One of the great betrayals of the pro-life cause happened last summer when Scott Roeder killed abortionist George Tiller. Every right-thinking pro-lifer denounced that action, recognizing it to be fundamentally at odds with the nature of the cause we believe in.

IÂ’m therefore sickened to read about this effort to raise money for RoederÂ’s defense.

An Army of God manual. A prison cookbook compiled by a woman doing time for abortion clinic bombings and arsons. An autographed bullhorn.

These are among the items that abortion foes plan to auction on eBay and other Web sites in a fundraiser for Scott Roeder, the Kansas City man charged with killing Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller.

“This is unique,” said Regina Dinwiddie, a Kansas City anti-abortion activist who will sign the bullhorn. “Nobody’s ever done this before. The goal is that everybody makes money for Scott Roeder’s defense.”

Now I disagree with the notion advanced by one pro-abort activist that the auction could lead to more violence, especially given that there is more violence more often against pro-lifers than there is against abortionists and their facilities. But I do hope eBay refuses to support the auction, and that well-meaning pro-lifers avoid giving any support to the Scott Roeders of the world by coming to his defense rhetorically or financially.

And to those on the left who claim to be outraged – I’ve watched for years as Leftists have embraced killers like Mumia and Leonard Peltier, not to mention raising funds on their behalf. And for the last eight years we have sent he Left supporting terrorists and those (like Lynn Stewart) who aid them. Your outrage will have a lot more meaning when you side quits supporting cop killers and enemies of America.

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He may not have fulfilled most (or is that any) of his campaign promises, but he sure can hit links.

CBS' Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his Twitter feed that, "Today - Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24.

Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months."

When the going gets tough, the tough get going – and Obama goes golfing.

Ain't it great that there are no wars, economic crises, or other major issues facing the country that might interfere with Barry making his tee time?

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It is great to see this wounded vet receive justice – and shocking that it had to come to this for him to get it.

A former Michigan soldier who lost his hand after an explosion while trying to disarm a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2004 won a $4.3 million verdict today against the U.S. Army in a disability discrimination civil case.

“He proved that the Army created a hostile work environment for him because of his disability.” said Royal Oak attorney Kevin Carlson who won the case along with attorney Joseph Golden.

The attorneys represented James McKelvey, 38, of Macomb Township, who said in a discrimination lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit that a boss and coworker derided him as "the cripple, " refused to provide him with computer equipment and door handles to accommodate his disabilities, excluded him from meetings and told him to stay in his office cubicle for months on end.

He said superiors also objected to him parking in a handicapped space at the Warren tank arsenal even though he had a state permit.

Now wait – a medically retired wounded warrior received this treatment while working for the US Army? WTF? Why wasn’t something done to solve this situation?

And at this point, I have an even bigger question – are that supervisor and co-worker still on the government payroll in any capacity? If so, how long until they are terminated for cause and with no government benefits?

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Today's Houston Texan's game was something special.

It was Salute to the Military day, and lot's of active duty, reserve and vets were in attendance.

The Golden Eagles parachuted in with the flag and the game ball.

The marine Silent Drill Team showed their great skill at halftime.

And the honorary team captains were a father and son -- one a decorated pilot during WWII and the other a fighter pilot with the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam era.

Oh, yeah -- they were also the 41st and 43rd presidents of the United States.

If you live here in Houston, you see the elder George Bush around town a lot, and are likely to find yourself at a game or a theater event with him. But I have to say that I don't recall ever being in the same building with BOTH the father and the son at the same time. It was an honor.

Oh, yeah -- and the Texas beat the 49ers, 24-21, taking them to 4-3 on the season.

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Is it a quid pro quo?

General Electric, the world's largest industrial company, has quietly become the biggest beneficiary of one of the government's key rescue programs for banks.

At the same time, GE has avoided many of the restrictions facing other financial giants getting help from the government.

The company did not initially qualify for the program, under which the government sought to unfreeze credit markets by guaranteeing debt sold by banking firms. But regulators soon loosened the eligibility requirements, in part because of behind-the-scenes appeals from GE.

As a result, GE has joined major banks collectively saving billions of dollars by raising money for their operations at lower interest rates. Public records show that GE Capital, the company's massive financing arm, has issued nearly a quarter of the $340 billion in debt backed by the program, which is known as the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, or TLGP. The government's actions have been "powerful and helpful" to the company, GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt acknowledged in December.

Unlike other major lenders participating in the debt guarantee program, including Bank of America, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase, GE has never been subject to the Fed's stress tests or its rules for limiting risk. Also unlike firms that have received bailout money in the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, GE is not subject to restrictions such as limits on executive compensation.

So let's look at this. The federal government has ordered pay cuts for the highest paid employees of companies that received bailout funds. Somehow, though, a large recipient of bailout funds has escaped these pay cuts. And interestingly enough, the company in question owns a major cable "news" outlet that has been a source of exceedingly friendly and fawning coverage to the Obama Administration -- and among those top-salaried employees would be some of the journalists and commentators most deferential to the administration and critical of its opponents. Is the failure to restrict the salaries of these employees an attempt to buy continued favorable coverage? Seems to me that the appearance of impropriety is reason enough for an investigation by an independent prosecutor with full subpoena power.

H/T JammieWearingFool

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Leading Democrats have now come out against dissent.

Take Rep. Alan Grayson (D-.

"Fox News and their Republican collaborators are the enemy of America," Grayson told MSNBC's Ed Schultz on Wednesday. "They're the enemy of anybody who cares about health care in this country, the enemy of anybody who cares about educating their children, the enemy of anybody who wants energy independence or anything good for this country. And certainly the enemy of peace, there's no doubt about that. They are the enemy."

We who dissent from the policies of the Obamunists are not engaged in "the highest form of patriotism" like liberals were during the Bush years. No, we are enemies of America. And as we well know, adhering to America's enemies is TREASON, which merits death under the laws of the United States. So let's make it clear -- CONGRESSMAN ALAN GRAYSON HAS CALLED FOR THE EXECUTION OF JOURNALISTS AND POLITICAL DISSIDENTS in making this claim.

