We're supposed to be best allies with this nation

Israel may not be able to wait to deal with Iran's nuclear program forcefully, but it will have to wait until January to have a friend in the White House.

House member Mike Rogers (R-MI) says he "watched in stunned silence" a shouting match between Bibi Netanyahu and US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro in Jerusalem, as Bibi trie to impress upon Shapiro that time had run out due to the MEC regime's failure to come up with a diplomatic means of putting the squelch on Iran's program.

An encouraging juncture

I'm up to my eyeballs in research and interviews for for article deadlines early next week, so I'm not sure when I'll have the time to blog at length as I want to about the just-concluded Pub convention.  So many great speeches - Artur Davis, Nikki Haley, Condi Rice, Marco Rubio, Mia Love, Paul Ryan, and, of course, our nominee.  And re: him, I understand what makes him tick a lot better now.  Some of his ways have caused me discomfort over the years, but a kinder and more decent man you can't find.  And, of course, Clint Eastwood's unforgettable conversation with the empty chair.

Right now, before I get back to the paid writing, let me say that the new surge of energy among the majority of Americans on the right side of the ideological center line is palpable.  And it's clear that the left is out of intellectual gas.

Victory sure looks doable as of this last day of August.

Then comes the hard work - economic, geostrategic, cultural, and spiritual.

UPDATE: And let's not forget Susana Martinez, who delivered one of the best lines of the entire three days.

Why we call them Freedom-Haters - today's edition

As we know, Congress has not done the regime's bidding with regard to coming up with some kind of comrpehensive industrial energy efficiency legislation.  There are still too many members who understand that that kind of thing - setting standards for such matters for private organizations that make things - is a totalitarian measure.

So the regime has once again bypassed the people's duly elected Representatives and Senators to impose it by executive fiat.

A refusal to acqueisce to tyranny does not constitute lying

I've seen this set of charges several places already this morning.  The linked article cites Dave Weigel's trotting-out of them at Slate.  (There's even an AP / Yahoo story about it.) I happened to first see them at Salon under the byline of the putrid Joan Walsh.  Alas, Avik Roy at Forbes exposes this attempt to make Paul Ryan's exposure of the MEC's agenda of planned decline for what it is.

The upside down worldview of the UN

The UN serves as an effective metaphor for the hollow nature of the leftist worldview generally.  It routinely looks the force for good in this world - let's use "Western civilization" as shorthand for this - and excoriates it for its very virtues.  Then it holds up supposedly beleagured elements of humanity - elements that actually, through their own anti-dignity, anti-freedom, anti-life modus operandi, have wrought destruction within their own ranks, as well as upon those portions of humanity interested in advancement and living well - without bothering to substantiate its claims for their victim status.

The latest example of this is the official conclusion of the United Nations Relief and Works committee's meeting the other day that, yes, Gaza's future looks bleak, but that is because of Israel's stance.

You just have to proceeed in this world on the basis of what you know to be right and true and understand that there will be those with nothing better to do than try to thwart you.

Makes sense to moi

There's a trend afoot of US companies reincorporating overseas to get away from the crushing tax burden of being based in the People's Republic of Obamica.

I thought so, too

Had one of those situations where I read a ridiculous lefty opinion piece at Real Clear Politics - in this instance, Joan Walsh's Salon column on Rick Santorum's convention speech last night - and knew that by the end of the day I'd see a great takedown of it.  Alas, Quinn Hilyer at The American Spectator steps up.

All in the name of an utterly mad vision

Well, the new CAFE standards are finalized. They make our roads more dangerous, they cost everybody a lot of money, but, as always here at LITD, the main point is that it erodes freedom.  Where the hell does the government get off telling private organizations how to make their products?

All in the name of a thoroughly discredited notion about the global climate.

Those pesky hot mikes

Yahoo News bureau chief gets canned over a remark I'll bet he wishes he hadn't uttered.  Even the regime's propaganda arm has to censure its own when they drop the mask of civility to this degree.

Time to cut the cord

Working on this magazine article about the farm bill is, once I've learned how to put the acronym soup in proper perspective, an eye-opening exercise in understanding why the federal government is in such stratospheric debt.

