President Obama's Intentions for America

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Obama shows great potential — as a Marxist dictator!

        Prepare for an Obama Thugocracy

        A Taste of the Obama Thugocracy at the "town hall" meetings.

        The Swine Flu Panic

        Oath Keepers:  Just say no!

Obama fraternizes quite cordially with dictators in other countries

Taking control of the internet

Using public schools as indoctrination centers

Obama's narcissism

The Homeland Security report on right wingers

Obama's stealthy moves toward gun control

All this adulation is a bit much

        President for life?

Evidently Obama hates America

Obama is no friend of Israel

Obama is weakening America's defenses

Obama is weakening our allies' defenses

Obama attempts to redefine September 11


Miscellaneous scandals:

Dealergate

Americorps

The firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin

The return of the "Snitch on Your Neighbor" program

When you send your email address to the White House, you get...  Spam!


Related topics on nearby pages:

Obamacare will be mandatory

Here a czar, there a czar, everywhere a czar czar.

The Obama team manipulates the news media

        Obama vs Fox News Channel

        Using the National Endowment for the Arts as a propaganda tool

Who's really happy about Obama's presidency?




Obama shows great potential — as a Marxist dictator!

Earlier, I had used the term "Communist dictator" in this spot, but upon further consideration, it is probably more accurate to substitute the word "Marxist."  The distinction is somewhat obscure.  Either way, my point is that President Obama has many disturbing personality traits, disreputable friends and associates (past and present), and millions of poorly educated minions on his side.  His political views are way out on the very edges of left-wing extremism.  The ingredients are in place for a dangerous transformation of our country into something we will all quickly regret.  Whatever he does in this regard must be done before the 2010 elections, when there will surely be a voter backlash and a return to more balanced power in Washington.

I do not use the term Communist lightly.  As a young man, Barack Obama spent a lot of time learning from a man named Frank Marshall Davis, who was a communist.  As an adult, he has surrounded himself with others who share many of the same goals and ideals as Mr. Davis.  As the candy coating wears off in the next few years, my hope is that more people will begin to see how dangerous this man really is.

Please note that the governors and the legislatures in several states are reacting negatively to President Obama's hunger for centralized power, and many are in the process of passing bills declaring their states' sovereignty under the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution.  More information about such opposition can be found here.


They're ALL Communists.  Back when people were tippy-toeing around the "s" word ("socialist"), and before he was elected, I called out Obama's basic political inclinations for what they are — communist.  Though plenty pooh-poohed this, and called it extreme or unsubstantiated, there was ample proof in Obama's own writings, his interviews, and the political leanings of his mentors (Saul Alinsky, Frank Marshall Davis), his pastor (Jeremiah Wright) and his friends.  It's absurd to hear people say now that Obama is governing differently than he campaigned.  If you think that, you weren't listening.  But those who still harbor any doubts need only look at his team of "advisors."

Obamerika.  [Scroll down slowly]  Obama and his cohorts eschew all authority, from the Bible to the U.S. Constitution, that they themselves do not generate.  This translates to "any moral or legal principle that does not support the Obama administration's political agenda or the idea that its leaders should have power over every area of our lives."  Through sweeping stimulus, health care, cap-and-trade, and net neutrality legislation, the current administration is attempting to commandeer the authority to dictate everything from executive pay to what end-of-life treatments are available to its citizens, from what we listen to on our radios and watch on our television sets to what opinions we can share on the internet and what cars we can drive.

Without A Shot Being Fired, A Dictator Has Taken Over the United States.  Obama appears to have no particular loyalties to anyone or anything save for himself.  He has proclaimed that in the case of adversity he would stand with the Muslims, which many took to mean that he was ruled by that faith.  But in truth, his position was to solidify his hopes of being the modern day leader of that faith in order to use their willingness to kill without conscience when ordered to do so in the name of that religion.  With an army of religious terrorists, now spread world-wide, his dreams of being the ultimate leader of the entire world is advanced with more certainty.

Can America Survive its Sharp Left Turn?  In November of 2008, with the assistance of a compliant media, a poorly educated electorate, and widespread dissatisfaction with the Republican Party's abandonment of its conservative base, the Democrats swept to power in 2009.  In less than one year, President Obama, with the help of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and a gaggle of radical czars, has steered our Country into a sharp turn to the left.  Many conservative commentators and bloggers have commented that this sharp left turn is dangerous, a threat to America's survival.

If Obama were a Marxist, what would he believe?  This article offers the basic teachings of Karl Marx, so readers may judge themselves whether these might be at work influencing current Administration decisions.  In the present chaotic political atmosphere, the phrase "Marxist" is tossed around without explanation.  But what exactly does Marxism represent?  Marx's universe was simplistic.  It presents a godless, sinister world where the powerful prey upon the weak, which can only be healed through revolution.  In the resulting apocalypse, wealth is confiscated by revolutionaries so all may benefit.  Private property is outlawed as enlightened leaders build a paradise of communism.  But before utopia arrives, a principled assault must destroy capitalism.

Ship of Fools:  Obama's Intimates and Advisors.  The Obama Administration is plainly subverting democracy in America, wildly careening our previous 230-year history of democracy so dangerously Leftward that after a mere nine months we are in terrible danger of sinking. ... Three dominant themes of the Obama Administration emerge — fanatically uncompromising anti-capitalism, dangerous and blatant anti-Semitism, and the societal inculcation of dogmatic Leftist, Socialist "faith" through indoctrination of American school children beginning with the earliest ages — a practice instituted by Lenin in Communist Russia and now pounding its way into the American academic mainstream through the prolific efforts and influence of self-proclaimed Communist, Obama friend, and likely "autobiography" ghost writer, William Ayers, as well as Obama appointees like Charles Freeman and Kevin Jennings.

What is Marxism?  Marxists claim that Marxism is a science.  It is not.  It is a sort of pagan religious cult.  It is a theology.  It is a form of superstition.  Marxists claim that Karl Marx understood capitalism and economics.  He did not.  They also claim that the entire validity of Marx's set of theories on all subjects rests ultimately on how valid Marxist economic thought is.  Marxist economic thought was completely wrong.  Marx claimed that all products contain value that is directly proportional to the amount of labor embodied within them.  He was wrong.  All the rest of Marxism is based entirely on this mistaken and falsifiable premise.

Acting President Obama Wants Communism In America.  This disastrous pile of socialist fly paper called a "Stimulus Bill" does little or nothing to stimulate the free market economy.  It does everything possible to stimulate the growth of socialist government and the Democrat party.  The communistic policies that Obozo is putting into place through Congress and by use of executive orders are no different from what we saw in the Soviet Union before it imploded.

Elites and Tyrants.  Today's leftists, socialists and progressives would bristle at the suggestion that their agenda differs little from Nazism.  However, there's little or no distinction between Nazism and socialism.  Even the word Nazi is short for National Socialist German Workers Party.  The origins of the unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism did not begin in the '20s, '30s and '40s.  Those horrors were simply the end result of long evolution of ideas leading to consolidation of power in central government in the quest for "social justice."

Ministry of Truth, Obama-style.  President Obama has been agitating for the authority to criminalize political opponents since he took office.  First there was the raft of DHS reports profiling conservatives as terrorists.  Then came the push for a new fairness doctrine, subsequently refined to be achieved in diversity regulations to be imposed on local radio stations.  Following these attacks on free speech was the much debated hate crimes legislation, considered by many to be a back-door path to silencing critics of the administration.  But, while dangerous to free speech, none of these draconian policies could do as much damage as new regulatory czar Cass Sunstein's shocking proposal to ban "falsehoods" — a term left up to the Obama administration to define.  If Sunstein succeeds, free speech will be truly dead in America.

Barack and Michelle Obama Are Despot Wannabe's.  Just because Obama is full of himself and has believed his own press releases too much does not mean that we have to humor him in his folly. ... He's only 47 years old — a year younger than my own oldest daughter, and Obama is nowhere near where he needs to be to run this nation without running it in the ground.  For one thing, Obama is too much in to himself.  He believes he is the Messiah — Savior — only salvation of the world.  That, in itself, denotes danger.

Obama's Revenge:  [Scroll down slowly]  And Obama has done all this with the predictable double-speak that characterizes malevolent intention, i.e., touting transparency while concealing everything, speaking of integrity while appointing crooks and incompetents riddled with conflicts-of-interest, supporting energy independence while killing off-shore and domestic oil-drilling and nuclear power, and feigning optimism while he speaks of impending "catastrophe" in order to push through a pork-laden, trillion-dollar-plus Stimulus plan that rewards the corrupt voter-fraud organization Acorn with billions and unions with discriminatory union-only labor agreements, paves the way for socialized medicine, and threatens to take away the most cherished rights of We The People.

The RAT hiding deep inside the stimulus bill:  The provision, which attracted virtually no attention in the debate over the 1,073-page stimulus bill, creates something called the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board — the RAT Board, as it's known by the few insiders who are aware of it.  The board would oversee the in-house watchdogs, known as inspectors general, whose job is to independently investigate allegations of wrongdoing at various federal agencies, without fear of interference by political appointees or the White House.

Stop This Man.  One sector of the American economy that is booming is the absolute orgy of guns and ammunition sales.  I am pretty certain President Obama will not say anything positive about this economic news.  I have read more than one report that shows how the surge of civilian firepower sales began back when it appeared that Obama was likely to be elected.  The already-brisk guns and ammo market blew up another 25% once he was elected.  Reason:  freedom lovers do not trust liberal President Obama.  His nomination for Attorney General, Mr. Eric Holder, proves that distrust is justified.

Even before the election, people were saying things like this...
 Barack Obama and the End of the Republic.  For the first time in history, US voters are being asked to choose between continuing the Republic or bending to the will of a totalitarian Communist candidate.  It would seem to be a "no-brainer" but, with the greatest voter fraud in US history being perpetrated it just might happen.  We must all vote and vote en masse for John McCain if we are to save the country from a self-proclaimed dictatorship.  If we don't, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez will have a new ally.

Obama is a disaster.  President Obama has been in office for about 30 days and the outlines of his policies, personnel choices and general approach are now quite clear.  If the first 30 days are a precursor of the balance of the term America is at grave risk.  The economy is in shambles.  Just as when President Bush took power, we are in a severe recession.  President Bush was wildly criticized by the liberal media for "talking down the economy."  When Obama does the same, he is praised for his candor.

Fifteen Reasons I'm Already Tired of the Obama Era:  [#11]  Barack Obama has already broken more campaign promises in a month than George Bush did in eight years.  He's a living, breathing example of everything people hate about politics.  He's habitually dishonest, will say anything if it benefits him politically, and he has already doled out more taxpayer money to his supporters via the stimulus bill than any politician in history.

Americans Fighting Back Against Obama's Socialism.  It's interesting to note that the market started this latest fall as soon as the so called Stimulus package was passed in Congress.  The market understands that this was not going to stimulate anything, rather it was a massive tool to create bigger government than ever before dreamed of in this country.  In addition, the bailout money is being used to literally nationalize industry and there is a move on to nationalize banks.  If government owns and controls the market place then there is no free market and nothing to invest in.

Where's the Beef?.  Obama is deliberately attempting to create an economic system where more people live off the government than by their own efforts, thus creating a permanent underclass utterly dependent upon the largesse of the government and therefore ever-beholden to it.

Divining Obama's meaning is a word-by-word exercise.  "We've all seen how quickly good intentions can turn into broken promises and wasteful spending," Obama said.  Yes, we have.  We've seen a record amount of both in just his first month in office.  We're going to put all of the bills up online five days before they're signed, except when we don't.  We're not going to hire lobbyists to work in the White House, except when we do.  We're not going to nationalize the banks, except that "we will act with the full force of the federal government to ensure" that they "have enough confidence" to lend money.  (Yes, we will force you to have confidence.)

Is Obama the Most Famous Living Person Ever?  Whether you measure fame in terms of saturation or sheer numbers, it seems indisputable to me that more people know at least something about the new American president than anyone alive, at this point — or any — in the planet's existence.

Obama has magnetic appeal on TV viewers, finds study.  The US inauguration may have been a visual feast but, according to research published yesterday [1/30/2009], viewers could not take their eyes off Barack Obama.  The appeal of the new president was demonstrated in a University of Edinburgh study that tracked the eye movements of viewers.  Despite potential distractions, such as the Obama family and the rows of distinguished guests, viewers' eyes remained fixed on the president for almost the entire time he was on screen.

Poll:  Obama More Popular Than Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.  John Lennon once claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus.  Now President Obama has evidence that he's more popular than both.  Obama topped a new Harris interactive poll that asked 2,634 Americans who they admire enough to call a hero.  Jesus came in second on a list that includes God, Mahtma Gandhi and George Washington.  Other historic or notable figures making the top 10 were Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, John McCain, John F. Kennedy, U.S. Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger and Mother Teresa.

It Just Keeps Getting Worse.  As Barack Obama feverishly presses forward with his socialist agenda, one wonders whether any act of executive overreaching might cause the compliant, nay, conspiratorial Democratic congressional majorities to pause or, better yet, to resist.  I think not. ... I realize liberals take umbrage at the pejorative terms "Marxist" and "socialist," but in invoking them, my purpose is neither to exaggerate nor to provoke.  If the terms bother you, could you please tell me how Obama would be behaving differently if he were a socialist or Marxist just elected in this country?

Keeping Hate Alive.  When the New York Post went ape in a cartoon, the enemies of freedom and equality showed their colors.  Apparently the time has come to silence all critics of President Obama!  He is the leader of our country and must not be questioned!  Therefore, anyone who dares to make a critical reference to him or any of his policies is an enemy of the United States and should be destroyed.  Furthermore, every word or phrase used to challenge his authority will be meticulously parsed to discover hidden meanings.

The Power Of Life And Death Is In Our Words.  Do not for one moment think that we are either intellectually or morally superior to those Germans who put Hitler in power.  We have been saved by our institutions and our traditions — the very institutions and traditions that so many are so busy eroding or dismantling, whether in classrooms or courtrooms or in the halls of Congress and the White House.

What About the Other 78%?  [Scroll down]  My quibble, of course, is that [Obama] is not out to "save" capitalism, but to disable it and replace it with a statist arrangement wherein the government owns banks and car companies, directs employers on how to pay and treat their employees, limits industrial output, and runs the healthcare system.  But all this raises an interesting political question:  who's in favor of this other than "millions of liberals"?  (And some of them might be having second thoughts.)

Obama lied; the economy died.  If President Obama were to try to misrepresent his positions for the next four years, there would be nothing he could say that would approach the inaccuracy of his claim last week that he is not for big government.  It is the essence of the man and his presidency.  He doesn't like America the way it has been since its founding — and it will take an abusively big government to realize his dreams of converting America into something quite different.  If you don't know that, you don't yet know Barack Obama.

Bingo!  Call It Communism.  I once wrote that we could play "Communist Manifesto Bingo":  once President Obama enacts or strengthens five planks from the Communist Manifesto, yell "bingo" and you win.  One month into President Obama's first term, BINGO!  I did change my own game rules just a tad.  Instead of using the exact planks from Marx, which can be ambiguous for some people, I'm using a more detailed list from the current Communist Party USA.

Global Television For Our Global Leader.  Elite members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, at the end of January were considering a proposal for a new global television network to usher in a state of "global governance."  It sounds authoritarian, even totalitarian, to some. ... The WEF also envisions cooperation and collaboration in global media ventures.  It asks, "How can we save journalism to help it save the world?"  Clearly, this is advocacy journalism on a global scale.  Indeed, the list of "Recommendations" says it is imperative to start "Communicating a global agenda, and motivating and mobilizing people to support it..."  Is this journalism?  Or is it brainwashing and propaganda?

What if Obama Turns America into Europe?  America's system, based fundamentally on individual risk and responsibility, has been the great incubator of innovations that have become the staples of the modern age — from medical advances, to computers, to the internet and beyond.  Around the world, people have benefited in ways beyond measure.  All that energy poured into progress is likely to fade, as America devolves into a nation of carbon-capped civil servants, tending to a much-shrunken private sector, and a growing line of people on the dole.

Waging War on Prosperity.  President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty.  President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity.  We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation.  He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest.  This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.

Barack Obama bets the farm in $4 trillion poker game.  A keen poker player, Mr Obama is gambling not only his own presidency, but the future wellbeing of the country.  If he pulls it off, they might find room for him on Mount Rushmore.  If he fails, he could bankrupt the world's largest economy.  There have been only a few watershed moments in US history, and this is one.

Obama and the Disunited States.  President Obama's rise caps forty years of building new 'nations' from one America, as America's left adapted to the rise of civil rights, and built a power base from fanning discontent.  Newsweek cheers, "We are all socialists now!"  MSNBC's Jim Cramer calls Barack Obama's budget a "radical agenda" and points out "This is the greatest wealth destruction I've seen by a President."  None of this should be a surprise to anybody who was paying attention to Obama's Hawaii links to the Communist Party, USA or his years of Chicago work with the Democratic Socialists of America. But many voters — and most of the media — aggressively avoided paying attention.  Now they are literally paying the price.

Obama:  Fear and the Security Force.  [Scroll down]  For example, I was surprised recently when a woman I know — someone who could easily abide by the injunction, "Never discuss religion or politics" — said in a most sober fashion that she was thinking of leaving the country.  Then there is an elderly Jewish gentleman of my acquaintance who lived through WWII; this man could be described as almost apolitical, was probably more apt to vote Democrat than Republican and isn't given to issuing political opinion, let alone hyperbole.  Yet when someone else broached the subject of Obama's legions of fawning admirers, he broke his pattern and interjected, "This is like what happened with Hitler... ."

Worshippers in Lansing, MI assaulted by liberal activists.  Suppose you were sitting in church one Sunday peacefully minding your own business, praying that God grant our new president the wisdom to do what is right when suddenly, the sanctity of the church is violated in the most horrific way by vandals, thugs, and screaming lunatics.  This is what happened at a small church in Lansing, MI called Mount Hope.

Georgia congressman warns of Obama dictatorship.  A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship.  "It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press.  "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."

Georgia Congressman Stands By Remarks On Obama.  A Republican congressman from Georgia is standing by comments that he fears President-elect Barack Obama could be planning to rule as a Marxist dictator with his own domestic security force.

Obama's Henchmen and the Rise of Commufascism.  The secret to selling bad ideas is to make sure they are the only ones available.  This is how totalitarian regimes take power.  Whether it was Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany or Vladimir Lenin in Communist Russia, the pattern is largely the same — totalitarian dictators come to power by enshrining themselves as cults of personality and then creating political monopolies through often less than delicate campaigns of indoctrination and censorship — especially censorship enshrouded in the intimidating aura of state power.

Criticizing Obama has been made off limits.  Let me give you a few helpful survival tips for the next four years.  The most important rule in this coming age is to remember that one must take great caution when criticizing Barack Obama.  Remember, even Democratic hero Bill Clinton was accused of being a bigot for calling Obama's political biography a "fairy tale."  Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro was compared to David Duke for suggesting that Barack Obama gained some advantages from being black.

Now for the real Shock Doctrine.  As is now well known, Barack Obama's new Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, told a Wall Street Journal conference last week that, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."  He added, his eye on the worsening financial environment, that "This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."  President-elect Obama appears to be taking the crisis strategy to heart.

The Unspoken Campaign Message of Obama:  Obama, like [Saul] Alinsky, is not so much an ideologue as a power fanatic. ... In college, it seems, Obama heard and spoke the word "power" as normal people would speak or hear the words "soul" or "honor" or "God."  Power, alone, counts to him.  He will do anything to win power, and men who will do anything to win power will do anything at all.

How the Great Depression brought Adolf Hitler to power:  The Great Depression certainly empowered FDR to make big changes in America over his four terms.  In spite of all the hoo-hah the country didn't get out of the long, long slump until 1940 or so, with the huge mobilization of men and industrial resources for World War II.  But FDR did get to play to his heart's content, through the NRA, the WPA, the AAA, the CCC, the TVA, the NLRB, the FDIC and the SEC.  By comparison all we've got is a measly TARP.  So far.

Obama's Ideological Father:  [Scroll down]  But whether he realizes it or not, he has an ideological forebearer who has set the stage for this administration's agenda:  Antonio Gramsci.  Gramsci, while still in his twenties, organized the Italian Communist party in 1921 with his colleague Togliotti. ... The progeny of Gramsci are alive and well and now reside in the White House.  They believe in big government, one worldism, distrust of religion, and a denial of American exceptionalism.  Our leaders may not identify themselves as Gramscians and may even mock the designation, but make no mistake:  Gramsci's DNA is in their bloodstream.

The Community Organizer-in-Chief.  I finally figured this out.  Barack Obama is the Community Organizer-in-Chief.  He is taking the inequities, the slights, the unfairness, the spread between wealth and poverty, the choices the rich have but which the poor do not ... and he wants to fix that.  For everyone.

'Manchurian Candidate' Starts War on Business.  Back in the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson gave us the War on Poverty.  In the 1970s, Richard Nixon launched the War on Drugs.  Now that we have seen President Barack Obama's first-year legislative agenda, we know what kind of a war he intends to wage.  It is no wonder that markets are imploding around us.  Obama is giving us the War on Business.

Why The Founding Fathers Would Want Obama's Plans to Fail.  James Madison was not specifically contemplating Barack Obama, or Nancy Pelosi, when he wrote Federalist No. 63.  But reading the document — one of the seminal arguments in favor of adopting the U.S. Constitution — it's clear Madison knew their type.  And he knew they would come along again and again in American history, if Americans were lucky enough to have a long history.

Obama, the Unconstitutional Scholar.  During last year's campaign, much was made about Barack Obama being a constitutional law professor. ... I am not a lawyer, but I do know that in this president's first one hundred days in office, there have been numerous examples of Obama's willful ignorance of the precepts laid down in our central founding documents.

Thou Shall Not Question Barack Obama.  Perhaps they just don't want to think through the details.  Then again —maybe some of them don't have the capacity to think through the details.  I'm referring to the apparent plethora of partisan, passionate, "see-no-evil" Obama minions, who become outraged should any of the rest of us ask questions about the forty-fourth President.

Why Does Obama Smile at Dictators?  In spite of a presidential term limit of six years, Chávez has suggested that he would like to remain in power for 25 years.  Hmmm.  An autocratic dictator who abuses human rights and undermines democracy being warmly embraced by the American president.  There's something wrong with that picture. ... Obama is also pursuing a renewed relationship with Cuba, a country which engages in systemic human rights abuses, including torture, arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials and extrajudicial executions.

Something To Fear.  This administration continues to express its desire to take advantage of the economy's downturn.  It's now clearer than ever what President Obama meant when he talked about "change" on the campaign trail.

Democrats loose the dogs.  Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, Rick Santelli, and Jim Cramer owe much of their 15 minutes of fame to Saul Alinsky, a Chicago Marxist who died in 1972.  Mr. Alinsky is considered to be the father of "community organizing" as the path to social revolution.  A year before his death he published a book, Rules for Radicals, which distilled what he had learned from his experiences, his reading of Marx and Lenin, and from his associations with crime boss Al Capone and labor leader John Lewis.

The Editor says...
 You may be sick of hearing about Joe the Plumber, but he serves as an example of what can happen to someone who throws a wrench in Obama's plans.  All that is discussed in a section called Prepare for an Obama Thugocracy.

Obama's Tactic:  Shock and Awe.  The president knows that he doesn't have the luxury of making radical change over a protracted period.  A little bit at a time won't work.  Opposition will coalesce; that opposition will marshal its resources and train its fire on each piece of legislation the president proposes.  He knows that in our system of checks and balances, it is easier to thwart legislation than it is to pass it.  So the president is using Shock and Awe to mislead and baffle natural conservatives, cow critics and overwhelm opposition with a broad agenda pressed ahead simultaneously.  He's betting that deception, speed and force will win the day.