Which makes the words of the drug-addled son of the late and unlamented Jabba the Drunk seem almost moderate in comparison.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I) told CNSNews.com that the Catholic Church is doing nothing but fanning “the flames of dissent and discord” by taking the position that it will oppose the health-care reform bill under consideration in Congress unless it is amended to explicitly prohibit funding of abortion.

“I can’t understand for the life of me how the Catholic Church could be against the biggest social justice issue of our time, where the very dignity of the human person is being respected by the fact that we’re caring and giving health care to the human person--that right now we have 50 million people who are uninsured,” Kennedy told CNSNews.com when asked about a letter the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) had sent to members of Congress stating the bishops' position on abortion funding in the health-care bill.

“You mean to tell me the Catholic Church is going to be denying those people life saving health care? I thought they were pro-life?” said Kennedy. “If the church is pro-life, then they ought to be for health care reform because it’s going to provide health care that are going to keep people alive. So this is an absolute red herring and I don’t think that it does anything but to fan the flames of dissent and discord and I don’t think it’s productive at all."

So Kennedy is now attacking Catholic bishops for opposing legislation that violates fundamental tenets of the Catholic faith on the grounds that they are stirring up dissent. Funny, but I don't recall him or his father (who ACTUALLY committed treason back in the 1980s) ever complaining about those who "fanned the flames of dissent" during the Bush years. Indeed, they stood proudly among the flame fanners and wrapped themselves in the mantle of patriotism for their dissent.

What changed, Congressmen -- other than the president? Why is our dissent not every bit as patriotic as yours?

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After all, he accused the cable news leader of a federal felony in his blog post.

. . . Fox News spreads seditious lies to its demographic sliver of an audience. . . .

Now according to federal law, here is the definition of and penalty for seditious conspiracy (which is certainly what the "seditious lies" of the network would qualify as being).

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

Identify the acts of sedition and the parties to the conspiracy, Mr. Klein, or retract your statement.

And if Joel Klein will not do so, it is incumbent upon Time magazine to fire him immediately.

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Well, so they claim.

But these job numbers after all these months of stimulating seem a bit. . . flaccid.

Let's see -- by my calculations that puts Barry Hussein and his minions some 6.2 million jobs in the hole. Does he really expect to generate those jobs in the next 17 months without pouring more money down the rathole, like so many of his fellow DemocRATS are demanding? And why should we expect the job numbers to go up when all the evidence gives us evidence to the contrary?

There is hope, friends -- VOTE REPUBLICAN.

H/T Weasel Zippers

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I wrote about this story yesterday -- but now the cops say that there was no emergency when the 911 call was made and tapes of the incident show that the reporter was behaving respectfully and professionally.

Police questioned a reporter from a conservative publication after receiving a call that he harassed a Republican candidate for Congress who refused to answer his questions about her positions on tax and health issues.

Lowville Village Police Chief Eric Fredenburg said officers responded to a call Monday night saying state Assemblywoman Dierdre Scozzafava “felt concern for her safety” during questioning by reporter John McCormack of the Weekly Standard. He wouldn’t say who made the call.

“I don’t believe it ever escalated to anything that would ever be classified as an emergency,” Fredenburg said.

No charges were filed against McCormack.

Â…In the audio recording of the reporterÂ’s questioning played for The Associated Press by McCormack, the reporter didnÂ’t raise his voice, but repeated his unanswered questions several times, including one about abortion.

“I never screamed, I never yelled, I never shouted,” he said. “My voice was only loud enough so she could hear my questions.”

Seems to me that there may be grounds for an investigation of who placed the call -- and criminal charges for abuse of the 911 system. The question is -- was that person Dede Scozzafava -- or acting at her direction?

H/T Malkin

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Council Submissions

• First place with 2 points! – Bookworm Room - WhatÂ’s not to like about the Blue Angels?
• Second place with 1 points – (T*) – Right Truth - What about the women Obama?
• Second place with 1 points – (T*) – The Glittering Eye - Columbus Day, 2009
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Joshuapundit - ObamaÂ’s Nobel Prize – A Well deserved Award
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – The Colossus of Rhodey - MSM in full force using lies to thwart LimbaughÂ’s Rams purchase
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*), (D*) - The Razor - Lyndon Baines Obama and General Biden
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Mere Rhetoric - SF Jewish Federation Funding Rachel Corrie Screenings, Anti-Israel Hatefests [Videos]
• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Rhymes With Right - Wonder Why The First Amendment Is So Important?
• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – The Provocateur - the Unholy Alliance of Michelle Malkin and Michael Gaynor

Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 2 points! – Benjamin Kerstein/New Ledger - Obama and Israel: Betrayal in the Broken Places
• Second place with 1 2/3 points – Weekly Standard - Decline is a Choice
• Third place with 1 1/3 points – (T*) – Atlas Shrugs - Rifqa Bary to be returned to Ohio Â…no, waitÂ…Â… from Atlas Shrugs
• Third place with 1 1/3 points – (T*) – Reason - The Unknown War
• Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – The League of Ordinary Gentlemen - the genuine shame of Ross DouthatÂ’s New York Times column
• Fifth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – John Ziegler / Big Hollywood - So, Now You Tell Us?!
• Fifth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Amina Merchant at Washington Post - In Need of Urgent Care Hospitals Are Forced to Pay for SocietyÂ’s Failures
• Fifth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Keep American Safe - The Mission Statement

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Talk about showing her unfitness for public office!

When John McCormack of The Weekly Standard showed up at a public event for congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava (R-NY 23) on Monday night, he dared to act like a journalist and asked her questions about her positions on important issues and legislation. In response, ScozzafavaÂ’s campaign did something extraordinary.

I went to my car and fired up my laptop to report the evening's events.
Minutes later a police car drove into the parking lot with its lights flashing. Officer Grolman informed me that she was called because "there was a little bit of an uncomfortable situation" and then took down my name, date of birth, and address.
"Maybe we do things a little differently here, but you know, persistence in that area, you scared the candidate a little bit," Officer Grolman told me.
"[Scozzafava] got startled, that's all," Officer Grolman added. "It's not like you're in any trouble."

Startled? By a reporter asking questions? So startled that she and/or her campaign staff saw fit to call the POLICE to interfere with and harass someone she knew to be a reporter?

