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Investor’s Business Daily

• Editorial: ObamaCare Is No Longer A Law - The Law: Already bruised and unpopular, ObamaCare has now been issued a death sentence. Yet the White House says it will “proceed apace” with its implementation. Has anyone there heard of checks and balances?
• Would We Drill For $200 Oil? - Energy Security: As unrest spreads in the Middle East, threatening oil transport and oil-rich kingdoms, our laughable energy policy may come home to roost. Better get those wind turbines spinning in a hurry.
• Stalling On Fan, Fred - Home Finance: Fannie and Freddie are still bleeding losses, costing taxpayers billions more each month. Yet the White House continues to delay reforms, in defiance of a congressional order.
• Egypt Means Real Trouble For Israel - Middle East: No matter what ends up replacing President Mubarak and his harsh government, history may rewind to the 1970s for Israel — with the Camp David Accords possibly erased in the process.
• Only In Gov’t Do All Benefits Justify Costs - Despite the old saying, “Don’t cry over spilled milk,” the Environmental Protection Agency is doing just that.
• The Revolution In Middle East Is Growing Up - Nobody said it better than Hosni Mubarak: “Our eventual goal is to create an equal society, not a society of privileges and class distinctions. Social justice is the first rule for peace and stability in society.” But that was in November 1981, a few weeks after he had become president of Egypt.
• IBD/TIPP Poll: A Country That Knows What It Wants - Public Opinion: The latest IBD/TIPP poll finds that Americans want decisive action taken to solve some of our biggest problems. But they also recognize the difference between real problems and the fake ones that politicians dwell on.

 Laura Ingraham

• Sen. Orrin Hatch on immigration and the tea party – February 01, 2011 (mp3)

Mark Levin

02/01 The Mark Levin Show

American Thinker

• The Story of the Egyptian Revolution - A day-by-day account from Cairo, written by a sophisticated Egyptian analyst.
• The Left and Their ‘Good Victims’ - The left divides the world into good and bad victims.
• Egypt, the United States, and the Ghost of Khomeini - There is still hope that Egyptians won’t display the naïveté of the leaders of the Iranian democratic forces.
• There’s No Abe Lincoln in the Muslim Hood - There are only bad choices.
• Radical Islam or Mainstream Islam? - If the majority of Muslims adhere to Sharia law (at least in their hearts), then we must confront the possibility that “Radical Islam” is actually mainstream Islam.
• The British Left’s Betrayal of America - The latest revelations that Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government advised Libya on how to secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber may have destroyed the Anglo-American relationship.
• Judge Vinson Also Smacks Down Crony Capitalists - Perhaps almost as pleasing as the affirmation of individual freedom and the dismissal of a government-run society is the smack-down Judge Vinson’s ruling gave to the concept of “crony capitalism.”

FrontPageMag

• Red Carpet for Islamists - Mubarak out, Brotherhood in.
• Obama’s Brotherhood Moment - The president endorses the Muslim Brotherhood and helps pave the way for the Islamic Republic of Egypt.
• Hezbollah’s Lessons - What Egypt’s Islamists learned about grabbing power from their brethren in Lebanon.
• You Say You Want a Revolution? - The dire warning 1979 Iran gives 2011 Egypt.
• Obama’s Secret - Stanley Kurtz joins Jamie Glazov’s new video series to expose the President’s disguised radical agenda.
• The Egyptian Crisis’ Green Roots - How the Left’s biofuel-induced starvation exacerbates instability in the Third World.
• Brushfire in the Middle East - Regional uprisings continue to spread — who will be the next to fall?
• Holocaust Hypocrisy - When will leftists who use Holocaust imagery to attack Israel be held accountable?
• CAIRing for Anwar al-Awlaki and Other Targets of Interest - A radical Muslim group works hard to hinder the FBI’s efforts and to support terror.

