Pay attention....

Melanie Phillips:

"There are, alas, many in the west for whom all this is music to their ears. Whether through wickedness, ideology, stupidity or derangement, they firmly believe that the ultimate source of conflict in the world derives at root from America and Israel, whose societies, culture and values they want to see emasculated or destroyed altogether. They are drooling at the prospect that an Obama presidency will bring that about. The rest of us can’t sleep at night."

Pray to the East....

Mark Steyn

"Yes, technically, this is still a two-party state, but one of the parties is like Elton John’s post-Oscar bash and the other is a church social in Wasilla. As David Sedaris put it in The New Yorker:

“I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. ‘Can I interest you in the chicken?’ she asks. ‘Or would you prefer the platter of s—t with bits of broken glass in it?’

“To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked. Well, to be honest, I’ve never much cared for chicken."

To govern is to choose. And sometimes the choices are tough ones. When has Barack Obama chosen to take a stand? When he got along to get along with the Chicago machine? When he sat for 20 years in the pews of an ugly neo-segregationist race-baiting grievance-monger? When he voted to deny the surviving “fetuses” of botched abortions medical treatment? When in his short time in national politics he racked up the most liberal – ie, the most doctrinaire, the most orthodox, the most reflex — voting record in the Senate? Or when, on those many occasions the questions got complex and required a choice, he dodged it and voted merely “present”?

The world rarely stands as one. You can, as Reagan and Thatcher did, stand up. Or, like Obama voting “present”, you can stand down.

Not quite as good as my "Ministry of Information & Truth"...

Coming soon, under the shiny happy Obama administration: The Department of Peace.

Probably not.....

Belmont Club: No way out

Ann is worried.....

Jeez, they really made Wisconsinites look like a bunch of hicks!

Can't believe that she's not used to it by now.

Be careful what you ask for...

Obama’s Fundraising Fraud:

"The irony of it all — which brings us back to McCain’s problem — is that the maverick Arizona senator made his own bed. In 2002, working with Democratic Senator Russell Feingold, McCain helped push through “bipartisan” campaign finance reform in Congress. The key element of the legislation was a ban on “soft money” contributions to the national party organizations. These unregulated donations to the parties totaled $263 million in 1996 and $410 million in 2000. As any good party insider will tell you, soft money is a bonanza for presidential campaigns. Completely unlimited, soft money receipts allow presidential candidates to evade the financial restrictions under the FEC’s “hard-money” limits. With no ceiling on what donors could give, and no limits on party spending on generic “uncoordinated” issue advertisements on behalf of the standard-bearer, a new model of private funding emerged to blow the lid off both the intent and spirit of the 1970s-era reforms.

"Make no mistake, the Democratic nominee may now be running the biggest underground finance operation since President Nixon deployed the “plumbers” as his key operatives for CREEP in 1972.

They must be Republicans.....

Instapundit:

"Corruption among socialists? But they're for the people! Right?"

As well he should be...

Journalism Sacrificed For Power and Pensions:

"The traditional media is playing a very, very dangerous game. With its readers, with the Constitution, and with its own fate.

The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer."

But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I’ve begun — for the first time in my adult life — to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living. A few days ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did for a living, I replied that I was “a writer”, because I couldn’t bring myself to admit to a stranger that I’m a journalist.

Take THAT, Pol Pot.....

Just a Little Genocide

I asked, "well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" and the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.

And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill."

Twenty-five million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.

And they were dead serious.

Read it....

Jennifer Rubin

This Should Be News

Barney Frank and Joe Biden are the sodium pentothal of the Democratic Party. Biden told us to be afraid on national security. Frank tells us they Democrats will be coming after us with a big tax increase. Now Frank tells us that he wants a 25% reduction in defense spending.

So let’s get this straight: we are going to see more than $4 trillion in new spending, have a big tax increase, and defund our military — while certain to face international challenges where “it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.” And this is what Democrats are saying?

If the McCain camp were not so busy at the dirty laundry festival, they might make use of all this in one last punchy ad.

Wow....