I’d already decided that Dede Scozzafava was not a good choice for Congress, and felt that her Conservative Party opponent Doug Hoffman was a better choice. I just hadn’t had the opportunity to write about that race yet. But now I need not go into an analysis of the issues and why she is too liberal to receive Republican support – all I have to do is point to this issue to show how singularly un-serious Scozzafava is as a candidate for office.

And even worse, now the Scozzafava campaign is trying to defame McCormack with claims he was abusive and engaging in stalker-like behavior. We now see what her character is really like, in addition to how liberal she really is. So I’ll say it right now – any conservative must vote for Conservative Doug Hoffman, not the Kos endorsed Republican.

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Straight from the mouth of Joe Biden.

Vice President Joe Biden originally turned down then presidential candidate Barack Obama's request to be his running mate, Biden said last night.

"I initially said no, that I wasn't interested," Biden said at a Democratic fundraising dinner in Pittsburgh. "He asked me to think about it."

Biden said he eventually accepted the offer "a couple months later."

Let’s be honest – the choice of Joe Biden as VP was perhaps the worst decision made by Obama during the campaign, a real sign of poor judgment. That Obama had the chance to walk away from that error and instead stuck with that bad choice when he had the chance to do better shows utter incompetence.

Unless, of course, Joe Biden was picked as a sort of life insurance – after all, I pray nightly for Obama’s health so that Joe Biden never occupies the Oval Office.

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A Texas killer lost at the Supreme Court today. But I wonÂ’t comment on that. Instead, I want to comment on this argument that had been used by defense lawyers during the original trial.

Mosley's trial lawyers didn't deny the shooting but argued it was accidental, that as he was trying to surrender the weapon it went off five times.

If I were a defense lawyer, IÂ’d certainly hate to have that as the major plank of my defense. Especially if my client were facing charges of murdering a police officer.

Seems to me weÂ’ve got scum who ought to soon be eliminated from among the breathing.

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How else are you going to keep them down on the Democrat plantation if you donÂ’t signal how they are supposed to vote?

KINSTON, N.C. | Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party.
The Justice Department's ruling, which affects races for City Council and mayor, went so far as to say partisan elections are needed so that black voters can elect their "candidates of choice" - identified by the department as those who are Democrats and almost exclusively black.

The department ruled that white voters in Kinston will vote for blacks only if they are Democrats and that therefore the city cannot get rid of party affiliations for local elections because that would violate black voters' right to elect the candidates they want.

Of course, seven of the nine voting precincts in Kinston are majority black and only two are majority white – and over 60% of the residents are black – so it is hard to see how black voters won’t be able to elect the candidates of their choice without party labels. Indeed, the small town has not elected any Republicans in living memory, so the need for party labels is questionable in any event.

Of course, the more interesting wrinkle is that the official who made this bizarre determination is apparently only interested in the voting rights of blacks. After all, she is the same person who decided to dismiss the charges of voter intimidation against armed thugs from the New Black Panther Party (accredited as “poll watchers” by the local Democrats) who intimidated white voters at a Philadelphia polling place. So it would seem that the official position of the Obamunists running the Department of InJustice is that black voters have the right to elect the candidates of their choice (as long as they are officially endorsed Democrats) and that white voters don’t have the right to be free of threats of violence as they attempt to elect the candidates of their choice.

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I'm not a fan of Barack Obama. Anyone who spends more than a few minutes on this site knows that.

On the other hand, I am a fan of freedom of speech. Anyone who spends more than a few minutes on this site knows that as well.

So while certain conservatives seem to take a bit of joy in this attack on freedom of speech, I don't -- and I condemn it every bit as much as I have previously condemned such attacks on political speech I agree with.

The mural of President Barack Obama has been on the side of a Midtown building since the Democratic primary, when the president was a U.S. Senator, and the building served as his Houston Campaign headquarters.

Over the weekend someone painted "puppet" on his mural, and the statement "yes we can" now has the statement "loose our freedom" painted next to it.

"This was done in broad daylight, and it just and kind of defaced a pretty good memorial," said Gerry McGee who works in the building where the mural is located.

The building is now the campaign headquarters for a mayoral candidate, and campaign worker Mcgee is pretty disappointed that someone vandalized a picture of the President. "We'll move on. This is not going to stop the movement. This is not going to stop the excitement that Obama has brought to the country," McGee said.

As dangerous as some of Obama's risky schemes and naive policies are to American liberty and international security, I condemn this attack on the liberty of speech contained in the First Amendment. We on the right cannot and should not act like our liberal opponents who are know for their intolerance of dissent from their political views. We are better than that.

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A couple of weeks ago, I set off quite a little conflict when I sent a rather frank email to the husband/campaign manager of a political novice who announced her plans to challenge our incumbent GOP state rep for the GOP nomination. Now IÂ’m not a fan of the incumbent (I was one of the leaders of an insurgent campaign to unseat him in 200 , but I thought it appropriate to explain why I believed her candidacy was flawed from the get-go, and why another committee chair had rather brutally (and perhaps a bit less than fairly) dissected the announcement email sent out by her husband/campaign manger. Needless to say, it got rather ugly before it got better. ItÂ’s a pity that I didnÂ’t have this observation from Carol Platt Liebau to include in my response.

Given the public disenchantment with voter-ignoring, big-government-loving Democrats in Congress and The White House, next year’s elections could do much to restore some measure of fiscal sanity and common sense to Washington. But that will happen only if Republican leaders and grassroots Tea Party activists work together effectively. How – and whether – the two reconcile their different priorities and views will have profound consequences for any effort to beat back the Democratic vision of an ever-expanding, ever-more-intrusive federal government.

* * *

. . . Tea Partiers need to be realistic, and understand the limitations of political passion and zeal. Plenty of congressional districts wouldn’t support even a second Ronald Reagan, simply because they are irremediably liberal. Rather than allowing the “best” to become the enemy of the “good enough,” activists could best further their cause by supporting the most conservative candidate who can win, rather than the most conservative candidate, period – when it means that candidate will surely lose.

In the case of the novice candidate in my district has no discernable history of political involvement with the GOP, no name recognition, and no money. What she does have is a lot of enthusiasm and a few enthusiastic backers. Somehow she and these supporters expect those who have spent the last couple of decades growing a very successful county party (which did hit a major bump in 200 to hand her the nomination because of her frequent use of the term “grassroots” as both the justification for her candidacy and the excuse for all of the missteps that she and her husband had made in rolling out her campaign.

