HOLD ON FOR A WILD RIDE

The next two days are going to be pivotal in the 2008 election. Hillary and Barack are squaring off in two key states, Texas and Ohio. There are as many different opinions as to what Hillary has to accomplish in these two contests as there are pundits expressing them. Hillary has to win both. No, Hillary only has to win one. Hillary can lose both and still carry her campaign forward. No … Hillary is toast regardless of what happens.

The best possible outcome? For me that would be no definitive outcome at all. Let’s hand out some delegates both Obama and for Hillary, while leaving no commanding lead. The cause of liberty will be served well by a continuation of the pissing contest between these two. Take it all the way to the convention. Let them keep arguing over who is going to raise taxes on the evil rich the most. Let them keep playing a game of one-upsmanship on who is going to do the most thorough job of expanding government control over our free markets. Let them try to best each other over who is going to take the most money from our energy companies and pour it into the political pork coffers of the imperial federal government. Let Hillary continue to tout her imaginary experience in the White house while Obama’s folks continue to hand out “Change we can believe in” signs to people who really have no clue, other than celebrity worship, why they’re standing there at that rally in the first place. Let those who love freedom and celebrate individualism develop a growing sense of unease and perhaps even disgust at the statist rhetoric of these two anti-capitalists.

This would be much more fun if it wasn’t so threatening to our country and the future of American liberty.

THE 3:00 A.M. CAMPAIGN AD.

Did you hear about the dueling 3:00 a.m. campaign ads over the weekend? First of all .. these ads are decades old. Walter Mondale used the same ad against Gary Hart. Carter used it against Reagan. Bush v. Kerry … there it was. The message: When that red phone rings in the White House at three in the morning you want to make sure the right person is there to answer it. Hillary’s message was that when the crisis erupts, she is the one with all the experience.

OK .. a question? Can someone please tell me what national crisis Hillary has ever handled? There was a conference call this weekend between the media and some of Hillary’s campaign staffers. That very question was asked: “What crisis has Hillary ever handled?” The campaign staff stumbled around for a bit, and then responded with “She’s on the Armed Services Committee.” Wow! I feel much better already. I guess that means that every single Senator serving on the Armed Services Committee is qualified to be president by virtue of the fact that they have all that experience handling crises.

The ugly truth here? The only crisis Hillary ever faced at 3:00 a.m. during her years in the White House was trying to figure out where in the hell her “husband” was.

OBAMA’S RESPONSE AD

Almost immediately Obama’s campaign staff comes right back at her with their own 3:00 a.m. ad. In this version Barack Obama is obviously the one you want to answer the phone. Why? Well, because it was Obama “Who understood that the real threat to America was Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.”

Now think for a moment about Obama’s ad. By stating that the real threat to America was Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Obama seems to be saying that Al Qaeda anywhere other than Afghanistan isn’t a threat. This has been a favored argument of the left for the past year. Fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan was OK … but you can’t fight them anywhere else. Excuse me … but didn’t about 15 of the 9/11 hijackers hail not from Afghanistan, but from Saudi Arabia? Didn’t Al Qaeda bomb the USS Cole in Yemen? How about the Khobar Towers. Was that in Afghanistan? This “It’s OK to fight Al Qaeda in Afghanistan” argument is for simpletons. Sadly, that description fits the democrat voter profile all too well.

And what about Al Qaeda in Iraq? Obama says that there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush invaded. Sorry .. wrong. Now there’s no way the left is ever going to admit it, but the intelligence evidence that Al Qaeda was operating in sections of Iraq. Facts are troublesome things.

HILLARY’S OHIO ANECDOTE

Speaking late afternoon at a rally in Akron, Ohio. Hillary spins a story about a young girl in Ohio that was working in a pizza parlor or some such place. Sure enough, she ends up pregnant. She’s having some trouble with the pregnancy and goes to the doctor. She is told that she’ll have to pay at least $100 for the doctor’s appointment. She doesn’t have the money, so she goes home. Eventually both the girl and her baby die … though we’re not told from what. Hillary then tells the audience that “It is morally wrong that a young woman should be denied medical care.”

OK … let’s talk about “morally wrong.” First … we have no names (at least not yet) and no details about Hillary’s touching story. We don’t know whether or not this woman tried to avail herself of a local government medical clinic. We don’t know if she presented herself to some charitable organizations for help. What DO we know? We know that she was not married. She lacked marketable job skills as evidenced by her pizza job, and that she engaged in careless and unsafe sex. Isn’t there something “morally wrong” with a young woman getting pregnant with a baby she has absolutely no ability to care for without relying on the government to seize another’s property for her benefit?

While the left is pontificating about morals, you will never hear them address the possibility that there is something wrong with irresponsible decisions that lead to the confiscation of another person’s property. We’ve created this mindset in this country that it is perfectly OK to take any action or make any decision you like, no matter how irresponsible, and then sit while the government makes everything just fine … using someone else’s life and property. Ignore your education; obligate yourself for those expensive car payments instead of buying a health insurance policy; and get knocked up by just about anyone … and the government is there to take care of you.

Can you imagine what our society might be like of people grew up understanding that they were going to be held responsible for the stupid and irresponsible decisions in their lives? Wouldn’t it be amazing if people actually thought before they acted … and they did so because the nanny government wasn’t waiting there to protect them from their own idiocy? With our government schools, that will never be our reality.

How many of you really want to live in an assisted care living center. Well .. that’s what we’re building here: entitlement program by entitlement program – Democrat by Democrat – our country is turning into a glorified nursing home.

Oh .. and don’t you just love Hillary preaching to us about morals? Come on, folks … is this really the woman we want to turn to for lectures on what is morally wrong and what isn’t?

