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Will America choose its successor?

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, January 02, 2010 6:59:29 PM

Will America choose its successor?


''Sadly, there's no way to choose our successor. Once we step aside, we can only watch and hope for the best. And if we don't like the way the world is shaping up in the post-American era, we will just have to suffer the consequences.''

When the U.S. was a developing nation, we expended our efforts and capital in developing the infrastructure for industry. Our government provided incentives for the development and extraction of natural resources to be used as raw materials to build, not just products, but a thriving national economy. -- And that's exactly what China and other developing nations are doing today.
But, today, the U.S. is doing the opposite. Increasingly, over the past several decades, our government has been restricting the extraction of natural resources and dismantling the infrastructure for industry. Overregulation, combined with exorbitant and ever-increasing union demands, has succeeded in driving much of our industry offshore. If we want to recover our economy, we need to reverse that trend.
The recently published White House Plan to Revitalize Manufacturing, which focuses on federal funding for “green” technology R&D, is not likely to have a significant impact on our national productivity. This administration is thoroughly beholden to the unions and environmental lobbies. In true Chicago style, this administration has used the stimulus package to pay off political debts and, from every indication, will continue the trend of dismantling the economy in favor of political correctness and payback. http://www.newswithviews.com/Goodwin/margaret108.htm
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Americans are snared in a trap of their own making

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, January 02, 2010 2:47:27 PM

Americans are snared in a trap of their own making



''The relationship between the Federal Government and its Citizens is completely upside down from the original intent.''


Only virtuous people with diligent enthusiasm may consistently secure liberty. Institution of power created by man's own hand will claim to protect individual rights but like the gods of old[2] they will soon turn those original rights into regulated privileges. If institutions of power protect and secure your rights then those rights will become privileges.
“Protection draws to it subjection; subjection protection”[3]
The Natural God given Right to defend yourself and your community requires that the individual and their community recognize their God given Responsibility to equally protect themselves and their community from “any” threat that might jeopardize the life, liberty or the well-being of all.
Americans struggled for centuries to earn the status of freemen or freeholders securing the right to declare unwarranted usurpations in 1776. Few Americans today realize that when you elect men who call themselves benefactors, but exercise authority one over the other, providing security at your neighbors' expense, you are rejecting Christ, God and your natural rights.
The government that is empowered by you to take from your neighbor for your personal welfare and benefit, using your own standard, has the right to take from you for their benefit. As you judge, so shall you be judged. The contract makes the law. If you want to be free you must first free your neighbor from the tyranny in your own heart.
The truth is Americans are snared in a trap of their own making. No past laurels of dead heroes or patriotic flag waving, nor rationalized hope or imaginary rendition of the truth will alter that fact. Citizens of the United States are no longer free. They have sold themselves slaves to their own sloth and wantonness. http://www.newswithviews.com/Gregory/williams112.htm
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'Usurpation'

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, January 02, 2010 2:46:53 PM

'Usurpation'


''The New World Order will consist of world Government run by unelected gurus located at The Hague and those of a single, all powerful central bank. A perceived tower of Babel unlike its predecessor is about to be created, a reformatted United Nations so weakened to the will of The Hague that an elite class of central bank money changers can cut out or dispense and manipulate the worldwide monetary system.''