The sad thing is that I like elements of what she and her supporters have to say. Unfortunately, we lack any indication of how hard these folks are willing to work and how long they are prepared to sustain that effort. What’s more, we have no idea how deep the commitment is to the principles enunciated in the email manifesto that I received – after all, she did vote in the 2008 Democrat primary and seems to be a political cipher before then. The notion that a political novice must earn the support of the long-time activists seemed shocking and scandalous to them.

Of course, the quote above also makes an important point that must not be underemphasized – party leaders cannot reject such insurgencies out of hand. I had several long and fruitful email exchanges with some of the supporters in which I expressed my willingness to hear more about their ideas and to find a viable candidate who we could all support, even as I argued that this particular candidate may not be the best vehicle to see those principles carried into the electoral battles ahead. We must indeed find the most electable conservative candidate to advance our shared conservative principles – but we can neither sacrifice essential principles in the interest of finding the most electable candidate nor sacrifice the essential criteria of electability in the interest of finding the most ideologically pure contender. In short, both sets of activists – the newly aroused and the long-time party regular – must be ready to meet in the middle so that we can accomplish our shared goal of advancing our shared principles. If we can’t, then we cede many of our electoral contests to those who reject our values and our policy principles.

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Another assault, more silence.

A pro-life person who participated in the 40 Days for Life event in Fresno, California was assaulted on Thursday afternoon by an abortion advocate. Victor Fierro, director of the Hispanic pro-life group Latinos4Life, was the victim of an assault by a woman who first tried to intimidate him.

Yesterday, a pro-abortion woman shouted obscenities at participants in the 40 Days for Life event, which is part of a national campaign.

The woman first attempted to break a security camera pro-life advocates installed to protect themselves and catch any harmful activity on tape. The attacker then cut FierroÂ’s arm with an unknown object, drawing blood, stormed back to her car and fled the scene.

Josh Brahm, the education director of Right to Life of Central California, told LifeNews.com that much of the encounter took place right behind the camera, but the audio was captured by the device. It also registered her face and license plate number.

“We're just trying to hold a peaceful prayer vigil out here. We're law-abiding citizens, standing on a public sidewalk, with the full support of the Fresno Police Department," he told LifeNews.com.

"Yet, several pro-abortion-choice people have been harassing us since day one. Now itÂ’s turned physical," he added.

But the local media preferred not to report on the attack, which thankfully produced only minor injuries. Yet had there been even a shoving match with no injuries provoked by the pro-lifers, it would have been national news – not to mention the basis for even more restrictive laws limiting the free speech of such protesters.

Remember, all animals are equal – but some are more equal than others.

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I wasn't going to write on this topic. Really, I wasn't. But then, as we were preparing for our trip to the quilt show yesterday, my wife brought the topic up, and even suggested that I blog on the topic -- and when my liberal Democrat wife suggests such a thing, I can't refuse.

It is, of course, a favorite topic around our house -- the disparate treatment of survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Ike. Katrina was four years ago -- Ike is barely a year past. Yet to this day we continue to see stories about Katrina and the people displaced and effected by the that monster storm. Yet little more than a year ago another monster storm hit the United States, only a few hours away in the Houston/Galveston area, and we have been told, in effect, to bugger off and tend to our own needs. We got a great illustration of this during the week that just ended.

On Thursday, Barack Obama graced the people of New Orleans with his presence and promises of even more help to get their lives back to normal -- in other words, a continuation of the open-ended commitment to throw money at New Orleans and its myriad problems. Then on Friday (after diverting to San Francisco for a high-dollar political fundraiser), Barack Obama came to Texas -- College Station and Texas A&M, to be exact. That put him 80 miles from Houston, and 127 miles from Galveston -- less than an hour by air to Ellington Field on the south side of Houston and its direct path (I-45) into the heart of the devastation. But did he bother with the victims of the more recent storm who are still in recovery mode? No, he did not.

Now I could point out that the folks in New Orleans are reliable Democrat voters while we in this area are not and suggest that partisan politics is the reason -- but I won't. Or I could point out the obvious demographic differences between New Orleans and the area impacted by Hurricane Ike and attribute the disparate treatment to race -- but I won't. Those are not the reasons that Barack Obama is ignoring the Texas Gulf Coast devastated by Hurricane Ike.

No, I'll attribute the neglect of the recently devastated area of Texas to something much more venal -- the fact that the first priority for Barack Obama is Barack Obama. The media drove Katrina into the national psyche in a way that it did not with Ike (overwhelmingly due to the racial and political components), and there is therefore much more in the way of personal political capital for Obama to earn and store up with a visit to New Orleans to commiserate with the victims of a storm that happened four years ago than there is to be gained through a visit with the survivors of any more recent natural disaster. So Barack Obama will visit New Orleans and throw more money at that city while recovery projects here in the Houston/Galveston area will be allowed to go unfunded or underfunded because there just isn't any political gain to be had in providing such presidential attention and federal largesse to this community. So Barack Obama will never forget New Orleans -- and he will never remember the Texas Gulf Coast area.

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The insurance industry has dared to dissent from the Obamunist line -- they must be punished.

President Obama mounted a frontal assault on the insurance industry on Saturday, accusing it of using “deceptive and dishonest ads” to derail his health care legislation and threatening to strip the industry of its longstanding exemption from federal antitrust laws.

Seems to me that the Obamessiah has become more and more esty in the face of strong opposition to his plan to strip health care freedom from Americans and replace it with a system of government mandates, regulations, penalties, and limited choices. Opponents must therefore be destroyed as a warning to those who would dare to question the policies and plans of the little tin god at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Dissent just ain't patriotic any more -- and must be punished by law.

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I just came across CiUMEaPc:UiacyKUnciaec8O7EyUr">this story -- and am both shocked and disgusted by it.

A justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple last week because of concern for the children who might be born of that relationship.

Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace for Tangipahoa ParishÂ’s 8th Ward, also said it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

“I’m not a racist,” Bardwell said. “I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house. My main concern is for the children.”