The House and Senate respectively have approved their versions of the bill, but it's not moving forward right now, because there's some talk afoot about scrapping that and going to an extension of the bill from the last five-year cycle.

I probably should have known to start my research with the Heritage Foundation rather than the more in-the-weeds analysis of the ag-econ think tanks.  Heritage's Emily Goff makes clear that the new way of compensating farmers for loss is a marked departure from the decades-old model of paying them no matter how much they produce.  (Because I was just getting a bunch of charts and tables and acronyms from the university-related sources, I wasn't able to graps this.) Still it's insufficient and ought to be scrapped as well.  Its various provisions wind up doing nothing to extricate government from the farming sector, or reduce the cost thereof.  We're still distorting the actual value of a whole lot of crops.

What I am struck by is that what we righties decry about FHer-care has been going on for years in agriculture.  It's astounding to think that government has been paying most of farmers' crop-insurance premiums.  Wish I could get the federal Santa Claus to pay my car insurance bill every month.

How health insurance ought to work

Leave it to the great Thomas Sowell to explain how to make health insurance a lot less expensive. 

Who do you think you're jiving?

That "Republican Women for Obama" ad that the regime's propaganda arm released features at least two women who aren't and never have been Republican, but are rather FHers in good standing. 

Sheesh, didn't they think anybody would check into their Facebook pages?

Why is the price of milk going up? Ask the overlords

When you're a freelance writer, you generally don't turn down opportunities to work.  Thus it is that I recently agreed to the request of an editor I've been working for for several years to become a regular contributor to a farming magazine with a multi-county readership.  There's been a learning curve for this city boy, to be sure, but thanks to a network of contacts I'm forming among what may be the last sector in our society to be comprised of solid, salt-of-the-earth types, I'm getting my sea legs.

My current assignment, though, has me in the weeds.  It's on the current versions of the farm bill making their way through the House and Senate respectively.  I'm supposed to get feedback from some area farmers, as well as some policy-wonk types.

Since the FDR era, when the first such bill became legislation, Congress has tweaked it to address the nature of the times about every five years.  It's now time to re-examine it.


To get started on my research, I have been checking out some documents provided at the website of the Agriculture and Food Policy Center, a think tank within Texas A&M run by some agricultural economists.  There are indeed some reports about the current versions of the farm bill update.

Talk about arcane.  The working papers are a jungle of acronyms and terms such as RLC, STAX net payments, SCO premiums, AGI 3-year moving average, NCFI . . . okay, you get the drift.  I am starting to see the braod outlines of what's being presented.  The Center is asking farmers selected of a study it conducted whether they prefer subsidized insurance coverage for price drops or revernue drops, or be compensated by county or on an individual-farm basis.  The two versions of the bill offer various mixes of these variables.  Still, the whole thing makes my head swim.

The text of the remarks of Dr. Joe Outlaw, the Center's director, to the House Agriculture Committee were much easier to understand.  But they paint an odd picture of the farming sector's view of government involvement.  It seems farmers count on price support - "safety net" is the term Outlaw uses a lot - as a given and panic if it looks like it's going to be altered in any way.  On the other hand, they bristle at government mandates such as biofuel-use allocation for corn and other environmentally based intrusions into their operations.


Thus this  morning, I was pleased to run across Katie Kieffer's Townhall column on this very subject.  A number of things became clear.  Certainly a medium-sized family farm operation that is generally based on the classic American work ethic, but that has come to count on subsidized prices and risk amelioration is going to get a little antsy when Congress considers tapering off.  But it's all of a piece.  The government that boosts your soybean or dairy prices is the same government that can tell you what to plant and how much.  And the market for food for all of us is thereby distorted.

 I don't know if I'll be able to draw such a conclusion in the final paragraphs of my article when it's done.  This is supposed to be objective journalism.  Still, if I present the basic dynamics behind the minutae, it will have to be obvious to the reader that, once again, as in any area of life and economics, we're talking about the relationship of government, freedom and dependence.

Thought crimes and real crimes

George Neumayr at The American Spectator points out how the double standard of various MEC-regime embodiments of moral rot getting a pass while conservatives are expected to never falter for a microsecond demonstrates the skewedness of our cultural landscape.

