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The world is a much more chaotic place now that a radical Alinsky-ite is president. There is so much swill and refuse flowing out of government, at all levels, that it is nearly impossible to stay on top of it all and maintain a veneer of normalcy. Along with the elevation of The One rose a cavalcade of community agitators and assorted social miscreants both in and out of government, all with scores to settle, eager to confiscate income from groups they hate so they can dole it out to groups they like, such as the SEIU and public sector unions.

I try to keep up by listening to podcasts of my favorite news and opinion programs (e.g., Townhall.com Daily Commentary, Investor’s Business Daily Podcast, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt’s Hughniverse, The Mark Levin Show Audio Rewind) while I exercise and then later, during the drive to work. I don’t often get the opportunity to listen to each and every episode, but I listen to most of them, and manage to supplement my audio podcasts with measured doses of NewsRealBlog, American Thinker, Drudge, Michelle Malkin, and FrontPagMag throughout the day whenever possible. During my lunchbreak, I listen to Rush. Since I gave up on the shamelessly biased print and broadcast news media years ago, I have no choice but to acquire my information from a variety of sources.

Trying to keep up with Obama’s style of governing – which is little more than leading the media by their collective noses from manufactured crisis to the next – is like solving a crossword puzzle while walking a gauntlet of carnival hucksters jeering at you to “Man up and throw three for a buck.”

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Michael Medved thinks conservatives should stop engaging in “angry conservative rhetoric” with regard to illegal immigration:

Medved is most likely referring to the political fallout surrounding SB1070, Arizona’s Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act that goes into effect in a few weeks.

Most Americans support the law. A search for “Arizona” on the polling site rasmussen.com yielded the following results:

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Clearly, there is widespread public support for the Arizona law.

But that doesn’t mean that Medved is wrong. A few days ago, Harold Meyerson wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post in which he credited Latino political advocacy groups for their “get out the vote” efforts over the years, and this probably accounts for the dramatic shift away from the GOP in California. The political Left, always on the look for the next cudgel with which to pummel conservatives, was handed the Holy Grail of political truncheons by the citizens of Arizona – SB1070.

Opposition to the law was swift and decidely left-of-center. The velocity and sheer volume of intentional misrepresentations, unabashed demagoguery, and outright lies concocted by New Media Propogandists on the Left is mind boggling. It is the willful self-propogandization of a huge proportion of the American electorate. We are, in effect, brainwashing ourselves.

People today have easy, instant access to news and information, but many either cannot or will not analyze it critically. Information is useless, even dangerous, in the absence of meaningful context. The reason why so many people are unfazed by President Obama’s manic lurch toward socialism is because they have no frame of reference. As a result, seemingly rational people decry the enforcement of federal immigration law in Arizona as “racist,” “anti-immigrant,” and even “fascist.”

Since many do not have a historical perspective that is fact-based and ideologically-neutral, the Left is free to frame the narrative thus: You are either a bigoted fascist who supports the racist anti-immigrant law in Arizona, or you are an enlightened humanitarian who fights against the racist anti-immigrant law in Arizona.

Facts and figures illustrating the negative effects of illegal immigration are BORING. Accusations of racism, however, elicit a raw and visceral reaction. Conservatives can drone on about the violent crimes committed by illegals; the moral abyss of human trafficking; the huge burden to taxpayers associated with caring for and educating the children of illegals; the threat to life and property posed by the endless stream of illegals – many armed, dangerous, and desperate; the gaming of the welfare system; and so on, but all of it is drowned out by the Left’s debate-ending charge of “RACISM!”

Conservatives should therefore focus on securing the border. Regularization of illegals can be discussed later, but right now the border needs to be secured. Texas Congressman John Carter wrote an article for the Texas Insider recently that explains how the border could be secured immediately and references several times in the past when our southern border was secured to prove his point. So it’s not about how to secure the border, but rather whether we should. Conservatives can easily win that argument, and should not allow themselves to be drawn into a discussion about “comprehensive immigration reform” until after the border is secure.

In order to get the full effect of this post, you’ll need to download this mp3 and have it playing in the background. Come on – do it.  It only takes a couple of minutes.  As soon as the music starts playing, continue reading the post below.