Beth Humphrey, 30, said she and her boyfriend, Terence McKay, 32, both of Hammond, intend to consult the U.S. Justice Department about filing a discrimination complaint.

They've got my full support on this one. Indeed, I hope that Louisiana's governor can take some temporary action in the mean time to remove this racist piece of filth from any position of authority until a more permanent solution can be implemented.

Ad yes, this guy ran as a Republican -- but he clearly has no concept about what the GOP has been about since its founding over 150 years ago. I disown him, and so has every Republican I've seen comment.

H/T Volokh Conspiracy

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Down here in Seabrook, we passed a referendum to issue bonds for the building of a new library several years ago to replace a facility that was just too small for our community and, to be honest, already showing signs of aging. During Hurricane Ike, the library was seriously damaged, and it has not reopened -- depriving this community of one of its major focal points.

Several months ago, the new plans were unveiled and we were promised a new library by the fall of 2010. Groundbreaking was supposed to be last week. But those who attended the groundbreaking got an unpleasant surprise.

It was supposed to be groundbreaking day for construction of the new Seabrook library, but instead came the disappointing news that the funding isnÂ’t there.

“The project is on hold,’’ Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner Sylvia Garcia told the crowed gathered Tuesday on what was to be the site of a groundbreaking celebration.

“Please don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. Every (Harris County) construction project except toll road projects has been put on hold,’’ she said, citing the tight economy.

Excuse me!

Where is the bond money?

Where are the disaster recovery funds to replace the damaged building?

And why was this bombshell decision hidden from both the elected officials and the citizens of our community?

I'm putting our Harris County officials on notice now -- you need to find that money and find it now. Local folks are mighty pissed off about this. And to those of you who are planning on running for reelection next year -- I don't care if you have an R or a D after your name, if this project is not under way soon, I will make it a point to work for the defeat of each and every one of you.

And yes, that does mean you, County Judge Ed Emmett. You are a master at finding money for projects that are a priority for you -- make hurricane recovery for this corner of Harris County a priority or be prepared to lose this reliably Republican area.

And since Barack Obama was down in New Orleans today promising ever more federal cash to that city over four years after their hurricane, how about giving some attention to those of us who dealt with a major storm significantly more recently?

UPDATE: I'll give the man credit -- Ed Emmett has been in touch with me today (Sunday, October 1 to let me know he is going to look into the matter of the library here in Seabrook. I'll post more when he gets back to me with some details on what is going on and what the prospects are for getting this project underway.

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From our "friends" at the NAACP.

You see, they are worried that the "wrong sort" might get appointed as mayor of Baltimore after the incumbent gets convicted of her felonious behavior.

"Our concern is who would the governor appoint?" (Marvin L. Cheatham, the president of the Baltimore Chapter of the NAACP) said. "Here you have a predominantly African-American city. What if the governor appointed somebody white? ... Would he appoint someone Irish to be the mayor?"

Whatever would Dr. King say? After all, this certainly takes the notion of judging based upon the content of one's character rather than the color of one's skin and blows it all to Hell and back!

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It seems youÂ’ve come out against allowing an American patriot, a US citizen who makes a livening by commenting on our nationÂ’s politics, to own a minority stake in an NFL franchise. Why? Because you donÂ’t like what he has said in the course of exercising his constitutional rights. Frankly, this season ticketholder is concerned by the decision to, in effect, impose a blacklist based upon the political utterances of this potential owner, a successful entrepreneur who is truly a self-made man whose daily radio show garners some 20 million listeners.

Now I could argue that there is something unseemly – indeed, un-American – about a McCarthyite political blacklist like that used in the 1950s to prevent those whose politics were deemed unacceptable from earning a living in many occupations, including the entertainment industry. I won’t, because unlike your target, Rush Limbaugh, many of those Americans were not patriots and were treasonously in the thrall of an enemy regime that was out to destroy the US Constitution, American liberties, and our entire way of life. Limbaugh, whether you love him or hate him, is not such an individual – he is an all-American individual with a strong belief in the US Constitution, individual freedom, and the liberty of each American citizen to improve his or her lot in life through hard work and enterprising spirit. That makes your blacklist infinitely worse.

But if a history of controversial political comments is to be the basis for excluding individuals from close association with the NFL on the basis that their words offend a segment of the population (and therefore the potential fan base of the league), why does the NFL allow Keith Olbermann to be a part of the lineup of commentators for NBC? After all, Olbermann is equally as offensive if not more so, especially in light of his nightly rants and insulting language directed towards national leaders and political opponents. Do you mean to tell me that Olbermann’s recent statement that a prominent minority blogger, columnist, and author is a “a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it” who espouses “total[ly] mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred”? If statements attributed (many of them falsely) to Rush Limbaugh are the sort of “divisive comments” that “are not what the NFL is all about”, then is it your position that Olbermann’s statements are what the NFL is all about? Or are you planning to take immediate action to have Keith Olbermann removed from his position as a commentator on NBC’s NFL programming? In short, on what basis do you exclude Limbaugh but include Olbermannn – and is the difference principled or hypocritical?

And if we are going to get into the issue of what is and is not acceptable language and conduct for those associated with the NFL, can we consider the following situations?

• One minority owner of the Miami Dolphins is about to appear nude in a pornographic publication. Is this the sort of thing that the NFL is all about?
  
• This same minority owner has recently faced sanctions from the professional athletic body that governs her sport for cursing an official and threatening that official with physical violence during an athletic competition? Is this the sort of thing the NFL is all about?
  
• This same minority owner recently defended the exclusion of Jews from some competions in her sport based upon their religion. Is this the sort of thing the NFL is all about?
  
• A pop music star known for her sexually explicit lyrics and dancing is about to become a minority owner of the Miami Dolphins. Is this the sort of thing the NFL is all about?
  
• The Checketts group reportedly includes an individual who admittedly collaborated with the Nazis in the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust. Is this the sort of thing the NFL is all about?
  
• A number of players in the NFL are members of the Nation of Islam, an anti-Semitic black supremacist group with a history of violence. Is this the sort of thing the NFL is all about?
  
• You recently reinstated a convicted felon who had engaged in wanton acts of animal cruelty. Is this the sort of thing the NFL is all about?
  
