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LAST WEEK

Posted on August 7, 2010 | Leave a comment

Week ending August 6, 2010
Monday
Mexican Drug Cartel Puts a Price on Arizona Sheriff’s Head
Sherrif Arpaio is one courageous guy. However, the Cartel has nothing to fear from Barack Obama.

Tuesday
Democratic Congressman on hot seat at Town Hall, says Federal government can do anything it wants.

Excellent video. Sharp lady in the audience asks the right questions.

Wednesday
Arizona Sheriff: ‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy
Not Arpaio, another Sheriff. About 17% of those detained in Arizona already have a criminal record in the United States. “

Thursday
Gay judge strikes down “only between man and woman” rule
Supreme Court, here we come!

Friday
Elena Kagan confirmed for Supreme Court seat.
Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, young liberal women are on the Supreme Court for life.

Bob B

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TEA PARTY WEAKNESS ON PRIMARY DAY ?

Posted on August 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

RICK SNYDER

Snyder wins in Michigan, Moran in Kansas. Neither was the Tea Party favorite so much is being made of it as a sign of Tea Party weakness, especially by the Left. The Left is grabbing at straws. All it shows is that the Tea people do not dominate the Republican Party. And that bodes well for the general election.

The role of the Tea Party is to influence the Republican Party, not to introduce sudden radical change. Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party quickly bit the dust. Ralph Nader only succeeded in aiding Republican candidates by splitting the Democratic vote. The Tea people are doing just fine right now, bringing the Republican Party back to Conservatism one steady step at a time.

JERRY MORAN

Snyder is running for Governor of Michigan, home of Detroit and the highest unemployment rate in the country. As an experienced businessman, Snyder was a good choice. Moran is vying for the Kansas Senate seat and his election will be more significant on a national level.

UPDATE: A good example of why the Tea Party should not dominate. Sarah Palin endorsed Brian Murphy over Gov Robert Ehrlich as Republican candidate for the Maryland Senate seat. Here is a comment from Paul Mirengoff at Power Line blog.

The problem is that, in my view (and I’ve lived in Maryland most of my life), Murphy has essentially zero chance of defeating our incumbent liberal governor, Martin O’Malley. By contrast, former Gov. Robert Ehrlich, the overwhelming favorite to secure the Republican nomination, is running even with O’Malley in the polls. Thus, for those of us who wish to avoid a continuation of liberal state governance, Ehrlich is the obvious choice

Bob B

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MISSOURI vs. WASHINGTON

Posted on August 4, 2010 | Leave a comment

Proposition C voters said YES to the tune of 71% in favor of the Proposition which says NO to mandated insurance for health care. Missouri thus joins with Arizona in entering into a serious conflict between a sovereign State and the Federal government, AZ over illegal immigration, MO over Obamacare. What State will be next? What issue will be next?

This case is almost certain to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the Court upholds Missouri’s Proposition C, Missouri residents will be exempt from the Federal mandate to buy this insurance. An avalanche of states will follow. Obamacare will be in trouble. Kagan, if appointed, will be the leftmost judge on the court. The direction in which she would vote is not in doubt.

One of the reasons America surpassed Europe to become a superpower is that Europe is comprised of nation states that repeatedly make war with each other while our states remain united, even following a civil war.

We were a nation that had grown harshly divided along political lines in recent years. Obama promised to bring unity. Instead, we have seen only a widening of the gap and a hardening of the hostility along political lines.

We have quoted Lincoln before and we will quote him again, “A house divided cannot stand.”

Bob B

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NORTHERN LIGHTS TONIGHT

Posted on August 3, 2010 | Leave a comment

A solar eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, will create a green and blue aurora in the northern sky tonight Aug 3rd and tomorrow night Aug 4th. This will give an unusual opportunity for viewing much farther south than normal. The phenomenon is generally associated with Canadian latitudes.

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LAST WEEK

Posted on July 31, 2010 | Leave a comment

Week ending July 30, 2010
Monday
Goats clear lawn, town saves money, goats are happy
The town didn’t even have to provide health insurance.

Tuesday
Ahmadinejad says U.S. is about to attack two Mid-East countries.
He did not say which countries, but we can guess who one of them would be.

The Defense Department lost 8.7 billion dollars
Check your bank account. Maybe it went there by mistake.

Wednesday
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, a Clinton appointee, strikes down Arizona law.
This looks like one for the U.S. Supreme Court

Thursday
Spain issues International arrest warrant for U.S. Servicemen
See our post

Friday
White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity .
Now you will not need to go to the library to be spied upon. Where are the screams from the left?

Decision near on Maxine Waters ethics case,
If there is any more swamp clearing in Washington we will be in trouble with the Environmental Department. They are charged with keeping things natural, you know.

Bob B

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SPAIN ISSUES ARREST WARRANT FOR U.S. SOLDIERS

Posted on July 31, 2010 | Leave a comment

The incident involved occurred in 2003, during the Iraq war, when 3 soldiers manned a tank that fired one round into the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad after seeing what they thought was gunfire coming from the hotel. Baghdad was still a war zone at the time. Two civilians were killed. They were journalists.

