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Investor’s Business Daily

•  Editorial: Obama’s Tribute To Big Government - State Of The Union: If President Obama’s intention Tuesday night was to shift the inspiration away from the forces arrayed against him, his hour-long paean to government spending failed. “Sputnik” has crashed.
•  Carol Browner Goes, Draconian Policies Stay - White House: With cap-and-trade seemingly dead and EPA’s regulatory authority under attack, the administration’s climate czar is abandoning ship. Too bad she’s not taking the administration’s energy policies with her.
•  Obama Misses Main Point Entirely - Budget Policy: Of all the disappointments of President Obama’s State of the Union speech, none looms as large as his failure to address the fiscal problems. Does he not know it’s getting worse, not better?
•  Perspective: Bachmann’s Response To Obama: Ours Is The Indispensable Nation - Two years ago, when Barack Obama became our president, unemployment was 7.8% and our national debt stood at what seemed like a staggering $10.6 trillion dollars. We wondered whether the president would cut spending, reduce the deficit and implement real job-creating policies.
•  On The Right: Federal Money Hasn’t Bought Better Schools - ’We’re going to have to out-educate other countries,” President Obama urged this week. How? By out-spending them, of course! It’s the same old quack cure for America’s fat and failing government-run schools monopoly.

Laura Ingraham

• Newt Gingrich on Obama: ‘A clever speech that was fundamentally dishonest.’ – January 26, 2011 (mp3)

Mark Levin

• 01/26 The Mark Levin Show

American Thinker

• Making Obama a One Term President - Regardless of his rebound in the polls, Barack Obama is no shoe-in for reelection. Here’s how the GOP can win.
• Stanley Ann Dunham and the Left’s Exploitation of Women - The left has terribly exploited women and their sexuality. Was Obama’s mother a victim?
• Sex and Sarah Palin - Sarah Palin is a last-chance test of our cultural health.
• I Wish I Were a Democrat - Life would be so much more enjoyable.
• Honor Killing in America - The trials of two “honor killers” are under way in America this week.
• Obama’s Dangerous Export Initiative - Avoiding the useful, embracing the outright dangerous.
• Should Military Spending Be Cut? - In the game of chicken that is national politics, it was sure that the left would pounce upon excessive defense spending as a way of reducing the deficit.
• Excuses, Excuses - What we saw Tuesday night was not a new Obama.

RedState

• SOTU 2011: The Man on the Moon & the Union Sputniks - To sum it up simply, Tuesday’s SOTU spectacle seemed to be nothing more than an empty, disingenuous, vacuous speech hidden behind an Orwellian Oceania of teleprompter turnspeak that pundits will interpret for a week or more only to discover that Andy Kaufman’s singing of “It’s a Friendly World” had more intellectual honesty than the President’s speech. [Simple, right?]

Investor’s Business Daily

• Price Of Junk Science - Global Warming: After the 1998 tobacco deal, many wondered where the next battleground for the shakedown lawyers would be. Few wonder now. The legal war over climate change is heating up — and it’ll be costly.
• Defunding The U.N. - Accountability: The new GOP Congress is preparing to cut U.S. funding of the United Nations and the latter is hollering. But with the U.N. doing all it can to undercut its top donor, we fail to see why Congress shouldn’t cut.
• Editorial: Our So-Called ‘Centrist’ President - Politics: Will the man who conned the public into believing he was a moderate, but who has governed as the most immoderate leftist in the country’s history, now try to pull the same con so he can be elected again?
• To Russia With … Hate - Terrorism: Does Monday’s carnage in Russia mean Islamist bombers are indiscriminate and irrational, and pose no special threat to free nations? You might as well ask whom Hitler hated more: Churchill or Stalin?
• Perspective: Shriver And Lieberman: Last Links To JFK - Last Thursday was the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech, and while the anniversary did not go unmentioned, it got less attention than I expected.
• On The Left: For Most Part, GOP Hopefuls Are Unknowns - Herman Cain is thinking of running for president. I learned this from an article by Dan Balz, the Washington Post’s chief political correspondent, so I know it’s true.
• Viewpoint: What The President Shouldn’t Say Tonight In The State Of The Union - This evening, in fulfillment of Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, President Obama will give the State of the Union address.  Tonight, this president is at a crossroads.  Will he level with the American people and make a meaningful shift in administration policies or will he merely recast the same old policies with new rhetoric?
• On The Right: Heroes Of Old Were Creators — Not Talkers - When I mention that my family used kerosene lamps when I was a small child in the South during the 1930s, that is usually taken as a sign of our poverty, though I never thought of us as poor at the time.