Kevin Jennings and Sandra Fluke?  Cool by the FHers.  Todd Akin?  Made to walk the plank by the Pubs because he did an admittedly horrible job of defending an absolutist pro-life position.

I say Akin still needs to go, but let us remember the conditions that made that so.

Normal people call it imperiling Western civilization in the service of a mad vision

So much for the regime's stated goal of isolating Iran.  120 countries are sending representatives to Tehran, which is hosting the non-aligned nations summit.

You could call it failure, except that the Most Equal Comrade and the Freedom-Hater regime surely don't see it that way at all.  They think that the knocking down of the United States in stature on the world stage is more important than the world's most evil force being able to hold the rest of the world hostage with nuclear weapons.

Just like the debt that is soon to surpass $16 trillion, just like the 8-plus unemployment rate for the last 42 months, just like the fact that this nation is sitting on a reserve of oil, coal and natural gas sufficient to make us the world's most robust energy producer, it's on purpose.

If the facts were known, would it cause the FHers to drop this line of attack?

Charges of hypocrisy generally bore me, because, as I once pointed out in my newpaper column, they tell us nothing about whether the principle being circumvented with a wink and a nod is an eternal verity or a load of hooey.

But it's time to take note of all the FHer Senators who shelter wealth in offshore accounts and investment instruments.  Not because there's anything objectionable about doing that; I spend considerable effort each spring to present the least taxable picture of my finances to the leviathan state that I can.  It's because it may have a remote chance of getting Harry Reid and brain-dead regime apparatchiks to shut their redistributionist pie-holes.

Just when you thought his narcissism could reach no further heights

The MEC tells a crowd of former NBA stars . . . well, just read it for yourself.

Because there is no refutation of the facts he presents

Niall Ferguson pens a blistering response to all the FHer bloggers who were enraged with his Newsweek piece on the MEC's disastrous presidency.  The main point:  None of them offered a substantive take-down of what he had to say.

Getting the word out - finally

Of course, those of us who smelled the odor of revolutionary socialism wafting off the MEC since we first heard that his background was in "community organizing" a good five years ago have long known the real skinny on the guy.  Over the years, we've read Radical-in-Chief by Stanley Kurtz, The Amateur by Ed Klein, and various similar tomes.

Now it seems that America in general is waking up to what he is all about.  Dinesh D'Souza's movie 2016 is a box-office hit.

Fourth year in a row . . .

. . . for federal budget deficits over $1 trillion.

Any doubt now that it's on purpose?

Make the call, Mike

Paul Mirengoff at Power Line says there's good reason to believe that Mike Huckabee is the only person in the universe who can convince Akin to step down.  The reasoning: his primary victory wasn't dependent on either the Pub establishment or the Tea Party, but the evangelical vote, which Huckabee delivered by endorsing him.

Mike, you have displayed symptoms of RGS and other weird political maladies in the past, but it's clear you're basically a man of conservative conviction and deep Christian faith.  Pray fervently about this.  And then pick up the phone.

You're on your own, pal

The NRSC cuts Akin loose.

He says he's staying in, but he is now so ostracized, I'd give him 24 hours.

It's on purpose - today's edition

Senator David Vitter, writing at PJ Media, tells the sordid story of how the regime doctored its report on the BP oil spill to advance its agenda of squelching oil exporation in the Gulf of Mexico.

Because it's based on normal-people economic principles

400 independent economists have endorsed Romney's plan for turning the economy around - including three Nobel laureates.

Nailing opponents to trees in front of the presidential palace

Per Sky News, Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Egypt are crucifying opponents of President Morsi.

What an administrative change in Egypt will do for its foreign policy

The Mubarak regime and the Sadat regime before it had no use for the Islamic regime in Iran.  It's going to be a little different now.  Morsi is headed to Tehran later this month for a state visit to "strengthen ties."  The announcement comes on the heels of Ahmadinejad's Israel-is-a-cancer-on-humanity-that-will-soon-be-removed remark.