It is fitting that a snow storm launched President Obama’s visit to Copenhagen to mediate the warming of the climate debate and transfer billions of America’s taxpayer money to third world countries. He left at the commencement of a snow storm of monumental intensity as it enveloped Washington, D.C. Man and false science have joined hands to replace the creator’s handy-work and the snow storm was appropriate for such an auspicious meeting which turned out to be a snow job of equal intensity.In the absence of the “Leader for Change” and his entourage of secret service agents, several attendants, writers, advisors and major media sycophants using Air Force 1 and other support jet aircraft to haul several vehicles to support one of his many unnecessary trips. He was absent when the rogue led majority composed of staunch advocates for socialism decided to ignore the Constitution. Majority Leader Reid in the Senate, and Speaker of the House Pelosi, both advocates for world government and International Socialism, used strong-arm tactics reminiscent of Stalin to force through Senate Bill S 313. They rushed it to conclude by a predetermined date the execution of the orders of their traveling messiah. The dead-line was December 25, 2009 for passage of a 2,000 page health care bill previously stuck in the senate finance committee for a final vote. Significantly, the celebrated date of the birth of Jesus Christ, there developed a massive snow storm that could be interpreted to be delicate flakes of frozen tears born of sorrow for the American people who are to give up their freedom in favor of socialism and eventually Godless communism. Government by outlaw is to end all determinant of our democratic republic and consequently usher in its death knell.
The usurpation of the Constitution was accomplished by not permitting the 2,000 pages of the bill to be read by the Republican minority until just a few hours before requiring the vote to be taken. http://www.newswithviews.com/Kress/joe139.htm
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2 kingdoms, choose wisely

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, January 02, 2010 2:46:14 PM

2 kingdoms, choose wisely


''...there is now a struggle between the two kingdoms. One must dominate the other – either materialism will discard and trample the spiritual, with all the resulting consequences; or the spiritual will again supersede the material, with the God-ordained privileges order, and freedom we knew.
To which kingdom will you pledge your allegiance, your life, your sacred honor?''

There are two kingdoms in this world – and only two.
One kingdom is the material, visible, tangible one we see all around us. The other is usually invisible, intangible and spiritual. But both are incontrovertibly real, and they are inextricably merged. They overlap and interact continually, and we all experience both every day, every minute, of our lives.
Some, notably some scientists and all atheists, deny the existence of the spiritual kingdom, though they inhabit it and are constantly influenced by it. One poor example: Some few citizens of our country deny allegiance to it, refuse to pay any taxes and claim to be "citizens of the world," not the United States. Eventually, though, they find that they are indeed subject to its government, and may be subject to imprisonment or deportation. Their denials and rebellion don't change the facts – or the consequences of their denials.
So it is with the spiritual kingdom that rules over all things and persons, even the worldly governments of the material kingdom. If this earth, and indeed the vast universe, is a created entity – as the vast majority of human beings have always understood, since, scientifically, material things cannot spring spontaneously from nothing – the Creator holds sway, complete and final authority over any and all created things.
Increasingly, many deny and rebel against the sway of the spiritual kingdom and try to "reason away" its very existence. But all that philosophical delusion doesn't change the facts – or the consequences of their denials.
The theory that fooled the world – read "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design"
Atheism is itself a religion. It's a faith system, based on a belief that there is no God, no spiritual kingdom – which of course cannot ever be proved, only believed. It is opposed to the other faith system, based on a firm belief that there is, there must be, a Creator God – and the evidence is everywhere around us. In the material kingdom. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120713
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A Liberal-Muslim Axis

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:44:50 AM

A Liberal-Muslim Axis



''...herein is the truly diabolical connection of the Liberal-Muslim Axis – both wicked ideologies exercise godlike power over the people by feigning to be something that they are not. In a rational world governed by the rule of law, morality, Veritas (truth) and Natural Law, people would never have permitted a Muslim to enter an airplane without first being extensively profiled.''