Republicans Can't Afford to Default to Obama.  Republicans are still awestruck at how Barack Obama was able to get every Democrat in the House and Senate to vote for his stimulus package despite opinion polls showing impressive public opposition.  The answer is Obama's use of his years of training in Saul Alinsky-style community organizing combined with 21st-century technology.  This converted his successful campaign tools and technology into a political tsunami to pass tremendous spending bills that will saddle us, our children and our grandchildren with incredibly enormous debts.

President Barack Obama:  A Fraud You Can Believe In.  Even as Barack Obama demonstrates he is a fraud, phony and hypocrite par excellence — who also happens to be in way over his head — the American people still believe in him.  Yes, love is grand and his approval rating is still miraculously high.  If the truth were known, that approval rating would be sinking lower than the stock market, home prices or the economy.  I doubted he was the Messiah, but now I'm not sure.  When a president can be the greatest wealth destroyer in history and still maintain high approval ratings, maybe he does have supernatural powers.

The Obama pledge:  Another polarizing move from Barack Obama.  His permanent campaign is organizing a political organization loyal to him, bound by a pledge, outside the government and existing party apparatus.  The historical precedents are ominous.

Obama's (Highly Creepy) 'Pledge Project':  Anyone who is a student of totalitarian regimes, especially Nazi Germany, should recognize this tactic.  Mr. Obama has organized his own cadre of Brown Shirts (or, if you prefer, Red Shirts) to agitate for his agenda.  Mr. Alinsky would be proud.  And rightly so.  For this is simply the continuation of Mr. Obama's perpetual campaign.  A campaign, as we noted at the time, that was modeled on Saul Alinsky's organizing principles.

Obama's essence:  The commentariat still doesn't understand that Obama is the worst control freak to occupy high office in the history of the United States.  Obama is the Nanny to end all Nannies.  Socialism is not a political philosophy for him.  It's the other way around.  Control freakery is Obama's basic personality.  Socialism is just his way of making it look good to his buds on the Left.  It's called obsessive-compulsive personality, and if he can get himself a good doctor he might be able to get a pill for it.

The Knock on the Door.  there is a new organization on the political scene — "Organizing for America," announced by President Barack Obama in late January but officially unfurled last weekend.  Obama describes OFA as a "grass-roots movement" but OFA is a "project" of the Democratic Natrional Committee.  As Politico reported, OFA will take the 10 million person database built up by the Obama campaign "to mobilize support for the president's legislative agenda."  A visit to the OFA website reveals that supporters are not simply asked to sign up, they are asked to take a pledge.  A pledge to support — not the flag, not the constitution, not the country, not even the Democratic Party, but Obama and his "bold plan."

Obama wants you to pledge loyalty to him tomorrow.  They have taken a pledge of loyalty to Obama, and they say they are coming your way tomorrow for yours.  Organizing for America, the Obama-for-President campaign morphed into Obama-for-Maximum-Leader army, will hit the streets for their "Pledge Project Canvass," knocking on doors and accosting folks in parking lots and sidewalks to ask them to sign a pledge to support Obama's policies for health care, energy and education reform.

When America becomes Obamaland.  There is one certainty about the shape of things to come if President Barack Obama wins approval of his extraordinarily ambitious proposals to remake America:  We won't recognize our country when he's finished.  Perhaps the most prominent feature of Obamaland will be long lines, starting with the unemployment offices, thanks to coercive new powers to force unions on unwilling workplaces, and the skyrocketing prices for gas and electricity that his anti-global warming energy program will produce.

Is this the end of America?  [Scroll down]  Reform of health care, environmental policy, education, energy, banking, regulation — every nook and cranny of the U. S. economy has been put on alert for major change.  Expansion of government spending, plunging the U. S. into unprecedented deficits, is without parallel.  In economic policy, through regulation and control of energy output, financial services and monetary expansion, the U. S. government has embarked on a fundamental reshaping of America.  It is designed, in short, to bring on the end of America.

The Obama depression:  [Scroll down]  At least, though, FDR famously said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."  He tried to raise the nation's spirits.  Obama, though, has repeatedly dampened them with his self-fulfilling prophecies of gloom.  Why?  Well, look at what the Bush recession did for Obama:  It got him elected president, and it has now given him hundreds of billions to spend pretty much as he and his appointees see fit.  If a recession offers such privileges, what about a depression?  Imagine an Obama Corps with millions of workers.  Imagine, if much of the nation's wealth dissolves, the opportunity to educate children in the virtue of government requiring everyone to "share."

Barack Obama and Alinsky's Rules for Psychopaths.  A psychopath is a person without conscience; someone who constantly breaks the moral rules of the community.  Saul Alinsky was a "community organizer" who found a career that fit that personality disorder.  In the Orwellian upside-down world of the Left, community organizers disorganize communities.  That is the meaning of revolution, to overturn whatever exists today in the raw pursuit of one's own power. ... Alinsky's disciples — including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — have a warlike political style.  They learned politics as war from the Master.  Obama is so well-trained in Alinsky tactics that he used to teach workshops on it.

Outside The Law:  The Obama White House has the look of an administration willing to resort to legislative bullying to get its agenda passed in Congress.  Last Wednesday [3/18/2009], Bloomberg news reported that the president "may try to push through Congress a health care overhaul, energy proposals and tax increases by using a partisan tactic that would thwart Republican efforts to block the measures."  In other words, this administration is considering marginalizing the opposition and ruling by decree.  It leaves the Americans who voted for the Republicans in Congress with no representation.

Altruism at the point of a gun.  The House has passed the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act (where do they come up with these Orwellian acronyms?).  The bill fulfills an Obama campaign promise to create a "civilian national security force."  This legislation will not mandate or force our young people into national service — not yet anyway.  But there is little doubt that we are being set up for just such an eventuality.

Obligatory Charity — There Is No Such Thing.  The importance of public service has provided the impetus that led to the passage this week of two bills:  the Serve America Act in the Senate and the Generations Invigorating Volunteering and Education Act, or GIVE, in the House.  Their stated goal:  more public service.  But their outcome will be — more government intrusion and more government jobs.

Are Congress and Obama Deliberately Inciting a New US Civil War?  As early as 1995, the US Marines were being trained to quell in-country "domestic unrest" and US Military training to contain and stop domestic disturbances — brought on by a thoroughly corrupt government — are continuing today.  And, as I've previously reported, recently passed H.R. 645 provides for 'internment camps' for US Citizens.  Another trial balloon appears to have been floated with the unconstitutional deployment of US troops to an Alabama town.  Why and by whom were they deployed?  There has still been no answer.  Could it be they were sent to gauge citizens' acceptance and/or rejection?  Please do not make the mistake in thinking that this is some cosmic coincidence.  It is too well planned.

Why I am depressed:  I feel utterly powerless to do anything about the fellow in the Oval Office who combines infantile leftism and adolescent grandiosity in roughly equal measures.  It seems to me that every day he is responsible for assaults on the freedom and well being of the American people.  I can't keep up and I can't stand to pay attention.  His aim seems to be to reduce us to government dependents.

Obama Continues To Set Records For Incompetence.  Perhaps the most frightening aspect of the Obama administration is its willingness to pass any law and utilize any procedure even if it seems to violate our most important Democratic values and our usual governmental processes. ... Beware when an apparent incompetent radical, both inexperienced and untested, starts to implement the greatest governmental transformation in history within his first two months in office.  But you need not wait for the results.  Just observe what is going on now.

Where Are the Lawyers When You Need Them?  So how's Obama doing?  Not great.  Signing statements are back in fashion — a bad development for those who contend the Constitution provides just two options (veto or sign/enforce the law). ... And where is the Justice Department in all this?  The rule of law is its specialty, right?  Well, Eric Holder seems entirely unwilling to restrain or even question the political operatives in the executive branch.

Don't Get Angry, Get Even.  When the members of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) wanted to use anger as a political weapon they burned the Reichstag and blamed it on the Communists.  It's an old tactic — when you are in trouble, create a crisis and then create a straw man to blame for the crisis. We are now seeing it played out as a giant insurance company, AIG, is given the role of straw man.

Who's 'Hitler' now?  President Obama's crack about his bowling acumen being worthy of the Special Olympics has raised a few hackles.  Normally I'd say "lighten up," but this time some examination is in order.  George W. Bush was called "Hitler" virtually every day, with no real basis for the accusation other than that liberals said so — and liberals are like, really smart, so it must have been true.  But Obama's comment, for me anyway, means that we're just a few weeks into the new administration and the new president is already more worthy of a Hitler comparison than Bush ever was.

Obama's Enforcer:  In Obama's entire circle of advisers, one man rises above the pack, gaining the reputation as the most ruthless political figure in America today.  This man is Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff.  Instead of being an impassioned ideologue, he instead enjoys utilizing Machiavellian tactics to achieve more traditional political ends.  A classic Chicago-style machine politician, Rahm will do whatever is necessary to get things done his way.

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 Is Obama a Prince Among Men?  In short order, Obama has plunged the nation into record debt, after a cynical campaign in which he (and the suddenly-uninquisitive media) ignored his own lack of credentials while criticizing the sitting president for excessive spending and debt.  After taking office, Obama swiftly assumed control of the census and has involved his activist community-organizing chums at ACORN in the process.  That is likely to lead to sudden population gains in liberal Rust Belt states with declining populations, thus building an enduring political structure for liberal Democrats.  In addition, he is rushing toward socialized medicine, trade protectionism and nationalized businesses.  Rather than being bold new initiatives, these are merely steps toward the socialist Utopia anti-capitalist liberals have pursued for nearly a century.

Not Like We Didn't See this Coming.  Yes, there is an element of managerial incompetence, but the real issue is that the Right was correct about Obama:  he's an ultra-liberal at least on domestic policy, not a pragmatic centrist either on policy or in style.  His mode of governance — denigrate the opposition, engage in ad hominem attacks, refuse to compromise on substantive policy, disguise radical policy intentions with a haze of meaningless rhetoric — bespeaks someone supremely confident in his ideological views and undaunted by fears (which are slowly creeping up on his Red state colleagues) of having overshot his mandate.

What is socialism?  Milton Friedman was once asked in a television interview what his ideological convictions were.  "Libertarian" he replied.  When then asked what those of then-President Bill Clinton were, he unhesitatingly said, "Socialist."  The exchange comes to mind because of the growing debate over whether his desire to dramatically expand the size of the federal government makes President Obama a socialist.  The answer:  Of course it does.


"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected.  No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."

— James Madison  


President Obama's First 70 Days:  Not only is Obama simply drawing on his past 30 years of education, writing, work, and associations, but he is also properly reflecting the worldview of many of those working for him. ... If you believed that average Americans are not well educated, do not think in sophisticated and rational ways, and cannot be trusted to make good decisions, whether for themselves or for their nation, then you would expand the power of better-educated and wiser government overseers.

Legal Services Unleashed.  The Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress may soon gain another valuable ally in their effort to radically expand government.  On March 26, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced legislation that ends the restrictions on the ability of legal services organizations, funded by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), to file ideologically motivated lawsuits.  In addition, Harkin's bill, "The Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009," nearly doubles the LSC budget from $390 million to $750 million.  If Harkin's bill is enacted, thousands of legal services lawyers will unleash a barrage of lawsuits in the nation's federal and state courts to advance a liberal political agenda.

Et Tu, Barack?  In the space of 48 hours, the president of the United States seized control of one of the world's largest manufacturing companies and fired its CEO.  He followed up by congratulating our representatives for creating the 14th-largest paid entity on the planet — a quarter-million government-paid "volunteers."  And then he departed the capital to receive the cheers of adoring crowds — in Europe.  If Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin had done any of this, Americans would have gone crazy.

The Master of Misdirection.  President Obama is the master of misdirection.  His skill in using this tactic is a key to his success as a candidate and to his popularity as president.  He is a great salesman, marketing his product — the liberal agenda, plus a few add-ons — in a manner that disguises what he's really up to.  Misdirection isn't the same as exaggeration.  Everyone understands that politicians inflate their accomplishments.  So their self-puffery is discounted.  Misdirection is different.  It is meant to deceive.

Nothing to Fear but O Himself.  Obama and his economics team decided [Rick] Wagoner had to go because, one source told the Wall Street Journal, "This is Obama, and symbols of change are important."  So even the government isn't saying Wagoner was a poor manager but that his dismissal had symbolic, i.e. political, value.  What symbol was it Obama was thinking of?  Maybe it's the thunderbolt.  A president who can fire the head of one of America's most storied companies has a lot of power.  Obama wants businesses to get the message that they should fear him.

Geithner's Goons Plan to Grease More CEOs.  Either your brains or your signature will be on this resignation letter.  That's what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner might as well be saying to the next corporate CEOs he intends to muscle out of their posts.  Bloomberg reports Treasury's highest-ranking tax evader said he is gearing up to turn senior management and boards of directors at banks that require "exceptional" assistance from the U.S. government into roadkill.

In a self-destruct mode?  "Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder," said historian Arnold J. Toynbee.  President Obama is placing America on the path of civilizational suicide.  Following the Group of 20 summit of world leaders in London, Washington is poised to swallow the lethal pill of global socialism.

Obama Is the 'Arrogant, Dismissive, and Derisive' One.  The imagery behind Obama's threat couldn't be more obvious:  comply with my demands or I will make sure you are harassed, intimidated, and run out of town on a rail.  He made them an offer they couldn't refuse.  Don Corleone couldn't have said it better.  We cannot forget, however, that it was Barack Obama himself along with his fellow Democrats who agitated this mob-like frenzy about the banks, the CEOs, and the bonuses.  It was Obama who said the bonuses were an "outrage" and a "violation of our fundamental values."

Obama administration 'anti religious,' Gingrich says.  In an interview with FOX News, Gingrich said he strongly disagreed with Obama's choice of Harry Knox — an outspoken activist for gay rights — to the White House advisory council on faith-based initiatives.  "I think their goal is to have a very secular America in which government dominates everything," he said.  "Why wouldn't you put an anti-religious, left-wing zealot on a faith-based group?  It's a perfect pattern for this administration."

The Greatest Economic Disaster in Recorded History.  Not only is the administration planning on enormous deficit spending this year, but the current plan calls for increasing deficit spending for the next decade — spending that will more than double our entire national debt during his presidency.  At the same time, Obama plans to extend federal control over vast and critical sections of our economy, promulgating new and extensive rules and taxes over both the power industry and the health care business.

The Price of Extremism.  [Scroll down]  One school of thought suggests that Obama is deep down a far-left ideologue and would rather achieve his agenda than build a lasting coalition.  He has to hurry to beat the clock to the 2010 election and wants to do everything he can to tick off the items on the liberal wish list.  In this scenario, his moderate language and bipartisan themes, as central as they were to his campaign, were essentially deceptive.  He's not a centrist and has no interest in governing as one.

ObaMob Rule.  Obama is using the mob-incitement tactics of his mentor, Chicago organizer Saul Alinsky.  The flash point he used was justified citizen outrage over AIG bonuses.  Now he has claimed for himself the right to fire people in private businesses.  Using his new-media outreach program and his e-mail database of 13 million people, Obama is further attempting to influence policy changes through protests outside AIG offices.  He has even organized targeted doorbelling activities in support of his plans.

Replacing God.  President Obama is asking for your blind faith, the faith usually reserved for God.  Without any record of achievement, he asks that you believe in him, that you follow his dictates.  That you allow him to lead us from the wilderness.  What Obama is doing has been done before.  Successfully.  In the former Soviet Union, churches operated only with permission of the state.  In China, the crackdown continues on underground churches.  The 'state' knows it must have supremacy over God in order to effectively rule (subjugate) its citizens.  Pol Pot knew this.  Lenin knew this.  Mao Zedong knew this.  Any dictator who conquers a country through force knows this.  And Obama knows this.

Boss Obama.  In his still young presidency, Barack Obama already has revealed himself as a reveler in the exercise of a certain type of power.  Not on the international stage, where his apology tour of Europe was just the latest example of the abasement of America that he sees as part of his mission in life.  Nor in dealing with the threat of terrorism (or "overseas contingency operations" and "man-made disasters" as a way to define away the future of his office) or looming dangers from a nuclear Iran.  But he has demonstrated a desire to act forcefully in one particular way:  vanquishing his domestic political opponents.

A trip down Jimmy Carter's memory lane.  As a candidate, Obama ran on a platform of "change."  It didn't worry me because I didn't think he meant it. ... The new White House has been crying havoc and unleashing the dogs of war on free enterprise, using a big bump in the economic road for a casus belli.  The changes President Obama is contemplating domestically include a shift from private to public enterprise and from a market to a command economy.  Not exactly piffle, but they're dwarfed by changes in foreign policy.

America the Apologetic.  The major issue facing Latin America is a fundamental choice between competing social models — a socialist/authoritarian model on the one hand, and a free market/open society on the other.  Obama not only isn't championing the latter; he did not even speak up effectively on its behalf.

America's 'November Revolution'.  In our recent election, many Americans voted for a Savior, not a president.  Americans were enamored with the idea of making history in this election, and in that sense we have gotten what we wanted.  Unfortunately, Barack Obama is the wrong man, and this is definitely the wrong time.  In fact, the timing couldn't be worse.  We have in recent years vastly expanded the powers and autonomy of the Executive Branch, removing checks and balances along the way.  Owing in part to well-intentioned conservative attempts to more effectively fight Islamic terrorism, the machinery of US dictatorship is already in place.

The EPA is choking democracy.  One of the most important events of our lifetimes may have just transpired.  A federal agency has decided that it has the power to regulate everything, including the air you breathe.

Will Obama Seize the Radio Stations Next?  The standard playbook for revolutionaries is to seize all the television and radio stations first, and announce the rebels are the new government.  The Left has already done this in America.  Except for a couple of holdouts — conservative talk radio and Christian broadcasts.  Obama has already taken over GM, firing and replacing its CEO and Board of Directors.  Now he is angling to take over the banks by transforming TARP loans into common stock.  Will he find some way to take over the radio stations next, or at least the remaining talk radio and Christian broadcasting stations?

Obama's leap to socialism :  President Obama showed his hand this week when The New York Times wrote that he is considering converting the stock the government owns in our country's banks from preferred stock, which it now holds, to common stock.  This seemingly insignificant change is momentous.  It means that the federal government will control all of the major banks and financial institutions in the nation.  It means socialism.

Obama, Alinsky, and Scapegoats.  With mature adults scapegoating doesn't work very well — not unless you can make them into insecure wrecks by destroying their incomes, for example.  That's what happened to the German middle class in the Weimar Republic.  It's what will happen in this country if the economy fails to recover.  That is why it is so vital to keep the administration from its most extreme spending plans, which could harm the economy if the Democrats in Congress are foolish enough.

The 2009 De-Stimulus Program Risks "A Lost Decade".  Throughout his first 100 days President Obama has amply demonstrated his fundamental belief that government knows best. ... President Obama spent more time pondering who should be the "first dog" than how $2 trillion of taxpayers' money should be spent; he fired the head of GM; and, he suggested to the BCS how the national college football champion should be determined.

The Reason the Left Must Destroy the USA.  Thus far, with very few exceptions, not one of the 'loyal opposition' has truly tried to stop Obama.  Instead, they seem to dutifully accept his programs that are tearing America apart — in favor of the global secular New World Order.

Tyranny Watch:  Obama Begins Process to Remove US Citizens' Rights.  While Barack Obama continues to protect and expand the rights of detained terrorist Islamist enemies of the USA, he has quickly begun the legalistic process of eliminating the rights of law-abiding US citizens.  Note:  This is but another phase of Obama turning the once US Republic into his own totalitarian state.

President of Everything.  In just three months, we have seen what Obama means when he talks about "reach."  He doesn't mean "our reach" but his own.  His sense of that reach, and the abrupt and scary speed with which he's used it, marks him as an executive with a tentacled grip — multiple, crushing, inescapable.  No longer the cautious critic of presidential power of the campaign trail, he now sees nothing as beyond his grasp.

This is Not Working.  We have discovered that Barack Obama can in fact successfully hide who he is and his vision for our country.  Prior to the election, any person of good judgment could readily understand who this man was and where he would likely take this country.  The signs were all there.  Now in power, he enacts his socialist policies in plain sight with little concern that the American public will strenuously object.  So why is it that so many people fail to see who Barack Obama really is and recognize the danger he represents to our republic?  In short, the average person may know some things about Barack Obama, but many don't know the most important things, and most don't understand what he really seeks to achieve.

To Seem, Rather Than To Be.  To the conspiracy-minded, it could all be deliberate — an endless series of dumb stunts and public flubs and embarrassing incidents serving as bright, shiny diversions from the real work of the Obama administration. While we all point and laugh (or point and howl) at these moves, they quietly go forward with their agenda — bringing the banks under direct federal control, bringing the auto industry under direct federal control, "reforming" healthcare insurance to bring that under direct federal control, going after the credit card companies...

Obama and ACORN GPS Marking EVERY Front Door in America?  The same week that Americans learned that they were "domestic terrorists" — at least according to Obama's new DHS (Department of Homeland Security), — if they own a Bible, a pocket Constitution or guns, and still believe in Life, Liberty and Freedom, — they also learned that Obama's Census Bureau had hired thousands of new temporary employees, equipped each with a handheld GPS computer and sent them out to mark GPS coordinates for every residential front door in America.

Squeezing Out the Faithful to Make Way for ACORN.  Should the federal government tempt people to cease volunteering at churches and instead be paid to "volunteer" at government-subsidized projects?  That's the essence of the "Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act" which President Obama signed into law on April 21.

Obama's Utopia for Liberals.  Led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, liberal Democrats have demonstrated an arrogance of power that uses the fear and concerns Americans have about the economic recession as justification to enact their policies designed to unravel the very fabric of our way of life.  In addition to their irresponsible spending and dangerous borrowing, the Democrats have already taken steps to nationalize our banking and automotive industries and have their sights set on America's health care system and energy industry.

When the Obama Backlash Comes.  If anyone else were president and deceptively trying to enact his programs, a full-scale revolt would already be underway.  But for now, Obama is still a curiosity to whom many are willing to give a chance.  Political correctness still holds sway...

Democratic Efforts to Criminalize Blogs.  I hope I have this story all wrong, I really do.  But it seems that Representative Mark Kirk has signed onto an effort that could criminalize the free political speech of bloggers or anyone else that uses the Internet to communicate.

Liberty and Tyranny II.  The year after the 1929 stock market crash, unemployment was less than nine percent.  It would not fall below that level until our nation was involved in World War II.  In fact, unemployment would peak at 24.9 percent during FDR's first year in office.  Now that unemployment is rising to levels approaching those of the early days of the Great Depression, we are in grave danger.  The statist welcomes each oncoming crisis as an excuse to grow the state at the expense of individual liberty.

Suckers United for Change.  The handwriting is on the wall regarding our new leader's game plan for America.  Spend other people's money like a drunken sailor.  Let every enemy on the planet know there's a wimp in the White House.  Let every ally know the wimp in the White House will do nothing to help them when push comes to shove.  Let the 50 states know there's a power coup in play that strips them of constitutionally guaranteed liberties.  Let every company know that neither they nor their non-union employees are safe from Chicago-Way thugs and their mouthpieces in the media.

Can Obama Be Called an Economic Fascist?  It is dangerous in this day and age to use the word "fascism" lightly.  Liberals sling around the term "fascism" without regard to its meeting — for the left, "fascism" applies to everything from religious social perspectives to conservative tax cut prescriptions.  But economic fascism has a precise, defined meaning.  And Barack Obama's economic policy fulfills that meaning in every conceivable way.

Standards of decency lacking in Obama administration.  It becomes more evident with each passing day that the leftist movement to socialistic communism in the United States will stop at nothing to gain total control of our lives.  This movement, fathered by billionaire George Soros, the anti-American, Christian hating, United Nations loving bankroller for Obama, will not stop until ALL American citizens are firmly under his thumb.