• An NFL player recently killed a man in a drunk driving incident and was quickly reinstated by the league. Is this the sort of thing the NFL is all about?

I guess what I am asking, Commissioner Goodell, is whether or not the NFL has any standards at all – beyond objecting to political and social views held by a large segment of the American people, and seeking to exclude those who hold such views from active involvement in the NFL.

While I certainly do not share all of the views held or articulated by Rush Limbaugh, we have many in common. As a blogger, IÂ’m concerned any time there is an attempt to stifle political speech. And since the suppression of political views similar to my own seems to be what the NFL is all about, IÂ’m left wondering if there is any longer a place in my budget for my season tickets to the Houston Texans if the NFL is to be the No Freedom League. WhatÂ’s more, I suspect IÂ’m not the only person in an NFL city who is asking that question. Is it really your intent to alienate us?

I look forward to your response, Mr. Goodell. It will be a major factor in whether or not my wife and I will be occupying those seats in Section 541 of Reliant Stadium on ten game days next season. I will also forward this letter to Bob Mcnair of the Houston Texans, soliciting his answers to these questions as well as his opinion regarding your continued employment as commissioner of the NFL.

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I think we can argue about whether or not a cross as a war memorial on public land is appropriate or constitutional – an issue which the Supreme Court is wrestling with right now. But I don’t see how anyone except for individuals or groups with an active hatred of Christianity can object to this one that is causing a dispute in a different part of California.

Before Monterey replaces the Portol -Crespi cross on Del Monte Beach, it wants to raise a war chest to defend the city's action against possible lawsuits — a move an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer calls "a very bizarre decision."

After holding a public hearing on the cross issue Tuesday night, the council came out of closed session saying its members were unanimous in wanting the cross replaced. The council said it marks the historic site where explorer Don Gaspar de Portol and Father Juan Crespi raised a wooden cross in December 1769 as a signal to the supply ship San Jose, expected to arrive from Mexico.

The newer cross, erected on the dunes between Roberts Lake and the beach in December 1969, was set there to mark the bicentennial of that event. Sometime during the night of Sept. 18, vandals sawed the cross off at its base and left it lying in the sand.

The council motion seems to hedge the city's bets in restoring it. It states: "The City Council does not condone vandalism. Because of the historical significance of the cross, it is the City Council's desire to restore the cross. To that end, once a legal defense fund is established by the community and $50,000 is raised, we will proceed with the restoration of the cross."

Got that, folks? This cross was placed on the site for one very simple reason – to the early exploration of the area by Spanish explorers who erected a cross on the site. This would seem to be, from a First Amendment perspective, a no-brainer. There is nothing religious about this cross – it is unquestionably the recreation of a historical event, which makes its erection a bona fide secular act.

But that isn’t good enough for the ACLU cretins who want to keep the cross from going back up. Seems to me that they simply wish to expunge the symbol from public land even when it serves a valid secular purpose – and that they probably won’t be happy until they have banned the letter “t” and the plus sign from all public facilities.

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Over at Race 4 2012 we get this great observation on what the GOP needs in a leader -- I'd argue a presidential candidate -- in 2012.

If we knew him we would be able to say what makes him the right man. (Or the right woman. I’m only saying ‘man’ for convenience.) But as he’s not standing unmistakable before our eyes, we can at least try to describe what sort of person he should ideally be: what experience he should have had; what beliefs he should hold; what qualities and abilities he should have acquired or been endowed with by nature.

Completely irrelevant are his (her) ethnic derivation, racial descent, color, or class.

First, he must be proud of his country. He should know its history. He should want above all to preserve what it has always stood for: liberty. He should believe that American power is a force for good in the world and be determined to maintain it.

Next, he should have been a leader in some walk of life, and have proved himself to be trustworthy and competent at directing others.

He must of course be a person of honor, decency, civility, and probity. He should deeply desire to be just, but hold the law and the Constitution in higher esteem than his own inclinations.

He should be a good judge of character, know how to weigh advice, but be intelligently decisive and firm in implementing what he decides.

He should be able to talk to the nation plainly, to say what he means and mean what he says.

He should broadly share the values, understand and respect the aspirations of his fellow Americans.

He must be a zealot for national prosperity, keen to let the free market work as the unique bread machine that it is, by keeping taxes low, government curbed, and private property safe.

Finally, he should be the sort of commonsensical soul who takes himself with a pinch of suspicion.

Jillian Becker does not profess to know who this leader is -- indeed, she ends her piece by asking who we see on the horizon that fits the bill. I know we had such a man three decades ago -- the man who inspired so many of us who are activists today to become the activists that we are today. That is not to say that we need another Reagan -- the challenges we face today are different and the leader we need will have been refined in a different crucible than that which formed the Fortieth President of the United States. Yet those characteristics that made Reagan the leader he was are the same that we need now -- and it truly does not matter if the leader is named Palin or Petraeus, Romney or Jindal, Huckabee or Pawlenty, or some other name that does not leap immediately to mind, provided that the bulk of these traits animate this next leader's platform and personality.

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Could you imagine the national – no, the international – uproar if the students of a prestigious university raised objections to the selection of a black student as the winner of a beauty pageant and school homecoming queen? There would be marches and rallies and sit-ins and federal investigations of the school, and serious efforts made to address the obvious racial problems at the school. It would be fodder for talk shows for weeks – and Barack Obama would no doubt make a public statement about how the students of the school were behaving stupidly.

Will we get the same sort of uproar over this incident?

Hampton University crowned its first non-black Miss HU Friday, leading to a division on campus that prompted her to write President Barack Obama.

Nikole Churchill, 22, competed against nine black students in the 15th annual Miss HU scholarship pageant. The senior nursing major attends the Virginia Beach campus and is the competition's first non-black winner, according to executive pageant director Shelia J. Maye.

Churchill, who is from Hawaii, wrote Obama on Sunday to tell him that her crowning was met with negative comments because of her skin color. She invited him to visit HU and speak about racial tolerance.

"I am hoping that perhaps you would be able to make an appearance to my campus, Hampton University, so that my fellow Hamptonians can stop focusing so much on the color of my skin and doubting my abilities to represent," she wrote, "but rather be proud of the changes our nation is making toward accepting diversity."