GIVE BACK YOUR PROFITS

Coming soon to America … the British government is ordering the heads of the biggest gas and electricity companies to hand over part of the profits. If they don’t, they will face a new windfall tax.

The companies are being told that they must agree to subsidize a new nationwide “fuel poverty” scheme to help 4.5 million of the poorest households. If the companies do not agree, a levy will be put on their profits. This poverty scheme is set to be unveiled as part of the budget in a few weeks.

The British government is taking these rich, evil profits in order to curtail what they consider “excessive profiteering” by the utilities industry. Customers are apparently paying soaring household gas and electricity bills while the evil corporations claim profits that have increased by $5 billion in the past three years.

Now you just know that American politicians – probably on both sides fo the aisles – are going to jump on this like a crow on a June bug. Democrats, with no small amount of help from across the aisle, have been demonizing the idea of profits for decades. It’s all part of a campaign to attack free enterprise while strengthening government control over our economy. Again … with generations of government education in this country it won’t be difficult at all for our politicians to pick up where these Brit socialists leave off.

TAX BREAKS FOR HUGO CHAVEZ

No this is not a joke … this is just your American Congress doing what it can to help out a rich, socialist dictator. The House passed legislation last week that repeals subsidies for five major oil and gas companies in order to offset $18.1 billion in renewable-energy tax breaks. However, Citgo Petroleum Corp. would continue to receive the 6% deduction for domestic manufacturing. Citgo is owned by a subsidiary of Hugo Chavez’s Petróleos de Venezuela. Apparently since Citgo does not drill for oil and gas domestically or abroad, it fails to fall under the bill’s definition of companies that will be losing the tax break.

Does that make any sense at all? The five companies that this bill targeted -- Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil, Shell and ConocoPhillips — all produce and refine and sell in the United States. And because they are domestic, they are going to lose this tax deduction while Hugo Chavez gets to hang on to his. We are giving him money out of our tax payer dollars while limiting our own resources domestically.

This is your MoveOn Democrat Congress at work, ladies and gentlemen.

GOVERNMENT EDUCATION IS BETTER

Or so says a California court. A court in California has ruled that children in a homeschool family must be enrolled in a government school or “legally qualified” private school. Oh and they must actually attend those schools.

Here’s what this left coast court had to say: “We find no reason to strike down the Legislature’s evaluation of what constitutes an adequate education scheme sufficient to promote the ‘general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence,’” the court said in the case. “We agree … ‘the educational program of the State of California was designed to promote the general welfare of all the people and was not designed to accommodate the personal ideas of any individual in the field of education.’”

The government must control the minds of your children. Are you complicit?

SAUDI UNIVERSITY IN AMERICA

When it comes to higher education (at the expense of the taxpayers) the University of California at Berkeley has decided that it would be a wise investment to team up with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Under the current arrangement, Berkeley faculty members would collaborate with our Saudi “friends” on research projects, and they would help the Saudi university hire professors. The university, which is known as KAUST, is currently supposed to open in September of 2009.

The price tag? Only $10 billion dollars. But I am glad to report that there are a precious few who are actually concerned that this Saudi university will discriminate against women (and others, like homosexuals) and limit academic freedom. For example, another pending deal for a Saudi-engineering school – partnered with California Polytechnic State University – would only allow men to be qualified to teach engineering classes at the school.

Sounds like the America I know and love.

Meanwhile from Saudi Arabia … on Sunday it officially compared the Israel Defense Forces’ in Gaza to Nazi war crimes, and it is calling on the international community to stop these “mass killings” of Palestinians. All the while the so-called “Palestinians” continue to lob rockets into Israeli territory with nary a squawk from our “friends” in Saudi Arabia.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Just a little interesting insight into the “training materials” of the Hillary Clinton campaign. What a lovable woman.

Michelle Obama says that Barack’s middle name “Hussein” is used by opponents as a “fear bomb.”

The founder of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University is complaining about the media bias in favor of Barack Obama.

You’ll be really upset to hear that Darlene Ewing (Democratic activist, longtime feminist) is upset that more women aren’t voting for Hillary.

"What foreign policy moment would you point to in Hillary's career where she's been tested by crisis?" …. the answer is silence. Here’s the audio clip for your listening pleasure.

OwlGore has his boxers in a bunch because the presidential candidates aren’t talking enough about global warming.Maybe that’s because people are starting to figure out that this is a huge hoax.

This is the New York Times trying to grapple with the concept of global cooling. Enjoy.

Why are more and more Americans turning to the Internet for news? Well, that would be because they don’t trust the mainstream media any more. What a surprise.

This is what CAIR is up to lately … calling on local, state and national law enforcement authorities to investigate an incident at a mall in Louisiana where a Muslim woman was ejected for refusing to remove her hijab.

“Scholars” are now calling for international laws against “religious insults” (read: Islam). What would we do without scholars?

With little surprise, Russia’s Vladimir Putin seems to have a clear successor: Dmitry Medvedev.

What lengths would you go to in order to provide inmates with a “humane prison”? How about costing tax payers $336 a day for each inmate … just to make sure that their human rights principles aren’t violated. Since when was it your human right to watch flat-screen LCD televisions?

Members of an Indian tribal council gave themselves a 30% pay raise along with new Humvees and luxury vehicles bought with their tribal funds.

In New Jersey, you will be getting a $100 fine if you talk or text message on your cell phone while driving.

A movie theatre in Nevada has banned anyone younger than 18 after 6 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays without a guardian.

Uh oh. Looks like they had to cancel a winter carnival in New Hampshire. Seems they were having just a bit too much winter. Damned global warming.

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