The Lawless President.  Never before have we seen such untrammeled disregard both for property rights and existing legal mechanisms.  Congress has the power of the purse, but the bailouts are now funded largely through the Fed.  Bankruptcy courts are the means of voluntarily liquidating or reorganizing faltering firms, but Obama wants the government to unilaterally make those decisions.  And on it goes.  All of this is justified in the name of addressing the economic crisis, but the implication is clear and long-reaching.  Property owners, investors, contracting parties, and anyone relying on the impartial operation of the rule of law are at risk.

Bye-bye sanctity of contracts.  IMHO this is just about the most egregious abuse of government power of all time.  How long before the Obamachine just takes dissidents out back and threatens to shoot them?  Nah, they'll never dispense with all the legal formalities, will they?

The Birth of American Socialism.  [At first] we were told by the Media and other Liberal institutions; there will be no ownership of stock from the government.  This is just a way to float loans to the banks.  That changed almost immediately, and now the government holds "preferred" stocks meaning they get paid first, but do not hold a voting interest in the company.  Now that`s going to change as Our Savior, the Most Merciful Barack Hussein Obama has quietly announced that he`s changing the stock from "preferred" to "common", making the United States Government the majority shareholder of over 500 financial institutions in America.  In short, with the stroke of a pen we have become a socialist entity.

The socialist steamroller continues.  Obama is on a roll to transform the U.S. into a highly controlled, socialist, communist regime.  He already through the guise and game plan of "bailout" rescue packages, seized control of the banking industry, much of the auto industry, has drastically changed and manipulated the health care industry and plans to force all kinds of abortion in all states, hospitals and with all Doctors regardless as to their beliefs or state laws against it.

Reclaim the Constitution or else it's adios to the republic.  In Detroit, it came to light that the White House had threatened to harm creditors of Chrysler if they did not buckle under and accept a pennies-on-the-dollar settlement from the troubled automaker.  Columnist Michael Barone called this the "first episode of Gangster Government," and pointed out that the shakedown worked.

That's the Obama I Knew.  Is it surprising that someone who entered into a business relationship with a former and unrepentant terrorist would be so friendly with an America-hater like Hugo Chavez?  That a man who heard from his spiritual mentor time and again about the evils of his own country would bow before the king of another?  That a man who openly praised and promised government thuggery would move to criminalize his political opponents?  And this, clearly, is only the beginning.  For many, President Barack Obama is just now coming into focus.  For some of us, he was clear all along.

The Alinsky Administration.  Barack Obama never met Saul Alinsky, but the radical organizer's thought helps explain a great deal about how the president operates.  Alinsky died in 1972, when Obama was 11 years old.  But three of Obama's mentors from his Chicago days studied at a school Alinsky founded, and they taught their students the philosophy and methods of one of the first "community organizers."

If You Disagree With Obama, Are You Anti-American?  If you attack President Barack Obama's policies, are you attacking America?  According to today's left, the answer is yes:  Barack Obama is America.  And opposition to Barack Obama or any of his policies is therefore, by definition, anti-American. ... Every tyranny begins with a few simple steps.  First, the budding tyranny takes far-reaching control of the economy in the name of the people ... Second, the budding tyrant identifies personal insults as insults to the country.

Barack Obama, the Quintessential Liberal Fascist.  When Saul Alinsky began building his community-organization movement in 1930s Chicago, observers were watching Alinsky with one eye, while with the other eye observing the building of communist and fascist movements in Europe.  It wasn't hard then to see in Alinsky's programs at home, elements of the people's revolution from Russia, as well as some of the same "in your face" tactics being employed by Hitler's Brownshirts.

Chrysler and the Rule of Law:  While the rest of the world in 1787 was governed by the whims of kings and dukes, the U.S. Constitution was established to circumscribe arbitrary government power.  It would do so by establishing clear rules, equally applied to the powerful and the weak.  Fleecing lenders to pay off politically powerful interests, or governmental threats to reputation and business from a failure to toe a political line?  We might expect this behavior from a Hugo Chávez.  But it would never happen here, right?

More about Nationalizing GM and Chrysler.

Cracks in the Facade:  What separates the U.S. from Mexico, Cuba, or Haiti is the rule of law, the protection of capital and property, the evenhanded treatment of investment, and the faith in a fair media to uncover abuse.  I think that is now all in question, as the Utopian ends justify the tawdry means.

Obama The Fascist: Leading Us Down the Road to Serfdom.  Obama is a socialist.  Look at his career, his past political and social affiliations, and those of most of his cabinet and department appointees.  Karl Marx couldn't have assembled a better team.  Of course, no one today is going to advertise himself as a socialist.  The new euphemism for it is "progressive."  The original Progressives were socialists.  [Alan] Blinder denies that Obama wants to nationalize the banks.  Yes, he does.  Buying a controlling or even minimal share in any private entity by the government, for the purpose of steering its purpose to serve "social" or government ends, is fascism.  This is usually called a "government-business partnership."  Also, it is known as "national socialism."  It means working as a slave or a serf for the government, and the government determining one's rewards and compensation.

If Bailout Plan Is Too Socialistic, Just Wait For Obama Leviathan.  Have Americans been so lulled by Barack Obama's smooth talk that they don't realize his plans would expand government into a massive socialist behemoth?  His is a soft-spoken, hard-left agenda.

He Who Must Not Be Laughed At — a Poem.
But Save Our Souls
In Detroit City
With Supreme Justices
Ruled by Pity
No Rule of Law
For Us No Mo'
For Those in Need
Who Rob a Sto'

Alice In Obamaland.  One of the "lies" Barack Obama says are being told about him is quite true.  It involves a staunch admirer of the Soviet Union and its communist society who helped launch Obama's political career.

Impatience drives Obama to expand his powers.  Perhaps President Barack Obama spent so little time in the Senate because he has little tolerance for the glacial pace at which Congress was designed to move. ... Obama has wildly overestimated the ability of Congress to achieve his massive first-year agenda.  As a result of his frustrations, Obama is embarking on a breathtaking expansion of executive power.

The Editor says...
 The most dangerous politicians are the ones who are in a hurry to accomplish their lofty goals.

Haley Barbour: Obama is a snake charmer.  Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) predicted Wednesday that despite his current popularity in the polls, President Barack Obama will eventually suffer the same reversal of political fortune that befell President Bill Clinton in 1994.  "What they have in common is that everything for them is political.  They wage a perpetual campaign.  They are both extraordinary politicians.  Either one of them could charm the skin off a snake," Barbour told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.

Anti-American Party in Power vs. Whom?  At this point, every American knows that today's Democrat Party is the anti-American political party in the United States.  Run by the Democratic Socialists of America and their Progressive Caucus, funded by the anti-free market international proletariat cabal, DNC collectivism for the greater communal good rules the day.

President Obama:  Neo-Marxist.  Obama's anti-capitalist, Big Government, command-and-control economic vision exceeds mere "childishness."  It is dangerous. After 100-plus days, the jury reached its verdict.  Obama is a neo-Marxist.

A Whiff of Fascism from Obama's White House.  There is a whiff of Fascism emanating from the Obama White House.  Reports say that the head of GM is quitting under duress from the Obama administration ... Although there have been some incidents of government exercising minor control over industry during wartime, this aggressive assault on American capitalism is unprecedented and should give all Americans who care about freedom pause.

Euroamericans?  What worries me about Obama is not the specifics of the nationalization of GM and Chrysler, the government rescue of the United Auto Workers, the effort to take over college financing, proposed universal health care, massive deficits and tax increases, although they are worrisome and only the beginning, but the attendant culture of 'inflate your tires' and 'wash your hands' paternalism.  I think we are entering an age in which the federal government will increasingly guide our thoughts into what is deemed correct — the sort of car we must drive, the type of salary we should make, the sort of job we should have, even the type of thoughts we are to express, and all in the name of collective brotherhood.

Obama:  Not The First Head Of State To Design Cars.  This week, Obama imposed on American car manufacturers strict fuel efficiency and emissions standards, to be introduced in 2012.  Manufacturers will reportedly get extra pats on the head for cranking out electric cars like General Motors' Chevy Volt — which will soak American consumers for about $40,000.  In other words, they're going to make cars only hippies want, at prices only CEOs can afford.  Don't like it?  Then ride a bike or take the bus.

The Making of a Fuehrer:  It is surreal to see the level of hysteria in his admirers.  This phenomenon is unprecedented in American politics.  Women scream and swoon during his speeches.  They yell and shout to Obama, "I love you." ... When you fall for someone to the extent that Obama's followers have fallen for him, you surrender your reason and individuality to him willingly.  When millions of people surrender their hearts and their minds to one person the result can be catastrophic.  This is what happened in Germany with Hitler, in China with Mao, in the Soviet Union with Stalin, in Cuba with Castro, in Iran with Khomeini, and so on and so forth.  Today, we think these men were monsters, but that was not what millions of their worshipers thought.  Those people loved them.

Obama and the Birth of Mobocracy in America.  What we are witnessing is the death of democracy in America and the birth of ochlocracy, the end of America's representative government and the beginning of mob rule.  Such mobocracies under the sway of charismatic leaders lead to de facto dictatorships and one-man rule.  Democracy has never been in a greater danger than it is today.  America, the world's first and most robust democracy has been hijacked by an impostor and the mobs of his supporters that have placed their emotions ahead of reason.  Many of these supporters do not/will not shy away from acting like thugs to defend their Fuehrer.

Georgia Rep. Paul Broun Calls Obama a Potential Marxist Dictator.  If you thought the claims of Obama being the biggest Marxist since Lenin were going to go away after the election, think again.  A Georgia congressman, Paul Broun, gave an interview to the AP, claiming that Obama is potentially establishing a paramilitary force within the US answerable only to him.  Pointing towards a speech Obama gave in July advocating for a new civilian force to take over some duties of the military — primarily infrastructure rebuilding.  To Broun, however, this raises alarms.

The rise of another democratically elected dictator.  Big Brother seems to be upon us already.  Government computers used to access information on a private citizen.  Newspapers with editorial boards who do not endorse a candidate gets kicked off that candidate's plane.  A candidate promising a new Civilian Security Services separate from the military and police.  This is starting to get really scary.

Barack Obama: Dictator, Socialist and the next Hitler.  Barack Obama is a dictator in the making... he has convinced his followers that what his right hand is doing doesn't matter and that they should just look at his left.  It doesn't matter about all of his past and current associates... he's just being friendly.  It doesn't matter about his voting record... it was for a higher purpose.  His purpose.

One Nation Under Obama.  Barack Obama has long been known for his socialistic convictions and messianic tendencies.  That he therefore wants to rule rather than represent and to dictate rather than debate is not hard to understand.  And while he may not come right out and say it, he expects us to pledge allegiance to him. ... The scary news is that our president is a self-aggrandizing anti-capitalist with or without the support of Farrakhan and the Latin communists, and therefore has no problem overseeing a federal government eager to take over more aspects of our everyday lives.

Suppressing dissent:
 Obama seeks to stifle criticism of stim bill.  To a liberal, their axiom on free speech is, "You're free to speak your mind ... as long as you agree with me."  Not surprisingly the Obama administration is seeking to cut off lobbying from everyone when it comes to the stim bill.

White House moves to restrict criticism of stimulus projects.  A new White House policy on permissible lobbying on economic recovery and stimulus projects has taken a decidedly anti-First Amendment turn.  It's a classic illustration of Big Government trying to control every aspect of a particular activity and in the process running up against civil liberty.

Don't call it 'socialism'!  The government effectively owns General Motors and controls Chrysler, and the president is deciding what kind of cars they can make.  Uncle Sam owns majority stakes in American International Group, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and controls large chunks of the banking industry.  Also, President Obama wants government to take over the business of student loans.  And he's pushing for nationalized health care.  Meanwhile, his Environmental Protection Agency has ruled that it reserves the right to regulate any economic activity that has a "carbon footprint."  Just last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said climate change requires that "every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory."  Rep. Barney Frank, chair of the Financial Services Committee, has his eye on regulating executive pay.

Obama's Red Chorus.  Rest assured, Venezuela's self-described Communist commandante does not wish us well.  But Obama's administration has managed to awe him with its takeover of General Motors.  "Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors.  Comrade Obama!" Chavez cheered on Venezuelan TV Tuesday [6/2/2009].  He gushingly added that he and Cuba's Fidel Castro would now have to work harder just to keep up.  It underlines two things: just how closely the Venezuelan strongman watches what's happening in the U.S and just how badly it resembles his own war on private property.

Corporatism comes to America.  Some members of the Republican National Committee have recently wondered aloud what others of us wonder privately.  What name do we give to the direction in which Democrats and the Obama administration are taking America?  In 20th Century Italy and Germany, particularly during 1933-1945, fascism merged the self-interests of despotic, single-party rulers with large corporations for whom big war offered big profits.  Mussolini called it Corporatism. ... Obama is borrowing the worst elements from the two greatest economic catastrophes of the 20th Century:  fascism and socialism.


"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."

— Benito Mussolini    


Obama's man called shots on bankruptcy.  Not since President Harry S. Truman seized the American steel industry in 1952 has America seen such a bold exercise of federal power over a vital organ of the U.S. economy.  More than 30 hours of testimony and dozens of e-mails in the court of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez lift the curtain on how forcefully President Barack Obama's automotive task force pushed Chrysler LLC into bankruptcy and into the arms of Fiat SpA of Italy.

Obama's Enemies List Grows.  A de facto Obama enemies list and dirty political machine have been expanding since last year.  Obama has established several embarrassing presidential firsts including targeting private individuals by names, assigning a well-known "partisan dirt-digger" and non-lawyer to the White House Counsel's Office to likely gain access to Bush Administration documents protected under attorney-client privilege, and moving the senior political advisor into the West Wing.  These are heretofore unseen partisan practices.

No. 2 House Republican compares Obama to Putin.  The No. 2 Republican in the House on Thursday [6/11/2009] compared President Barack Obama's plans for the auto industry to the policies of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, saying the White House has stripped credit holders of rights and given them to Democratic allies.  "They said, 'Set aside the rule of law, let's strip secured creditors, bondholders, of their rights.  Take them away outside of the bankruptcy process and give them to the political cronies and the auto workers' unions," Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., said in an interview with The Associated Press.

62 Million Voiceless Americans.  Under the guise of saving us from those nasty capitalists, Obama has appointed a new Pay Czar to make sure no-one is paid more than the politicians deem they are worth.  At least those who are unfortunate to work for companies that have received bailout funds.  And in one case, the formerly sovereign state of South Carolina has actually been forced to take bailout funds, and accept all the strings that come with it.  Consent of the governed is being ignored as the Obama administration hijacks ever more power to the federal government, in direct contravention of the 10th Amendment and the Constitution.  And 62 million Americans can do nothing except marvel at the audacity.

Nationalizing Public Education Comes After Health Care.  Though not yet in great numbers, some who voted for Obama are now being heard to say that they didn't vote for what's happening.  Those confessions illustrate their failure to do due diligence on the candidate of their choice.  His intentions were clearly laid out in his campaign documents and in many of his non-primetime speeches. ... But few voters had time for that.  And the old liberal media had no interest.  So we come to the point where the financial markets, the auto industry and eventually the health care industry will function under the aegis of the federal government.  It's clear from his campaign rhetoric what will come next — America's public education system.

Our New Paymasters.  Not content with controlling the pay of those who took bailout money, the White House now wants a say in executive pay across America.  Is there no end to what this administration wants to control?

For what it's worth...
 Politicians share personality traits with serial killers: Study.  Using his law enforcement experience and data drawn from the FBI's behavioral analysis unit, Jim Kouri has collected a series of personality traits common to a couple of professions.  Kouri, who's a vice president of the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police, has assembled traits such as superficial charm, an exaggerated sense of self-worth, glibness, lying, lack of remorse and manipulation of others.  These traits, Kouri points out in his analysis, are common to psychopathic serial killers.

Can the US Constitution Survive Dictator Obama?  In light of the now almost daily bombardment of the US Constitution by the sitting US Commander in Chief, the question 'is our Constitution still the law of the land?' is increasingly being asked by We-the-People.  The problem of Barack Hussein Obama seeming not to be a natural-born citizen is still an extremely salient issue — an issue that has led Obama to hire a team of lawyers to keep all information on his actual country of birth and all of his college records hidden.  The latest estimate on the fees charged to do so is over $1 Million.

Dear Leader Obama Wants to Seize More Companies.  President Obama is demanding dangerous, sweeping new powers to seize financial services companies.  According to the Los Angeles Times, the proposal expected to be unveiled tomorrow will be "the most significant new regulation of the financial industry since the Great Depression, including a new watchdog agency to look out for consumers' interests."  The plan would give the government "new powers to seize key companies — such as insurance giant American International Group Inc. — whose failure jeopardizes the financial system."  The news report notes that "[c]urrently, the government's authority to seize companies is mostly limited to banks."

Obama to offer broad market overhaul.  President Obama will release details on Wednesday [6/17/2009] of his proposed overhaul of how the government oversees banks and financial companies.  The aim is to patch holes in the country's complex system of financial regulation.

The Editor says...
 Patching holes = tightening his grip.

Regulation Nation.  The White House wants to impose sweeping new rules for the financial industry to prevent another meltdown.  Unfortunately, it was government — not the private sector — that was to blame.

Obama's new financial regs — worse than we imagined.  Hey kids!  Let's create a brand, spanking, new federal bureaucracy to protect consumers of mortgages, credit cards, and other financial instruments from their own stupidity!  That's just one of the nanny state goodie being proposed by the Obama administration to address what they say were the causes of the financial meltdown. ... Surely some loans were made by criminals.  The laws are already in place to deal with them.  But how can you close a "gap" in the stupidity of the borrower?  Never fear, the government is here!

Dodge facts, skip details, govern Chicago-style.  [Obama] does business Chicago-style.  His first political ambition was to be mayor of Chicago, the boss of all he surveyed; he has had to settle for the broader but less complete hegemony of the presidency. ... While promising a politics of mutual respect, he peppers both his speeches and impromptu responses with jabs at his predecessor.  Basking in the adulation of nearly the entire press corps, he whines about his coverage on Fox News.  Those who stand in the way, like the Chrysler secured creditors, are told that their reputations will be destroyed; those who expose wrongdoing by political allies, like the AmeriCorps inspector general, are fired.

Give me, give me!  We as a nation have been moving closer and closer to this moment, baby step-by-baby step, stride-by-stride, and now we are at the leaping stage.  Government has just taken over GM; ABC will present little more than an Obama infomercial from the White House itself on the administration's health care "plan" and the president is even seeking authority to take over other companies.  All the steps along the way, an income tax, Social Security, government hiring quotas, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, government bailouts, government subsidies, government housing and more.

White House War On Science.  Inspectors general are apparently not the only ones to pay for annoying the White House by doing their job.  The 18-member council existed to provide the president with advice on the moral and ethical implications of the rapid advances in science and medical research.  It exists no more.  The council existed to ponder whether we should do something just because we can.  Apparently President Obama wanted not advice but agreement on such matters, particularly with regard to one of the panel's areas of interest, embryonic stem cell research.  So he has fired them.

Obama, the African Colonial.  Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today.  The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa. ... The African colonial politician (ACP) feigns repulsion towards the hegemonic paradigms of Western civilization.  But at the same time, he is completely enamored of the trappings of its aristocracy or elite culture.  The ACP blames and caricatures whitey to no end for all that has gone wrong in the world.  He convinces the masses that various forms of African socialism are the best way for redressing the problems that European colonialism motivated in Africa. ... Barack Obama is all of the above.

Standing Athwart Nationalization.  [Scroll down]  And the Obama proposal definitely deserves more scrutiny.  As I noted previously in the Spectator, the administration's white paper puts no limits on the type of firm the government could seize.  On page 19, the paper defines a "Tier I financial holding company" that would be subject to seizure as "any firm whose combination of size, leverage, and interconnectedness could pose a threat to financial stability if it failed."  This is eminent domain on steroids.  It would be the arbitrary decision of politicians as to what businesses pose a "threat to financial stability."

Creepy, revealing quote from White House staffer.  This has become an emerging theme among both the White House and House leadership:  that progressive members of Congress have an obligation to carry out "the wishes of the President" even when they disagree (now, apparently, it's "stunning" when they defy his dictates).  That was the same subservient mentality that led House Democrats who admitted they opposed the war supplemental spending and/or the foreign bank bailout to nonetheless vote for the bill:  because they President favored it.  The duty of Congress is not to obey the wishes of the President.

None Dare Call It Marxism.  Capitalists don't view profits as evil or the product of greed.  Their opponents — call them Marxists, fascists, socialists, radical liberals or whatever — do.  Which brings us back to Barack Obama.  Both his father, Barack Obama Sr., and his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, were communists.  His church of choice was one of black liberation theology, whose Marxist roots are inarguable.  He associated with far leftists on the "organizing" streets of Chicago, including Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.  Mentorship and associations are one thing, but what have Obama's words and actions revealed about his attitudes toward labor, capital, profits and government control of business and industry?  Well, he said that he would raise capital gains tax rates, even if it reduced revenues, as a matter of fairness.  It's only fair to make everyone poorer if you believe profits are inherently evil.

King Obama's race to a socialist monarchy.  In a mere 130 days into his reign, President Obama has pushed us down the slippery slope of socialism.  Here in the good ole' USA, what we grew up knowing as the land of the free and the home of the brave has abruptly become the mortification of the meek and the manipulated.

If you bypass the Senate, it's not a treaty.
 Obama WH; we don't need no stinking Senate!  Everything Obama does is hasty, rushed and performed under a big, flashing red sign that screams, "emergency; no time to discuss, no time to read, no time for bothersome procedure... just do what I want, and trust me, we'll be fine... three minutes to critical mass..."  I can only imagine the guttural sounds of outrage that would be coming from the press and the left if Dubya had tried this.

Left for Life.  Obama's stance here also speaks volumes about his constitutional philosophy.  In the past, he has spoken of his frustration with our constitution's historical restrictions on government power.  He seems — at least in this case — to believe that a president's power should have priority over the rule of law as embodied in a country's constitution.  This means he has sided with an ambitious leftist president who wants to subvert his country's constitution and prolong his rule.  That isn't a reassuring prospect.

President Obama and the "C" Word.  It's probably a compliment to the President since he likes to quote his Marxist professors, and by his own words and actions is trying his very best to "change" our country from Capitalist to Communist.  I kept repeating, "but Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto, so what's the difference between Marxist and Communist?"  No one had an answer.

Certain fascist affinities.  Both Hitler and Mussolini were national socialists.  They were militant pagans hostile to Christianity, religious orthodoxy and tradition.  They believed in the cult of personality, mass propaganda and the pseudo-spiritual transformational nature of politics:  charismatic leadership as a means of fulfilling people's deepest aspirations. ... They created a corporatist economy that combined big business, big labor and big government.  They emphasized the nationalization of key industries, redistribution of wealth, massive public works projects and trade protectionism. ... Fascism's leftist heritage cannot be denied.  It explains Mr. Obama's relentless consolidation of power.  He is America's most radical president.  At his core, Mr. Obama is a liberal fascist, fusing statism with postmodern multiculturalism.

The Threat of Totalitarianism.  It may sound like I am exaggerating or over-dramatizing the situation, but I think that we have a repetition of Hitler's policy to get total power developing in the United States.  Obama's massive expansion of the federal government will destroy the United States as a world power, make us even more dependent on our enemies, and will ruin a great part of the present population and their descendants.  I believe his real purpose is not to get the United States out of the financial mess but to set the stage for a total takeover.  The liberals controlling Congress are helping him in that task.