Making our case for us

Former Harvard president and MEC economic advisor Larry Summers has a column in the Washington Post today that takes a statist position regarding the size of government - that its continued growth is inevitable.  He outlines five reasons why he asserts this is so.  When one reads through them, the thought occurs that if we just either privatized those matters or quit undertaking them altogether, shrinking the federal government would be no problem at all.

He tosses out the idea that defense would be an area to cut, but he never gets to the specific reality that defense spending only accounts for 16 percent of the budget.  Rather, to back away from it nearly as soon as he offers it, he relies on the idea's likely unpopularity in a dangerous world and time.

His argument is predicated on the assumption that the American people assume the Big Three Entitlements to be a given in their lives, but the surge of interest in what Paul Ryan has to say would indicate otherwise.

It looks from here like he needs to go

I'm not the most inside-baseball guy in the world, so I wasn't up to speed with who Todd Akin was.  It seems he beat somebody far more suitable in the GOP primary for a Missouri Senate seat.  And now it appears he's got Joe Biden's disease, the latest manifestation of which is this doozy.  Given the moment in this election cycle, the fierceness with which our enemy is waging war against us, and the bias of the MSM, the guy needs to be convinced to do the right thing for freedom and America and step down.

A development with a rather big wow factor

The cover story in the latest issue of Newsweek is called "Hit The Road, Barack: Why America Needs A New President."  It's cool, clearly, that the magazine is giving top visibility to the argument a blog such as this would make for bringing the MEC's grim reign to an end.  That argument is well-articulated by Niall Ferguson.  A couple of thoughts: It gives the editorial staff cover as an even'handed periodical for the rest of the campaign season, but it also confirms that it is now an opinion magazine, and therefore due for a name change.

Reason to feel like there's a future for this world

A piece at The American Thinker today by Jay Schalin entitled "Political Fog Finally Lifts" really lifted my spirits. 
So much understanding among the American people has coalesced in the last week.  The Left is clearly flailing.  The rest of this campaign season will not be about tax returns or subsidized contraception or Mormonism or neo-deconstructionist interpretations of what it means to be black or "queer."  It will be about the reasons why we are headed full-tilt toward the cliff's edge.  And Paul Ryan will clearly show that it is because we have promised a cornucopia of goodies to various Americans that we could never have made good on.
People of all demographic groups will readily understand this and get behind the team that made it so clear.
It's already having an effect and will continue to do so.  What we have to do is be relentless about continuing to get out the message.

The main way in which Joe Biden's crude goofiness endangers our nation

Yes, Joe Biden's runaway mouth seems to be a worsening problem.  No doubt even the MEC recognizes that.  But while that coarsens our national discourse even more, if such a thing is possible, there are certain kinds of countermeasures the MEC could take that would finish off the United States of America once and for all, and do so in the immediate term.

Let us pray fervently that that is not something to be read into the president's schedule of appointments for today.

Eric Holder will have to find some other rationale for opposing voter ID than public opinion

Per a Washington Post poll, an overwhelming majority of Americans - male, female, young, old, black, white, Pub, Dem - support a requirement that people photographically verify who they are when they show up to vote.

I'll see your work authorization and raise you an executive order

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signs an executive order denying driver's licenses to those illegal aliens who were granted amnesty by the MEC's unconstitutional flipping off of federal immigration law.

Erskine Bowles tells it like it is

Says it wasn't Paul Ryan who scuttled the deficit commission's recommendations, it was the MEC.

Leaders of the intelligence and special-operations communities to the MEC: quit running off your mouth about bin Laden and special ops generally

Leaders of the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, a group of retired intelligence and special-ops folks, are set to launch a series of ads expressing their displeasure at the MEC and his regime for their braggadocio and national-security leaks.

Looks like this one did have an ideological angle

Sociologists, historians and cultural observers will be busy for years examining the underlying reasons for the rise in occurrences of public places getting shot up in the past few years.  Of course, the unhinged left has rushed forward after each one with shrill pronouncements of a "climate of hate" supposedly fostered by right-of-center opinion outlets.  And, of course, they've been proven wrong, every time.

