ayers- and rightfully so. There's no reason to have any cordial association with such a man regardless if he's your neighbor or even your in-law. Obama has shown himself to be at best a push-over who can't muster the courage to assert himself if for

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About six-and-a-half years ago I was just out of college and pretty much politically ambivalent. If anything I leaned Democrat just because my family and community did. I even voted for our abysmal, current Democratic governor in 2002 over what I then saw as his correct position in opposition to school vouchers. Though my years in the school district might have eventually done the job without him

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Check out the graph below and notice the total absence of correlation between levels of carbon in the atmosphere and temperatures over the past nine years. The violet line is the observed temperature change from the UK's Hadley Climate Research Unit. The blue line is the observed temperature change from NASA's MSU satellite. The green line is the observed CO2 level.

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In sort of a follow up to the last post about government issued medical marijuana below, I looked into California's marijuana program. I came across a "Frequently Asked Questions" section on their official site and found that they allow minors to receive and smoke medical marijuana with parental consent. Now were these same minors to receive and smoke cigarettes (usually filtered by the way) from

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In a story that could just as easily be from The Onion, Canadian news is reporting that two-thirds of citizens receiving government issued marijuana are delinquent in their payments for it. One would imagine the checks they did get had Cheeto fingerprints and smelled of patchouli.Really? Nobody foresaw this? Even your local, corner drug dealer, working with a 6th grade education, knows better

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One of my all-time favorite quotes/passages is this one from Viktor Frankl:“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude

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Among today's progressives no designation warrants more self-righteousness than "advocate" (though "green" is gaining ground). Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground." That truism certainly isn't lost on today's progressives. Riding the gravy train of dispersed costs and concentrated benefits, advocates have found themselves wielding a surprising amount of

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I've always known that Barack Obama was teeming with elitist liberalism just under the surface. Up until now however, the closest glimpse we got came not from him, but via his wife in her "first time in my adult life I'm truly proud of my country" line. No longer. On Friday, Obama told a group of elite San Francisco liberals that small town residents in the Midwest "cling to guns or religion"

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There's a t-shirt out there that says: "We’ll solve poverty the day after we solve laziness and stupidity."That's obviously oversimplifying, but read this story and tell me it doesn't reinforce that sentiment a bit. I guess a man in the UK won a 5 million pound (roughly $10 million) lottery only three years ago and is already on SKINT and BENEFITS; two of Britain's welfare plans. Stories like

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Note to our liberal friends: Whoever was supposed to make sure Jimmy Carter didn't do something mind-numbingly retarded is in big trouble. He got out of the country again and he's making a huge mess.WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER.

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Just when I thought "green" was becoming a religion they go and do something reasonable. I was very surprised to come across this article today in the "green content" section on MSN. The article lists 6 myths about organic foods along with explanations. I simply assumed the article would be glowing with praise for the organic movement, but was taken aback to find a somewhat pessimistic take on it

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In a move that's almost hard to believe, Democrats in Congress are now refusing to vote on a border security bill that they themselves wrote. A whopping 49 Democrats were co-sponsors of a bill (called SAVE) beefing up the number of border patrols, outfitting them with better body armor,and expanding the social security verification system. Now it comes time to actually put the bill to a vote and

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Okay, maybe that's a tad bit subjective, but a new poll of 27,000 likely voters and radio listeners has found John McCain to have a definitive edge among those considering themselves classic rock fans. Obama had the edge among fans of 80's and 90's rock and alternative music. Making McCain's popularity among classic rock fans more impressive is the fact that 30% of respondents identified

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While I would imagine that not much more damage can be done by Obama's church affiliation, there's still some juicy side-notes popping up. It turns out,according to the New Republic, that Reverend Jeremiah Wright was formerly a Muslim and black nationalist. This obviously makes his marching with Louis Farrakhan and meeting with Mohmar Qadaffi slightly more interesting. Here's an excerpt from the

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I imagine most politically engaged people have at one time or another thought to themselves: "If only everybody was as familiar with the things I know, then they'd all be liberal/conservative/libertarian etc.." I'll admit I largely feel the same and think I've done a pretty good job of putting it into practice via successful debate. Whether I nudge someone over towards the conservative side or

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In the absolut stupidest marketing move ever check out the new ad campaign for Absolut Vodka in Mexico:For the same price I'd suggest Three Olives brand, or even save some money and go with the Smirnoff.reddit_url='[URL]'reddit_title='[TITLE]'

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