Investor’s Business Daily

•  Editorial: Terror In Waiting  - Mideast: As the radical Muslim Brotherhood schemes to oust a pro-American despot in Egypt, U.S. pundits have cheered the move as a boon for freedom. This is dangerous pablum.
•  Egypt’s Kerensky - Succession: As talk of deposing Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak grows, one name keeps popping up: Mohamed ElBaradei. If he takes over, it’ll be a disaster not just for Egypt, but also for the U.S. and the West.
•  The Newest Nation - Africa: Far from the rage in the streets of Cairo, there’s joy in the air in the tiny cities of South Sudan. A referendum’s results there should lead to creation of a new nation. It holds some lessons.
•  Egyptian Plagues, American Policies - Diplomatic Ineptitude: Western diplomats were long ago planting poisonous seeds in Egyptian soil. All it took to make them grow was for the U.S. to send some well-intentioned but misguided signals at the wrong time.
•  ObamaCare Can’t Be Reconciled - Health Care Reform: Another federal judge has declared the Democrats’ overhaul to be unconstitutional. A law that should have never been passed is that much closer to being dismantled.
•  Kill The Internet ‘Kill Switch’ - Censorship: Virtually the first thing an authoritative Egyptian government did to quell dissent was to shut down its Internet. So why are we debating a bill to give our government the same power?
•  America’s Next Financial Crisis Is Already Here - In spite of talking about freezing government spending, President Obama reminded everyone during the State of the Union just how out of touch he is about the defining issue of our time — the fiscal dysfunction that threatens to rob future generations of today’s living standards and jeopardizes the global financial system.
•  Middle East Is On The Verge Of Convulsing - Things are about to go from bad to worse in the Middle East.  An Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is nowhere in sight. Lebanon just became a Hezbollah state, which is to say that Iran has become an even more important regional power, and Egypt, once stable if tenuously so, has been pitched into chaos.

Laura Ingraham

• Gov. Mitch Daniels on China’s rise and a social issues ‘truce’ – January 31, 2011 (mp3)

Mark Levin

01/31 The Mark Levin Show

American Thinker

• Obama’s Ongoing War on Inspectors General - One after another, inspectors general have been reporting that Obama’s stewardship of taxpayer money has failed.
• Overachievers with Low Self-Esteem - America is up to its eyeballs in people concerned with saving us from their demons.
• Obama’s Rathole Moment - President Obama got matters exactly backward when he addressed education last week before a joint session of Congress.
• Obama’s Standing Army of Regulators among Us - The victims of today’s excessive government regulatory zeal face the same enemy confronted by the nation’s Founders: unconstrained centralized power.
• Stop the Fraud — Freeze the Debt Ceiling - The debt ceiling is a key to stopping the political insanity.
• What Reagan Meant to America - Seven years ago, when Reagan died, millions of Americans waited for hours to share a brief moment with this greatest of contemporary Americans.
• China’s Insight into Human Nature - And why President Obama misunderstands China’s rise.
• America and the Middle East Food Riots - Obama policies have driven up food prices, triggering riots.

Frontpage Mag

• Middle Eastern Moment of Truth - Israel soberly prepares to stand alone in a sea of hate.
• 1979, 1989 or 2009? - Gauging the nature of Egypt’s Revolution — and the urgency for America’s response.
• Why Coptic Christians Fear a Revolution - If the Muslim Brotherhood takes power in Egypt…
• Inside Egypt - The growing cancer I witnessed during my recent visit…
• To Destroy Israel - A member of the Army of Islam escapes from an Egyptian jail amidst the chaos — and shares his top priority…
• ObamaCare Inches Closer to the Fall - Florida judge rules that the president’s signature legislation is unconstitutional — what’s next?
• Free Speech Victory: Lars Hedegaard Acquitted - The battle for freedom is far from lost…
• The Middle East’s Intifada - The Muslim Brotherhood shrewdly maneuvers its way to power in Egypt.
• The American Left and the Crisis in Egypt - The Unholy Alliance rears its head once again.
• Dictatorships and Revolutions - As an Egyptian Muslim raised during the generation of the 1952 Egyptian revolution, I see history repeating itself.
• Egypt’s False Prophet - Mohamed ElBaradei’s disturbing affinity for the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Islamic Republic.
• Why They Hate Mubarak - “He is supporting Israel. Israel is our enemy…”
• The Criminal Truth in Denmark - In defense of Lars Hedegaard. . . .and our civilization

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.

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.

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

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