Laura Ingraham

• Rep. Peter King on combating radical Islam – January 24, 2011 (mp3)

Mark Levin

• 01/24 The Mark Levin Show

American Thinker

• State of the Obama ‘Remaking America’ Revolution - Right now, Americans are forcing transformation on Barack — not the other way around.
• Pillars and Bipartisan Pairs - In recent years, the State of the Union has become nothing more than a laundry list of utopian plans for the future framed in political terms.
• Obama Fakes Right - The country will be treated to yet another orgasmic reaction by the once-mainstream media upon the conclusion of President Obama’s State of the Union speech.
• The Birther Trial Balloon - This latest Matthews/Abercrombie fiasco is not about the birthers. It is about reelecting Obama in 2012.
• That Disdain for Palin - The name of the game is winning elections.
• What Obama Will Not Say at the SOTU - A long list.
• Having Fun with the State of the Union - It matters not what President Obama will say in his speech tonight. Despite the exit of some old staffers and the entrance of some new ones, he is not changing.

Investor’s Business Daily

• Viewpoint: Why Not A Negative Income Tax With Cash Subsidies To The Poor? - As Republicans in power work to create a strong, affirmative agenda, they would do well to revisit a policy proposal devised by the late Milton Friedman.
• Editorial: Why Does The U.S. Still Give China Aid? - Foreign Policy: While Chinese President Hu flaunted his country’s power during his Western tour, his No. 2 economy raked in billions in Western aid. That’s right. We’re still subsidizing China. Why?
• Wal-Mart In Unions’ Cross Hairs - Organized Labor: The union idea of civil discourse is to protest outside opponents’ private homes. Now union supporters are targeting a developer , with fliers showing a bull’s-eye and his home address.
• A Little Bit Of Repeal - Regulation: The provision in ObamaCare requiring businesses to file 1099 tax forms for almost every purchase is so burdensome that even some Democrats want to kill it. Here’s an opportunity for bipartisanship.
• Grinding Too Slowly - Justice Delayed: New evidence confirms 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad as journalist Daniel Pearl’s murderer. So why hasn’t the U.S. legal system convicted the most notorious terrorist in our custody?

Laura Ingraham

• Sen. Rand Paul takes an axe to the budget – January 21, 2011 (mp3)

Mark Levin

• 01/21 The Mark Levin Show

American Thinker

• Obama 2.O: The First Big Lie - The first head-fake of Obama 2.0
• Death by Deconstructionism - The 900-pound gorilla in the interrogation room remains unquestioned and unchallenged.
• Sarah Palin and the Legacy of Republican ‘Idiocy’  – Sarah Palin may be the reigning Republican “idiot,” but she shares in a proud legacy that dates back to at least Dwight David Eisenhower, if not earlier.
• Cooking the Gun Homicide Numbers at the NYT - All the propaganda that’s fit for the gullible.
• Right on Crime: It is High Time for Conservative Justice Reform - The fresh and effective ideas of American justice were once the envy of the world. It is time that the right embraces reform of the justice system based on our principles.
• The Real Danger of the Madman - How much authority to lock up people do we want to give to those in the soft science of psychology?
• Regulations Bad, Free Market Good - Look who’s wising up about regulation.

A collection of news articles, opinion pieces, and podcasts that I read and listened to today.

Investor’s Business Daily

•  On The Right: Reagan Model Will Humble Arrogant China - Is there a new Cold War developing between China and the United States? That’s a question hovering over President Hu Jintao and his entourage as they come to Washington to discuss military, trade, and financial flash points with the Obama administration.
•  Obama’s Latest Gift To Castro - Diplomacy: At a time when socialist mismanagement has put Cuba on the ropes, the Obama administration has decided to unleash a new wave of U.S. visits and remittances to tide the dictatorship over. For Castro, it’s pennies from heaven.
•  Polls Apart - Opinion: “Raw feelings over health care law have eased, poll suggests,” shouts an Associated Press headline that ran last weekend, just days before Congress was set to vote. Really? Our poll suggests just the opposite.
•  Editorial: U.K. Vs. ObamaCare - Medicine: As the House moves to repeal the nationalization of health care, Britain plans to take a scalpel to its National Health Service, opening it up to competition and letting doctors and patients call the shots.
• Telling It Like It Really Was And Is - Massacre In Arizona: The more facts that come out about the accused shooter in Tucson, the less confident we are in our schools and the more we fear scourges such as political correctness will be the death of us yet.

