The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
- Thomas Jefferson
7 July 2009 @ 10:40PM
Fredric U. Dicker—regarded as the pre-eminent political reporter in New York’s state capital—recently published a column decrying the complete breakdown of the state legislature, which has been unable to conduct business for the past month.
Buried way down in Dicker’s piece, starting at the 19th paragraph, we learn:
During the first five months of this year, with the Senate under the control of its first African-American majority leader, [State Senator Malcolm] Smith, top Democrats bemoaned the lack of minority Senate staffers.
But instead of trying to recruit new hires, they fired nearly 200 almost exclusively white workers and replaced them with a large number of minority employees, many of whom were seen by their fellow workers to be unskilled at their new jobs.
The move produced severe racial tensions, made worse by the fact that, as a high-level Democratic staffer confided, “We’ve been told to only hire minorities.'’
So, nearly 200 people lose their jobs in New York State because of their race? And not at the hands of some evil corporation, but our own elected officials?
It’s quite telling that, in our political age, mass firings can still happen because of one’s race. It’s even more telling that—the only time I’ve seen this story get any coverage at all—it was in the 19th paragraph of an otherwise unrelated column.
By Phil Trexler
Beacon (Ohio) Journal staff writer
Akron police say they aren't ready to call it a hate crime or a gang initiation.
But to Marty Marshall, his wife and two kids, it seems pretty clear.
It came after a family night of celebrating America and freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two friends were gathered outside a friend's home in South Akron.
Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ''This is our world'' and ''This is a black world'' as they confronted Marshall and his family. (more)
The Point Guard
by Frederick Hink
From the time FDR was elected on a populist/progressive message, the far left has realized that the path to power is in the division of special- and self-interests and the pitting of these divisions against each other, such as poor vs. the wealthy, labor vs. the entrepreneurial class, blacks vs. whites, the coasts vs. the great heartland, etc. Obama won because he promised something for everyone, he reaped what the left has sown. Thomas Jefferson said, “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
I’ve read where it’s believed that by the time the obamanistas are done, at least 51% of the electorate will be paying no or very low federal income taxes and thus have no true stake in the greater good for our nation. (Of course none of the 51% understand the concept of embedded taxation.) Even a cynical, S.O.B. like myself is searching for a national voice that unites us as Americans again. Governor Palin mentioned the point guard analogy and a good point guard lays down their play to the benefit of the other players. It may be that she’s taking one on the chin to reinvigorate the conservative message and reunite the country.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced Friday that she was resigning her office later this month, a stunning decision that could free her to run for president more easily but also raises questions about her political standing at home.
Palin disclosed the surprise news Friday afternoon from her home in Wasilla with her husband, Todd, and Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, who the governor said would take over the state on Saturday, July 25. (more)
by Christopher E. Cottrell
An Obama administration proposal to bill veterans' private insurance companies for treatment of combat-related injuries has prompted veterans groups to condemn the idea as unethical and powerful lawmakers on Capitol Hill to promise their opposition. (more)
The US Homeland Security Department, under fire for saying US forces returning from the Iraq and Afghan wars were potential right-wing extremist recruits, said Wednesday it honors US veterans. (more)
Why does the Federal Government seem to be so scared?
A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority. (more)
The report warned that military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with combat skills could be recruitment targets, especially those having trouble finding jobs or fitting back into civilian society. (more)
The document, clearly marked as not for release to the media, was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy and made available on the organization's web site.
The report said one "primary concern" for law enforcement officials was the "high volume of purchases and stockpiling of weapons and ammunition by rightwing extremists" who fear potential future restrictions on firearms. (more)
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Can we just go ahead and cede our Constitution to Europe already?
“'I frankly don’t understand all the brouhaha lately from Congress and even from some of my colleagues about referring to foreign law,' Justice Ginsburg said in her comments on Friday."
“'If we’re relying on a decision from a German judge about what our Constitution means, no president accountable to the people appointed that judge and no Senate accountable to the people confirmed that judge,' Chief Justice Roberts said at his confirmation hearing. 'And yet he’s playing a role in shaping the law that binds the people in this country.'”
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Frightening...
Rasmussen Reports - Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.
Or is it just semantics...
It is interesting to compare the new results to an earlier survey in which 70% of Americans prefer a free-market economy. The fact that a “free-market economy” attracts substantially more support than “capitalism” may suggest some skepticism about whether capitalism in the United States today relies on free markets. (more)
Posted by LegiStorm on Wednesday, April 01, 2009
The Wall Street Journal has reviewed the annual practice of lawmakers rewarding staff with annual bonuses - and this past year they appeared to do so in record numbers, according to the LegiStorm data that the Journal cited. (more)
And all of this while they lambaste the bonuses paid to employees of troubled companies - hypocrisy at its worst.
by Ben Smith
Geithner, at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the U.S. is "open" to a headline-grabbing proposal by the governor of the China's central bank, which was widely reported as being a call for a new global currency to replace the dollar, but which Geithner described as more modest and "evolutionary."