During World War II, there were essentially two sides – the Allied Powers included America, England, France and Russia; the Axis Powers were Germany, Italy and Japan. In the 1930s, there was a clear line of demarcation. Every rational person in the world knew which side was evil and which was good. The world after six bloody years of war against Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler was won not by diplomacy, negotiations, compromise and international treaties, but by seizing moral principle and defending it with the heroic valor of the Allied soldiers against an evil, irredeemable foe.
Since the end of World War II, I contend that we have an even more wicked, incorrigible enemy that Western civilization must fight, but unlike Hitler's conspicuous legions of Brownshirts and SS shock troops goose-stepping in front of the Reichstag, this enemy of modern times, this Liberal-Muslim Axis has as its greatest weapon deception, lies and Machiavellian tactics. They hide in the halls of Congress, the White House, the courts, behind 501(c)(3) organizations. The Muslim Axis powers hide behind Allah, Muhammad, the Quran, women's burqas, among civilians; inside Mosques, caves and desolate places in the mountains of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, as well as inside the halls of power in England, France and America.
Conventional wisdom tells us that the greatest trick of the devil was to make everyone believe that he doesn't exist. Likewise, the greatest trick of the Liberal-Muslim Axis is to maneuver and wield vast religious, political and economic power without alerting people who they really are. What do I mean? On one level liberalism and Islam appear to be opposite ideological forces. Liberalism is a political philosophy developed during the Age of Enlightenment in 18th-century Europe. Some of its famous exponents were: Voltaire, Hobbes, Kant, Napoleon, the American framers and the French philosophers.
Islam was born in the deserts of Arabia in the early seventh century. Islam is a revolutionary, totalizing political ideology masquerading as a religion. It has no respect for Judaism or Christianity but worships the moon-god deity, Allah, whose distinctive crescent is signified in the flags and religious icons of all Muslim nations. Their central teachings are that all other religions except Islam are false and all other people not Muslim can be summarily executed. "Fight and kill the infidels (unbelievers) wherever you find them," reads Sura 9:5. That's a commandment, not a suggestion.
Understand leftists' dedication to tyranny and tolerance of terror in Jamie Glazov's "United in Hate"
Liberalism and Islam are essential mirror images of one another whose end worships power and control above all else. Liberalism is a political philosophy that over the past 300 years has morphed into a pagan cult-like religion of death, exerting absolute political hegemony and societal domination. As a religion, liberalism can move and function in ways that other bona fide religions (Judaism, Christianity) could never venture while at the same time wielding dictatorial political power over virtually the entire world. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120712
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On not covering gay crime

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:44:11 AM

On not covering gay crime


''Let's pretend that it was a married Christian who got up and made the impassioned plea against same-sex marriage. It later turned out he had killed a prostitute with whom he was cavorting in a stupor induced by the use of drugs and alcohol. Would that be a story? You bet it would.''

A manslaughter trial begins next week in Portland, Maine, that should be of interest to the entire nation.
The story begins last year on April 22, when Malcolm Bruce LaVallee-Davidson made a widely reported and emotional plea at the civic center for a statewide same-sex marriage initiative as he stood with his homosexual partner – maintaining that they "were already married in the eyes of God."
What few in the civic center forum knew then was that just four days earlier, LaVallee-Davidson had shot dead with a .44-caliber handgun Fred Homer Wilson, in a South Portland basement after wild night of drug taking and drinking. Wilson was a member of a local homosexual sadomasochistic leather club. Lavellee-Davidson's faux spouse was not in attendance that evening.
Don't miss David Kupelian's culture-war classic, "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom"
Lavallee-Davidson embracing his partner at same-sex marriage hearing.
It took the work of the Christian Civic League of Maine and Maine's Family Policy Council to bring the details to light. Somehow, LaVallee-Davidson's heartfelt plea for same-sex marriage was bigger news than the fact that he killed a sadomasochist acquaintance four nights earlier.
But it gets worse.
In November, the attorney representing LaVallee-Davidson suggested his client may have been suffering from AIDS dementia when he killed Wilson – setting up the possibility that he might plead guilty by reason of insanity, spending a brief time in treatment before being released back into the general population. On the other end of the scale of justice, he could face up to 40 years for conviction on manslaughter charges.
This is an amazing story of the intersection of deceit, debauchery and violence. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120571
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Who sucks life?...Kids or planetary greed?

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:42:52 AM

Who sucks life?...Kids or planetary greed?


''What it comes down to is a refusal by environmentalists to see hope, beauty, potential, or joy in children. They are merely seen as irritating little carbon users and resource-sucking burdens on the earth.''