The problem with politicians…

…isn’t that they break their promises, it’s that they usually break the wrong ones. I suspect that’s because it’s easier to compromise with the other party on issues that increase the power of the government than on issues that shrink it.

Priceless!

The Agitator

"Irony of spending $50 per resident to install a federally-funded surveillance camera in a tiny town called “Liberty”: Well, you know how the commercial goes."

Just wait and see how "The One" reacts to this....

Top Iran officials recommend preemptive strike against Israel

"Senior Tehran officials are recommending a preemptive strike against Israel to prevent an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear reactors, a senior Islamic Republic official told foreign diplomats two weeks ago in London."

Via Instapundit

CNN: Ex-ACORN worker: 'I paid the price' for voter registration fraud.

Clifton Mitchell helped register nearly 2,000 voters for the community group ACORN. But not one of them actually existed. "I regret it. I paid the price for it," he said.

Mitchell was convicted last year and spent nearly three months in prison. He's one of the few ACORN workers convicted of voter registration fraud.

Read the whole thing. But remember, voter fraud used to be a myth, but in the new spin, it's all-American!

But we do love those promises....

Beware any politician who promises to create new jobs

"Despite all the facile comparisons between the current economic situation and the conditions that preceded the Great Depression, the most recent figures show GDP continuing to grow, with unemployment at a historically modest 6.1 percent. But if, as widely expected, Barack Obama faces a recession when he takes office in January, many Americans will expect him to deliver on his promise to 'create jobs.'

They probably will be disappointed, because Obama seems to view job creation not only as something the government does with taxpayers' money but as an end in itself. That's a recipe for wasteful spending that will divert resources from more productive uses and ultimately result in lower employment than would otherwise occur."

The Agitator

More Like Him, Please:

"Looking down Lawson’s list of issue positions, I had a hard time finding one where I’d disagree with him. He’s fiscally conservative, generally anti-war, favors ending drug prohibition, and pro civil liberties. He thinks members of Congress should actually read the legislation they vote on (imagine that!), and favors limiting bills to one topic to prevent sweeteners and poison pills. He opposes the PATRIOT Act, is against a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, opposes the financial bailout, and is against the death penalty. He favors low taxes, rollbacks on federal regulation, wants to end the income tax, and wants to repeal Sarbanes-Oxley."

Via Instapundit...

MORE "HATE" AND "RAGE" IN AMERICAN POLITICS: "The Republican headquarters in Murfreesboro was vandalized, and workers there said they have received threats."

Someone please tell the NYT and TNR....

Calling PETA.......

Ted Nugent Says, "Fuck You"

"I, being the eternal optimist, I think McCain and Palin still have a chance, contrary to the world of public opinion. I believe they've got a chance. I believe that the productive, 'ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country' Americans outnumber the alternative. I hope so. If Obama and Mao win, I'll just turn up my activism. I'll raise more hell… and spend the next years shortstopping the destructo derby of the American dream. I know we can. I'd rather get McCain and Palin in, but we'd still have to turn up the activism to make sure McCain doesn't fall back into McCain/Feingold and amnesty for invaders of America. I'm not giving up. And I'm a force to reckon with. Just ask this deer hanging in front of me right now. She didn't have a fuckin' prayer. But we will dine on her gift of protein this evening."

An interesting theory....

Operation Grand Slam:

"While there may be some doubt about what Barack Obama’s intentions may be, should he win the Presidency, there’s little doubt that for people like Ayers, Dohrn, Wright and Farrakhan, a victory in 2008 won’t be seen as “their turn”, but as their Destiny."

Another genius on MSNBC...

The Not-so-Soft Bigotry of Rachel Maddow's Low Expectations

Maddow is a smart woman (a Rhodes Scholar to boot!) and she certainly pays attention to the news. Did she miss the whole kerfuffle about Ron Paul being a paranoid, racist crank? Perhaps Maddow, a lesbian, needs a refresher in what Congressman Paul wrote about gays. Did she miss the news that he endorsed Christian theocrat and 9/11 Truther Chuck Baldwin (of the Constitution Party) for President? Or that Paul proudly delivered the keynote address at the 50th anniversary of the John Birch Society? (Yes, it still exists).

