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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

(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.

By Mark W. Hendrickson
(From American Thinker)

Sarah Palin is one of the most intriguing (and polarizing) personalities to emerge on the national political stage in a long time. The way that many conservatives embrace her and many liberals vilify her illustrates in microcosm the yawning political divide in America today.

We can draw insights about Palin’s significance in America today from a trio of three markedly disparate historical figures: Ronald Reagan, the late Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, and the Gospel of Matthew’s King Herod. The connection between Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan is fairly simple and straightforward. They share conservative convictions and a special gift of communication. Palin is reminiscent of Reagan in the way she resonates, inspires, and energizes conservatives.

Less apparent are the links that may be drawn between Palin and the long-departed Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises — and Palin and the much-longer-ago-departed King Herod.

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The Anchoress watched the Sarah Palin interview on Oprah so the rest of us wouldn’t have to.  It’s worth a read.

Chris Rowan, TTTP Webmaster

(From American Thinker)

By James Lewis

As President Obama fumbled badly at the UN and G-8 last week, Sarah Palin began redefining herself as presidential timber.

When seasoned chess watchers see a game in progress, they can often pinpoint a critical moment when the players go from maneuvering for position, to a fast end-game of kill or be killed. In the shadow battle between Obama and Ahmadinejad I believe we just saw the transition to the end game at the United Nations. Obama skeptics (as opposed to his media butt-kissers) came to pretty much the same judgment: His UN performance was “sophomoric.” Obama looked like dead meat talking to all the vultures who roost and caw on the craggy peaks of world politics. Sarkozy openly ridiculed him, and Obama didn’t even notice. His nose got in the way.

In the US battle with Ahmadinejad, the most dangerous maniac in the world, we can now see the likely winner. Obama has foolishly put himself into a position of unprecedented weakness, where he can no longer stop Ahmadinejad’s systematic march to nuclear weapons. For the first time in history, nukes will be in the hands of a fanatical Armageddon regime that is determined to use them.  In such a contest it is will power that matters.

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