For some time now, I've been bookmarking "green" articles on overpopulation and how we need to reduce the number of children we bear in order to save the planet.
Recently another opinion piece came to light that so revolted me that I knew it was time to address the issue. Diane Francis, editor-at-large of the National Post, wrote a column for the Financial Post in which she endorsed implementing China's one-child policy worldwide as a means of saving the planet.
"The fix [for overpopulation] is simple," writes Ms. Francis. "It's dramatic. And yet the world's leaders don't even have this on their agenda in Copenhagen. Instead there will be photo ops, posturing, optics, blah-blah-blah about climate science and climate fraud, announcements of giant wind farms, then cap-and-trade subsidies. None will work unless a China one-child policy is imposed. … China has proven that birth restriction is smart policy. … The only fix is if all countries drastically reduce their populations, clean up their messes and impose mandatory conservation measures."
I see. Are you volunteering, Ms. Francis? Because here's the clincher: You have two kids.
For those who like the idea of a one-child policy, you'll be pleased to know that "China's population-control measures have resulted in 400 million fewer births, translating into 18 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year." This is reported by Zhao Baige, vice minister of National Population and Family Planning Commission of China.
Czech President Václav Klaus presents the truth about global warming in his book "Blue Planet in Green Shackles"
I'm sure he's right. But it's how those 400 million "fewer births" happened that things get ugly. Compliance with the one-child policy isn't always voluntary. Therefore many Chinese people must be coerced into limiting themselves to one child … and I mean "coerced" in the worse sense of the word. Is this really what Ms. Francis wants?
In praising China's commitment (cough) to carbon control, I feel compelled to point out that Ms. Francis assumedly hasn't experienced a forced abortion. After all, such horrors occur a comfortable distance away to peasants in China, not elite writers in New York City. I invite her to speculate how it would feel to be captured by government thugs, bound like a criminal, strapped to a table, stripped, your legs spread wide, and a living baby ripped limb from limb as it's torn from your womb. Nice visual, eh? Abortion is bad enough if it's voluntary. Imagine if it's forced. Do you still think this is an admirable policy? http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120714
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He can't stand the heat either...

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, January 02, 2010 7:44:26 AM

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Obama has porcine wings

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, January 02, 2010 7:43:05 AM

Obama has porcine wings

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November 2010: Ballot Box Revolution

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, January 02, 2010 7:42:27 AM

November 2010: Ballot Box Revolution


''One of 2010's most intriguing questions will be whether the American people's aggregated nausea by the November election triggers the peaceful overthrow of the United States government.''

Partial list of ingredients for a ballot box revolt...

• After cash-for-clunkers gloriously shipped $3 billion chiefly to Tokyo- and Seoul-based automakers, the Obama administration concocted cash-for-caulkers - fresh subsidies to weatherize homes. This program could cost up to $20 billion, if House Democrats prevail. So far, Texas has spent $1.8 million in federal funds and has weatherized seven homes, averaging $257,000 each.
• Congress sent President Obama a $447 billion, 2,442-page omnibus spending bill on Dec. 14. It ballooned federal spending 12 percent while inflation inches along at 1.8 percent. This measure contained 5,224 pork-barrel projects worth $3.9 billion, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense. These included $700,000 for "Shrimp Industry Fishing Effort Research Continuation" in Silver Spring, Md.
• Breaking the law that launched the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the House misallocated $154 billion in repayments by TARP-funded banks. That money legally must finance deficit reduction. House Democrats nevertheless flouted the law by turning this cash into America's fourth economic stimulus package.
• Even worse, political favoritism has infected stimulus spending. The free-market Mercatus Center discovered that the average congressional district has received $355 million from Mr. Obama's $787 billion stimulus package.
However, Democratic congressional districts averaged $439 million (a 23.7 percent bonus), while Republican districts averaged just $232 million (a 35.6 percent penalty). The typical district won 128 projects. Democratic districts averaged 152 such outlays (an extra 18.75 percent). Republican districts averaged 94 awards (26.6 percent fewer).
• At the Copenhagen climate conference, Mr. Obama pledged to muster up to $100 billion annually for 10 years to help developing nations battle so-called "global warming." This could equal $1 trillion in carbon-coated foreign aid. Even if other industrialized nations participate, it's hard to imagine America in for less than $100 billion.
• With a 1:08 a.m. procedural vote, the Senate's 60-member Democratic caucus advanced a $2.5 trillion health "reform" that 61 percent of Americans oppose, according to CNN. Greased by Majority Leader Harry Reid's taxpayer-funded bribes to wobbly Democrats, the bill's final passage at dawn on Christmas Eve was engineered to approve the measure before senators faced pesky constituents back home who want to euthanize the bill.
• The Treasury announced on Christmas Eve that it will give blank checks to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the next three years. Estimated cost: Up to $400 billion.
"The United States cannot force foreign governments to increase their holdings of Treasuries," warned Zhu Min, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, which kindly pays America's bills these days. As he told Shanghai Daily: "The world does not have so much money to buy more U.S. Treasuries." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/01/the-prospects-for-revolt-in-2010/
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The Jealous Left: Glenn Beck is bigger than the pope