Yeah, but he sounds very good (and he's not George Bush).....

The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama

Barack Obama promises “change,” which is an appealing concept to an American public weary of a beleaguered administration and worried about the future. They are faced with a candidate who promises them everything: Tax cuts for 95% of Americans, universal healthcare, peace, saving the planet, and—according to his wife—the “healing” of Americans’ souls. As the saying goes, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Questions abound: Is this man prepared to be president? Does he hold mainstream values and policy preferences? Who has influenced his thinking, and where does he want to take the country? Has he been honest with the people from whom he seeks votes?

Interesting, well thought-out and documented. Read the friggin' thing and tell me what you think.

Hell, I can't do either...

Has the keyboard killed handwriting?

And my kids print when they write; but they sure can "keyboard"!

Just dump your kids.....

Too weird for words....

Bob Herbert morons again.....

The Real Scandal:

"It never ends. The Republican Party never gets tired of spraying its poison across the American political landscape."

Nope... the real scandal is that Bob Herbert is allowed to write in public without any real facts or evidence. Read this piece of nonsense and wonder how he gets away with being such a complete idiot. Perhaps he should look here for some facts on the subject......

Part & parcel...

Republicans in biz feel stifled, bullied:

"'There's an undeniably vicious attitude against those who dissent,' Breitbart said. 'Hollywood is the most predictable place on the planet, not exclusively because of politics but because of narrow-mindedness.'"

Doublethink - here we come!

Evidence of Obama-Ayers Tie Sent Down the Memory Hole . . . Almost!

Read the whole thing....

She'll always be "Phyllis" to me....

High-Kicking Her Way on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ to a Renaissance at 82

Roughly an hour after performing a tango that would earn her another week on “Dancing With the Stars” last Monday, Cloris Leachman took a moment to look ahead to where her career, still-blossoming at 82, might go once her time on the ABC hit dance competition runs its course.

Must have been necessary....

ACORN INSTILLED FEAR: "Pushed to meet daily quotas and bullied by bosses if they didn't, Ohio ACORN workers faked voter registrations, signed up people more than once, and even paid off registrants to keep from being fired, its canvassers told The Post. 'Every day, there was pressure on us. Every single day,' said Teshika Elder, a Cleveland single mom of three who worked for ACORN this summer." Sounds like a real sweatshop. Somebody should organize a union or something . . . .

Well Done.....

Althouse makes her point....

"Obama talking to a bunch of wine-sipping San Francisco liberals with an anthropological view toward white working-class voters.":

"Don't you want the President to be an intellectual? In Obama's world, people hunt for a sense of continuity and stability. By contrast, Sarah Palin hunts to stock the freezer with meat."

No room for a babe.....

Check it out ...

"Unfair Doctrine":

The Left has not in general been known for its devotion to freedom of speech, unless that speech is from the Left. This is true not only in this country but around the world. Obama is more consistent than any other candidate I can recall in trying to stop the opposition by silencing it; either by legal means (his specialty), by smearing those who would speak out, or by organizing call-ins to shows featuring journalists such as Stanley Kurtz, whose only crime was to try to get the truth out about the Annenburg Challenge.

These things, of course, are Obama’s right. If he wants his lawyers to threaten FCC license challenges to stations that air ads against him that arouse his particular ire, he can do so. If he wants to organize his minions to overwhelm a talk show with critical calls, that’s not against the law either. If his followers want to dig up every nasty thing Joe the Plumber ever did in his life and publish it, they can’t be stopped from doing so.

But take a look at what it says about Obama and about the Left. And if you don’t feel a chill wind blowing, I think you better take another look. Hope and change, indeed. — Neo-neocon

Hopfully, they were kind in asking....

Documents Say Iran Aids Militias From Iraq

Such is a typical day at a dusty military base outside Tehran, where for the past several years members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force and Lebanese Hezbollah operatives have trained Iraqi Shiites to launch attacks against American forces in Iraq, according to accounts given to American interrogators by captured Iraqi fighters.

American officials have long cited Iranian training and weapons as reasons for the lethality of attacks by Shiite fighters in Iraq. Iranian officials deny that such training takes place.