Yesterday the protests in Iran turned deadly. Pro-government militia opened fire on protestors in Tehran killing one man and wounding others. That really makes you believe that this election was open and honest, doesn't it?

In the meantime ... what is our President saying? Has he really taken a side in this? You either support Ahmadinejad and tell the world that you believe his election was valid, or you express your doubts and thrown some moral support to the people of Iran who are protesting. So, PrezBO, which way is it? Then, on the other hand, you can just sit around and say nothing. That seems to be the tact. Obama's silence on the situation in Iran has been deafening. All we can get from the White House is the fact that the United States is "deeply troubled."

Deeply troubled. Oh .. you mean like Americans are deeply troubled about your spending? Like Americans are deeply troubled that you're not running Government Motors? Oh .... I see.

Well, Mr. President, when you feel like you can take a principled stand on this one just let us know.

A recent Gallup polls shows that 40% of Americans describe themselves as conservative. Only 21% of Americans call themselves liberal and 35% consider themselves moderate.

Clearly all of these conservatives don't consider themselves to be Republicans. Many of them are round in the ranks of or in sympathy with the Libertarians. A lot of them even vote Democrat. Conservative doesn't always equate to Republican. There are a lot of conservatives, for instance, who do not feel that it is the government's role to control a woman's reproductive life. Many of them won't vote Republican until the party starts to concentrate more on governance than it does on people's personal lives.

Fact is, the Republican party is out of fresh and new ideas, and it is ignoring the good old ones. Where are the Republicans who are standing up with anything more than a whimper for free enterprise?

OK .. you know where I'm going. I'm completely convinced that if the Republican party would put its full support behind the FairTax, and pledge to pass it as soon as they have control of the House and the Senate, it would turn next year's midterm election on its ear. The FairTax would become the issue. Sure, the Democrats would demagogue it, but as more and more Americans learned the truth their demagoguery would serve to hurt their cause, not help it. The formula here is so simple. Would you rather pay the government 33% of everything you earn, or 23% of everything you spend. What do you think of the idea of nobody paying any taxes at all to the federal government until they have provided for the basic necessities for their family? Now think about that one. Should the government have a claim on one single penny of the money you earn --- or, to state it differently --- should the government have any claim on one single minute of your life before you've taken care of your own family's basic needs? Unless I miss my guess, most Americans would answer "no" to those questions. Can't you see the Republicans running on a campaign of "Not one penny for the government until your family is taken care of." Well, that's the FairTax.

Why won't the Republicans get behind this? The FairTax is the most thoroughly studied and researched piece of legislation ever to have been placed before the Congress of the United States. Still, the Republicans don't believe that they can stand up to Democrat demagoguery. They have no confidence in the voters. They think that the voters will respond to simplistic and sophomoric ideas like calling the Democrat Party the "Socialist Democrat Party." Yeah ... that's showing 'em. But when it comes to supporting and promoting legislation that would bring about the largest transfer of power from the government to the people in our history .... The Republicans shy away.

There are trillions of dollars ... perhaps as much as $13 trillion ... in American dollar-denominated deposits working in overseas economies. Those dollars belong to Americans and American corporations. Stimulus? You want stimulus? What if that money came flowing back home to work in our economy? Can you imagine the stimulus to our economy that would result from just one-half of this money coming back home? This money would be spent by the people who earned it and own it, not by the government. The spending decisions would be privately made, not made in Washington's dark chambers. Obama's idea? Pass laws that tax these overseas earnings right here at home. Construct an economic Berlin Wall. If you see a dollar trying to escape our tax system, shoot it down without remorse. The FairTax plan? The FairTax play that could be the Republican plan? Tell the people who hold this wealth to bring it home with absolutely no federal tax consequences whatsoever. No taxes, no interest on taxes, no penalties .. nothing. Bring it home and put it to work in America and for Americans. But ... have you heard one single Republican present these different approaches to the American people?