TIME reports:

On the morning of July 29, [2010] Spain’s National Court announced that it has re-issued an international arrest warrant against three U.S. soldiers it implicates in an attack on Baghdad’s Hotel Palestine, where Rodriguez and Couso, along with dozens of other journalists, were based during the Iraq war.

On April 8, 2003, one day before U.S. troops officially captured Baghdad, a U.S. tank fired a single incendiary shell on the hotel, killing Couso, a cameraman for Spain’s Telecinco television station, and Reuters journalist Taras Protsyuk.

The journalists had stationed themselves within a dangerous war zone. War is Hell, and chaos as well. Sadly, very sadly, mistakes happen in every war. Fighting heroes and innocent civilians die from friendly fire. It is a tragedy but not a crime.

Is it not enough that a soldier risk life and limb on behalf of us all? Must he also risk liberty at the whim of some foreign court?

Bob B

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HEALTH CARE BILL FOR 911 FIRST RESPONDERS

Posted on July 30, 2010 | 4 comments

The games politicians play.

The House bill would provide special medical benefits for the heroes of 911. Both parties overwhelmingly favor providing the benefits contained in the bill. So why was it defeated and why is the issue so hot in the House?

It is politics of course.  It would have passed under the general rules of the House. But those rules allow the proposal of amendments from any Congressman. There is a special rule that blocks amendments.  The party that controls the House sets the House rules. The Democrats selected the second rule so Republicans would be unable to propose any amendments.

It would have passed under the general rules. The Democrats control the House and had the votes needed. They chose to present the bill for vote in a manner that assured its defeat.

This New York Times article explains it fairly well. However, I would suggest changing the very first sentence from:

House Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic plan to provide billions of dollars for medical treatment to rescue workers and residents of New York City who suffered illnesses from the toxic dust and debris at ground zero.

To read:

House Democrats blocked passage of their own plan to provide billions of dollars for medical treatment to rescue workers and residents of New York City who suffered illnesses from the toxic dust and debris at ground zero. Despite having the votes for passage under the general rules, the Majority party chose to invoke a special rule that led to its defeat.

Here is the heated exchange as the two parties display their anger.

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MEXICAN FLAG FLIES IN PHOENIX, ARRESTS MADE

Posted on July 29, 2010 | Leave a comment

The Mexican flag is being carried by protester. It is not flying over the City Hall, but nevertheless, flying a sovereign flag is making a very serious statement. It symbolizes dominance, over a mountain, on the Moon, in war or as a goal by demonstrators.

Where is our President in all this?

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RADICAL IN CHIEF by Stanley Kurtz

Posted on July 28, 2010 | 2 comments

A new book about Barack Obama promises to change forever the national debate about who Barack Obama is.

The book is titled Radical-In-Chief and scheduled for release in October. Here is the press release.

Part biography, part history, part detective story, Radical-In-Chief reveals the carefully hidden tale of Barack Obama’s political past. Stanley Kurtz, whose research helped inject the Bill Ayers and ACORN issues into the 2008 presidential campaign, presents the results of more than two years of digging into President Obama’s radical political world. The book is filled with previously unknown information about the president’s past, tied together by a bold argument about what Obama’s deepest political convictions really are.

Radical-In-Chief marshals a wide array of never-before-seen evidence to establish that the president of the United States is indeed a socialist. Tracing an unbroken thread of socialist activities and political partnerships, from Obama’s youth through his community organizing days and beyond, the book confirms that the president’s harshest critics have been right about his socialism all along.

Radical-In-Chief also exposes the truth about community organizers–the socialist beliefs they hold and hide, and how they trained and groomed a president. Obama’s community organizer colleagues had a strategy for slowly and stealthily turning the United States into a socialist nation. The Obama administration is carrying out that strategy today.

Bob B

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ILLEGALS MOVING OUT OF ARIZONA

Posted on July 26, 2010 | Leave a comment

They are not going home. They are migrating to other states where looser law prevails. This can only increase tensions between the states.

Arizona is not taking an ideological stance, the state is fighting for its very survival. The situation is not well understood by those outside of the state of Arizona. The problem is not one of having too having many migrant workers, the problem is one of halving too many violent thugs. The criminal element in Mexico is drawn to the northern border. That’s where the money is, in transporting drugs and wetbacks across the border.

Crime is everywhere and every kind. Law enforcement on the Mexican side is all but non-existent. The small towns on the Arizona side are overwhelmed. The unfortunate irony is, those who move out will be the best of the bunch. The drug traffickers will remain.

This is not the first time there has been serious trouble on the Mexican border. In 1916 border violence became such a problem that 15,000 State Militiamen were called into service to put down the violence led by Poncho Villa and his acolytes. But 15,000 were not enough. President Woodrow Wilson had to send 75,000 National Guardsmen under the leadership of General Pershing to restore law and order.

Bob B

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