Obama's War for Socialism.  Yes, For Socialism.  At some point of embittering clarity, Americans will open their eyes to the glaring significance of the Obama era and see the Power Grab Years for what they are.  Whether this realization comes in time to stave off the eradication of the United States as we thought we knew it, or whether it comes too late, I predict it will surely come.

Obama:  The Presidential Orchid.  Thinking they were dealing with a liberal democrat, few observers envisioned the sharp and careening leftward veer in which Obama has taken the country, steering it toward a socialist destination resembling not only that of the European Union but even, in some respects, of Venezuela as well.  His move toward the effective nationalization of banks, health care, and the auto industry, not to mention his growing share in the mortgage game and the climate racket, is extremely worrisome.

Tincture of Lawlessness.  The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail.  The administration's central activity — the political allocation of wealth and opportunity — is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.

Anger ahead when the fog clears on Obama's power grabs.  As the administration expands its control over the private sector, as it formulates foreign policy in harmony with that of Castro's Cuba, Chavez's Venezuela, and Ortega's Nicaragua, it's no stretch to say that Obama is reshaping the USA in a distinctly socialist mold, something closer to a dictatorial workers' paradise than to cowboy-friendly Reagan Country.

Obama and the CPUSA:  [Scroll down]  (1) Obama's policy agenda and that of the CPUSA are in perfect alignment:  more stimuli; green jobs; global warming; public sector jobs; more regulation and, in fact, restructuring of the entire economy; eventual single-payer health care, with the public option being critical to any immediate plan; union-friendly legislation; cutting defense spending; engaging and normalizing relations with the US's mortal enemies like Hugo Chavez, the Castro brothers and the reigning mullah's of Iran; claiming victory in Iraq as their own.  (2) Obama's political approach is also in perfect harmony with that of the CPUSA's.  The method is gradualism.  Overall, Obama is doing pretty well at achieving CPUSA's goals under the current political circumstances.

The Obama dream turns into nightmare.  As recent Gallup surveys have shown, the United States remains a largely conservative nation, and Obama's brand of high spending, high taxing neo-socialism is increasingly rejected by the American public.  While much of Europe, including Britain, is moving rightwards, America is the only major country in the Western world whose leadership is dramatically moving to the left.  Although he ran for the presidency largely as a centrist, Obama's government is without doubt the most left-wing administration in American history.

Obama-Care, Euthanasia, and The Boiled Frog Syndrome.  Fascists like to use war as a means of implementing their social agendas, but if a war isn't handy, they'll use whatever's available — any ol' crisis will do. ... Such societal upheavals are called "the moral equivalent of war" — first coined by the American philosopher William James.  It is a phrase near and dear to the liberal elite.  Our current "moral equivalent of war" is the economic crisis.  The Obamaites are using the economic crisis for cover, as they attempt to push through legislation that will fundamentally change the nature of the United States.  The Obama-care package that they are trying to railroad through Congress is all about gaining control.

Obama, the remaking of America, the reverie for a police state.  Nationalized health care is only the latest page in the ongoing saga of U.S. president Barak (sic) Obama's attempt to remake/reinvent America into a socialist utopia.

Liberalism and the Dumbing Down of America.  From socializing the country's infrastructure to gutting the Constitution, from cozying up to the world's tyrants to abandoning proven allies, many on the left simply cannot, or will not, open their eyes to the frightening direction in which Obama is taking our country.  There are only so many times that one can use the phrase "drinking the kool aid" or "brainwashed by his rhetoric."  At some point, liberals must be held accountable for their willful ignorance.

The End Game of the Left.  [Scroll down slowly]  But after all, nothing like this could happen in America, right?  Obama's building up of ACORN community organizers and the AmeriCorps civilian army with billions of dollars from the Stimulus couldn't be used against its own citizens, could it?  His statement that "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded (as the military)" doesn't scare you, does it?

Obama Tells Economic Critics to 'Get Out of the Way'.  A fired up President Obama said Thursday [8/6/2009] that he wants his critics to just "get out of the way" so his administration can clean up the economic "mess" that Republicans left for him.  Obama spoke Thursday night at a rally in Virginia for state Sen. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor.

WH sought to weaken law on whistleblowing.  Despite its pledge to better protect federal employees who expose wrongdoing, the Obama administration privately sought to weaken protections for national security whistleblowers under legislation making its way through Congress, according to correspondence obtained by The Washington Times.  E-mails that documented the White House's intervention show the White House counsel's office provided its own drafts of the proposed legislation in late June and mid-July.

Issa tells Rahmbo "this isn't Chicago".  Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, has a message for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel:  "While this type of scare tactic may work In Chicago, it will not work to intimidate me or other Members of the United States Congress."  It's not quite a young Ellot Ness glowering at Al Capone on the steps of a ritzy Chicago hotel, but it may be the next best thing and it could mark a turning point in President Obama's relations with the Congress that is dominated by members of his own party.

Something Fishy.  On Tuesday, August 4, the White House posted a blog entry enjoining Americans to spy on one another, and to report any "disinformation" which might undermine the administration's health-care reform. ... How can an American president think to embrace such open Orwellian thuggishness?  The answer is a noxious combination of (1) liberal moral obtuseness, and (2) the naked lust for power which has characterized the political left since Robespierre.

Obama's Authoritarian Style.  Now, it is perfectly acceptable, if not presidential, for Obama to keep disparaging the Republicans and the previous administration.  But "don't do a lot of talking" crosses a line.  This is America, and they have a constitutional right to talk all they want.  "Get out of the way" is problematic as well.  The Republicans whose terms ended after the last election are out of the way, having left office to make way for Obama, his men and his allies in Congress.  What can the president possibly mean here other than that he demands that they stop participating in politics — again, something that, in America, they have a perfect right to do?

Suppressing dissent:
 White House crackdown on dissent means honeymoon is over.  Americans are finally getting a good look at the man in the White House.  They've been thrilled by his speeches, love his kids, and almost desperately want to believe he was who they hoped he was when they elected him.  It turns out, however, that he simply can't tolerate disagreement.  In his view, those who disagree with him really ought to just shut up.  His critics, after all, are the people responsible for the problems he was elected to solve, dupes and hirelings of those responsible, or dangerous kooks.

Obama and the Politics of Personal Destruction:  Each day brings a new batch of bad polling news for the president. ... Under such circumstances, the only reasonable thing to do is attack the voters and the Republican Party.  That at least seems to be the conclusion reached by the Obama White House, which now is convinced that smearing citizens who bother to come to town hall meetings and painting their opponents as intransigent critics of all reform — or as fruitcakes — are the keys to success.  And from Obama himself, the once presidential candidate who wanted to have civil discourse and get beyond name calling, the message to his critics is:  "get out of the way."  Anyone who disagrees with ObamaCare is now a crank, a stooge, or an obstructionist.

Obama's Nazi Straw man:  An Old Alinsky Trick.  Saul Alinsky, crusader for the downtrodden, darling of the Auxiliary Archbishop of Chicago, was just an underachieving nobody with neither guts nor moral code, who flummoxed a whole lot of willing-to-be-deceived power seekers.  Saul Alinsky didn't invent a single new thing.  His whole methodology, so widely-hailed by whole generations of leftists, could have been devised by any 12 year-old gang-style bully with half a brain and an ounce of charisma.  It's quite disheartening, now, to see the top echelons of the Democratic Party using Alinsky tactics in an attempt to freeze political dialogue, most especially when that dialogue is about the most intimate service we Americans procure for ourselves and our families:  our medical care.

Race-Baiting Group Was Founded By Obama's Communist Green Jobs Czar.  President Obama's controversial green jobs czar — a self-described "rowdy black nationalist" and "communist" — is a co-founder of the same unsavory left-wing pressure group that is urging an advertiser boycott of Glenn Beck's TV show after Beck did several unflattering news packages on the czar.  Not surprisingly, Big Media haven't noticed the connection.

Obama: American Demagogue.  There's a reason Obama's performance approval ratings are heading south in the polls.  He's displaying all the attributes of a bully or an infant who needs a diaper change.  Americans of all political persuasions are uniting in their opposition. ... Neither Obama nor the people with whom he has surrounded himself want the robust economy that made this nation a superpower.  They think wealth should be "redistributed."

U.S. Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy Fears.  The Obama administration is proposing to scale back a long-standing ban on tracking how people use government Internet sites with "cookies" and other technologies, raising alarms among privacy groups.

President of Some of the People.  The president's antics are an affront to the office and reduce him to nothing more than a bellicose, sleazy union boss who works only to advance the interests of his select members.  And, sadly, just as Democraticbacked unions bankrupted Chrysler and GM, Obama and his union minions will, with their health care plan, end up bankrupting the nation.

Will America's bucking bronco finally be broken?  You don't break a young bronco just by beating it.  You break it by making it feel helpless — confining it in a small corral, isolating it from the herd, running it around and around on a short rope... That's the real motivation behind "Universal Healthcare" Obama is trying to sell us Euro-socialism, which means bribing and intimidating people with their own tax money and corralling everyone with an endless sea of laws and regulations, until they know they can never fight City Hall.

Government thuggishness:  Government coercion is becoming standard operating procedure in the nation's capital.  The White House threatened financial institutions with ruin by selectively enforcing regulations unless they agreed to take government bailout money.  Similar threats were used to force financial institutions to let the government own part of their stock.  Those same institutions were forced to take losses on the bonds they held in General Motors and Chrysler.  It was only a matter of time until similar intimidating behavior was employed in the health care debate.

The Tin Ears of the Bully-in-Chief and his Comrades in Arms.  Americans need to make it very clear to the Democrats running this country that Obama's rise to become the leader of the free world was not the equivalent of a mandate to retract individual choice on personal matters such as what car to drive, food to eat, or healthcare to purchase.  The litany of offensive measures pouring out of the Obama administration is so lengthy that it is difficult to know where to begin.

Voight:  Is Obama creating a civil war in America?  "We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms.  We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true.  If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default.  This great America will become a paralyzed nation."

A vulgar Marxist twice over.  We've written about Obama administration green jobs commissar Van Jones as a Communist in the White House. ... Now courtesy of Breitbart.tv and Naked Emperor News we have Jones explaining the deep meaning of the Obama administration's devotion to "green jobs."  The goal of green jobs is complete revolution step by step away from gray capitalism until the forces of oppression are overcome.

No Compromise, No Retreat, No Surrender.  The key to stopping Obama's far-left agenda is to understand where his heart is.  If politicians let their guard down and compromise, the Obama steamroller will regain its momentum and forge ahead to gobble up our individual liberties.  Obama's heart is and always has been on the farthest reaches of the left wing of politics.  His driving ambition is to force fundamental change on America.  That should go without saying, but it must be repeated...

Broun warns of dictatorship.  U.S. Rep. Paul Broun is again raising the specter of Democrats turning the United States into a totalitarian state.  Broun, R-Athens, apparently has not changed his belief that President Obama may be a fascist since he made similar remarks in Augusta in November and then in an Associated Press interview.

Democrats' despicable duplicity:  Democrats went berserk over what they called President Bush's "power grab," but are silent in the face of President Obama's massive consolidation of power.  The duplicity here is despicable.  No president has ever abused the power of the presidency as has Barack Obama.

Obama's UN Gambit:  King of the Universe and the Polls.  Looking for a quick and easy boost in the polls, President Obama has decided to go to the one place where merit bears no relationship to adulation:  the United Nations.  On September 24, the president will take the unprecedented step of presiding over a meeting of the UN Security Council.  No American president has ever attempted to acquire the image of King of the Universe by officiating at a meeting of the UN's highest body.

Is Obama's "Czar System" grounds for impeachment?  Barack Obama's Czar System ... is directly an affair of state and seemingly an end run around the Separation of Powers.  According to an article recently published at Examiner.com by Patrick McMahon, there are now thirty-one of these czars, covering areas from terrorism to domestic violence.  Congress has not vetted a single one of them, as far as I know.  Indeed, with only a couple of exceptions (Dennis Ross, etc.), we know who few of them are.

Obama's Punk Presidency Kicks Into High Gear.  It's clear that our punk president and his gangster government are bent on deciding, on their own and in as many areas as possible, who gets rewarded and who gets punished.  Whatever you want to call it, this behavior is not characteristic of a representative government.

Obama Heeds Dictator Handbook With School Speech.  President Barack Obama cannot possibly intend to resemble an aspiring dictator.  Somehow, he keeps doing so. ... If you pursue a radical left-wing agenda, you will inevitably arouse fear of fascism.  Obama's big mistake has been to ignore this dynamic and the fears that his own powerful charisma will inflame in his opponents.

Brainwashing you can believe in.  History shows that dictators, despots and rulers have been using brainwashing techniques for thousands of years.  They used brainwashing techniques to try and maintain power, control populations, and ultimately, change and transform the behaviors and beliefs of select groups of people and even entire societies.

Why Obama Could Not Stage a Coup:  [Scroll down]  If Obama attempted an effective seizure of power and provoked a real national revolution, the repercussions for Democrats and the left in a successful counter-revolution could lead to a second American revolution in which vast amounts of political power could be explicitly returned to the states, the role of government in our lives precisely defined, the semi-divine status of judges overthrown, and power returned to the people.  Could the leftist choke hold on the media prevent a new revolution?  Well, the left has tried to stop the Tea Party movement and the Town Hall protests with no success at all.

Obama's Titanic arrogance and the folly of ignoring the masses on 9/12.  Obama said on his personal website that any opponents to his Healthcare Plan were "Right Wing Domestic Terrorists."  That is dangerous language speaking to his chilling mindset when a Obama views all peaceful opposition as criminal behavior.  If that isn't evidence of the man's terrible totalitarian worldview, I don't know what is.

The Perestroika Deception.  The Cold War is over and Communism is a non-issue for most Americans.  Communism is such a non-issue that Communist plans to undermine American society have proceeded for years virtually undetected and unhindered.  Recent events have aided this process, with President Obama's aggressive drive toward Socialism fitting neatly into decades of Communist strategy.

Czar wants parallel government broadcasting system.  President Obama's diversity Czar at the Federal Communications Commission proposes adding a vast public broadcasting system to the growing list of Obama's parallel institutions.  Mark Lloyd ... proposes what would become a huge federal broadcasting system and yet another Obama parallel institution.  It would join the "civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the U.S. military that candidate Obama proposed, and the cadre of Czar advisors that parallels the Cabinet Secretaries.

Sympathy for the Devil.  How concerned should we be about Obama?  Is he a potential dictator with a weird cult following who could destroy this country?  To put it more bluntly, does Obama have the potential for inflicting evil on us?  Or, if he's a puppet, are the ones holding the strings malevolent?

The Thin, Grey Line.  Over half of the commercial banks doing business in 1984 have either been absorbed by bigger banks, or are otherwise out of business.  Who — or, what — might want the number of independent American commercial banks to be reduced by such a substantial number? ... Before nationalized health care can be successfully implemented, the financial sector must first be compact and easy to control.

Compulsory Education is Overrated, Yet Obama Wants to Make the Compulsion Complete.  A look at the White House education web page indicates Obama plans to continue the leftist obsession with precisely equal educational outcomes, and create cradle-to-grave educational entitlements and increased pre-school conditioning.

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 How to take down a great power.  No longer do we consider our leaders to be gods among men.  No longer do we hand them unearned and meretricious awards and prizes.  We don't turn on and destroy members of previous administrations.  We don't tolerate incompetent and corrupt sycophants in high office.  We've learned to recognize disorders such as pathological narcissism and assure that the victims do not gain high office.

Will Obama bypass Congress on climate rules?  If Congress won't get the job done on climate change, President Obama has a way to do it himself.  But is he strong-arming the legislative branch?  It certainly looks that way as a series of new environmental regulations, released over the past two weeks by the EPA, are putting legislators on notice and executives on edge.

Barack's Enemies List.  Obama's perceived enemies are all those who have the temerity not to roll over for his extreme agenda.  They all must be demonized, marginalized and silenced by a president who has turned the Oval Office into a glorified street organizing headquarters to attack his opponents.  Indeed, this self-described uniter is the most divisive president in memory, and his uncontrollable ego can't countenance legitimate dissent.

This Isn't Change, It's Treason.  Some, including myself, have described what Obama and his Socialists are up to as a bloodless coup.  But, after further evaluation of what's really going on behind the scenes in Washington, I have come to an even more alarming conclusion:  What they are doing is committing legislative jihad.

Dictator Obama and Reaching the Point of No Return.  As very few of our Congressional elected officials — Democrats AND Republicans — are taking any actions or exhibiting any desire to stop the Obama Dictatorship and We-the-People are now being completely left out of any and all legislation that directly affects us, I can only surmise that we as the Nation of the United states of America may have reached the point of no return in our rapidly forced descent into totalitarianism.

Obama abuses faith office to promote his radical agenda.  It seems that for Obama every ally of America is expendable, and every government agency and office is a political tool to be manipulated to radicalize Americans. ... We should all be concerned that Barack Obama sees every agency (whether the census board, the National Endowment of the Arts, the Federal Communications Commission, The Federal Election Commission) as a tool to promote his radical agenda.  We have not seen anything yet.

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 Stem cell freeze.  [Scroll down]  The lawsuit alleges that NIH violated administrative rules this year as it rushed to fulfill President Obama's executive order to write new guidelines for ESC funding.  The agency allowed only 34 days for the public to offer input on its proposed guidelines, and it appears to have ignored comments (about 30,000 out of 49,000) that questioned the usefulness of the research on ethical or scientific grounds.  "They had no interest in listening to the public," said Casey.  Federal attorneys in their initial response to the plaintiffs' claims said that NIH didn't have to follow administrative law to the letter because it was acting on orders from the president.  "That is a startling claim of executive power.  Simply amazing," said Thomas Hungar, Casey's colleague at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

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 Read that again.  Attorneys for the NIH say it's okay to circumvent the law, because Obama gives his permission.  That is a sure sign of dictatorship.

Grassley Warns HHS Web Site May Be 'Propaganda'.  Senate Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that a Department of Health and Human Services Web site that urges visitors to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his health care reform plan may violate rules against government-funded propaganda.

Mass media and private liberty.  [Scroll down]  Two separate issues should catch our attention.  First, of course, nearly all of the institutions of information, education, and entertainment are aligned like lockstep little soldiers in the legions of Obama.  Young children in public schools sing the praises of Obama.  College professors enforce the party line of the left in far too many classrooms.

Dangerous Zanies.  Allow me a prediction.  This administration is going to turn out more zanies than the past two Democratic administrations combined.  Yet — and here is the ominous part — they are going to present a real threat to liberties that Americans take for granted, particularly freedom of speech.

An Obama government? Congress do your job!  People are talking about "Wait until 2010!"  But do they realize that it is not until the end of that year and that by then America won't even be recognizable.  Who said the President has authority to run our lives as if we were the children?

White House:  Policy 'czars' won't testify.  The White House has told Congress it will reject calls for many of President Obama's policy czars to testify before Congress — a decision senators said goes against the president's promises of transparency and openness and treads on Congress' constitutional mandate to investigate the administration's actions.

Our New Paymasters.  In the annals of what used to be known as American capitalism, yesterday [10/22/2009] will go down as a sorry day:  The Treasury and Federal Reserve announced wage controls on private American companies.  So once again our politicians are blaming bankers, rather than addressing the incentives the politicians themselves created for bankers to take excessive risks.

Obama's Enemies List.  The Obama White House is showing a fondness for intimidation tactics that might work well in the wards of Chicago but that don't have a place in the most important and revered political institution in America.  To see these impulses manifest themselves so early in Obama's presidency, and given all that he has said to the contrary, is rather startling.

America's Obama Obsession.  [Scroll down slowly]  In just nine months the phrase "Chicago style" has gone from something old-time that evokes Al Capone or Mayor Daley to something very real, contemporary, and scary — as David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett, and others try to strong-arm the opposition, demonize the media, and manipulate government largesse to either penalize or reward recipients on the basis of their degree of support for Obama.

Not socialism; Gangsterism.  Arguments go back and forth about whether or not the Obama administration is really "socialist" in the sense that they wish to control the means of production, takeover all businesses, and put the "people" (unions) in charge.  Wherever you come down on this issue, there is no denying the straight line from Obama's Chicago roots and ways of getting things done to the White House. ... The Obama Mob has come down like a ton of bricks on numerous other targets, using tactics not seen since the Nixon administration — and some that Nixon would never have dared to try.

Disaster in the Making.  The desire of many Americans for a "post-racial" society is well-founded, though the belief that Barack Obama would move in that direction was extremely ill-advised, given the history of his actions and associations.  This is a president on a mission to remake American society in every aspect, by whatever means are necessary and available.  That requires taking all kinds of decisions out of the hands of ordinary Americans and transferring them to Washington elites — and ultimately the number one elite, Barack Obama himself.

Obama's Real Enemies List.  Much has been made by the political left of Richard Nixon's infamous enemies list.  The reality is most of those named were people who did not receive presidential Christmas cards or White House reception invitations.  In contrast, Barack Obama has a real enemies list the peace prize-winner and his proxies have attacked during the past year, including the minority of news outlets that do not worship the media's latest false idol.

Dismantling America.  President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.  We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies.  What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him?  It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.

Dismantling America: Part II.  The memory of that long-ago episode has come back more than once while observing both the actions of the Obama administration and the fierce reactions of its supporters to any questioning or criticism.  Almost never do these reactions include factual or logical arguments against the administration's critics.  Instead, there is indignation, accusations of bad faith and even charges of racism.  Here too, it seems as if so many people have invested so much hope and trust in Barack Obama that it is intolerable that anyone should come along and stir up any doubts that could threaten their house of cards.

Silencing Voices for School Choice.  President Obama isn't taking kindly to a television ad that criticizes his opposition to a popular scholarship program for poor children, and his administration wants the ad pulled.  Former D.C. Councilmember Kevin Chavous of D.C. Children First said October 16 that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder had recently approached him and told him to kill the ad.

Which part of judge's decision does Obama White House not understand?  Last year, federal Judge Royce Lambert ruled that the Executive Office of the President (EOP) is covered under the Privacy Act. ... So this year, the Obama White House comes back in the same case and asks Lambert to grant a motion for summary dismissal, arguing that "the White House is not an agency under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and it necessarily follows that it is not an agency subject to the Privacy Act."  Amazing, but true.

Obama Administration Tells Federal Court Privacy Act Does Not Apply to White House.  "What the Obama administration is effectively saying here is that if the White House decides to illegally compile FBI files and violate your privacy rights, tough luck," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.  "It is disturbing that the Obama administration has taken the legal position that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House and the Clinton FBI files scandal was not a scandal.

Will We Lose It All?  [Scroll down]  This is how I feel:  we are facing a busybody and tyrant in one, with the mighty machine of government at his command.  Think of this article as a gentle slap on the back of the head to those of you who still say it can't happen here.  We have been lied to continuously, with great eloquence.  The gatekeepers have abandoned their posts and taken sides.  The traditional means by which we have held our leaders to account have been overturned and replaced with a politburo-style stamp.  It's not enough for them to tell us what to do; they want to decide our thoughts for us, too.

Hello, My Name Is...  When millions of people surrender their hearts and minds to one person, the result can be catastrophic.  This is what happened in Germany with Hitler, in China with Mao, in the Soviet Union with Stalin, in Cuba with Castro, in Iran with Khomeini, and so on and so forth.  Today, we think these men were monsters, but that was not what their millions of worshipers thought.  Those people loved them.  Dictators can't dictate unless people are willing to submit.

Video:  Camp FEMA — The Obama Youth Army!


The Swine Flu Panic

Big Government liberals need to maintain a steady stream of crises in order to be perceived as solving problems.  The swine flu is not extraordinary -- the low-level panic stirred up by the White House and the news media make it appear far worse than it is.

Obama declares swine flu a national emergency.  President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.