According to the Associated Press, unemployment rose from 9.7 to 9.9% as a result of a strengthening economy.

The economy got what it needed in April: A burst of hiring that added a net 290,000 jobs, the biggest monthly total in four years. It showed employers are gaining confidence as the recovery takes deeper root.

But people who had given up on finding jobs are gaining confidence, too, and are now looking for work. That’s why the unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent to 9.9 percent and will likely go higher.

Unemployment edges near 10% after we have pumped hundreds of billions of dollars (money that we did not have) into the economy, an act that was supposed to keep unemplyment from topping 8%, but don’t worry – the AP reports that Happy Days Are Here Again!  Rising unemployment is a good thing, don’t you know that?

It doesn’t bother me that the AP and the rest of the establishment media are shills for the Obama Administration in particular and the Democrat party in general.  That’s not revelatory.  What bother me is that they think we’re as dumb as a box of rocks.  They really think we’re stupid.

UPDATE

Mark Levin devoted his entire opening monologue this past Friday to this contralogical statist propoganda put out by the AP and others that rising unemployment in a good thing, in the face of

• massive national debt imposed on us by the Obama regime
• the impending collapse of the Euro with Greece as the proverbal canary in the coal mine
• looming oppressive taxation to support the most massive entitlement (Obamacare) in American history
• inevitablity of some form of cap-and-tax scheme to smother the last vestiges of free market capitalism in this country
• instability of the stock market, as evidenced by the DOW’s recent 1,000 point plunge last week
• government takeover of the world’s largest auto maker
• government takeover of student loans
• government takeover of the home mortgage market
• government takeover of the financial markets

…and on and on and on.  The statists are trying to convince us that down is up, loss is gain, and bad is good.  It’s almost as though they believe words have a magical power all their own, that all one needs to do is say that such-and-such is, and -voila! – it happens.  All Obama has to do is say that rising unemployment is a good thing, and – voila! – it is.

Everybody SING:

Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
So let’s sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again!

-Chris

What Happened to Argentina Can Happen to US

(From Atlas Shrugs)

While the media turns itself inside out struggling to find a motive for Major Muslim’s jihad, go to this interview on, of all places, NPR,

Listen to a psychiatrist’s recollection of a lecture Hasan gave (a “grand round” is the term for it) when he was a medical resident at Walter Reed. “It freaked them out.” Normally, a lecturer focuses on a particular disease or disorder and recent research or treatment options. Instead, Hasan reportedly harangued the doctors and staff about what the Quran taught about non-believers going to hell, being scalded, beheaded, etc. A Muslim psychiatrist in the audience reportedly challenged him about his interpretation of the Quran, but he would not back down (because he was right). Another version of the story I heard quoted a source as saying that several in the audience suggested afterward that Hasan might be a shooter someday.

Forward the audio audio to 1:50 and listen through 3:05 to hear most relevant comments…This is EXPLOSIVE and it’s NPR.

UPDATE: Last night, Grant  transcribed and e-mailed about this NPR audio.  Here is the direct link to the MP3 file that contains the statement about people wondering if Hasan would “freak out and shoot people someday:

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(From BreitbartTV)

“They are spreading fear and they’re trying to see that the first president who looks like me — fails.”

“People look at the United States as a country that has changed it’s way and elected someone from Kenya and Kansas, I’ll put it like that.”

KABC’s Michael Linder was the only broadcast reporter at Thursday night’s town hall health care debate at Wade AME Church when Rep. Diane Watson [D] made some astonishing comments including claims that those opposed to health care reform are attempting to destroy a president “who looks like me.”

Later, Watson praised heath care in Fidel Castro’s Cuba — and, it seemed, the Cuban revolution itself.

The statements aired exclusively Thursday night on KABC’s The John Phillips Show.

In 1961, Ronald Reagan joined the American Medical Association in opposing the Democratic Party’s attempt to force socialized medicine on the American people.

Take a few moments to listen to President Reagan’s message to the American people, and then put his timely words into action by contacting your Representative in opposing ObamaCare.