This afternoon's mayhem at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. appears to actually have an ideological angle, but it would be the reverse of the one the Left tried to get us to buy before.  Obviously, we need to know a lot more details, but it seems the gunman shouted something about the FRC having hateful policies before he let loose.

John Boehner spooks me with his occasional exhibiting of symptoms of Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome

Holds a conference call with Pub candidates for the House to discuss their concerns about how Ryan's forthrightness about entitlement reform might subject them to attacks from the Left.

Deal with it.  As Dan Riehl says, man up.  If this isn't a war to you, get out of the way.

Just wow

Day-um, Mitt Romney's giving some good speeches these days.

Those meds for Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome seem to be working.

There's more to it than just trying to institute a civilian republic

Morsi found generally much approval in the West for sacking those top generals.  Many interpreted the move as bringing the military under the control of civilian government, end of story.  But when one considers the more sinister way he has dealt with Egypt's news media so far, a different picture emerges.

Why are taxpayers taking such a huge loss on GM?

Because the MEC regime made sure that the UAW got a better deal than it would have under normal bankruptcy proceedings.

Another one of those off-teleprompter utterings, like "you didn't build that" or "I have to deal with him every day," that the MEC will probably come to regret

Tells a Council Bluffs,Iowa crowd that the 2 % most successful Americans got where they are through luck.

Freedom-Haters: long on intense feelings, real short on logic

Take the French people, for instance.  They elect Hollande, a socialist, as president, and a few short months later his poll numbers are in the tank.

It's pretty clear which faction came out on top in this one

Since Morsi's election as Egypt's president, speculation over whether the Muslim Brotherhood or the army had the upper hand has been ramped up.  Now that Morsi has sacked Field Marshall Tantawi and other top generals, an answer begins to emerge.

He'd put it on a market footing

Yuval Levin at NRO concisely explains how the Ryan-Wyden plan for Medicare would work.  (Ron Wyden, co-author of the plan, is a liberal Dem Senator from Oregon.) 

The government would provide a premium-support payment equal to the second-lowest bid for a package of health-care insurance benefits to a senior in a given region of the country.  All competing insurance companies would know what the package of benefits the government was saying it would pay for were.  If the senior chooses that second-lowest bid, voila, the package is paid for.  If the senior chooses the lowest bid, he pockets the difference. If he chooses a higher bid, which he or she might do for any number of reasons, such as being more comfortable with that insurance company's track record of providing maximum value, or wanting features from a health-insurance policy above and beyond what the government is willing to pay for, he pays the difference. 

It still involves the government, of course, but the free market is setting the prices and encouraging competition.  Costs could be driven down to the point at which government involvement would wither away from no longer being necesary.

Obviously the right pick

The crowd quickly achieved overflow status in North Carolina.

Paul Ryan: Hiding Spending Doesn't Reduce Spending

Let's rerun this FHer classic often and everywhere

The regime is not going to like having Tim Geithner's "We don't have a definitive solution to the debt crisis, we just don't like yours" remarks to the next vice president replayed everywhere for the rest of the campaign season.

Now we can wage this war for America's soul with our best weapon - our clearly articulated ideas and principles

It's official as of this morning.  Mitt selects one of the modern political world's most formidable champions of freedom, Paul Ryan.

Maybe Mitt read Charles Krauthammer's great NRO piece yesterday saying that there are two ways to run against the MEC - either focus on the stewardship angle, that is, hammer home the numbers on unemployment and the debt and deficit, thereby painting the MEC as a failure at what a president ought to do, or go the ideological route, that is, stress loudly and repeatedly that the current morass is a direct result of who the MEC is.  Krauthammer says to go the latter route.

The MEC and the FHers will be helpful in making the iedological case for us with the inevitable howling about the supposed injustice of Ryan's vision for restoring fiscal sanity.

"A dependent population is an obedient population"

Today's required reading: an Investors Business Daily editorial with a ltany of stats for such things as the number of Americans receiving some sort of welfare, the number that have filed for Social Security disability, the number who die with less than $10,000 in assets.

You bet it's on purpose.

Now, that's how you wage war against Freedom-Haters

New RNC ad featuring Cutter's denial of knowing the details of the Joe Soptic situation, followed by audio file of the conference call she participated in with him.