Things to watch for during a "Declared National Emergency".  I challenge you to look at the Executive Orders that have been signed over the last 30 years and are still in place.  Also carefully read the provisions of the Violent Crime Control Act. ... You will see that with the Executive Orders already in place, combined with the provisions of the Violent Crime Control Act, with the stroke of a pen Obama can suspend the Constitution, the Judiciary, Elections and in effect declare himself president for life.

No Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccinations.  Surely the pharmaceutical companies must be churning out their millions — ultimately billions — of vaccines, under only the most stringent of conditions.  And obviously, these vaccines must have been cleared by the FDA as being harmless to humans.  Correct?  I mean, the pharmaceutical companies stand to be slammed with innumerable lawsuits if they screw up — right?  Wrong on all counts.

No Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccinations II.  Aside from the "pandemic" created by 2009 H1N1, there are the more troubling questions surrounding the vaccines purportedly designed to fight it.  Why the fake pandemic, and the mad rush to get the whole world inoculated?"  If you are familiar with the Progressive's historic affinity for population control, then some deeply disturbing answers arise.  Add to the mix, the misanthropic attitudes of the Global elitists and Green Fascists, and you come up with a chilling scenario.

Obama Administration's Flu Fearmongering.  "In keeping with the administration's proactive approach" to swine flu, the White House has announced, President Obama on Saturday [10/24/2009] declared the disease "a national emergency."  It's the second such declaration, with the first in late April. ... But panic is what this pandemic is all about it.  It's driven by a perpetual motion machine of journalists writing about scared people, thereby creating more scared people to write about.  And clearly the Obama Administration stoked it with that first health emergency declaration and with the President's Council report.

Swine Flu Panic in Perspective.  Patients are coming to the office [of Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D.] fearful of "Swine Flu," with symptoms ranging from a slight sniffle to overt pneumonia.  After seeing hundreds of cases of "flu" over the past several months and testing all of those who fit the clinical picture of influenza, I have confirmed only three genuine cases of H1N1.  Two of these cases were in physicians and one was in a nurse.  All of the other cases turned out to be allergies, typical viral or bacterial infections, or the seasonal flu.


Oath Keepers:  Just say no!

Declaration Of Orders We Will Not Obey.  Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, peace officers, fire-fighters, and veterans who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic ... and meant it.

Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States.  Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution.  More specifically, the group's members, which number in the thousands, pledge to disobey orders they deem unlawful, including directives to disarm the American people and to blockade American cities.

Alienated and Radicalized.  In the brief age of Obama, we have had "truthers," "birthers," Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters.  Comes now, the "Oath Keepers."  And who might they be? ... Formed in March, they are ex-military and police who repledge themselves to defend the Constitution, even if it means disobeying orders.  If the U.S. government ordered law enforcement agencies to violate Second Amendment rights by disarming the people, Oath Keepers will not obey.

Media discovering Oath Keepers.  We've talked about Oath Keepers many times here on Gun Rights Examiner.  Now the "mainstream media" is starting to take notice of them.  And some are taking their cues from fabricated and hysterical Southern Poverty Law Center cries of "Witch!"...I mean "Hate group!"

Oath Keepers founder plays 'Hardball'.  As we discussed yesterday, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews.  Colleague Kurt Hofmann, the St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner also asked "How is a vow to uphold the Constitution a 'threat'?"  Matthews and his special gang-up guest, Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law center did their best to make it appear that it is.

Oath Keepers aim to curb federal power.  With a bushy red beard, impish grin and sandals, Elias Alias doesn't look like a rightwing extremist.  "I am interested in personal freedom," he said.  Alias is working to make Montana the first state in the nation to create Oath Keepers chapters in every county.

Oath Keepers organizer sees need to sound an alarm.  Rand Cardwell drums up support for an antigovernment group whose views illustrate the disconnect that has come to define popular political discourse in President Obama's first tumultuous year.

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 Oath Keepers doesn't appear to me to be an "antigovernment group".  It appears to be a group of people who are determined to preserve the Constitution.  Inasmuch as the federal government engages in all kinds of activities that the Constitution does not authorize (e.g., social security, meddling in education, exploration of other planets), it may be a little late to start complaining about the government running amok, but at least these people are not going to facilitate the government's efforts to disarm the American people -- or worse.


The return of the Snitch on Your Neighbor program:

The old version of "Snitch on Your Neighbor" was discussed here.  The federal government got really brave in the first few months after the attacks of September 11, 2001, especially since the general public was "alarmed, and hence clamoring to be led to safety."  (Interesting phrase.  Look it up.)  In that atmosphere, the public gladly danced on a lot of slippery slopes that it would have otherwise avoided.  For example, the very sudden appearance and congressional approval of the so-called Patriot Act.

This year, however, the White House isn't concerned about packs of homicidal Muslims at the major airports.  No, the real danger now is the possibility that the teeming masses won't cooperate quietly as socialized medicine is foisted upon them.  That's what the increasingly rowdy "town hall" meetings are all about.


W.H. collects Web users' data without notice.  The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.

Critics Accuse White House of Playing 'Big Brother' in Health Care Debate.  A new White House tactic to control the message on health care reform has critics accusing the Obama administration of playing "Big Brother" and threatening the privacy of average Americans.  "No one expects that when they exercise their First Amendment rights to ask questions or complain about a proposed government program that they're going to be listed on a database in the White House," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told FOX News Thursday [8/6/2009], saying the White House effort raises serious privacy concerns.  "You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to see the potential for serious abuse."

Cornyn worried White House collecting personal data.  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) is worried that the White House will use a new media outreach program to collect the personal data of its political opponents.  Yesterday [8/4/2009], the White House asked supporters to forward "fishy" claims or rumors about the President's healthcare plan to a White House email address as a way to respond to "disinformation."  Cornyn says this practice would let the White House collect personal information about people who oppose the President.

Sen. Cornyn Sends Letter To President Obama About "Fishy" Activities Program.  In a letter to President Obama, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, expressed serious concern about the White House's new program requesting Americans to forward email chains and other communications opposing the President's health care policies.  Sen. Cornyn is seeking assurances that the program is being carried out in a manner consistent with the First Amendment and America's tradition of free speech and public discourse.

'Nobody Is Collecting Names'
 White House Responds to Charge It's Monitoring Speech of Health Care Reform Opponents.  As ABC News' Rick Klein was first to report, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, was quite taken aback by White House Director of New Media Macon Phillips's request that if citizens "get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy," they "send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."  In a White House blog, Phillips said he was trying to stem the flow of "disinformation"...

Obama's dissident database could be secret — and permanent.  The White House request that members of the public report anyone who is spreading "disinformation" about the proposed national health care makeover could lead to a White House database of political opponents that will be both secret and permanent, according to Republican lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee who are examining the plan's possible implementation.

Getting In Their Faces For A Change.  The candidate who told his supporters "to argue with them and get in their face" now finds the shoe on the other foot.  So they're taking names and encouraging you to turn in your neighbors.

Obama's Snitch on Your Neighbor Program:  Barack Obama has requested his supporters report on any civilians who dissent from his policies. ... There has never been an American president who has advocated turning in your neighbors for holding a different policy view.  But this is just the first step in Obama's plan to create a civilian defense force comparable to the military.

Snitch On Your Neighbor!  I wish I was making this up but my mind does not work this way.  President Barry Obama wants to know if anyone is opposing Obamacare publicly or even in causal conversation.  To make sure that dis-information about Obamacare continues to sweep the country, the Obama White House has instituted the Snitch on your Neighbor program.  Yes, you can now snitch on you friends, family, and co-workers who oppose giving up private insurance for Government-run health care.

Who's Behind the Internet Snitch Brigade?  Czardom has its privileges.  This week, President Obama's health care overlord, Nancy DeParle, launched a taxpayer-funded initiative to recruit an Internet Snitch Brigade that will combat "disinformation about health insurance reform."  As the White House explained in a special online bulletin:  "These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e-mails or through casual conversation.  Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help."

The Community is Organizing Against Obama Socialized Medicine.  The Organizer-n-Chief is so desperate to silence any and all debate on his plan to nationalize 1/7th of the US economy by confiscating control of the US health and insurance industry, that he has established a stool pigeon hot line on the White House web site, calling for his rat fink minions to narc out their neighbors if they dare to speak out against ObamaCare.

The Obama Civilian Police Are Ignoring the Constitution.  The First Amendment prohibits Congress from abridging the freedom of speech.  The reason the Amendment refers to speech as "the" freedom of speech is a recognition by the Framers that the right to speak freely precedes the existence of the U.S. as a country. ... The right to speak freely does not come from the government, which the Big Government folks claim; it is an indelible aspect of our humanity.  The Supreme Court has endorsed the concept of the natural, as opposed to governmental, origins of this right, and hence, even though the First Amendment only prohibits "Congress" from abridging the freedom of speech, the Court has ruled that no one in any government — from a school janitor to a state governor, from a board of education to a local cop, from the courts to the Congress to the President — may interfere with speech.

White House Move to Collect 'Fishy' Info May Be Illegal, Critics Say.  The White House strategy of turning supporters into snitches when they see "fishy" information about the health care debate may run afoul of the law, legal experts say.  "The White House is in bit of a conundrum because of this privacy statute that prohibits the White House from collecting data and storing it on people who disagree with it," Judge Andrew Napolitano, a FOX News analyst, said Friday [8/7/2009].  "There's also a statute that requires the White House to retain all communications that it receives.  It can't try to rewrite history by pretending it didn't receive anything," he said.

Welcome to Gestapo-care.  So what has the White House told supporters to do when you run across those who spread "disinformation" about the new attempt by the Obama administration to install the anti-competitive practices of a "public option" into a federalized universal health care initiative?  Report them.  Whether its communicated through e-mail, websites, blogs, or even casual conversation the executive branch of the federal government is asking you to make them aware of this "disinformation" because they can't keep track of all of the dissenters themselves.

Flashback to last year:
 The First Obama Misinformation Suppression Program.  Last September, in the midst of the general election campaign, two St. Louis city and county attorneys, and a local sheriff, made news with the first Obama misinformation suppression program.  Remember when this story broke last September?

New Rules for Radicals.  If you're a virtuous and patriotic American, you may find this column either offensive or misleading.  If so, please forward it to White House authorities at the Department of Fishy Activity.  (E-mail the good people at flag@whitehouse.gov.)  As many of you have heard, the White House now requests that the public tattle on those of us spreading "fishy" "disinformation" regarding Washington's proposed takeover of your health care.  This step, naturally, is for our own good.

Gibbs doublespeak on White House e-mails.  Earlier this week, the White House asked people to forward "fishy" emails they receive that may be spreading misinformation about health-care reform to flag@whitehouse.gov.  In response, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) wrote in a letter to President Obama that it's "inevitable that the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported to the White House.  You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection program."

Obama's pattern of intolerance toward dissent.  Linda Douglass, communications director for Obama's Office of Health Reform, said her job includes collecting "disinformation" about health care, and the White House asked Americans, "If you get an e-mail or see something on the Web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."  What counts as "fishy"?  Is it only the e-mails falsely claiming "reform" mandates euthanasia, or is Obama also counting as "disinformation" the videos displaying his past advocacy of a single-payer plan and arguments that the plan amounts to taxpayer funding of abortions?

Conformity is now the new dissent.  [Scroll down slowly]  So, on Monday [8/3/2009], the official White House Web site drew attention to the alarming amount of "disinformation about health insurance reform."  "These rumors often travel just below the surface," warned Macon Phillips, Chief Commissar of the Hopenstasi ...whoops, I mean White House Director of New Media, "via chain emails or through casual conversation."  "Casual conversation," eh?  Why can't these "dissenters" just be like normal people and read off the teleprompter?  "Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help," continued Commissar Phillips.

My Fishy Letter of Encouragement for the Town Hall Rebels.  How the heck do you hacks think you got into the White House in the first place?  How did you arrive at that place of power where you could, possibly irrevocably, dismantle our nation?  I'll tell you how:  It was by being dissident, getting vocal, organizing, going viral ... and abracadabra, poof, you socialists won.  I believe it was Obama himself who said one should sharpen one's elbows and get in people's faces.  Yep, I'm pretty sure it was. ... What's good for the commie goose is good for the conservative gander.

White House call to 'flag' dissent loathsome.  Normally, I'm not one to get fired up about political issues, but this White House crowd is getting to be more than a little overbearing.  The paragraph [cited in this article] comes from an Aug. 4 entry on the White House blog. ... When I read it, I blew a gasket.  The White House, basically, is asking me and you to rat out anyone who disagrees with the Obama version of the "truth" on health reform.

O's Silent Majority.  Like Richard Nixon, Barack Obama wants to govern on the strength of a silent majority, although with a twist.  Obama wants the majority that opposes or questions his policies to stay silent.

Obama's Dissident Database:  The White House has asked that members of the public report to them anyone who is spreading "disinformation" about ObamaCare. ... The problem is that the White House is not covered by the Freedom of Information Act, which means that any names or information turned in would not have to be released to any member of the public who made a request, media included.  Furthermore, Senate Judiciary Committee attorneys studying the situation say that the White House doesn't appear to be covered by the Privacy Act either, which ordinarily prohibits government agencies from keeping records "describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained."

Sen. Cornyn Submits "Fishy" Claims To The White House.  "The question is not what the White House is doing, but how and why.  How are they purging names and email addresses from this account to protect privacy?  Why do they need the forwarded emails, names, and 'casual conversations' sent to them instead of just the arguments that they want to rebut?"  In addition, Sen. Cornyn is submitting a list of "fishy" claims he has heard in some not-so "casual conversations" in an effort to ensure the White House's program is successful.

Fishy.  I send in two emails to flag@whitehouse.gov.  I figure I'm already on their "list." ... I'm wondering what will happen to the people on "the list."  Audit?  Jail?  Death?  I'm starting to feel exactly the same as the Soviets and the Cubans.  I now understand perfectly why they risked their lives heading to Miami on rafts.  The fear is palpable.  The invisible oppression of being watched.  The White House is trying to intimidate my fellow Americans from speaking out, from asking questions about this Socialized Medicine.

Don't Fret Your 'Fishy' Complaints About Health Care Reform.  Several commenters, noting the chilling effect a database of opponents of the White House might have, suggested that a suit might be brought for violation of the Privacy Act of 1974, a post-Nixon statute that prohibits federal agencies from maintaining records on citizens who are exercising their free speech rights to dissent from government policy (5 U.S.C. § 552).

Does Linda Douglass know about this?  Does Linda Douglass know that Obama is likening his proposed government plan to the United States Postal Service?  Is Obama aware that the USPS has made itself a long-time laughingstock of poor service, inefficiency and waste?  Obama's sounds like the kind of fishy mockery that should be reported to Douglass via the official flag@whitehouse.gov email address and returned to sender.

Why Create an 'Enemies List' When There Are Already Campaign Finance Laws?  Last week, the debate about health care reform was transformed into one about free speech — specifically, whether the Obama administration is trying to chill the speech of its critics by creating an "enemies list."  The ruckus started when the White House called on its supporters to help it combat what it calls "disinformation" about its health care agenda that is being propagated through emails, websites, and "casual conversation."

All I Want for Christmas Is to Make Obama's Enemies List.  I was too young and too obscure to make Richard Nixon's enemies list back in the day. ... [But] you can imagine my delight when I heard that President Obama is going to be starting an enemies list of his own.  This time, I am absolutely determined to make the grade.  Nothing will stand in my way.  Come hell or high water, I am going to get my name on that list if I have to camp out in front of the office of Linda Douglass, communications director for the White House Office of Health Reform, until she slaps my moniker on that list just to get rid of me.

An Enemies List to Which we Should Aspire:  President Obama, who remains so critical of former President George W. Bush's foreign policy that he still hasn't ruled out prosecuting Bush officials for war crimes, began stifling criticism of his own policies through the compilation of an enemies list last week.  That's right:  In Nixon-like fashion, Obama is using the power of his office to compile information on private citizens "for political purposes."

The Audacity of Dissent.  Given his background, one might expect President Obama to take seriously this vigorous grassroots reaction to his policies.  Instead, aided by Congressional Democrats, the White House has taken to painting this mass outpouring of civic discontent as a fringe phenomenon — driven by extremists, un-American in its aims, and requiring careful monitoring so that any "fishy" concerns andcriticisms about the administration's health care plans are reported to the proper (read: government) channels.

More Government Does Not Equal 'Reform'.  [Scroll down slowly]  Obama loyalists were also asked to forward to the White House information regarding health care that "seems fishy."  Which means what?  And what are the authorities going to do with the information they gather?  Nobody knows.  Some sources hold the request to be illegal.  Senator John Cornyn penned a masterful response arguing, "As Congress debates health care reform and other critical policy matters, citizen engagement must not be chilled by fear of government monitoring the exercise of free speech rights."

White House disables e-tip box.  Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box — flag@whitehouse.gov — that was set up to receive information on "fishy" claims about President Barack Obama's health plan.

Issa wants answers from White House on e-mails.  The ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants more answers from the White House about its e-mail policies.  In a letter to White House counsel Greg Craig, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Monday [8/17/2009] raised questions about the White House's request for supporters to forward "fishy claims" about healthcare.

White House Character:  [Scroll down]  Obama, who promised to make the public part of the legislative process, has instead tried to rush hundreds of pages of health care reform through the Democrat Congress.  When details began to leak out, and Americans protested, Obama's administration asked his supporters to report anyone who opposed his agenda to the White House.  He allowed Democrats in Congress to demonize his critics as un-American, subversive, and dangerous.

Somewhat related:
 Police chiefs endorse anti-terror community watch.  A store clerk's curiosity about why Najibullah Zazi was buying large quantities of beauty supply products indicated that something about the transaction wasn't quite right — and it's an example of the kind of citizen vigilance that can combat terror, a police commander said Saturday [10/3/2009].

The Editor says...
 There is very little difference between vigilance and vigilantes.

Rats!  City to Pay for Informing on Tax Cheats.  Chicago and Cook County residents aren't the only ones about to get shocking tax news; the city is debuting a "tax whistle-blower" plan that could turn neighbor against neighbor in Chicago's business community.

Chicago Seeking Tax Snitches.  In addition to double-digit tax increases, the City of Chicago is moving forward with a plan to pay "whistleblowers" for turning in tax dodgers to city hall.  According to news reports, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's 2010 budget includes a novel provision to encourage residents to report one another to the authorities for failure to fully comply with city tax rules.  It is known as the "Tax Whistleblower Program."



When you send your email address to the White House, you get...  Spam!

White House Acknowledges Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Care.  The White House for the first time Sunday [8/16/2009] somewhat acknowledged that people across the country received unsolicited e-mails last week on health care from the administration, suggesting the problem on third-party groups it claimed placed the recipients' names on the distribution list.  In a written statement released exclusively to FOX News, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said the White House hopes those who received the e-mails without signing up for them were not "inconvenienced" by the messages.

The Editor says...
 The White House explanation was, in so many words, that their web site was hacked, and some malicious third party loaded up the White House computer with email addresses.  It's the old "somebody else did it" excuse.  If the White House story is true, then the people in charge of the White House web site are incompetent.  If the story is not true, then the White House is being run by liars.  Take your pick:  they are incompetent or they are dishonest.  [See update below.]

White House Blames E-Mail Controversy on 'Sinister Conspiracy Theories' .  The White House is blaming the controversy over its Web site and mass e-mails on viral rumors, "fear-mongering" and "sinister conspiracy theories" even as it acknowledges problems with its online practices.  After confirming to FOX News over the weekend that third-party groups could be responsible for official White House e-mails that have been sent to people who never signed up for them, President Obama's new media director took to the official White House blog to "clear up" the confusion.

Update:
 Just as I suspected.  After they were caught spamming, they had to admit it.

Spammer in Chief.  Al Gore might have taken the initiative in creating the Internet, but no one seems to have bothered to teach basic netiquette to Barack Obama and his White House staff.  As they have grown more desperate in their attempts to remake America's medical system in the image of the post office, they have resorted to increasingly obnoxious email tactics.

White House Reveals Identity of Firm That Sent Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Reform.  The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama's health care plan without signing up for them, FOX News has learned.  The company, Govdelivery, describes itself as the world's leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions and says its e-mail service provides a fully-automated on-demand public communication system.


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Obama fraternizes quite cordially (and sympathizes) with dictators in other countries

Why is Obama so friendly with third-world dictators?  Does he see them as role models?

Obama, Dictators and democrats.  In his Inaugural Address, President Obama spoke directly to the world's rogue nations.  "[W]e will extend a hand," he said, "if you are willing to unclench your fist."  Question:  How many rogue nations can you hold in one hand?  Let's try to count.

Can We Get Beyond Race?  Something here is not quite right.  Our president ran on a platform of racial transcendence, but he now heads south to talk race ... with some leaders who have explicitly employed racially charged stereotypes, such as Chavez's use of "Go to Hell, Gringos," or Brazil's president Lula's reference to "white blue-eyed" bankers who caused the financial meltdown.

Chavez Handshake May Cost U.S. Billions.  How much will President Obama's handshake with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez cost the U.S.?  Despite Chavez' bombastic rhetoric about his socialist revolution, the reality is that Venezuela is going broke. ... What has also been absent from press coverage is any perspective on just how our relations with Venezuela became so frosty in the first place.  The implication is that George W. was just a big old grump and couldn't get along with his neighbors.

Yukking it up with Daniel Ortega, &c..  Many of Obama's foreign-policy touches have been sickening — morally sickening.  The Arabiya interview.  The New Year's greeting.  The bow to the Saudi king.  The rejoining of the U.N. "Human Rights Council," that disgrace.  The soul-brother clasp with Chávez.  This light remark about the Bay of Pigs. Etc., etc. ... During the campaign, some of us said that Obama appeared to have the mindset of a Marxist grad student.  Highly disturbing to see that borne out in his presidency.

An Ugly Handshake with Hugo Chavez.  In one photo, President Obama is grinning as he clasps Hugo Chavez by the hand.  In another, he grasps Chavez warmly by the shoulder.  Those pictures disgusted several members of Congress.  Some said so on national television.  Responding to criticism of this encounter, the president was by turns cavalier and obtuse.  About the left-wing rant of a book Chavez gave him, Obama said mildly, "It was a nice gesture to give me a book.  I'm a reader."

America the Apologetic.  Obama chatted amiably and treated respectfully the oppressors of those brave people in Venezuela and Nicaragua who are putting their lives on the line in order to advance democracy.  President Obama completely ignored them.  That is bad in its own right and, when combined with Secretary of State Clinton's remarks to the Chinese that we are essentially prepared to overlook their human rights violations, sends exactly the wrong signal to both the forces of liberation and the forces of oppression.

Hugo Chavez's gift to Obama is a Latin leftist's bible.  The book that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, has long been regarded as a bible for the Latin American left, found on the bookshelves and university reading lists of a generation of students in the region.

The book is also known as...
 The Idiot's Bible.  Just days after Hugo Chávez gave President Barack Obama a copy of "Open Veins of Latin America" in Trinidad last week, the English-language version of the book shot to the No. 2 slot on Amazon.com.  Americans seemed to be curious about Mr. Chávez's reading tastes.  But in Latin America, "Open Veins" is a well-known rant by Uruguayan Marxist Eduardo Galeano.  And it also has another distinction that Mr. Chávez may be less inclined to publicize:  It is widely regarded in free-market circles as "the idiot's bible."

Obama and Chavez
Obama Among the Dictators.  Hugo Chávez is a tin-pot dictator who has debauched Venezuela's democracy.  Normally in such circumstances, an American president would show reserve.  The weirdly ebullient Mr. Obama did not, and that image was the photo seen 'round the world.

Honor Thy Country.  President Obama believes that his decision to shake hands with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez at a summit of Latin leaders in Trinidad was the right thing to do.  He dismisses critics who accuse him of sending the wrong signals, of projecting an image of weakness, and of apologizing too much on his trips abroad.