The Laura Ingraham Show

• Laura squared! Dr. Laura Schlessinger answer your calls – January 18, 2011 (mp3)

Mark Levin

• 01/18 The Mark Levin Show

American Thinker

• Tucson and the Kamikaze Left - Following their shellacking in the first regularly scheduled federal election of the Tea Party era, the political left and the ruling-class media made predictable calls for civility in political discourse.
• Why the Left Hates Sarah Palin - When I was ten years old, I participated in an act of unadulterated group evil.  It happened at a sleep-away camp in the Catskill Mountains.
• Preserving States’ Rights and the Constitution - The Republican House of Representative read the Constitution, including all its amendments, aloud.  I wonder how many listeners grasped the salient virtue of our Constitution: the document is maddeningly vague about personal liberty.
• Tucson and the Politics of Lament - Exploiting victims and massaging responsibility to achieve retribution.
• Obama’s Cellophane Man - Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, after signs of life, has been returned to his cellophane wrapping.
• No Stronger Friend…than France? - Even for an unapologetic Francophile like me, President Obama’s latest diplomatic gaffe was too much to swallow.
• Tunisia Meltdown - Tunisia, until a few days ago, gave every appearance of being among the most advanced and benign Arab regimes.

Investor’s Business Daily

• America Could Use More Robust Political Debate - Exchange Of Ideas: Does passionate political debate in America trigger politically driven bloodshed? More likely, it prevents it. And we could probably use more of it.
• Hezbollah Vs. Lebanon - Mideast: Disguised as an indigenous political party, the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah has quit the Lebanese Cabinet, the latest step in its quest for an Islamofascist state on the border with Israel.
• Haiti Without Tears - Americas: A year after a devastating earthquake, Haiti remains a ruin. That is, sad to say, pretty much back to normal. After billions in foreign aid, it’s obvious the problem is not lack of resources, but bad governance.
•  Has The Fed Lit Inflation Fuse? - Monetary Policy: What do higher commodity prices and a warning on soaring U.S. government debt have in common? Both are fueled by the Federal Reserve’s money presses.
•  Taxpayers Get Bill For GM Bailout - Moral Hazard: The bailout of General Motors wasn’t supposed to cost taxpayers. In fact, the promise was that taxpayers would profit. Now the government says the bailout’s a loser. No one should be surprised.

Laura Ingraham

• Tim Pawlenty on Obama’s speech and 2012 (mp3)

Mark Levin

• 01/12 The Mark Levin Show

David Horowitz’s NewsRealBlog

• Naming Names: Some Of The Liberals Who Were Overjoyed About The Tucson Shooting
• The Left’s Attack On Palin’s Response to the Tucson Tragedy is All About Appeasement, Not Gun Imagery
• A Dignified President in a Tawdry Hall
• President Obama Delivered A Moving Speech In Tuscon But Will He Live Up To Its Message?
• Tea Party Foes Smell Blood, Shanghai Children Into Their Cause
• COMMISSAR KOS: There’s No Time Like A Mass Murder To Pimp A Leftist Book
• Thoughtful, On-Target Palin Responds To Attacks; Left Loses Last Grip On Reality

A collections of editorials and podcasts that I read or listened to today.

-Chris

Investor’s Business Daily Editorials

• Trouble With Reality - Leadership: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Social Security program is “fine.” How discouraging that someone who’ll ignore an impending catastrophe for political reasons retains such a lofty position.
• Our New Best Friend? - Diplomacy: Sitting in the Oval Office Monday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, President Obama hailed France as our top friend and ally. Nothing against France, but that’s an insult to the United Kingdom.
•  Sentiment Shifts - Public Opinion: Were November’s midterm elections really the watershed that many say they were? Based on the first IBD/TIPP Poll of the new year, the answer would have to be a big “yes.”
•  China Spurns Defense Secretary Gates - Defense: Dealing from a position of increasing strength against increasing U.S. weakness, China has rebuffed an overture to hold strategic nuclear talks. Why should they? As we disarm unilaterally, time is on their side.
•  Tragedy In Tucson: On Palin’s Hands? - Searching For Answers: From New York newspaper columnists to an Illinois senator, the liberal left is blaming the Tea Party and conservative stars for the shooting of an Arizona congresswoman. How about blaming the communist and Nazi-loving shooter?
•  An Abuse Of Star Power - Pop Science: We’ve entered an era of extreme idiocracy where celebrities have more voice in serious matters than scientists. The vaccine-autism fraud shows the real dangers of this trend.
•  Hillary Hauls Out Old ‘Extremist’ Rap - Politics: If there’s one thing more detestable than using a crime to make political hay, it’s using the crime to make the hay abroad. Hillary Clinton hit that new low in comments on the Giffords attack.
•  Not Letting Another Crisis Go To Waste - Political Exploitation: In the wake of the Arizona killings, knee-jerk Democrats want to crack down on free speech and place more limits on gun ownership. All of this because a single man out of 310 million with no links to conservatives or talk radio allegedly goes mad.
•  A Divisive Sheriff - Security: It’s bad enough that a fine congresswoman is shot down by a crazed assassin. But do those whose job it is to prevent such awful things have to insert their own base politics into the tragedy?