When the agendas of various types of FHers get in each others' way

Victor Davis Hanson on why politically correct exemption from charges of bigotry is doomed.  With all the poisonous rhetoric out there, too many groups claiming Most Aggrieved status are getting their toes stepped on - by fellow aggrieved groups.

Stephanie Cutter has dog vomit where her soul should be

Oh, yes you did know the details about Soptic's story.  And America now knows that you, and because you are the embodiment of what the Democrat party is now, FHers generally, are morally rotten from the core outward.

Yes, I have to back him because of the grim alternative, but he still spooks the pee out of me

Andrea Saul, Romney campaign spokesperson, when asked about the lie-based Priorities USA ad, instead of blasting it for the spititually rotten dog vomit that it is, went into some unhelpful goop about how if the lady with the cancer had been in Massachussetts, she would have been covered by he state's health care program.

The other threat to our freedom, and indeed our ability to maintain a standard of living above that of medieval serfs, besides Democrats, Communists and jihadists, is those afflicted with Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome.

And our presidential candidate and those he has chosen to surround himself with exhibit worrying symptoms way too often.

Socialism and what the encounter with the delivery person on your porch will now set you back

Papa John's CEO says the cost of the company's pizzas is going to increase due to FHer-care.

The FHers are counting on moral sewage to be a winner on the campaign trail

Sandra Fluke introduces the MEC at a Denver appearance.

Successful people don't sit idly by and watch socialist governments seize their assets at gunpoint

Well-to-do French citizens are strongly considering moving to other countries as the Hollande regime's tax hike begins to bite.

And you can be sure they'll go even lower before it's over

The new pro-MEC ad by super-PAC Priorities USA features a guy named Joe Soptic, who was laid off from the steel company GST and whose wife later died of cancer. 

There are several important facts to know about this situation, some of which, such as the time frame in which Romney's leaving Bain Capital, the plant closing, and the discover of the cancer.  It's about seven years from Event A to Event C. A lot of this has been discussed on blogs and talk radio today.

What I haven't seen was any discussion of why Bain Capital might have closed the plant (beyond Bob Beckel's silly rant on The Five about how Bain somehow milked it for a bunch of assets).

I herewith reprint a post from this blog from May that tells the story:

1.) Romney left Bain capital in 1999. The shutdown was in 2001.

2.) Here's who was still at Bain, though, and oversaw the outsourcing of the jobs: a major MEC campaign-fund bundler.

3.) The mill that was shut down was on the skids anyway, in no small part because it was busting its ass to try to comply with EPA standards.

4.) That mill was unionized. GTS's other mill, in Ft. Wayne, IN, is non-union and still making steel today

SUPREMELY IMPORTANT UPDATE: Soptic's wife continued to have a job and health insurance after he got laid off.

What, no Barracuda?

The speaker lineup for the Pub convention was obviously put together by establishment types.  Some good governors - Haley, Scott, Kasich - but some doozy RGS-afflicted types, such as Huckabee, Rice, and the guy who basically handed the White House keys to a freedom-hating revolutionary socialist.  (That would be McCain.)  Where's Allen West?   Sarah Palin?  Rick Santorum?  Jim DeMint?

This is why lefty Facebook smartasses display utter cluelessness when they snark about the Republican party.  They'd have their worst nightmare to post about if we base types and Tea Party types actually ran things.

Maybe if we can elect a truly conservative Congress, we can sideline this invite-the-Freedom-Haters-to-dine-on-our-testicles crowd once and for all.

A different standard than we care to use for desirable places to live and work

The American Council on Energy Efficiency obviously doesn't view the matter of quality of life the way normal people do.  Last September, it released its fifth annual report on the most energy-efficient states in America.  Leading the way were economic basket cases such as California and Massachussetts.  The list of the least energy-efficient included the Dakotas, among others, which are, as we know, enjoying a boom in the midst of the nation's overall economic morass.  In fact, when the two lists are taken as a whole, the least efficient states had 12 percent lower unemployment than the Council's poster children for efficiency.