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, January 02, 2010 7:41:45 AM

The Jealous Left: Glenn Beck is bigger than the pope


''His critics during his ascent over the year have compared the pudgy Fox News host to Father Coughlin, George Wallace and Joe McCarthy. Time magazine put Beck on its cover and asked: "Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?" ''

This news, at once unsettling and unsurprising, came from the Gallup polling organization on Wednesday. Beck, the new Fox News host who has said President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people" and alternately likens administration officials to Nazis and Marxists, was also more admired by Americans than Billy Graham and Bill Gates, not to mention Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. In Americans' esteem, Beck only narrowly trailed South Africa's Nelson Mandela, the man who defeated apartheid.
The 45-year-old recovering alcoholic and Mormon convert has become the first true demagogue of the information age. His nightly diet of falsehoods and conspiracies on Fox, and his daily outrages on the radio, have propelled his popularity past even Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. His method is simple: He goes places where others are forbidden by conscience.
Death panels? Government health insurance for dogs? FEMA concentration camps? An Obama "civilian national security force" like Hitler's SS or Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard? An administration official advocating forced abortions and sterilization agents in drinking water? Beck trafficked in them all in 2009. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101371.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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Rush Limbaugh declared dead

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, January 01, 2010 5:53:41 PM

Limbaugh declared dead


Wikipedia pronounced Rush Limbaugh dead at least two times today – and the free "encyclopedia" relied on information from a spoof blog that later declared the talk radio icon had become a "vampire" who craves "virgin's blood."
Just this morning around 8 a.m. EST, Wikipedia announced, "It has been reported that Limbaugh has died in a Hawaii hospital."
Wikipedia declares Rush Limbaugh dead and cites blog's spoof obituary.
A Wikipedia note stated, "This article is about a person who has recently died." http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120608


Wikipedia: Farah is a 'twit, Jew-loving pig''
Also enjoys chowing down on babies once in a while'
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Take America back in 2010

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, January 01, 2010 5:52:42 PM

Take America back in 2010


Happy New Year!

Another year has come and gone. The new one is full of promise.
Individually we all start with a blank slate and hopes of doing things better than we have done them in the past.
We resolve to lead healthier, more productive and more fulfilling lives – to live, and live more abundantly.
Those of us who live in the United States are fortunate to have such hope. There are many people in the world – most, in fact – who have no hope. They live in totalitarian or authoritarian countries where governments have no respect for individual liberties.
We do not want to join them.
However, history shows us that we are either moving in the direction of more freedom or in the direction of tyranny. There is no such thing as standing still.
That's why I wrote, "Taking America Back." This is the manual for reclaiming real freedom in our country. This is the guidebook for re-establishing self-government. This is the instruction book for rejecting creeping totalitarianism. This is the map book for charting a new course to liberty.
When I first wrote the book in 2003, it was not well-received. George W. Bush was in power and many people believed he was going to be another Ronald Reagan. The war in Iraq was just beginning and few Americans were thinking about the threats to freedom we faced here at home.
But, over the years, the book sold steadily if not phenomenally. It was published in paperback in 2006 and sales increased. However, over the last year, the book has become increasingly popular – to the point where the book has now sold 85,000 copies over its history.
I believe that's because there has been a real awakening in the country to the threats to America's liberty. The timing is now right for "Taking America Back."
And what better time to chart that course for freeing yourself and your country than the brand new year? http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120610
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The defunct foundations of the republic

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, January 01, 2010 5:52:12 PM

The defunct foundations of the republic


''The reason the Constitution is by-and-large a charter of negative liberties, as the president put it, is because state-manufactured rights violate the individual's real rights. Unless undertaken voluntarily, positive liberties are rejected outright in natural law.''