Laura Ingraham

• A shootout over political rhetoric with Juan Williams (mp3)

Mark Levin

• 01/11 The Mark Levin Show

I know, I know.  It’s shameless self-promotion.  But Mark Levin is, well, the Great One.  He is a source of great inspiration to me, a truly Great American.  Unafraid, uncowed by the Alinsky-ites and the race-hustlers, Levin speaks truth in the face of Orwellian spin by a shamelessly biased politico-media complex.  Levin’s book Liberty and Tyranny is much more than a Conservative Mainfesto; it is a roadmap to victory over the statists that have insinuated themselves at all levels of our government and our culture.

The thought that Mark Levin actually read something I wrote, and encouraged others to read it, is deeply gratifying and humbling. 

The post at David Horowitz’s NewsRealBlog is here.

//Shameless self-promotion mode OFF

By Greg and Judy Holloway
Austin Tea Party Patriots 

Last year, we were not able to go to the 9/12 rally in Washington, DC, since Greg’s company held its annual retreat on the same day.  We did not want to miss this year’s 8/28 “Restoring Honor” event, so we dug some airline and hotel points out of mothballs and made a trip of it with our 18-year old son. 

Here’s a short journal of our trip for those of you who might be interested. 

We left Austin very early Friday morning and (after the usual stop in another city that Bergstrom flyers are normally subjected to) arrived in DC around 1 pm.  We met Lily and Jim from the Bastrop Tea Party at Reagan National Airport and then headed over to the Washington Hilton.  When we arrived, our cabbie noted that “This is where Reagan was shot.”  Oh great. 

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By Art Cohan @ the HATPA

BREAKING NEWS!

I just received a call from Chuck Stewart, President of The McAllen Tea Party Association and he said he had just hung up the phone on a call from Tami.She informed him that the “Restoring Honor” event in Washington, DC, hosted by Glenn Beck, will be broadcast live on C-SPAN and will be shown on 2 large screens at the Convention Center in McAllen.

The doors will open at 8:00 AM Saturday morning, so come early for a good seat. The event in Washington is scheduled to take place from 9:00 AM to Noon (CDT), then we will break for lunch. The regularly scheduled program will resume at 2:00 PM (CDT) when we will hear from several speakers as they honor our local heroes.

Tami said the program is scheduled to end about 5:00. Bob Jones of Corpus Christi will MC the event. There will also be special live music! FREE admission! Bring the kids and spend the day.

The Convention Center is located at the Ware Rd exit of Expressway 83.

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I received the following in an email from the Rio Grande Valley Tea Parties list.  I phoned the number provided and spoke to Tami, who has been working overtime to make this event happen.  I’m thinking about livestreaming the event in McAllen, and if I do it’ll be view-able here at the TTTP.

Chris

RESTORING HONOR

Program from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

McAllen Convention Center
700 Convention Center Blvd.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE

BOB JONES AND DR. LAWRENCE GELMAN 

Freedom is possible when we remain virtuous.

Pay tribute to America’s Service Personnel and other upstanding citizens who embody our nations founding principles of integrity, truth, and honor.

Help us restore the values that founded this great nation.

ADMISSION IS FREE

 For further information call: (956) 357-7548

Also STAY TUNED…We are HOPING to air Glenn Beck’s RESTORING HONOR  LIVE in its entirety via satellite at the McAllen Convention Center from

9:00 AM – 12 Noon. We have permission, but we need a satellite feed. We are working on it. Please call the number above if you can help!!!

8 / 28 / 2010

Read Charles Krauthammer’s piece Sacrilege at Ground Zero for a level-headed, rational analysis and rationale for why the “Victory Over Infidels” Cordoba Mosque should not be built near Ground Zero.

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(Via Right Scoop and Rush Limbaugh)

According to Sarah Palin, President Barack Obama lacks the cojones that Governor Jan Brewer to fight for border security. Here’s Rush Limbaugh’s take on it.