Glad to see this becoming a front-burner issue

Mitt Romney weighs in on the regime's attempt to sue Ohio over its law granting military personnel extra voting time.  As Chicago thug tactics go, this one's especially disgusting.

The inside scoop on this is going to be interesting

Regulation czar Cass Sunstein resigns to go back to teaching at Harvard.  While it's not at all comforting to think of him indoctinating yet more students, at least he won't be directly pulling the levers of totalitarianism any more.

But why did he make this move?  It's not quite like the case of the economic advisors, who had to publicly face fruits of their policies far different from what the American people were told they would be.  The regime may have promised economic recovery and delivered something entirely different, but it also promise to curb freedom, and on that score it delivered in spades.  To which the regime's base said "Bravo!"

Even so,. I'm inclined to think he was motivated by a look at where he'd have some job security come January.

When pride in being an entrepreneur trumps feelings about one's demographic identity

Fantastic column by small-businessman Richard Carter in the Amsterdam News, NYC's leading black  - and usually very left-leaning - newspaper on the reverberations from the MEC's "you-didn't-build-that" debacle.

We must be having an effect

Glad to see that Mitt Romney has said he would allow the Production Tax Credit - the mechanism that subsidizes wind farms with your tax dollars - to expire.  Drawing a bright line between himself and such RGS-afflicted Senators as Grassley and Hatch.

LITD likes this

The RNC sends the Most Equal Comrade a 51st birthday cake inscribed with icing: "You didn't bake this."

You can still find people who buy this dog vomit

The MEC characterizes the fact that lowering taxes for everybody - including the most successful among us - engenders job creation as "fairy dust."  Says last decade's tax policies were "failed.  Well, when the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 were fully implemented, job creation took off.

Freedom-Haters love an impoverished and desperate populace

Unemployment inched up in July.  195,000 fewer Americans had jobs last month than in June.  Still, the regime's propaganda arm tells us - for the 42nd damn month in a row - that we shouldn't read too much into one month's report.

It moves the MEC's agenda of planned decline forward on two fronts

Those would be

a.) diminishing America's stature in the world and ability to lead

b.) turning the American people into gaunt, underfed cattle willing to be herded anywhere if there's the prospect of a small pale of daily gruel

WSJ's Kimberly Strassel on what the defense-fund sequester is doing to already-dismal jobs numbers.  And what's up with the Department of Labor telling defense contractors "just hold off on sending those pink slips out 60 days out"?

We're here to reclaim Western civilization

Gateway Pundit has a good roundup of photos of the lines at Chick-fil-A outlets around the nation.

You do know the significance of this date, don't you?

August 1, 2012 will live in infamy as the day on which this regime's hatred of America's Judeo-Christian foundation was codified into law.  The HHS mandate requiring insurance companies to cover contraception and abortion-inducing drugs goes into effect.

But wasn't government becoming a major stockholder supposed to save this venerable American icon?

GM is still a suck puppy. Ousted global marketing chief, lousy sales, dependence on the European market for most of its business.

Let's not get fooled again.

America's resurgent love of freedom is no flash in the pan

Ted Cruz beats Dewhurst in the Texas GOP runoff for Kay Bailey Hutchison's Senate seat.

To paraphrase Joe Biden, this is a BFD.  In his victory speech, Cruz thanked a litany of figures that embody everything the left hates about us: Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rand Paul.  He also thanked Martin Luther King.   He also thanked Dewhurst for years of public service in the Air Force and as lieutenant governor.

Think about how many op-eds and off-the-cuff remarks there have been by establishment Pubs and certainly effete east-coast chin-rubbing "centrist analysts" to the effect that the Tea Party was a spent force.  Two things about that: the actual Tea Party is quite viable and vibrant, thank you.  My sister belongs to a Tea Party organization where she lives and it's quite active.  But the Tea Party is merely the most visible embodiment of the real conservative foundation of America that will not be extinguished.

Walker won his recall, Mourdock beat Lugar, North Carolina codified its assertion that marriage is between one man and one woman, and now Cruz is the standard-bearer in the Texas Senate race.

America is stumbling to its feet, blinking its eyes, shaking its head - and reaching for its can of whup-ass.