In the course of the agonizing debates over the soon-to-be-merged Senate and House health-care bills, Republicans cried out for partisanship, griped about procedure and said next to nothing about principles, an accusation that cannot be directed at the Democrats.
"Health care in America ought to be a right, not a privilege," thundered Sen. Christopher J. Dodd. The Democrat from Connecticut was expressing sentiments that are par for the course in Democrat discourse.
Nancy Pelosi's core beliefs vis-à-vis conscripting individuals into buying (or providing) a commodity at the pains of punishment came across loud and quirky. When the House passed its hulking health-care legislation, the speaker was asked where in the Constitution is the warrant for individual health mandates. Pelosi's response was for posterity. "Are you serious?" she shot back.
No, Democrats are not in the habit of hiding how they feel about the US Constitution.
When did government officials start ignoring our national charter – and why does it continue? Find out in "Who Killed the Constitution?"
As much as he dislikes the philosophical foundations of the republic, the president seems to know – and prattle – about them more so than do the Republicans. Here's Sen. Barack Obama talking about the document Republicans discount and Democrats deem dated:
… [A]s radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution … generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf, and that hasn't shifted – and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil-rights movement was, um, because the civil-rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that. I'm not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. You know, the institution just isn't structured that way. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120632
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The resolution I always break

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, January 01, 2010 5:51:30 PM

The resolution I always break



''Barack Obama got the Prize for the very same reason Jimmy Carter got it. They got it because they weren't George W. Bush. The wooly-headed leftists in Norway keep making stupid decisions, handing out these medallions to the likes of Le Duc Tho, Kofi Anan, Desmond Tutu and Yasser Arafat, and clucks like Carter and Obama keep jetting over to Oslo to be clucked over.''

This is the time of year when most people are busy resolving to do better in the future. Some people vow to go on diets or exercise
more, some promise to give up smoking or booze. But, year in and year out, I vow to cut liberals more slack and give them the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately, just as with other people's good intentions, my own rarely last until nightfall. The difference is that the reason mine die on the vine, as it were, has nothing to do with my own lack of character, but everything to do with the failings of liberals.
For one thing, liberals are hypocritical. They have agendas when they'd be better off having principles. They praise whistleblowers and investigative reporters, but only when Republicans and conservatives suffer the consequences. So it was that they lionized Daniel Ellsberg for turning the Pentagon Papers over to the New York Times and heralded Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward for their Watergate expose, but demanded that James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles be prosecuted for their ACORN videos and wanted the computer hackers who uncovered the East Anglia e-mails, the ones proving global warming to be a major hoax, to be tarred and feathered.
I even remember when Time magazine put a group of highly publicized corporate whistleblowers on their cover, hailing their courage and patriotism. Long before Time decided its cover boy would be Ben Bernanke, I was willing to wager that O'Keefe and Giles wouldn't be Time's 2009's People of the Year.
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When George W. Bush convinced a mere 42 countries to join us in the invasion of Iraq, liberals insisted he had gone off half-cocked. However, when Obama couldn't convince any country to take the Guantanamo prisoners off our hands and could only get 40 nations to commit to joining us in Afghanistan, those on the left insisted he was a master of diplomacy.
The liberals keep telling us that, thanks to Obama's policy of speaking endlessly and carrying a very small stick, America has gained renewed respect around the world. But, as usual, they don't specify which countries respect us more these days now that they have good reason to fear us less. We know pretty darn well they're not referring to Russia, Iran, Somalia, North Korea, Syria or China. They're not even able to point to such erstwhile allies as Poland, Israel and the Czech Republic, all of whom are staggering around these days with American-made switchblades in their back. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120613
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