So come on, Barry, show us some of those Nobel Peace Prize winner skills and infuse a little bit of harmony and brotherhood at this historically black university. Unless, of course, racism isnÂ’t a problem when it is espoused by African-American scholars rather than uneducated whites.

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One of the things I've always liked for sheer curb appeal is a house with shutters. if you need wood shutters, check out Larson Shutter Company for high quality and good prices.

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Here are the most recent results of the voting by members of the Watcher's Council!

Council Submissions

• First place with 2 points! – Soccer Dad - Why did israel jail the pregnant woman?


• Second place with 1 1/3 points – Joshuapundit - Our ‘NegotiationsÂ’ With Iran


• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Bookworm Room - Yahoo fact checks SNL?


• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – The Provocateur - A Half Hour With Two Chicago Whistleblowers


• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Mere Rhetoric - GoldstoneÂ’s Daughter: Israel Should Thank My Dad For Legitimizing The UNÂ’s Vicious Anti-Israel Smear Campaign


• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – The Colossus of Rhodey - Dopey WNJ Letter of the Week

Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 1 2/3 points! – Washington Times - Criminalizing Everyone


• Second place with 1 points – (T*) – JammieWearingFool - CBS News Tries To Discredit Conservative Blogs, Fails Miserably Â…


• Second place with 1 points – (T*) – ABC - Exclusive: Wounded U.S. Soldiers Refused to Leave Taliban Fight


• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – John Stossel @ RCP - ItÂ’s the Spending, Stupid


• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – PajamaÂ’s TV - PJTV: The Power & Danger of Iconography


• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Jed babbin - Lyndon Baines Obama


• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – ReasonÂ’s Hit & Run - Hoosier Grandmother Arrested for Buying Cold Medication


• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Flopping Aces - ObamaÂ’s Grand Distraction


• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Brett D. Schaefer and James L. Gattuso / NRO Corner - Ceding the Internet


• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – The New Republic - What Should African-American Studies Students Learn?

Also, a quick note for anyone interested in becoming a member of the Watcher's Council. It appears that we may be recruiting a new member shortly, so let me know if you are interested, or check out the Watcher's Council site.

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We are living in a time with high unemployment and a tight job market. You need every bit of assistance you can get to find a job. Well, there are great medical office jobs out there if you just know where to look. Check out medicalofficejobs.org to find out what medical office employment is available in your area.

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Because with out it, we might find ourselves reading something like this in American newspapers -- or hearing it in our broadcast media.

The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.

Today's published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.

The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented – for the first time in memory – from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret.

The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.

This is, of course, why some of us are so vehement in our defense of the First Amendment rights of free speech and press. After all, it is the right of the public to know what its government is doing -- and to speak on matters touching on government -- that is at the heart of the First Amendment. It is why we argue that what restrictions are placed -- such as in defense of national security during time of war -- must be narrowly tailored so as to cause the least erosion of those rights. And where such restrictions on the freedoms of speech and pres are not narrowly drawn -- such as in the case of federal restrictions on speech surrounding elections -- we protest vigorously and work to overturn them.

Frankly, in the case of this story from the UK I don't know what it could possibly be about. But then again, that is precisely the point of these restrictions -- and why they are dangerous to the working of any society that values the right of the people to govern themselves. And it is why the framers of the American government, recognizing the evils which accompanied the ability of the British government to muzzle the press, included a strong guarantee of press freedom in our framework of government -- and why, over two centuries later, we can see the wisdom of that decision.

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I have always loved Google -- but I've found another search engine that is really great -- Aafter.com. The great thing about it is that it lets you web search with privacy . Not only that, but this search engine also includes some additional internet applications that are convenient for users. Just type a zip code and links appear for weather reports, allergy reports, pollution levels and other information for the area.

Also, if you type a website url into the search box Aafter.com will hook you up with information about the websiteÂ’s traffic stats, its WhoIs information, and a host of other bits of information about the website you are researching.

So if you want a treasure trove of information and features, consider Aafter.com!

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Words I never thought I would right about the prospect of Hillary Clinton permanently removing herself from consideration for the Presidency.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday she would not run for president again, and brushed off suggestions that she is being marginalized in the Obama White House.

Clinton, who lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama, said "No" three different times when asked by NBC's Ann Curry "Will you ever run for president again? Yes or No?"

"This is a great job," Clinton said in the interview broadcast Monday. "It is a 24-7 job. And I am looking forward to retirement at some point."

After the 2008 elections, Clinton accepted Obama's offer to serve as his top diplomat.

Unless she challenged President Obama in the 2012 Democratic presidential primary, Clinton would have to wait until 2016 to run again if she changed her mind. She turns 62 on October 26.

Hillary, America needs you. Barack Obama is a disaster for this country. Resign now, and begin your run for the Democrat nomination for president in 2012.

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I knew nothing about Kansas Democrat Congressman Dennis Moore before today. Now that I do, I'd like to mark him down as someone who needs to be defeated in 2010 as a disgrace to the nation.

Speaking to a respected Hispanic leader in KCK, Dennis Moore reportedly called decorated and disabled Marine Veteran and Congressional Opponent "White Trash" in a recent (recorded) telephone conversation. The KCK leader, who has formally supported the incumbent congressman, is supporting Daniel Gilyeat's candidacy for the Kansas 3rd District Congressional seat. Dennis Moore called the KCK man after hearing the Hispanic community leader's support had changed. Dennis Moore said he had $7 million for the campaign and could not believe the naturalized citizen was supporting "White Trash" over Moore.

They say this conversation is recorded. Here's hoping it appears on the Internet immediately -- we need to expose the sort of contempt that Democrats have for their opponents. The use of the slur in question is unacceptable, and if he is willing to use such a slur regarding a decorated veteran of white ancestry, I have to wonder what terms he uses for African-Americans, Hispanics or other minorities when he thinks he can get away with it.

As for his GOP challenger, Daniel Gilyeat, I can say that all I know is that he is a combat veteran who not only served honorably as a marine, but also gave of his own flesh in defense of the United States of America. I cannot speak to his position on issues, but I'd have to argue that his sacrifice shows him to be a better man than the hate-mongering Democrat incumbent he is looking to unseat in 2010.

H/T Moonbattery

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Want to know more about the company and its products? Well, then drop by the website at UnitedVacuum.com for more information.