Obama's Handshake With Chavez: Outreach or Irresponsibility?  President Obama's presence and diplomatic persona at the Summit of the Americas was a hit in Latin America, but his different approach toward international relations has drawn criticism from Republican opponents. ... The moment that took the spotlight — and probably drew the most criticism — was his handshake with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has openly denounced U.S. foreign policies, once called President Bush "the devil" and has often rallied the region in criticizing the United States.

Obama, Chavez, And The CIA:  Who Is Most Dangerous?  So, who's the real "enemy of the state," anyway?  Over the past week we've seen an extraordinary display of discernment — or lack of discernment, if you will — from the President of the United States.  It started with President Obama allowing himself to be photographed and recorded while glad-handing, back-slapping, and generally enjoying the company of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.  It ended with the Obama Administration toying with the idea of attempting to prosecute members of the Bush Administration for being to mean to terrorists.

Missing in Action: American Mainstream Media.  The government now puts itself in charge of everything from running large companies, such as General Motors, to determining compensation for businesses under government control. ... Obama has — so far — appointed some 15 "czars," including a "technology czar," a "car czar," a "pay czar" and a "Great Lakes czar."  Objections or concerns about an unconstitutional seizure of power, anyone?

Senior Democrat Says Obama's Czars Unconstitutional.  Last week President Obama appointed yet another "czar" with massive government power, answering only to him.  Even before this latest appointment, the top-ranking Democrat in the Senate wrote President Obama a letter saying that these czars are unconstitutional.  President Obama's "czar strategy" is an unprecedented power grab centralizing authority in the White House, outside congressional oversight and in violation of the Constitution.

Venezuela Chavez says "Comrade" Obama more left-wing.  Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday [6/2/2009] that he and Cuban ally Fidel Castro risk being more conservative than U.S. President Barack Obama as Washington prepares to take control of General Motors Corp.  During one of Chavez's customary lectures on the "curse" of capitalism and the bonanzas of socialism, the Venezuelan leader made reference to GM's bankruptcy filing, which is expected to give the U.S. government a 60 percent stake in the 100-year-old former symbol of American might.

Rooting for the Enemy.  The Honduras mess is going to heat up, not cool down.  Will President Obama keep rooting for the side that rallies to the cry "Yanqui go home"?  Obama threw his lot in with deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who's seen throughout the region as a stooge of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.  Indeed, Chavez has already threatened military action to return Zelaya to power.

Comradeship:  Obama Adopts the Communist Party's Position on Honduras.  There was no coup in Honduras.  The government of Honduras functioned as it was constitutionally mandated to do.  Former president Manuel Zelaya attempted cling to ascendancy by circumventing the constitution.  Venezuelan tyrant, Hugo Chavez, operating as the Latin American David Axelrod, has been abetting Zelaya. ... The government of Honduras performed as it should, which is more than we can anticipate from ours during Obama's hegemony.  Barack Obama is, once again, taking a stand against liberty and democracy.

Obama stands with tyrants.  Dictators and demagogues can rest easy on President Obama's watch.  When thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran protesting a rigged election and were beaten and shot down by pro-regime thugs, the president bided his time before making a series of noncommittal statements.  He seemed to hope it would all just go away.  However, when a socialist demagogue was ejected unceremoniously from Honduras on Sunday [6/28/2009] by his own government for trying to establish a presidency for life, Mr. Obama instantly sprang to his defense.

Banana Democrats.  As a result of his brazen disregard for the law, [Mel] Zelaya found himself escorted from office by the military Sunday morning, and into exile.  Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro rushed to blame the U.S., calling it a "yanqui coup."  President Obama on Monday called the action "not legal," and claimed that Zelaya is still the legitimate president.  There was a coup all right, but it wasn't committed by the U.S. or the Honduran court.  It was committed by Zelaya himself.  He brazenly defied the law, and Hondurans overwhelmingly supported his removal.

Obama: A Profile in Cowardice.  Obama and his people have been working around the clock to restore Zelaya to power, even while stating that they want the whole thing to be "free from external influence and interference" (the hypocrisy on that line alone is almost enough to choke even Chavez himself).  The question is why? ... Why wouldn't Obama panic at the sight of a Congress and Supreme Court removing a left wing Socialist President who violated the Constitution in pushing to make himself el-presidente for life, by violating term limits.  Let alone the military dumping said President across border.  Obama no doubt has nightmares of waking up on a C-31 transport to Kenya, after enough of his wrongdoing leads him to being booted out of the White House by what remains of the American legislative and judicial infrastructure.

The Wages of Chavismo.  As military "coups" go, the one this weekend in Honduras was strangely, well, democratic.  The military didn't oust President Manuel Zelaya on its own but instead followed an order of the Supreme Court.  It also quickly turned power over to the president of the Honduran Congress, a man from the same party as Mr. Zelaya.  The legislature and legal authorities all remain intact.  We mention these not so small details because they are being overlooked as the world, including the U.S. President, denounces tiny Honduras in a way that it never has, say, Iran.

Obama and the Bad Villagers.  Mr. Zelaya's attempt to create his own referendum, complete with Venezuelan ballots, was clearly a violation of his country's Constitution.  What else was the Honduran Supreme Court supposed to conclude?  For the American president Barack Obama to paint broad and clumsy strokes about "democratic elections" without mentioning Zelaya's blatant disregard for Honduran law is both outrageous and frightening.  His refusal to lend support for those courageous Hondurans defending the law is also inexcusable.

A U.S./U.N. Plot Against Anti-Communist Honduras.  The people of Honduras are pleading for media fairness and understanding of how they saved their democratic system of government from an international conspiracy based in Venezuela and Cuba. ... On Tuesday [6/30/2009] the leftist governments of Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez sponsored a United Nations resolution that condemned the people of Honduras for resisting the spread of communism by evicting a would-be dictator.  Many people in Honduras view "Mel" as a puppet of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who is destroying the democratic system and the opposition in that country.

A 'coup' in Honduras?  Nonsense.  Sometimes, the whole world prefers a lie to the truth.  The White House, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and much of the media have condemned the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya this past weekend as a coup d'état.  That is nonsense.  In fact, what happened here is nothing short of the triumph of the rule of law.

Obama Sides With Marxists Over Honduras.  The so-called "military coup" in Honduras was a successful effort by Honduran patriots to preserve their constitutional system of government from an international alliance of communists and socialists backed by Iran.  Not surprisingly, America's Marxist President has come down on the anti-American side.

Obama's Selective Meddling.  Help me out here.  President Obama immediately "meddles" in the affairs of Honduras, denouncing a military coup, the intent of which is to preserve the country's constitution, but when it comes to Iran's fraudulent election and the violent repression of demonstrators who wanted their votes counted, the president initially vacillates and equivocates.  Are we expected to accept this as a consistent foreign policy? ... The fingerprints (or in this case the boot prints) of the Castro brothers, Venezuela's dictator Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua are all over this.  If one is known by the company one keeps, the specter of the Castros and their protege dictators joining Mr. Obama in denouncing the Honduran military coup is not reassuring.

Obama's Attraction to Human Rights Violators.  With each fist bump from Hugo Chavez, Team Medvedev/Putin, Kim Jong-Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, one would expect that Obama would learn to close his open palm and offer up the tough policy that he promised would appear.  Yet the only world leader who has seen Obama's stick wielding, clenched fist is Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu.

Obama 'meddles' in Honduras — and chooses the wrong side.  Secretary of State Clinton said that Honduras' actions "should be condemned by all" and President Obama said that his administration would "stand with democracy" by supporting Zelaya's reinstatement.  Propping up an authoritarian undermining his country's constitution (which he claimed needs fixing to reflect a new "national reality," apparently one in which he rules forever) is a strange way to demonstrate that solidarity.

Wrong Again.  It took the Obama administration eight days to figure out whether Iranians being gunned down for protesting a fraudulent election and demanding basic civil liberties deserved to be acknowledged by the president of the United States.  It took the O-Team less than eight hours to side with Cuba's Fidel Castro, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega over the ouster of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras.

Left for Life.  When the "mullah-cracy" that controls the government in Iran made a mockery of the rule of law with its sham election earlier in June, Obama was strangely silent. ... By contrast, Obama's response to events in Honduras was immediate and energetic.  He condemned the expulsion of Zelaya from his office and his country, asserting that it was "not legal" and "a terrible precedent."  What happened to Obama's alleged respect for sovereignty and unwillingness to "meddle?"

Socialist Leader Finds Common Ground with Obama.  Socialist International President George Papandreou has a lot in common with President Barack Obama.  Both the world leaders have called for nations to come together to solve the global recession and both claim it is necessary to focus on a green economy.

Obama is wrong to support Zelaya.  President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have seriously misjudged who the defenders of democracy in Honduras are and who isn't.

Obama's Great Torpor.  Yesterday [7/7/2009] President Obama spoke at the New Economic School in Moscow. ... In part the speech reiterates themes sounded in his Cairo speech.  In part Obama flatters Russia and Russian history, omitting any mention of Soviet tyranny and terror.  The twenty million victims of Stalin's Great Terror are tossed down the memory hole.

Hugo's Hands Are All Over Honduras.  Never has the U.S. bent over so far backwards to accomodate an tyrant.  After Honduran President Mel Zelaya was thrown out June 28 for trying to make himself dictator for life, the U.S. showered him with solicitude and support for his reinstatement.

Leading "Progressive" Describes Obama-Chavez Axis.  A leading member of the "Progressives for Obama" network is speculating, apparently with good reason, that the leftist governments of Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez have come to an understanding that Honduras should be turned over to anti-American forces allied with the Venezuelan communist ruler.

Honduras Outraged by Obama-Chavez Alliance.  I continue to receive messages from Honduran citizens upset at the international media for their distorted coverage of the situation in the Central American country.  The people support the ouster of Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, who is considered a puppet of Venezuelan Communist ruler Hugo Chavez.  They are mystified that an American president would want to return this Chavez puppet to power in Honduras.

Obama and Kadhafi shake hands.  US President Barack Obama shook hands warmly on Thursday with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, long reviled in Washington.  The landmark handshake took place as leaders from major economic powers and emerging nations prepared to take a group photo at a summit in L'Aquila, central Italy.

Coup are you? Part III.  President Obama has claimed that the removal of Honduran president Mel Zelaya is "illegal."  However, Hans Bader, senior counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, demonstrates otherwise.  Bader points out that Zelaya flouted court rulings by using intimidation to try to get Hondurans to change their constitution to allow him to extend his tenure in office.  In response, the country's Supreme Court issued an arrest warrant for Zelaya, which the military enforced by seizing Zelaya and kicking him out of the country.

Obama Rewrites the Cold War.  There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth.  President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow last week.

Obama, Our Marxist-Minded President.  We have a president, a state department, a U.N., and an Organization of American States (OAS) that is now backing the communists, Marxists, socialists, and tyrants that want to take over Honduras.  This is a case study of how a radical socialist president, backed by Congressional majorities, and a mainstream media in the tank, can do the most outrageous things and get away with them.  But it is also a grim reminder that we have not only elected a radical, left-wing president with a history of questionable associates, but a president that can now be fairly labeled a socialist and communist sympathizer and supporter.

Obama, Chavez Are Both Nationalizing Private Companies, Venezuelan Political Analyst Says.  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is taking over private companies in order to deal with the economic crisis that has affected both his country and the United States, and the Obama administration is trying to do roughly the same thing, Venezuelan political analyst Dr. Luis Vicente León told CNSNews.com Monday [7/27/2009].

U.S. Supporting Communist Takeover of Honduras.  There's been attention paid to Honduras because its former president, Manuel Zelaya tried to do an end-run around its constitution to become the same kind of president-for-life as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.  Chavez, whose hero is Fidel Castro, is a flat-out Communist and, of course, he is supporting Zelaya's return to power.

Why does Obama support Zelaya?  Manuel Zelaya wants to return to Honduras as president and then, of course, continue his efforts to be a big-time socialist dictator, a Hugo Chavez lookalike, and the surprising thing is that the Obama administration seems to want the very same thing.

Obama and the Happy Dictator.  One thing to be said about Barack Obama's efforts at outreach in the Muslim world:  there's at least one dictator who is just delighted. ... We're talking about a potentate who imprisoned his only rival during the last election and locks up democracy activists and those who question the viability of a Mubarak dynasty.

U.S lawmakers support Zimbabwe's unity government.  The largest delegation of U.S. lawmakers to visit Zimbabwe in a decade is calling on the country's leaders to ensure the success of the unity government.  The delegation concluded a two-day visit Thursday [9/3/2009] to monitor the progress of the government formed in February.

The Editor says...
 What the Seattle newspaper calls a "unity government" is actually a ruthless dictatorship, as I have been observing here.

Democracy under attack — by the U.S.A.  America might refuse to honor the upcoming election results of another democratic nation.  But our State Department has taken this hostile posture not toward Venezuela or Iran — where dictatorships thrive through doubtful and fraudulent elections — but toward Honduras, which removed a usurping president this summer in an action supported by the letter of its own constitution.

This Could Be Interesting.  Reuters is reporting that Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president of Honduras, has managed to return to the country and is now holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa to avoid arrest.

Zelaya returns.  Today's news brings word that Manuel Zelaya will return as the president of Honduras thanks to American diplomatic pressure.  It is perfectly fitting that the signal diplomatic triumph of President Obama's first year in office is the restoration to power of the lawfully deposed Honduran thug and friend of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega and Hugh Chavez.

The Time Of Tyrants.  Daniel Ortega muscled Nicaragua's courts to permit his permanent re-election, effectively making him dictator.  He's not alone.  After the U.S.' shabby treatment of tiny Honduras, a new wave of tyrants is rising.

Zelaya Wins, Honduras Loses.  The Republic of Panama has reestablished diplomatic relations with Honduras and will provide observers for the upcoming elections.  A Google translation of the text of the accord is available courtesy of el Tiempo, a Honduran daily newspaper.

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful."
— Psalm 1:1    


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Taking control of the internet

The mainstream news media refuse to report anything negative or unflattering about President Obama or his associates or his actions.  Thus, the internet is the best way for average Americans to exchange their observations and opinions about what's really happening and where the country is headed.  Mr. Obama is obviously very aware of this.

A bill to shift cybersecurity to White House.  Forthcoming legislation would wrest cybersecurity responsibilities from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and transfer them to the White House, a proposed move that likely will draw objections from industry groups and some conservatives.

"Big Brother" Obama Coming After the Internet.  The White House will have new powers to access private online data, regulate the cyber security industry and even shut down Internet traffic under the provisions of Senate bills No. 773 and 778, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V.  It's called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009.

Senate Proposal Could Put Heavy Restrictions on Internet Freedoms.  The days of an open, largely unregulated Internet may soon come to an end.  A bill making its way through Congress proposes to give the U.S. government authority over all networks considered part of the nation's critical infrastructure.  Under the proposed Cybersecurity Act of 2009, the president would have the authority to shut down Internet traffic to protect national security.

New Cybersecurity Regime Proposed.  Introduced just last week in the Senate, rather quietly, was the new Cybersecurity Act of 2009.  Proposed by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the legislation, in part, calls for the establishment of a national cybersecurity adviser, a cyber czar as it were. ... [Scroll down]  Some experts have interpreted this rather cryptic paragraph to mean that perhaps a unique digital ID will be required of each user, not only not protecting civil liberties, but instead making each user and said user's Internet activities much easier to track, limit, and ultimately shut down.

Obama's Surveillance State.  According to civil liberties watchdogs, the Obama adminstration has already staked out claims of executive power which exceed that of the Bush administration.

Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan.  A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to protect the nation from cyberattack and to prepare for possible offensive operations against adversaries' computer networks.  President Obama has said that the new cyberdefense strategy he unveiled last month will provide protections for personal privacy and civil liberties.  But senior Pentagon and military officials say that Mr. Obama's assurances may be challenging to guarantee in practice...

Gag the Internet!  Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor who has been appointed to a shadowy post that will grant him powers that are merely mind-boggling, explicitly supports using the courts to impose a "chilling effect" on speech that might hurt someone's feelings.  He thinks that the bloggers have been rampaging out of control and that new laws need to be written to corral them.

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet.  Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.  They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors.  CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773, which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

Could Obama Rule The Web?  What do you think the response would be from our ideological counterparts if they found out George W. Bush could use the excuse of some national emergency to take control of the Internet?  Whether or not it could really be done is another issue, but the libs would be having collective aneurysms.

White House control of the Internet:  The Senate Commerce Committee wants to hand control of the Internet over to the Obama White House.  Increased government intervention isn't the answer to the nation's cybersecurity problem.

An Unconstitutional Internet Power Grab.  [Scroll down]  The original introduced in April was so bad that it was quickly deemed legislative garbage and sent back for complete re-work.  This revised version was meant to address the concerns of lawmakers, trade groups and citizens by narrowing its focus and refining its goals.  Instead it has unleashed a flood of criticism (mostly on the internet, mind you) on how this would give the government a "kill switch" for the Internet whenever they deem there to be a national crisis or emergency.

Could The Feds Seize The Internet?  A Senate bill lets the president "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "nongovernmental" computer networks and do what's needed to respond to the threat.  Didn't they just collect our e-mail addresses?

What's really wrong with the Cybersecurity bill?  The problem with S.773 is not what it purports to do but the fact that Barack Hussein Obama happens to be the president of the United States.  Despite the fact that the United States is at least nominally a democracy and citizens have the right to go to the polls and freely vote every two or four years, Obama and the Democrats in Congress are governing exactly like a fascist state.  They impose their will regardless of how many Americans oppose it.  Whether their policies and actions actually make the country better off are of no consequence.

The Internet power grab by the Obama White House.  A Senate bill (S.773) if passed would give the President of the United States the authority to declare a "cyber emergency" and close down the Internet by disconnecting users.  In addition, it will require professional IT people to be certified by the federal government, something that angers many IT technicians and those who believe in the First Amendment.  Americans are being deceived by the news media and their elected officials in Washington, DC and it's Americans who will suffer from that deception, according to information technology experts.

U.S. as Traffic Cop in Web Fight.  The U.S. government plans to propose broad new rules Monday that would force Internet providers to treat all Web traffic equally, seeking to give consumers greater freedom to use their computers or cellphones to enjoy videos, music and other legal services that hog bandwidth.  The move would make good on a campaign promise to Silicon Valley supporters like Google Inc. from President Barack Obama, but will trigger a battle with phone and cable companies like AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp., which don't want the government telling them how to run their networks.

The Editor says...
 The White House is in no position to tell any private company how to run its business, whether it's Chrysler or Comcast.  If ordinary Americans tolerate this kind of interference, it will only get worse.

Obama Bytes.  Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce today his intent to put in place rules that would allow the federal government to regulate the Internet. ... "We couldn't give them a Guantanamo shut down, or ending the Patriot Act, so this is the immediate payoff to MoveOn and Free Press and the those guys who worked so hard for us during the campaign," says a White House source.

Bad News for Broadband.  In his first major policy speech yesterday, the head of the Federal Communications Commission proposed new government rules for how Internet service providers handle traffic on the Web. ... The reality is that the Obama Administration wants the government to replace Internet operators as the Web's traffic cop.

Neutering the 'Net.  Broadband growth is leveling out in the U.S., and suppliers increasingly grow only by stealing customers from each other.  Two-thirds of Comcast's new broadband subscribers signed up in a recent quarter were defectors from DSL.  "Churn" is the biggest challenge to broadband profitability, especially as competition drives down margins.

How much government control of Web in cybercrisis?  [Scroll down]  Early versions of the second draft are more vague, giving the president only the authority to "direct the national response" to a cyberthreat.

Net 'Neutrality' is Government Theft.  Despite the claims of Al Gore, the Internet was not, like the light bulb or the telephone, the invention of one person.  But rather the Internet is the ultimate example of widely dispersed creativity, investment, and response to consumer demand — the essence of Adam Smith's "invisible hand" — which is bettering the lives of people around the world, rich and poor, black and white, in dozens of languages, forever.  And it comes as no surprise that Democrats want to regulate it.

Internet Security in the Age of Obama.  Internet security is no longer for the paranoid only.  James Lakely recently wrote ... an article about our New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, and his desire to quell the internet.  This was followed by another [American Thinker] article regarding Obama's Czar of Chillin'.  What we need are methods and means to deal with such threats.  How to hide in plain sight, or encrypt and obscure information.

The Strange Philosophy Behind the Movement for Net Neutrality.  The election of Barack Obama as president ushered in a new era of regulatory zeal in Washington, with both Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) determined to solve alleged problems with access to and management of the Internet.  Advocates of "network neutrality" have the federal government's ear and seem closer than at times past to achieving their goal of greater government control over the Internet.  Their success would change the online experience of every American.

U.S. regulatory czar nominee wants Net 'Fairness Doctrine'.  Barack Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar" has advocated a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet that would require opposing opinions be linked and also has suggested angry e-mails should be prevented from being sent by technology that would require a 24-hour cooling off period.

The Editor says...
 Since when is the government in the business of regulating anger?  How is he going to know if I'm angry when I send an email?  How does the "regulatory czar" feel about angry phone calls?

Internet Heavyweights Push Net Neutrality.  A group of top Internet execs, including the CEOs of Google, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, and eBay have sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in support of net neutrality. ... The FCC is due to release its proposed net neutrality rules on Thursday [10/22/2009].

Hurdles Remain As FCC Ponders Internet Data Rules.  With Democrats in charge in Washington, supporters of so-called "net neutrality" rules seem poised to finally push through requirements that high-speed Internet providers give equal treatment to all data flowing over their networks, CBS station KPIX-TV reported.

The Expanding Net of Online Regulations.  [Scroll down]  The FCC would essentially require ISPs to charge consumers the same for internet activity that uses a lot of bandwidth, like downloading music, as they do for activity that uses relatively little bandwidth, like reading text on a web page.

FCC votes to move net neutrality rules forward.  The Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted to open the proceeding that could lead to open-Internet regulations, although the two Republican commissioners dissented on whether rules are warranted.

FCC moves on Net neutrality rules.  While technical, the issue of network neutrality — or Net neutrality — has sparked a furious, expensive lobbying war, as well as a raging debate in cyberspace over the government's role in setting the rules of the road for the Internet, with some even arguing that the right to free speech in the Information Age is at stake.

Critics attack FCC's net neutrality proposal.  The opposition to the FCC's net neutrality proposal is wasting no time voicing their resistance and getting their proverbial ducks in a row.  Almost simultaneously with the FCC's action on net neutrality, Verizon chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg criticized the commission's proposal in a speech at SuperComm in Chicago.

Obama's Media Control Strategy.  You may not have noticed that the Obama Administration, in addition to trying to seize control of the health care and energy sectors, is implementing a national "broadband plan" to redefine the media and transform America's system of government.  It's designed, they say, to provide "open government and civic engagement."  But it looks increasingly like an excuse for the federal government to control the Internet and access to information and even tell us what is truth.

Net Neutrality Regulation vs. Internet Freedom.  Network neutrality regulation is more than just another pesky law; it is a floodgate to government control of the Internet and the reduction of consumer choices.

Is Net Neutrality a FCC Trojan Horse?  On Thursday [10/22/2009], Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski is expected to unveil draft rules aimed at imposing network neutrality obligations on Internet Service Providers (ISPs).  In the excitement surrounding the announcement, however, many have overlooked the fact that the this rulemaking is built on a shoddy and dangerous foundation — the idea that the FCC has unlimited authority to regulate the Internet.

Preserve Internet Freedom — Beware Obama's Net Neutrality.  It doesn't seem possible that the tens of millions of Americans that use the Internet daily would put up with a government takeover of the Internet.  I sure hope they don't.  It should be an epic struggle.  Nonetheless, just in case the American public doesn't acquiesce to strict government control of the Internet, there's a bill in Congress (S. 773), sponsored by Senator Jay Rockefeller, to give the President complete control of the Internet to preserve cybersecurity in case of "emergency."