How can the Democrats frighten the Republicans so much on this plan? The Democrats would argue for withholding money from your paycheck before you even see it. The Republicans could argue for presenting you with 100% of your paycheck every payday. The Democrats could argue for taxing everything that moves. The Republicans could argue for businesses operating in the US with no tax component on capital or labor. The Republicans aren't willing to take on this argument?

How sad it must be to have the hearts and minds of the plurality of the American people, but be unable to translate that into actual support. How on Earth do we have Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid running the show? Again, I said there were two reasons. The first being that the Republican Party has nothing going for itself. The second is because the American people have been conned ... at least in the presidential election ... into voting for a man who promised them "hope" and "change."

Elections have consequences. Are you starting to figure that out yet?

Just so you know, if you are opposed to Barack Obama's healthcare reform scam you may be using "scare tactics and fear-mongering." Yep. Obama says that "because these fear tactics have worked, things have kept getting worse."

So not wanting the government to be involved in my healthcare decisions suddenly makes me a fear-monger. Pointing out the absurd costs to the tax payers and the redistribution of wealth that is necessary to fund Obama's plan ... that makes me a fear-monger. Daring to suggest that healthcare is not a right, it is a privilege. Fear monger. Oh .. and warning people that Obama's massive government plan must, of necessity, result in the rationing of health care? That's fear mongering as well.

I have long thought that socialized medicine was inevitable in this country. What government wouldn't like to have this power over its people? You control someone's health care, you control that person. Now I'm wondering .. because of Obama's overreaching and haste, is it at all possible that the people of this country might actually wake up and turn against this life-destroying plan before its too late?

The President of Brazil has let the cat out of the bag. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says that unions and workers should be taking better advantage of the current financial crisis to form "a new world economic order." What kind of world order would that be? One based on fairness. One where the workers and the unions would dominate political policy and make sure that the evil rich corporations that provide their jobs don't make money.

He made this statement at the International Labor Organization summit, a gathering of United Nations members. He says, "This is an exceptional opportunity for all of you to think and develop proposals together with the employers and business leaders so that we can change definitely the relations between state and civil society and so that we can build our countries with much more fairness and much more solidarity."

Sadly, there are a lot of people ... including some in our own government ... that would agree with him.

We can only hope this country wakes up before Obama ruins it.

A group of lawmakers asked the IRS to stop imposing "excessive penalties" on small businesses that use questionable tax shelters.

Obama pitched his healthcare reform scam to the American Medical Association yesterday. He got booed.

Great Britain is pissed at the Obama administration after failing to consult Britain over the transfer of four Guantánamo detainees to Bermuda.

Meanwhile, take a look at how these are now living in Bermuda. Not bad. Remember, just weeks ago these saps were being tortured.

Republican Sen. John Thune is proposing a bill that would require the government to sell its ownership interests by July 2010 and prevent it from owning a piece of any American company in the future.

Have you been keeping up with the back-and-forth between Dick Cheney and CIA Director Leon Panetta?

On Wednesday Obama is going to release more details on how his administration plans to oversee banks and financial companies.

Barack Obama says that the upfront costs of healthcare reform will pay for itself in the long-term. But history says that will not be the case.

If you missed this one on the show yesterday ...serial killers have the same personality traits as what other group of people? I would add talk show hosts to that list as well.

The United States is going to give China "financial and technological assistance" in order to help it fight climate change.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus say there is a lack of diversity on the Sunday political talk shows. What a bunch of race pimps.

North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan has introduced a bill to create a nonprofit corporation to promote tourism to the United States, and it would run by implementing a tax on tourists.

Here's a headline I somewhat expected .. As the Senate's top Democrat pushes for expansion of federal hate crime laws, the Holocaust museum shooter has yet to be charged with a hate crime.

What better way for government-educated teenagers to spend the summer than to watch MTV's "16 and Pregnant."

Here it is .. the Congressional Budget Office released its estimate on the Dodd-Kennedy healthcare bill, and it is going to cost well over $1 trillion. But wait, that doesn't even include the cost of Obama's government-run insurance plan. Uh oh.