By Terence Corcoran
U.S. law-making is riddled with slapdash, incompetence and gamesmanship...
As an aghast world — from China to Chicago and Chihuahua — watches, the circus-like U.S. political system seems to be declining into near chaos. Through it all, stock and financial markets are paralyzed. The more the policy regime does, the worse the outlook gets. The multi-ringed spectacle raises a disturbing question in many minds: Is this the end of America?
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Socialism versus Capitalism:
A Circulating Email
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student, but had once failed an entire class.
The class (students) insisted that socialism worked since no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism."
"All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A."
After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who had studied hard were upset while the students who had studied very little were happy.
But, as the second test rolled around, the students who had studied little studied even less and the ones who had studied hard decided that since they couldn't make an A, they also studied less. The second test average was a D.
No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average grade was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for anyone else.
To their great surprise, all failed. The professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail because the harder people try to succeed, the greater their reward (capitalism), but when a government takes all the reward away (socialism) no one will try or succeed.
"...So we were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural," (more)
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Oversight: Congressman Barney Frank says he wants some of those responsible for our current financial meltdown to be prosecuted. And we couldn't agree more. First up in the court dock: Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
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Houston, We're About to Have a Problem:
WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to global warming, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Wednesday...
...The Obama administration's budget would levy an excise tax on oil and natural gas produced in the Gulf of Mexico, raising $5.3 billion in revenue from 2011 to 2019.
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By SALLY PIPES
PRESIDENT Obama's new budget dedicates $634 bil lion over the next 10 years to what he calls health reform. He promises - or perhaps threatens - that this vast sum will be a down payment for universal coverage, which could require more than $1 trillion.
Unfortunately, the president intends to spend all this money on the basis of several pernicious myths common in the health-care debate. As a result, his reforms would ultimately hand the health-care system over to the government and lead to rationing. (more)
(Obama) is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds.
And as far as middle-class tax cuts are concerned, Obama’s cap-and-trade program will be a huge across-the-board tax increase on blue-collar workers, including unionized workers. Industrial production is plunging, but new carbon taxes will prevent production from ever recovering. While the country wants more fuel and power, cap-and-trade will deliver less.
Noteworthy up here on Wall Street, a great many Obama supporters — especially hedge-fund types who voted for “change” — are becoming disillusioned with the performances of Obama and Treasury man Geithner.
There is a growing sense of buyer’s remorse.
Well then, do conservatives dare say: We told you so? (more)
By Christopher E. Cottrell
The ink is barely dry on the “stimulus” boondoggle and our President is now telling everyone that we need to spend another $275 BILLION on mortgage bailouts! (more)
by Chuck Baldwin
America just celebrated Presidents Day this past Monday. What first began as an observance for President George Washington has (since the 1980s) morphed into the generic "Presidents Day," which is a politically correct celebration of mediocrity that forces our nation's greatest President to be lumped together with incompetents such as Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy Carter. (more)
Stimulate This!
By Christopher E. Cottrell
In case you haven’t heard our illustrious United States House and Senate have apparently agreed on a compromise economic “stimulus” package of some $789+/- BILLION dollars instead of the original $838 BILLION dollars originally proposed in the Senate. The original House bill was $820 BILLION. But what’s a few billion here or there, right? (more)
Texas Governor Backs Resolution Affirming Sovereignty Under 10th Amendment - Is Rick Perry an Extremist as Defined by Homeland Security?
“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said.
There is grumbling among the peons. Will it be heard?
RFK Graph
So you think you only pay the IRS once? Think again...
by Christopher E. Cottrell
April 20, 2009
By Harold Witkov
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Runaway Litigation: The carbon cap-and-trade idea is bad enough on its own. But Congress will make the climate bill even worse if it tacks on language that encourages lawyers to tie up the courts with frivolous suits.
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009
The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam - By John Coleman (Founder, The Weather Channel)
Deal or No Deal: the Obamanistas FDR Fixation is a Perscription for Change of the Wosrt Kind - Texas Monthly, by Fred Hink
Preventable Job Cuts - IBD Editorials
The Government-Created Subprime Mortgage Meltdown, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Great Myths of the Great Depression by Lawrence W. Reed
Gov't Solutions Only Deepened '30s Downturn by Thomas Sowell
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"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and mechanical products, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism"
- Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867
On Our Warming Earth...
Winter 2008/09
The Petition Project - At least 37,000 scientist in the U.S. don't believe in Anthropological Global Warming.