Net Neutrality enforcement may reach into your computer.  The internet legislation policy will encompass three key positions.  First the government wants to make sure everyone has access to the internet and have set aside $7.2 billion in stimulus dollars for construction. ... This will not only be tricky, but very expensive because there are not enough subscribers in rural areas to pay for the hundreds of miles of cable that must be put in place.  Providing internet access for all residents would be a first for the country.  In the past, government didn't ensure every citizen had a radio during World War II, or televisions in the 1950s or even cable in the 1980s.  Why internet?  The second platform is social justice or classic redistribution of wealth.  And finally the third is controlling internet content.

"Net Neutrality" Nets Out to Government Control.  Masked beneath the comfort language of the net neutrality bill are provisions that will effectively turn over management of the internet within the United States to the federal government via the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).  It's a power for which the FCC hungers.  Perhaps it envies China.  So there's nothing neutral about the Obama administration's push for net neutrality.  "Neutrality" is a D.C. comfort word for control.

The Strange Philosophy Behind the Movement for Net Neutrality.  The election of Barack Obama as president ushered in a new era of regulatory zeal in Washington, with both Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) determined to solve alleged problems with access to and management of the Internet.  Advocates of "network neutrality" have the federal government's ear and seem closer than at times past to achieving their goal of greater government control over the Internet.  Their success would change the online experience of every American.

"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."
- Lyndon B. Johnson        



Using public schools as indoctrination centers

At first I thought this controversy was about a single event, but evidently there are two parts to the story.  The first part is about a video presentation in which an assortment of so-called celebrities urge the school kids to pledge their allegiance to Barack Obama.  Anyone who has studied the history of Germany in the 1940s can tell you what that could lead to.  The second angle of the story has to do with a video teleconference of some sort, scheduled for September 8, in which President Obama himself will address the school attendees himself.

Part 1

Abusing School Kids With Pro-Obama Propaganda.  A number of teachers have reacted with appropriate indignation to the misuse of public resources and precious school time to encourage the cult of Obama worship.  Carole (not her real name), a gutsy middle school teacher in the Midwest, discussed the upcoming speech on my radio show on Monday [8/31/2009].  Teachers from four different states called in to say that they would follow her example and refuse to devote class hours to watching and discussing the presidential address.

Parents upset over 'leftist propaganda' video.  [Scroll down slowly]  Gayle Ruzicka, president of conservative Utah Eagle Forum, said the video was blatantly political.  She said other offensive pledges included, "I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama," "I pledge allegiance to the funk, to the united funk of funkadelica," and pledges to not use plastic grocery bags and not flush the toilet after urinating.  "It's very inappropriate to show a radical, leftist propaganda piece that political to children," Ruzicka said.  "If parents want their children to learn about those things and do them in the home, wonderful, fine, but it's not the place of the school to show a one-sided propaganda piece to children without parents knowing about it."

WH withdraws call for students to 'help' Obama.  President Obama's plan to inspire the nation's schoolchildren with a video address next week erupted into controversy Wednesday [9/2/2009], forcing the White House to pull out its eraser and rewrite a government recommendation that teachers nationwide assign students a paper on how to "help the president."

The Sayings Of Chairman Barack.  Great news.  Our leader will be addressing all schoolchildren on September 8th.  And the Department of Education has helpfully prepared a menu of activities for the day.  As you'll note above, 7-12th graders are to view quotations from Pres. Obama, discuss them, and strive to understand what "the president believes is important" for students to be successful in school.  Wonderful.  But why stop with students?  Shouldn't Americans of all ages have the benefit of the President's wisdom?  And why limit it to one day, and only to the topic of education?

Watch the Obama indoctrination video.  It's no wonder kids have such short attention spans.

Rage Against the Obama Propaganda Machine.  In this video, various tabloid types seeking to "Be the Change" vow to "smile more" and "love more."  Other plans include "to be the voice for those who have no voice"; and to not always flush the toilet, for the sake of the planet; "To pledge allegiance to the funk, of the United Funk of Funkadelica"; and, most audaciously, "To free one million people from slavery in the next five years."  Yes, it was a bit of a mix.  The culmination of the whole mess, however, was very clear; to "pledge to be of service to Barack Obama ... to be a servant of our president and all mankind."

"Liberals have long realized that, if they can win the battle over what is taught in schools, they will win elections."
 — Phyllis Schlafly      

Part 2

Obama's Classroom Campaign: No Junior Lobbyist Left Behind.  "ABC" stands for All Barack's Children.  On Sept. 8, young students across the country will be watching television.  Yes, they'll be parked in front of boob tubes and computer screens watching President Obama's address on education.  Instead of practicing cursive, reviewing multiplication tables, diagramming sentences or learning something concrete, America's kids will be lectured about the importance of learning.

Right blasts Obama speech to students.  President Barack Obama's plans for a televised back-to-school address to students next week are drawing fire from some conservatives, who say he's just trying to indoctrinate them to his political beliefs.

What Does Obama Want with Our Children?  As many parents are focused on back to school clothes and supplies, the royal Czar Czar prepares to circumvent parental authority and speak directly to our children in one week.  What will he command?  That's a good question that the media won't ask, and one that could easily be answered right now while parents still have time to decide if they need a sitter or not.  But like all things Obama does, it's spur of the moment and covert.

WH, Dept of Education Revise Language.  In an acknowledgment that the Department of Education provided lesson plans written somewhat inartfully, surrounding the President Obama's speech to students next Tuesday, the White House today [9/2/2009] announced that it had rewritten one of the sections in question.

School Districts in Six States to Refrain from Showing Presidential Address.  White House officials seemed to be caught flat-footed by the response to what they say was a simple back to school address by President Obama to students across the nation — and has turned into a firestorm.  The White House now admits that one of the lessons plans surrounding the speech was written clumsily, subjecting it to misinterpretation, and had to be re-written.  Some parents are talking about keeping their kids from school on tuesday (sic) to avoid the president's remarks.

Some Schools Will Block or Delay Obama's Pep Talk for Students.  Parents who want their children to hear President Obama's back-to-school message Tuesday might have to keep them home.  School systems from the Washington suburbs to Houston are balking at airing the speech to all of their students.

Some Parents Choose Not to Allow Their Kids to Hear Obama's National Address.  [Regine] Gordon, of Tampa, Fla., is among a growing number of parents across the country who are troubled by the president's plan to address elementary, middle and high school students in an online and televised speech Tuesday.  "It's a form of indoctrination, and I think, really, it's indicative of the culture that the Obama administration is trying to create," Gordon told FOXNews.com on Thursday.  "It's very socialistic."

School Officials Leave Obama Broadcast Up to Schools.  Virginia schools are fielding questions about a back-to-school speech President Barack Obama plans to make to students after conservative columnists and talk-radio hosts roundly criticized what they're calling an attempt to indoctrinate children.

More school districts taking harder line on Obama's speech.  It's rare we hear from Dickinson ISD, but the small Galveston County school district sent us a press release today with its take on President Obama's Sept. 8 address to schoolchildren.

Critics Decry Obama's 'Indoctrination' Plan for Students.  A suggested lesson plan that calls on school kids to write letters to themselves about what they can do to help President Obama is troubling some education experts, who say it establishes the president as a "superintendent in chief" and may indoctrinate children to support him politically.  But the White House says the speech is merely "designed to encourage kids to stay in school."

In Loco Parentis.  Barack Obama's plans to reach out to millions of suggestible school children has met with parental consternation.  Their collective alarm is a bit tardy.  Radical Leftists already have control of the public school system. ... The Left is asserting that there is nothing intrinsically amiss with the president talking to school kids and eoncoraging them to study diligently and do well in school.  This argument might carry more weight if Obama were willing to liberate his own school records to illustrate his point.

Some object to Obama speech to students.  Some Texas parents are asking school principals to excuse their children from listening to a speech that President Obama will make to schools next week on the grounds that it smacks of political indoctrination.

Obama's plan to speak to schoolchildren ignites furor.  Obama announced the speech weeks ago, but opposition and concerns spread rapidly Wednesday morning through conservative social networking Web sites and radio talk shows.

Bogeyman Bamster back to scare you into submission on September 8.  Barack Hussein Obama is not even unique.  He only stands out because he is methodically dismantling the country he was elected to lead — and that country just happens to be the leader of the Free World. ... But not since the days of Hitler and Stalin has one of them stomped over the backs of parents in order to go after their school children.  And that is just what Obama is trying to do next week with his plans to inspire the nation's schoolchildren with a video address to tens of millions of children in their classrooms.  Without the sales pitch, it's astroturfing of the youngest and most innocent.  Presidential aides now acknowledge that the White House helped the U.S. Education Department craft the proposal ...

Local School Districts Pass on Obama's Speech.  School districts across Texas are pondering whether they'll have their students watch a national address by President Barack Obama next week.  The speech on the importance of education is aimed directly at the nation's school children at 11 a.m. Tuesday.  Obama has asked school districts to carry the live webcast.

Satire:
 Scrappleface:  Obama will urge kids to go to private school.  A draft copy of President Barack Obama's planned September 8 address to America's public school children, tells students that "If you want to grow up to be like me, you should beg your parents to put you in private school, right now."

The Brainwashing Bunch.  American news outlets (well at least those not in Barack Obama's lap) are filled with criticism on the Department of Education plans to bring Obama's agenda into our nation's classrooms.  The ploy to reach and teach our children through a presidential speech and through instruction guides (little red books?) appears to be stalled for now as parents — if nor educational unions — resist the idea of brain-swaying our children into writing paeans to Obama and his agenda.
Inexplicable italics in original.

Obama Offends — And Doesn't Seem To Know It.  For example, it is suggested that students in grades 7-12 should, before the President's speech, write their responses to the following questions:  "Why does President Obama want to speak with us today?;"  "How will he inspire us?:"  and "How will he challenge us?"  That line of questioning may seem harmless to some.  But notice that President Obama, himself — not education, not the idea of becoming a learned person, but Barack Obama — is the central theme of the questioning.  And it presupposes that President Obama is, necessarily, inspiring to all who hear him.

A Call to Arms for Parents Upset About Obama's Public School Address.  Public school parents cannot afford to be passive any longer.  You cannot simply delegate your child's education to others — some who are wholeheartedly committed to subverting the traditions and values you hold dear — and walk away.  You must be prepared to work as hard as homeschooling parents when the need arises.  You must make every effort to know what is going on in your children's schools — and now, obviously, coming down from the executive branch — and become a parent activist in what in some places is beginning to look like a resistance movement.

Obama Remarks on Education.  The White House has released the text of the speech the President will give to America's schoolchildren tomorrow [9/8/2009].

The Editor says...
 Note that the text was released on a holiday, when it was least likely to be read.

Obama exhorts kids to pay attention in school.  In a speech that drew fire even before he delivered it, President Barack Obama is telling the nation's schoolchildren he "expects great things from each of you."

Obama Heeds Dictator Handbook With School Speech.  President Barack Obama cannot possibly intend to resemble an aspiring dictator.  Somehow, he keeps doing so.  Now he's going ahead with plans to address America's schoolchildren, having dropped the part about encouraging those children to then "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president."  This administration's run is rapidly transforming into an episode of "The Twilight Zone."

Administration's Suggestions for Teachers:  Post Obama Quotes on Classroom Walls.  The "corrected" lesson plans the U.S. Department of Education is suggesting that schools around the country use to turn President Obama's speech to students today into a "teachable moment" still call for teachers to read books about Obama and to post quotations from Obama in large print on classroom walls.  The Department of Education created two "menus of classroom activities" for use with the president's speech.

A crucial week for Obama's teleprompter.  The White House, first dismissing the protests as "silly" and pretending that Mr. Obama's speech was really only about hand-washing and good toilet etiquette, finally backed down with the familiar explanation that "we didn't do it and we won't do it again (at least until next time)."  Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, offered a "clarification" that his bureaucrats were only trying to say that the kids should "write a letter about your own goals and what you're going to do to achieve those goals."  Some "clarification."  If you can't trust the teacher to write a simple declarative sentence in the first place, who can you trust?

When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings.  When President George H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech on October 1, 1991, from Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington DC, the controversy was just beginning.  Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush's speech — they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue.

It's not the speech itself that's offensive...
 The Problem Is Obama's Dictatorial Style and Socialist Agenda.  Obama's botched attempt to force American school children to promise to help him shows again how he is out of touch with average American family values.  The politicizing of public school classrooms outraged parents and teachers. ... The public outrage stems primarily from Obama's dictatorial style of forcing children to support him.  Who can't help but think of the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

Revealing Convergence:  Van Jones and the Education Speech.  What is the actual lesson of Obama's academic career?  The answer is:  We don't know, because no one has ever seen any of his academic work, or his transcripts from high school, Occidental College, Columbia University, or Harvard Law School.  We have no idea how hard the president worked in school. We don't know what he did or did not master or like.

NEA Scandal:  U.S. Senator Cornyn's Letter to President Obama.  "... [E]ven if no NEA funding was intended for political purposes, one cannot escape the disturbing impression that this Administration — including appointees within the White House and the NEA — believes that it is appropriate for the federal government to enlist the arts community for the purpose of furthering a specific political agenda.

Lessons of Obama's School Speech.  His offense was to use his office to impose on a captive audience of youngsters in an appearance that inevitably carries the odor of politics.  No one objects when he speaks to the nation or Congress on TV, because we can ignore him or jeer him as we choose.  But some parents who distrust him feel aggrieved that he can force his message on defenseless children.

Obama DID Talk Politics With The Kids.  The president traveled to Wakefield High to give a speech on education reform.  The speech was posted in advance on the White House Web site to quell fears that the president intended to plug his political agenda to impressionable minds.  Although the president avoided controversial topics in his speech, he did promote health care reform in a face-to-face discussion at Wakefield High School.

Training Kids to Be Obama's Servants.  The Menu for grades 7-12 instructs teachers to post "notable quotes" from Obama's speeches on the board, and to have students "take notes while President Obama talks" and identify "the three most important words in the speech."  Students should be queried:  "What is President Obama inspiring you to do?" and "How will he inspire us?"  The hero worship and brainwashing built into these lesson plans are, to say the least, inappropriate.  Parents should rise up and stop the public schools from using classroom or assembly time to teach schoolchildren to be cheerleaders for Obama and his policies.

Obama's Titanic arrogance and the folly of ignoring the masses on 9/12.  [Obama's] malignantly narcissistic Cult of Personality led him last week to attempt the enlistment of the nation's children into his "Obama Jugen" with the complicity of the NEA which is heavily influenced by one William Ayers with whom Obama claims to be only casually acquainted.  The speech he gave was not the one originally intended.  The original was to be accompanied by Lesson Plans and "Workbooks" so the nation's children could "help" the president and "serve" his leviathan bureaucracy.

Education.  Instead of President Obama addressing school students across the nation, he might have accomplished more by focusing his attention on the educational rot in schools in the nation's capital.

Fearing Obama.  It's true that [President Obama] does like to play the Dear Leader role.  The national speech to schoolchildren was right out of the Mussolini and Peron handbook, while the "lesson plans" and quotations of the One's wisdom recommended for classroom use come direct from Stalin and Mao.  But it's all theater, of a piece with his epoch-making speeches that never seem to contain a quotable line and revolutionary programs that can't quite get rolling.

President Obama Goes to School.  Obama is the real message.  Trust him.  Nah, it's not a matter of self-promotion; not at all.  It's pure-as-driven-snow selflessness.  Look at me, he fairly shouts.  Look what I did!  This President is well-practiced at speech-making, bringing it to near art form, with a cadre of excellent writers feeding teleprompters.  (Woe be to Obama if the teleprompter breaks down.)  Obama has has been on TV many times (112 by one count) so far in his presidency, like no other president.  Why not pop up in the nation's schools, too?  With this speech, a self-focused Promotion of Himself.  Makes a swell photo op, too.  Think FDR's Fireside chats, kiddies at his knee in rapt attention.

Part 3

The public schools offer their services without being asked.

Video:  School kids taught to praise Obama.

Video stirs controversy.  An Internet video showing children at a local elementary school singing song praising President Barack Obama is garnering national attention and its appropriateness will be the subject of a school district review.

Review Ordered of Video Showing Students Singing Praises of President Obama.  Nearly 20 young children are captured in an online video as they sing songs that overflow with campaign slogans and praise for "Barack Hussein Obama," as they repeatedly chant the president's name and celebrate his accomplishments.

The Editor says...
 Singing about his accomplishments is premature at best.  What has he accomplished?

Why Obama Sycophants Are So Compromised.  [Scroll down]  This week a video tape turned up from a Burlington New Jersey public elementary school in which the children themselves were the ones singing literal praise and worship tunes to the President.  Singing about his "great accomplishments," making the "economy number one again," and replacing the name of the crucified Lord and inserting the name of President Obama were just some of the elements of the tape.  Nearly everyone in the nation described the event as creepy and inappropriate, and even liberal trolls on conservative blogs were referring to the tape as "scary."  Everyone except the principal of the school where the event took place, that is.

Singing Heil Obama in New Jersey.  Red alert to parents:  If you send your children to a public school, they may be secretly indoctrinated in the cult of Obama-worship.  If that's not your plan for your children, you had better act now, before it's too late.  We now know that the "I pledge" video shown in Utah in August, and only afterward discovered by parents, was not isolated evidence of indoctrination of public schoolchildren in the new cult of Obama-worship.  Second-graders in New Jersey were taught to sing songs of praise and fidelity to Barack Obama in February and again in June, and parents only found out about it this September.

Indoctrination Watch:  Obama school praise hymn of the day.  Take a look at the Obama worship song that students at Longfellow Elementary in Howard County, MD were assigned to memorize last week, according to Red Maryland's Brian Griffiths.

Protesters come to NJ school over Obama song.  About 70 protesters let their voices be heard outside a school in New Jersey where students sang praise of President Barack Obama.  Members of anti-tax Tea Party groups and others joined outside B. Bernice Young School in Burlington Township Monday [10/12/2009] to denounce what they believe was political indoctrination of students.

N.J. School Official:  Obama Song Video Violated Students' Privacy.  The superintendent of a South Jersey school district stands behind the student performance of songs about President Obama that created a national stir last month.  The video that captured the children is another matter.  Burlington Township Superintendent Christopher Manno today discussed the results of an internal investigation concerning the controversial songs.

Protesters Rail Against Obama Song In N.J. School.  A New Jersey elementary school is under scrutiny after students were seen on tape singing a song in praise of President Barack Obama.  On Monday [10/12/2009], dozens of protesters chanted outside the school, saying the children are being brainwashed.

Not Ashamed to Love My Country.  Liberalism has contributed greatly to the decline of patriotism.  The hostile takeover of our schools by Liberalism has indoctrinated many of our kids to hate their country.  They are encouraged to sing the praises of Barack Hussein Obama, but not of God and country.

Elementary Epidemic:  11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama.  Big Hollywood has already posted a couple disturbing videos of young school children singing/speaking praises to President Obama, but when eleven more dropped in our email box it came as quite a shock.  What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern.  Maybe "epidemic" is a better word.



The Homeland Security report on right wingers

The Department of Homeland Security — and its Secretary, Janet Napolitano — apparently see right-wing activists as a great threat to this country.  A greater threat, apparently, than Muslim extremists, or ACORN, or Code Pink, or the animal rights eco-terrorists, since no similar report about any of them has materialized.

DHS, 'Rightwing Extremism' and Information Warfare.  The Homeland Security Assessment targeting mainstream conservatism was amateurish, poorly written and its logic absurdly shallow.  It's a shot across the bow in the unfolding information warfare. ... If this DHS Assessment is an example of the kind of analysis our decision makers receive from our intelligence agencies, we are in far worse straits than I had imagined.

The full text of the report is here.

The Obama Administration Says We're Dangerous, Rightwing Extremists.  Do you reject "federal authority in favor of state or local authority," or "government authority entirely"?  Are you "dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration"?  If so, you are a dangerous, rightwing extremist according to Obama's Department of Homeland Security, which bans the use of the word "terrorist" unless it's applied to us rightwing extremists who, for example, are so extreme as to view the grisly murder of the unborn in their mothers' wombs as cold-blooded murder.

According to Janet Napolitano, You Are a "Right Wing Extremist" If You ...
 •  Were born in the Deep South
 •  Believe that 9/11 was more serious than Watergate
 •  Wear an American flag in your lapel
 •  Knowingly listen to Rush Limbaugh
 •  Speak and write perfect English, but no Spanish

Thoughtcrime Redux.  If you're reading this, chances are you're a terrorist.  That's because if you are opposed to enlarging the redistributive state and spreading the wealth around, as the bulk of American Spectator readers presumably are, then by definition you're a potential terrorist.  You might even be a militia-loving Nazi, according to a federal report apparently inspired by the paranoid conspiracy theorists of the radical left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.

Napolitano goes back to Janet Reno's playbook.  Conservatives in America are increasingly prone to agree with William S. Burroughs' quip that "A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on."  It was opium that made Burroughs so distrustful, but for the Right it's Janet Napolitano.  The former Arizona governor first hit the conservative radar when she took pride in strenuously avoiding the phrase "terrorism" in her Senate confirmation hearing.

Homeland Security document targets most conservatives and libertarians in the country.  Remember that now-retracted Missouri Information Analysis Center report which stated that small-government types (specifically Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin supporters) were potential terrorist threats?  According to this new Homeland Security report, all it takes to fit the terrorist profile is to have general anti-government feelings or prefer local/state government to federal control over everything.

Enemy of the State?  According to the notorious recent government report, I am a "radical right wing extremist."  If you didn't vote for Barack Obama, if you're unhappy with our tanking economy and the government's complicity in said tanking, or perhaps more odiously, you are a war veteran — you are, for all intents and purposes, an enemy of the state, subject to surveillance by law enforcement and security officials, who have been officially advised of the danger you represent.

Homeland Security Warns of Rise in Right-Wing Extremism.  The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement agencies that recent news is helping "right-wing extremist groups" recruit new members and could lead to violence, and warns about the possible recruitment and radicalization of returning veterans. ... "Right-wing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first African American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members, mobilize existing supporters and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda, but they have not yet turned to attack planning," the assessment reads.

Is Texas A Terror State?  According to the Department of Homeland Security, Texas fits the Department's profile of potential domestic terrorism described in their newly released report titled, "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment".

Federal agency warns of radicals on right.  The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

Homeland Insecurity.  On April 7, the Department of Homeland Security distributed a counterterrorism assessment to local law-enforcement types entitled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment."  The nine-page paper has many on the right questioning what is going on in Washington.

CNN Smears 'Right Wing' As Nazis.  Recycling the mid-1990s liberal smear campaign against grassroots conservatism, CNN has posted an article on the new DHS threat report complete with a Getty Images photo of neo-Nazi and white supremacist flags.  If the report were about Nazi extremists, that picture would be warranted.  However, the DHS report warns against an amorphous "right-wing extremism," failing to mention by name any particular threatening group or intelligence of any planned attacks.

Chorus of Protest Grows Over Report Warning of Right Wing Radicalization.  The government considers you a terrorist threat if you oppose abortion, own a gun or are a returning war veteran.  That's what House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said Wednesday in response to a Department of Homeland Security report warning of the rise of right-wing extremist groups.

US govt faces veteran anger at extremism report.  The US Homeland Security Department, under fire for saying US forces returning from the Iraq and Afghan wars were potential right-wing extremist recruits, said Wednesday it honors US veterans.

