CONSERVATIVES NEED TO STOP BEING AFRAID OF THE MOSLEM BOGEYMAN
Why have conservatives become such captives of fear? Before 9/11, conservatism stood for stalwart courage and confidence in the United States of America. Across the past decade, however, we succumbed to a weird mania that wildly exaggerates threats and revels in our purported strategic vulnerability to furtive religious perverts sinking along with their doomed civilization. The enthusiasm with which many of my fellow conservatives paint militant Islam as a mighty movement capable of a takeover of Europe and America is a grotesque wallow in political masochism. Islam is on the ropes of history, battered, bleeding and disfigured. And it's never going to be a contender again. Yet, many Americans appear determined to cower in our corner of the ring. It's baffling: We're winning in every possible respect, but tell ourselves we're losing.
HOW DANGEROUS IS A PRESIDENT WHO IS DEVOID OF REALITY?
President Obama's speech this past week (9/08)should have been labeled, "Believe what I say, not what I do." All too much of the speech was devoid of reality. At one point he said, "And I agree there are some rules and regulations that put an unnecessary burden on businesses at a time when they can least afford it. That's why I ordered a review of all government regulations. So far, we've identified over 500 reforms, which will save billions of dollars over the next few years." The reality is far different. There are thousands of new regulations that have either been implemented or are under consideration that have not been subject to meaningful or rigorous cost-benefit analyses. The reality is that millions of Americans are without jobs solely because of the president's regulatory incompetence or worse.
IT’S THE WARMISTS WHO DISRESPECT SCIENCE
You may have heard of Bill McKibben. When I googled "McKibben," I got more than 7 million hits. Mr. McKibben is "probably the nation's leading environmentalist," Boston Globe reporter Anis Shivani wrote last year. So when Bill McKibben wrote that Hurricane Irene "has a middle name, and it's Global Warming," his article drew a lot of attention from journalists. Warming increases the number and violence of hurricanes and tornadoes, Mr. McKibben wrote in the Daily Beast (owner of Newsweek) the day before the storm struck the Eastern seaboard. This is hooey. Worldwide, accumulated cyclone activity (what we call hurricanes scientists call tropical cyclones) is near historic lows, Florida State University climatologist Ryan Maue said in August. It is turning out that all the "science" of warmists is also hooey.
OBAMA AND UNIONS – LOSING TOGETHER
Unions are all that protect America from "barbarians," Vice President Joe Biden said at a Labor Day rally in Cincinnati. But the only barbarian in evidence that day was Teamsters' President Jimmy Hoffa, who threatened to "take out" Tea Party critics of President Barack Obama's spending. Mr. Hoffa was a warmup speaker for the president at the Labor Day rally in Detroit. Though he rarely misses an opportunity to lecture others on civility, Mr. Obama had no comment on Mr. Hoffa's remarkable incivility. And though the president didn't join Mr. Hoffa in threatening violence, he did imply his critics are unpatriotic. A crowd Detroit police estimated at 13,000 responded warmly to Mr. Obama. But when Candidate Obama spoke there in 2008, more than 30,000 came to hear him. Looks like Obama and the unions are going down in flames together.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/09/11
Well, it took folks like Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer a while, but they've got it. President Zero is now our current POTUS's official nickname. Google the term today (9/09) and you'll get 400,000 hits (earlier this week it was 80,000 - it'll be fun to see that number increase). The New York Times can't stand it. TTP, as you know, originated the appellation in June, 2008, in O=Zero - which went so viral that Snopes had to verify it was written by me. We've been selling O=Zero T-shirts ever since. I was in Dunhuang, China on election day, November 4, 2008, whereupon I wrote The End of the Silk Road and forswore using the name of "the Marxist Hate-America Gangster who was just elected by a majority of American voters to lead them to their doom."
ARE JOURNALISTS FASCISTS?
