July 29th, 2010 | 
Author: The administration and congressional Democrats are making a strategic calculation. They think the Arizona law may be popular in the short term, not just in the state but across the country, but they are convinced that in the long term, the law will backfire on Republicans – especially with the surging Hispanic voting bloc. Mr. Obama thinks he can aggressively court the Latino vote by demonizing Arizona. This is classic Saul Alinsky-style radicalism: the politics of divide and conquer, pitting races and classes against one another in the service of state power.
The liberals’ emotional neediness leads them to identify and experience a bonding with others who also have low self-esteem and low self-love. Collectively, they long for a greater sense of self and strive to attain it by achieving equality among people using the power of an ever-growing government and irrational arguments (for equality and against freedom) that they find emotionally compelling.
via American Thinker: The Unhealthy Motivations of Liberals.
The real reason is that the probe might also have had to disclose what President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder knew and when they knew it. Thats because the London Times on Sunday published a letter written by deputy US ambassador Richard LeBaron in the days before Megrahi was set free, telling Scotlands first minister that, while the Obama administration opposed the terrorist bombers release, it was nonetheless “far preferable” that he be sprung on compassionate grounds than be moved to a Libyan prison.
The Justice Department is so unenthusiastic about military voting that its website still lists the old requirement for a shorter 30-day military voting window, rather than the current law mandating 45 days. On the other hand, the Justice Department has no legislative mandate whatsoever to involve itself with helping felons to vote, but its website devotes a large section – 2,314 words – to advising felons how to regain voting privileges.
via EDITORIAL: Holder puts felons over soldiers – Washington Times.
As Americans suffer economically, President Obama golfs, vacations, campaigns, appears on a frivolous talk show — and vacations some more. Gee, don’t we have a war and other problems to attend to?
Will history record that Barack Obama’s only great achievement as president was getting his golf handicap down to the teens? The president played more than two dozen rounds of golf in his first year in office — as many as George W. Bush did over his entire eight years.
Why so much luxury as so many suffer and there are so many monumental problems to solve? Because, according to the president, “part of what gets us through tough times is music, the arts, the ability to capture that essential kernel of ourselves, that part of us that sings even when times are hard.”
But hey, thanks to the taxpayers, at least he’s leading the good life.
Arizona should continue its court fight to implement all of the provisions of the Arizona law. The chances are very good as this case works its way up through the courts and eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court, that Arizona will win in the end. It is a battle well worth fighting and it is one that other states should join, particularly in the face of this administration’s refusal to take the steps necessary to secure our borders and protect our national security. In fact, if other states participate in this battle in other federal circuits, it is highly likely that they will get rulings directly conflicting with Judge Bolton’s erroneous decision. The Justice Department should be forced to fight as many states as possible on this issue.
via On Arizona and Immigration: Judge Ignores Rule of Law | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News..
U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton miscalculated when she blocked critical aspects of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. Her decision will further intensify efforts by states to find solutions to problems posed by the Obama administration’s unwillingness to take command of this pressing issue.
via EDITORIAL: Judicial activism against Arizona – Washington Times.
Clicking on the link — “Will you wish Barack a happy birthday with me?” – sends you to “MyBarackObama.com,” the Organizing for America Web site, which describes itself as “a project of the Democratic National Committee.” But typing in your name, address and E-mail, and hitting “Sign the Card” takes you directly to another page — a donation page, which states: “Thank you for standing alongside us, with the President. Now can you make a donation to help us take on the year ahead?” — and a disclaimer that funds would not go to political candidates.
via CNSNews.com – Michelles Request For Barack Birthday Wishes Links To Donation Page.
Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century
Citizens across the country are fed up with the politicians in Washington telling us how to live our lives—and then sticking us with the bill. But what can we do? Actually, we can just say “no.” As New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., explains, “nullification” allows states to reject unconstitutional federal laws. For many tea partiers nationwide, nullification is rapidly becoming the only way to stop an over-reaching government drunk on power. From privacy to national healthcare, Woods shows how this growing and popular movement is sweeping across America and empowering states to take action against Obama’s socialist policies and big-government agenda.
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Unconstitutional laws are pouring out of Washington…but we can stop them.
Just ask Thomas Jefferson. There is a “rightful remedy” to federal power grabs—it’s called Nullification.
In Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, historian and New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr. explains not only why nullification is the constitutional tool the Founders envisioned, but how it works—and has already been employed in cases ranging from upholding the First Amendment to knocking down slave laws before the Civil War. In Nullification, Woods shows:
* How the states were meant to be checks against federal tyranny—and how a growing roster of governors and state attorneys general are recognizing they need to become that again
* Why the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution reinforces the rights of states to nullify unconstitutional laws
* Why it was left to the states to uphold the simple principle that an unconstitutional law is no law at all
* Why, without nullification, ordinary Americans will continue to suffer the oppression of unjust, unconstitutional laws
* PLUS thorough documentation of how the Founding Fathers believed nullification could be appliedNullification is not just a book—it could become a movement to restore the proper constitutional limits of the federal government. Powerful, provocative, and timely, Nullification is sure to stir debate and become a constitutional handbook for all liberty-loving Americans.
CLASS is a new long-term-care insurance program that was inserted into Obamacare so that Congress could raid its $70 billion surplus through 2020 to cover Obamacare’s initial deficits. Like the raided Social Security trust fund, future taxpayers will have to repay that $70 billion with interest when the program falls into deficit later.
Thus, even Sen. Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) admits that Congress has enacted “a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of.”
via Ready for the Next Trillion-Dollar Bailout? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News..
In attacking Republicans who oppose this campaign finance Kabuki, Obama audaciously feigned alarm over the proliferation of fake grassroots groups with innocuous-sounding names. Special interests, he complained, “can hide behind a name like ‘Citizens for a Better Future,’ even if a more accurate name would be ‘Companies for Weaker Oversight.’” Let me supply some more examples that won’t appear on Obama’s teleprompter anytime soon:
The law, signed last week by President Obama, exempts the SEC from disclosing records or information derived from “surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities.” Given that the SEC is a regulatory body, the provision covers almost every action by the agency, lawyers say. Congress and federal agencies can request information, but the public cannot.
via FOXBusiness.com – SEC Says New FinReg Law Exempts It From Public Disclosure.
If we were trying to mimic Krugman, we would mimic Mary McCarthy and assert: “Every word he writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’ ” But unlike us, Krugman doesn’t even have the wit to employ apophasis. Instead, he–sometimes!–includes statements in his columns that are so clumsily and obviously false as to open him to easy ridicule.
We’re grateful for the material, but we’re not so self-absorbed as to think that Krugman makes himself ridiculous merely in order to make our job easy. Why then?
There are some – but not all – Keynesian economists and assorted left-wing ideologues who argue that we need more government spending. Then there are the Chicago- and Austrian- school economists who argue that we need less government spending. Those who advocate more spending claim there is a “multiplier” on government spending. That is, for each dollar government spends, there is more than a dollar increase in national output. If this is true, why should there be almost any limit on government spending? Why not triple government spending to make everyone richer?
via RAHN: Only high-tax adherents are surprised – Washington Times.