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We've already seen that he won't do crap about students being picked up in restrooms by adult men for sexual trysts, and he has expressed support for NAMBLA -- now we find out he doesn't have much of a problem with murder.

We need to own up to the fact that our culture teaches boys that being “a man” is the most important thing in life, even if you have to kill someone to prove it. Killing someone who calls you a faggot is not aberrant behavior but merely the most extreme expression of a belief that is beaten (sometimes literally) into boys at an early age in this country: Be a man – don’t be a faggot.

Sorry, Mr. Jennings, but murdering someone over name-calling is ALWAYS aberrant behavior. Even if the name called was "faggot". That you think differently is one more piece of evidence that you do not belong anywhere in the field of education -- and that you certainly should have nothing to do with ensuring "safe schools" for our nation;s children. Not to mention someone who does not belong in the administration of a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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Sometimes folks just need cash that they don't have, and they need it right now. That isn't necessarily a sign of irresponsibility -- it can just be a reality that circumstances put people in the red financially. And that is the sort of time when you go and find yourself a loan.

Imagine, for example, that you are a budding entrepreneur with bills to pay and a busines to run. What do you do to deal with the real problem of more cash going out than comes in in the beginning? After all, there are still bills to be paid, and only so many personal sources that you can tap. That's when you have to start looking at other sources of funds to pay those bills. So while you may not want to apply for a loan, it might become a necessity. That's why what some folks call "second wallet payday loans" can be a real financial life preserver during those rough times when money is temporarily tight.

Are loans in such situations a bad thing? Of course not, provided that they are used responsibly. In fact, it is very possible that such loans, used with responsibility and forethought, can actually help protect one's financial health.

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I'm a conservative -- but unlike many of my fellow conservatives, i fiercely object to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the US military. I've always found it a bit absurd that we reject the talents of those more than capable of serving our country on the basis of their sexual orientation. That attitude has only been confirmed in my mind by the growing acceptance of homosexuals in society as a whole.

So one would think that I would be turning handstands over this announcement.

President Barack Obama pledged to end the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military in a speech Saturday, but acknowledged to a cheering crowd that the policy changes he promised on the campaign trail are not coming as quickly as they expected.

"I will end 'don't ask-don't tell,'" Obama said at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay civil rights advocacy group.

Why no excitement? Because he gives no timetble, only a vague commitment. And he made the same commitment during the campaign, only to sit on his hands for the first nine months he's been in office, despite the fact that most Americans would support him on this one.

In other words, it really isn't a priority to Barack Obama -- any more than winning in Afghanistan or promoting human rights in China are priorities for him.

Wake me when Obama actually tries to carry through on this promise -- if he ever gets around to it.

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After all, he is joining this list of allegedly worthy recipients whose contributions to world peace appear to be fraudulent or non-existent -- or who support causes that make the Birthers and Truthers look legitimate. Scott at Powerline notes these recipients over the last four decades -- some of whom were obviously unworthy when they received their awards, though others did not prove their unworthiness until years later.

2007
AL GORE The award to Al Gore and the IPCC "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" fits in with a subset of cosmopolitan frauds, fakers, murderers, thieves, and no-accounts going back about twenty years.

2005
MOHAMED ELBARADEI (joint winner). He's done such a nice job with Iran.

2004
WANGARI MAATHAI The Kenyan ecologist peacefully teaches that the AIDS virus is a biological agent deliberately created by the Man.

2002
JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America. A true cosmopolitan, he has undermined the foreign policy of his own country and vouched for the bona fides of tyrants and murderers all over the world. Commenting on the award, Nobel Committee Chairman Gunnar Berge emphasized that the award was meant as a denunciation of American policy toward Iraq. "It should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the [Bush] administration has taken," Berge said. "It's a kick in the leg to all that follow the same line as the United States."

2001
UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA.
KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General. Among other things, they respectively served as the vehicle for, and presided over, one of the biggest scams in history.

1994
YASSER ARAFAT (joint winner), Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority. He was a cold-blooded murderer both before and after receiving the award.

1992
RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, Guatemala. She is the notorious Guatemalan faker and author, sort of, of I, Rigoberta Menchu. Like President Obama, she is a memoirist of distinction.

1988
THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A. Notwithstanding rapes and sex abuse committed by the team in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and the Congo, still doing fine work all over the world.

1976
BETTY WILLIAMS, United Kingdom, founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People), who in later years repeatedly called for the assassination of President George Bush. How peaceful can you get?

1973
LE DUC THO (with Henry Kissinger) for the 1973 peace with honor bequeathed to the fortunate people of Vietnam.

Of course, there have been many worthy recipients during that time as well -- Andrei Sakharov, Mother Teresa, Lech Walesa, Elie Wiesel, the Dalai Lama (recently snubbed by this year's recipient in an effort to curry favor with the not-so-peaceful Red Chinese dictators), Aung San Suu Kyi, and Doctors Without Borders. Indeed, in 1972 there was no award made -- an option that would have been preferable in my eyes to debasing the award even further by giving it to someone whose only qualification is that he isn't George W. Bush.

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Either that, or she does not understand sharia. If either of these two things is true, she has no place holding a position in the American government that relates to Islamic affairs.

President Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.

Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice".

The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.

The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.

Miss Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir's national women's officer, Nazreen Nawaz.

During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma earlier this week, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular "man-made law" and the West's "lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism".

They called for Sharia Law to be "the source of legislation" and said that women should not be "permitted to hold a position of leadership in government".

Miss Mogahed made no challenge to these demands and said that "promiscuity" and the "breakdown of traditional values" were what Muslims admired least about the West.

Got that -- the Obama Regime is inclusive of those who want women covered and subservient to men, with non-Muslims put into a second-class status with fewer rights than Muslims. Frankly, who gives a damn what such people want, given that it is antithetical to the US Constitution and the entire American tradition.

I'd like to say I'm shocked -- but I'm not.

Disgusted? yYeah -- but not shocked

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Global warming doesn't appear to be happening.

What happened to global warming?

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

Of course, as the article points out, the high priests of the cult of global warming insist that even evidence that global warming isn't happening is no reason to believe that global warming isn't happening.

And pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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