As acolytes of Saul Alinsky who preached the politics of personal destruction, liberals consistently demonize their opponents as either stupid or evil. Since nobody can honestly oppose their worldview, those are the only two alternatives. It's one or the other, sometimes both, but never neither. The libs couldn't claim Nixon was stupid, so he had to be evil. They couldn't make the sale that Reagan was evil, so he had to be stupid. Infected with BDS, they raged at Bush 42 for being both. Last week (8/29), we saw the con applied to Rick Perry. Some hack named Jonathan Martin wrote a piece in the widely-read Politico site entitled, Is Rick Perry Dumb? The Perry-is-stupid meme instantly flooded the liberal blogosphere. Google "Perry" + "dumb" and you'll get 22 million hits. All conservatives are driven crazy by the gargantuan bias and hypocrisy of the liberal media. It's been that way all our lives. It's time to put an end to it. Let's talk about how.
WILL JEWS TURN ON OBAMA OVER ISRAEL?
US election season is clearly upon us as President Barack Obama has moved into full campaign mode. Part and parcel of that mode is a new bid to woo Jewish voters and donors upset by Obama's hostility to Israel back in the Democrat Party's fold. Trying to portray Obama as pro-Israel is not a simple task. From the outset of his tenure in office, Obama has distinguished himself as the most anti-Israel president ever. It is an open question whether American Jews will be willing to buy the bill of goods the administration is trying to sell them through their media proxies in next year's presidential elections. But if next Tuesday's (8/13) special election for New York's Ninth Congressional District is any indication - remember Weinergate with Anthony Weiner resigning his seat? - the answer is apparently that an unprecedented number of American Jews are unwilling to ignore reality and continue supporting this anti-Israel president.
MR. OBAMA’S JOBS SPEECH SHOULD TAKE 30 SECONDS
The Obama administration and others on the left seemed to be stunned when the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported no new net jobs last month (8/11). When President Obama makes his "jobs speech," the American people will see whether he and his advisers have learned anything from the three years of Obamanomics failures. If they have not, his speech will drone on and on, putting his listeners and the economy to sleep. If they have, then his speech could electrify his listeners and the economy. Such a speech need not be long. Here is what he could say Thursday night in 30 seconds or less:
PALIN IN IOWA: RESTORING AMERICA AND ENDING CRONY CAPITALISM
[This is the full text of Sarah Palin's speech in Indianola, Iowa, on Saturday, September 3. I consider this to be one of the greatest political speeches of modern times. The video follows after the text. ---JW] The reality is that we in America today are governed by a permanent political class, who derive power and wealth from their access to our money - to taxpayer dollars. They use it to bail out their friends on Wall Street and their corporate cronies, to reward campaign contributors, and to buy votes via earmarks. There is a name for this: It's called corporate crony capitalism. This is not the capitalism of free men and free markets, of innovation and hard work and ethics, of sacrifice and of risk. No, this is the capitalism of connections and government bailouts and handouts, of waste and influence peddling and corporate welfare. I believe in the free market, and that is why I detest crony capitalism. And Barack Obama has shown us cronyism on steroids. It will lead to our downfall if we don't stop it now. We will not solve our economic problems until we confront the cronyism of our President and our permanent political class. Between bailouts for Wall Street cronies and stimulus projects for union bosses' security and "green energy" giveaways, he took care of his friends. And now they're on course to raise a billion dollars for his re-election bid so that they can do it all over again. Are you going to let them do it all over again? Are you willing to unite to do all we can to not let them do it again so we can save our country?
YES, VIRGINIA, IT REALLY IS A PONZI SCHEME
In a few years -- sigh -- I'll be eligible for Social Security. But Social Security could be broke before I receive any benefits. The Social Security Trust Fund will be in the red by 2014, and by 2036 will be unable to pay all the benefits promised, Social Security's trustees said in their annual report. It's worse than that, because there is no money in the Social Security Trust Fund. The $2.6 trillion collected in payroll taxes since 1937 long since has been spent. What there is in the Social Security Trust Fund are IOUs from the Treasury department, IOUs Treasury can't possibly make good, because federal spending vastly exceeds all other tax revenues. The Social Security Trust Fund is an accounting fiction. This means that if Social Security isn't put on a sound financial footing pronto, benefits will have to be cut a lot sooner than 2036. How did we get into this mess? And how do we get out of it?