Six Things You Should Know About the Homeland Security Report on 'Rightwing Extremism':  [#1]  The summary contains few proper names, has no footnotes of any significance, lists very few sources, and is drafted with a prejudice against anyone who criticizes the role of the federal government in our lives today.  It lumps together in its definition of "rightwing extremism" hate groups, anti-government groups, and single issue groups "such as opposition to abortion or immigration."

Napolitano stands by 'extremism' report.  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report sent to law enforcement that lists veterans as a terrorist risk to the U.S. and defines "rightwing extremism" as including groups opposed to abortion and immigration.

You Might Be a "Radicalized Right-Wing Extremist" If...  What and who exactly are President Obama's homeland security officials afraid of these days?  If you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion, favors strict immigration enforcement, lobbies to protect Second Amendment rights, protests big government, advocates federalism or represents veterans who believe in any of the above, the answer is:  You.

(Right) Winging it At the Dems.  The problem with it is that [the DHS report] makes little effort to document or demonstrate its contention that "extremist" groups are resurgent, that they are right-wing, or that they may be formed from the ranks of "disgruntled military veterans."  Worse, it's very sloppy about what qualifies someone as "extremist" in the first place.  Basically, it's fancy bureaucratese for:  We're guessing bad people will do bad things because the economy is bad and the president is black.  But we have no real evidence.

I Am an Extremist.  According to the U.S. government, I am an extremist.  I am a Christian and meet regularly with other Christians to study God's word.  My faith convinces me the prophecies in the Holy Bible are true.  I believe in the sanctity of human life, oppose abortion, and want to preserve marriage as the union of a man and a woman.  I am a veteran with skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat.  I own several firearms, and I frequently shoot them, buy ammunition, and consider efforts to infringe on my Second Amendment rights to be wrong and unconstitutional.

The Vet 'Threat'.  Hollywood and countless professors warned us:  Military vets are drooling trailer-trash who beat their wives and, at best, wind up as homeless street people — at worst, as homicidal psychos deformed by war.  Now, thanks to our ever-vigilant Department of Homeland Security, the full extent of the danger has been revealed:  Our so-called "war heroes" are rushing back to join right-wing-extremist hate groups to overthrow our government.

Napolitano Apologizes for Offending Veterans After DHS Eyes Them for 'Rightwing Extremism'.  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized to veterans after a report issued by her department said troops returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at risk for being recruited by right-wing extremists.

Enemies Of The State.  The secretary of homeland security equates dissent with extremism.  If you're pro-life or support the right to bear arms, you need to be watched.

Homeland Security Slanders.  There has been a lot of outrage over the Department of Homeland Security's leaked summary report on "Rightwing Extremism," but by far its most odious aspects are its implications that military veterans are fertile targets for radical, violent groups and that right-wingers are inclined toward racism.  Information from this April 7 report was provided to law enforcement officials to help them prevent terrorist attacks against the United States.

Conversely...
 You Are a Left-wing Extremist If --  On the heels of the "right-wing extremist" controversy coming from the Department of Homeland Security, a counter force is looking to identify and deal with left-wing extremists.  According to prudent sources, You Are a left-wing Extremist If You Believe that...
 •  The U.S. Constitution is unconstitutional because women, racial, sexual preference, and religious minorities were all under represented in 1776
 •  Nancy Pelosi understands the Catholic Church's teachings on abortion better than all popes, past and present
 •  Vast sections of America are still owned by Mexico, despite the Treaty of Guadeloupe, which was approved by both nations in 1848
 •  Silencing conservative talk radio is vital to America's national defense
 •  Sandy Berger was a greater patriot and more honorable than Dick Cheney

Scared of veterans.  The Department of Homeland Security published a report last week warning that military veterans pose a threat to America.  It is a sad commentary on our politically correct government that Muslim Arabs cannot be profiled as potential extremists while our own veterans are.

Top Dem 'dumbfounded' by 'extremism' report.  The top House Democrat overseeing the Department of Homeland Security is demanding that officials there explain how and why they wrote and released a controversial report identifying veterans as potential terrorist threats.  Rep. Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano that he was "dumbfounded" such a report would be issued.

Veterans a Focus of FBI Extremist Probe.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this year launched a nationwide operation targeting white supremacists and "militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups," including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to memos sent from bureau headquarters to field offices.  The initiative, dubbed Operation Vigilant Eagle, was outlined in February, two months before a memo giving a similar warning was issued on April 7 by the Department of Homeland Security.

Team O Turns Left on Sanity with "Right-Wing Extremists".  Hollywood-fantasy-turned-Washington-reality isn't simply crummy entertainment.  It presents a grave menace to political discourse in this country.  "We want to move away from the politics of fear," Napolitano declared last month to explain her new secretary-caused euphemism for Islamic terrorism.  But not too far.  That is, Napolitano, who supports the DHS report, is plenty content to deal in the politics of fear — just not fear of Islam.  Fear of conservatism, however, is OK by her.  How to make it stick?  The DHS report repeatedly reaches back for inspiration to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing...

Did someone mention the Oklahoma City bombing?

Planet Janet.  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she owes an apology to the millions of American veterans she libeled last week as dangerous extremists and potential terrorists.  But she's not backing down on what she insists was an accurate "assessment" of a "right-wing" terrorist threat — saying only that "to the extent veterans read it as an accusation, an apology is owed."  Not good enough.  In fact, the report that DHS released last week was a bizarrely paranoid rant.  Which no doubt is why the agency's own civil-rights division raised red flags over some of the language in the report — only to see Napolitano release it anyway.

Confessions of a right-wing extremist.  My moment of enlightenment occurred recently when the Department of Homeland Security informed me that I'm a rightwing extremist.  I hadn't fully understood this previously.  Before my enlightenment, I'd considered myself many things — constitutionalist, conservative, veteran, gun owner, right-to-life advocate and Christian.  It took Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to show me what I really am —a whacked-out, rightwing extremist holed up in the remote mountains of western Pennsylvania, clinging to my guns and religion.

Napolitano:  Veterans are Targets of Right-Wing Extremist Recruiters.  The head of homeland security said Sunday [4/19/2009] she regrets that some people took offense over a report warning that right-wing extremist groups were trying to recruit disgruntled troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.  But Secretary Janet Napolitano added that "a number of groups far too numerous to mention" want to commit domestic terrorism attacks and are looking for new recruits.

FBI's Newest 'Most Wanted' Terrorist Is American.  The move to add a domestic, left-wing terrorist to the list comes only days after the Obama administration was criticized for internal reports suggesting some military veterans could be susceptible to right-wing extremist recruiters or commit lone acts of violence.  That prompted angry reactions from some lawmakers and veterans groups.

Right-wing extremist and proud of it.  I am, according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, an extremist and potential terrorist.  I oppose the American holocaust of the slaughter of the unborn and I am the extremist?  I oppose the twisting and perverting of our Constitution into a national suicide pact of socialistic dogma and I am the extremist?  I oppose both excessive taxes and the manner in which they are spent (and redistributed) and I am the extremist?

Department of Homeland Security Advisory.  Despite the fact that the DHS has "no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence," the ["Rightwing Extremism"] memo specifically smears returning veterans and a host of other sovereign citizens who may hold conservative views; and generally smears conservatism by equating it with "Right-wing extremism"...

Gun Owners 'Threatened and Insulted' by Report on 'Rightwing Extremism'.  The Homeland Security Department's April 7 report on "rightwing extremists" mentions gun owners in addition to war veterans, pro-lifers, and immigration opponents.  Specifically, the DHS report notes how the fear of impending gun bans has prompted a flurry of gun-buying...

This is Not Working.  The recent DHS Report is a perfect example of a news event that should have had people out in the street protesting.  This report, which paints conservatives as potential terrorists, could have (and still should be) used as a bludgeon to show how radical and intolerant this administration actually is.  There should be demonstrations demanding the resignation of the "hater" Janet Napolitano.  It is not enough that the basic story received airplay on many networks and was discussed by the pundits.  The public must get a sense of the outrage that the report represents.  The message should be that the administration is using America's security apparatus to pursue its political enemies as terrorists.

Homeland Security misfires.  The report detailed current economic and political factors that could enhance recruitment for extremist groups.  Yet the report defined extremism in a way that implicates a huge portion of the political spectrum.  Conservatives are right to be angry.

Napolitano Nastiness.  Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano wasted little time in going after President Obama's most beloved opponents, pro-life Americans.  In a document entitled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment," dated April 7, 2009, an "intelligence assessment" is provided to the Department of Homeland Security.

Homeland agency pulled back extremism dictionary.  The same Homeland Security Department office that categorized veterans as potential terrorists issued an earlier report that defined dozens of "extremists" ranging from black power activists to abortion foes.  The report was nixed within hours and recalled from state and local law enforcement officials.  Whites and blacks, Christians and Jews, Cubans and Mexicans, along with tax-hating Americans were among several political leanings listed in the "Domestic Extremism Lexicon" that came out of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) in late March.

Yes, the Government Is Out to Get 'Right-Wing Extremists'.  The Department of Homeland Security's release of the "right-wing extremism" report should anger everyone.  Janet Napolitano's faux apology to veterans glossed over the real message of this memo:  to intimidate the 60 million Americans who voted against Obama.

More on Those Dangerous 'Right-Wing Extremists'.  Our review and monitoring of public meetings and publications in Virginia have brought to our attention two individuals who fit these profiles and who, in our informed law enforcement opinion, are right-wing extremists who pose an imminent danger to the United States, particularly the federal government.

House Democrat Crafts Alternative on Probe of DHS 'Right-Wing' Report.  Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee have crafted a plan to partially block Republicans demands that the Department of Homeland Security explain why it compiled a study that cast "right-wing groups" as a potential terrorist threat.  House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson has drawn up a resolution that would require DHS to explain to Congress why it created the warning about "right-wing" groups.  His proposal doesn't go as far as a Republican plan that asks for documents and source material that justified the threat assessment.

Government Of, By and For the Politicians.  If you're among the millions of Americans a report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tarred as terrorists last month, you probably rejoiced on Tuesday when a Congressional committee voted to investigate this libel.  But don't pop the bubbly just yet.



Obama's stealthy moves toward gun control

In the words of Dr. Peter Hammond, "Just as criminals prefer unarmed victims, tyrants prefer disarmed citizens.  A government that does not trust its citizens with weapons cannot be trusted with power."*

Thomas Jefferson had the same idea centuries earlier when he said, "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."*

President Obama apparently understands this concept, and has been quietly making a few arrangements that will make it much more difficult and expensive to purchase firearms and ammunition.  If you don't already own a gun and plenty of ammo, Mr. Obama's plans will likely affect you.

More information about Obama and his anti-gun stance can be found here.

It is worth noting also that gun sales have skyrocketed since Obama was elected.  Evidently there are many people who trust Mr. Obama as little as I do.

Brass Facts:  Every year, the federal government buys massive amounts of ammunition, primarily to meet the needs of the military.  For years, the government has been recouping part of its ammunition expenses by reselling the used casings to remanufacturers. ... Well, all that is changing.  The Obama administration is changing the rules on re-selling used bullet casings.  From now on, they cannot be sold for remanufacturing, but rather must be liquidated at scrap value.

Wonder why vets and shooters are suspicious of Obama?  The bad ideas just keep Twittering out of the Obama administration, and some of them are so ridiculous that even the Democrats who rule the congressional roost are squawking back. ... Given that this administration is all abuzz with going green, crushing a perfectly recyclable product runs afoul of the "reduce, reuse, recycle" mantra of environmentalists.  It's difficult not to assume that someone new in Defense wanted to reduce the national supply of ammunition by removing the ability to reuse fired brass.

Are You Hoarding Ammo?  As I was walking through the ammunition aisle at my local Bass Pro Shops, I muttered to the man standing next to me how disappointingly empty the shelves were.  "Not as bad as last week," he said.  I shouldn't have been surprised.  Back in February, Cabelas, a publicly-traded outdoor outfitter saw its stock go up 35% in one day when earnings blew away estimates because of very strong "sales of firearms and related accessories."

Obama Gunning for the Second Amendment.  Gordon Hutchinson reports at a blog called The Shootist that Obama has just disallowed the Department of Defense (DOD) from selling spent brass shell casings to manufacturers of ammunition for the civilian market.  This means that these companies will now have to buy new brass and produce their own shell casings, a much more expensive — and wasteful — proposition.  Obviously, this will raise the cost of ammo and, some say, reduce the supply.  Not only that, this is just the first of two steps (that I'm aware of) designed to remove ammo from the hands of Americans.

New laws on the minds of gun owners.  Wanenmacher's Tulsa Arms Show was already billed by organizers as the "world's largest gun show," but the recent change in the White House appears to have made it even bigger.

Gun sellers see boost with Obama in office.  President Barack Obama is the best thing to happen to American gun and ammunition manufacturers since they invented the Defense Department.  Convinced that Obama is going to seek drastic limitations on gun ownership and huge taxes on ammunition, people who view the world through Second Amendment glasses are cleaning out handgun ammunition from the shelves of outdoors stores across America and buying handguns and even some rifles like they're going out of style.

Definition of 'assault weapon' lost on lawmakers.  A month-and-a-half ago, and only a day after Attorney General Eric Holder came out with talk of renewing the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban, [Nancy] Pelosi said she had not spoken to Holder about the ban, and acted surprised and upset about talk of a renewed weapons ban.  The Speaker of the House put on her famous frown and said no one had consulted her and that the United States would do well to enforce the laws it already has.  Spoken like an eminently experienced politician who has her nose to the wind.

Let's All Surrender Our Weapons — You First!  The rash of recent shooting incidents has led people who wouldn't know an AK-47 from a paintball gun to issue demands for more restrictions on guns.  To be sure, it's hard to find any factor in these shootings that could be responsible — other than the gun.

Misrepresenting Mexican Gun Origins.  Fox News has completely blown apart the mantra being chanted by politicians and the news media that 90 percent of the guns used in crimes in Mexico come from the United States.  Fact is, says Fox News, only about 17 percent are trickling in from north of the border, and some of those legally.  Why such a disparity in the numbers?

Guns in short supply as sales shoot higher.  Brian Camp can't find all the guns he needs.  That's not good for Camp because he runs a gun shop.  Big Daddy's Sports Haven in Deerfield Township reopened Friday [4/10/2009] after more than two months of remodeling to find perhaps the biggest guns and ammunition shortage since World War II.  "I had one old lady come in," Camp said Friday of one customer looking for a gun.  "I called five different distributors, including the two biggest in the country.  They had seven handguns left in stock.  Seven.  That's it."

Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns.  After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program.  No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings.  Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.

Obama Blasted for Diverting Money From Armed Pilots Program.  A Second Amendment group is blasting the Obama administration for quietly seeking to end the program that allows pilots — after special training — to carry guns in the cockpit.  The move will make air travel more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, something that should outrage travelers, said the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said.

Fears of tighter gun laws drive up local demand.  Since the election of President Barack Obama, local businesses have struggled to meet consumer demand for guns and ammunition due to what some dealers say is a fear of more stringent gun laws.  Though the surge in sales initially helped anyone in the Arkansas River Valley who sells guns and ammo, one business owner said it has turned into a double-edged sword due to increased prices and an inability to obtain what his customers want.

Obama's End Run on the Second Amendment.  Long before he was the president of the United States or even the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama made his opposition to the Second Amendment of the Constitution painfully clear.  As a director of the Joyce Foundation for eight years (1994-2002), Obama participated in the creation and funding of prohibitionist-minded anti-gun groups to the tune of millions of dollars.  This fact does not surprise the millions of Americans who have responded to the threat by purchasing millions of firearms since the president was elected and who purchased at least 1.5 billion rounds of ammunition in December alone.

Do Democrats Want to Take Our Guns?  Both history and experience teach us that few things are as integral to freedom as guns.  Therefore, when liberal politicians push for more gun control, freedom-loving Americans panic because they know that an assault on guns is an assault on freedom.  Our Founding Fathers were confident of the connection between guns and freedom, and they were convinced that the American people were freer than others because of the right to keep and bear arms.

Democrats hang fire on guns.  There is one thing that can be said of President Obama with certainty — his election has had a phenomenal effect on gun sales.  Across the country, ammunition prices are soaring and many guns are in short supply as weapons fly off the shelves at stores.  This is a telling economic indicator about consumer confidence as many Americans stock up for fear that the end is nigh.

Demand for Concealed Carry Inexplicably Up Since Obama Election.  If you'll remember, a couple weeks ago Democrats and anti-gun advocates painted concealed carry permit holders as dangerous crazies who are likely to go on shooting sprees.  Obviously, this means that are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of crazy people in America — men and women, young and old!  And, in their delusional state, they seem to think Democrats will restrict their Second Amendment rights.  I wonder why?

Gun Control By Way Of Health Reform.  More than a decade ago Congress, seeing it as a backdoor assault on the 2nd Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms, voted to cut funding for firearms research by the Centers for Disease Control.  Such research was viewed as one-sided and based on flawed assumptions that all gun use was bad, even that which saved lives and deterred crime.  The National Institutes of Health seemed to have picked up the baton by funding similar studies of gun violence as a public health issue.

Fear of gun limits fuels a burst of demand for bullets.  Since President Obama's election, demand for guns and ammunition has skyrocketed.  Gun shops have trouble keeping bullets in stock.

Obama And ACORN Officials Set Sights On Gunowners.  ACORN, the publicly funded national organization linked to voter fraud in several states, is now actively interfering with the exercise of firearm civil rights in New Jersey, and the Second Amendment Foundation is calling for an immediate federal investigation. ... "ACORN has, since 1998, received an estimated $31 million in government funding," said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb.  "Now they have intervened in a New Jersey gun rights case in defense of an illegal Jersey City one-gun-a-month ordinance that violates the state preemption statute."

Obama era triggers gun 'panic'.  The US is in the grip of an ammunition shortage, thanks to a combination of factors — the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have diverted production at factories, and old-fashioned stockpiling as private gun owners throughout the US fear the Obama Administration will move to limit gun ownership or tax ammunition heavily.  "Since the election, everyone's in a panic," says John Gilronan, of J&C Sales, one of the ammunition sellers.  "They didn't announce it officially, but the rumour is that they were going to raise the excise tax on it 500 percent.

Gun sales soar amid fears of Barack Obama weapons ban.  President Barack Obama may never have fired a gun but he is turning out to be one of the best firearms salesmen in American history.  "I've sold probably four times as much in the last six months as I have in 20 years combined," said Cliff Hunter, owner of Tommy Bronson Sporting Goods in Memphis.  "Hand guns and the tactical weapons, they're absolutely off the charts."

Is Barack Obama Anti-American?  [Scroll down slowly]  Unlike citizens at all other times and in all other places, Americans can protect these broad rights with firepower, because the Second Amendment grants them the right to bear arms on their own soil, a right entirely separate from the military's obligation to protect American citizens from foreign enemies.  Given that the Second Amendment was ratified on the heels of a successful revolution, the Founders manifestly intended that Americans, protected by the military abroad, were free to protect themselves from their own government at home.  (To appreciate this right fully, remember that one of the first things the Nazis did was to make private arms illegal, especially for Jews.)

Another 1,000,000+ Guns Added to American Homes in August.  Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,074,757 checks in August 2009, a 12.3 percent increase from the 956,872 reported in August 2008.  So far that is roughly 9,076,205 gun bought this year!  The total is probably more as NICS background checks may cover the purchase of more than one gun at a time.

Here's an easy explanation for the flurry of gun purchases:
 On the Second Amendment, Don't Believe Obama.  Barack Obama opposes four of the five Supreme Court justices who affirmed an individual right to keep and bear arms.  He voted against the confirmation of Alito and Roberts and he has stated he would not have appointed Thomas or Scalia.  Barack Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting.  Barack Obama has endorsed a 500% increase in the federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition.  Barack Obama has endorsed a complete ban on handgun ownership.  Barack Obama supports local gun bans in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other cities.  Barack Obama voted to uphold local gun bans and the criminal prosecution of people who use firearms in self-defense.

Bullets are speeding faster out of gun shops in U.S..  In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition.  The most obvious sign of their demand:  empty ammunition shelves.  At points during the past year, bullets have been selling faster than factories could make them.  Gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition in the past year, industry officials estimate.  That's up from 7 billion to 10 billion in a normal year.

More about gun control issues in general.


"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.  They are the American people's liberty teeth and the keystone under independence.  The rifle and pistol are equally indispensable.  The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that is good."
— George Washington    



All this adulation is a bit much

All Must Love Obama.  In a little over four years, Obama went from being an obscure Illinois State Senator to the most beloved man in the world.  In the year since Obama's election this orgy of adoration has continued unabated with schoolchildren singing his praises, the Nobel Committee bestowing him with its highest honor and National Endowment of the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman calling him the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar.

The Making of a Fuehrer:  When cheering for someone turns into adulation, something is wrong.  Excessive adulation is indicative of a personality cult.  The cult of personality is often created when the general population is discontent.  A charismatic leader can seize the opportunity and project himself as an agent of change and a revolutionary leader.  Often, people, tired of the status quo, do not have the patience to examine the nature of the proposed change.

Obama and the Spirit of Antichrist:  [Scroll down]  CNN went so far as to compare Obama's inauguration to the Hajj — the journey by Muslims to the holy city of Mecca, an obligatory pilgrimage that demonstrates their dedication to Allah.  In Des Moines, Iowa, an inaugural parade for Obama included a simulation of the triumphant entry of Christ in which a facsimile of Obama rode upon a donkey.  As the reproduction made its way down the streets, palm branches were handed out to onlookers so that they could wave them like Christ's adorers did in the 21st chapter of Matthew.

Obama's ties to the Nation of Islam:  Jeremiah Wright, Obama's esteemed pastor for 20 years, came out of a Nation background.  Recently he accepted protection from an NOI security detail, and has praised Louis Farrakhan, the NOI's leader, as one of the "giants of the African American religious experience."  Wright's church celebrated Farrakhan for his having "truly epitomized greatness."  Farrakhan himself endorsed Obama, calling him "the hope of the entire world," "one who can lift America from her fall," and even "the Messiah."

Obamamania is making me nauseous.  Don't get me wrong.  I like Barack Obama.  I think he'll be way better as president than the other guy would have been.  Obama is young, smart and inspiring.  New generation of leaders, America's first black head of state, all that.  Wonderful.  But really, the spin and fuss about the new guy's coming inauguration, particularly in Canada, is becoming more than a little nauseating.  Have we no shame?

We Will Not Surrender!  We're not buying the unconstitutional financial, industry and homeowner bailouts for one second; we're not buying amnesty, bilingual education, health care and safety net benefits for illegal aliens that break our laws; we're not buying radical environmental laws that render constitutionally protected property rights non-existent, or lock up millions of acres of land for UN biospheres and wildlife corridors at the expense of all Americans but mostly private landowners; we're not buying national health care that will seriously deteriorate health care in America and add to our national debt; we're not buying proposed or ratified treaties that dilute, diminish or extinguish our sovereignty, (like the Law-of-the-Sea Treaty, or the North American Union), and we are certainly not buying the words of the traitors who promote the one-world-order, over American sovereignty.

President Oxybarama.  This half-Luo tribesman from Hawaii whose African father had no connection whatsoever with the West African ancestors of American slaves, was not imbued, but rather hued, with significance.  His melanin carried the meaning, which is to say that he was judged by the color of his skin rather than the content of his character, in a precise reversal of Martin Luther King Jr's famous phrase.  America's African Americans, who have failed to produce a credible leader in the two generations since the Civil Rights Act of 1965, broke America's last color bar, hailed this carpetbagger as a savior.

Jackie Mason:  People Are Worshipping Obama More Than God.  According to Mason, "Mao Tse Tung wasn't so venerated and people weren't so fearful of disagreeing with him as the Congress of the United States including the Republicans who are afraid to disagree with anything he says or does because they'll be called a racist."

A Nation Tottering Close To Political Idolatry.  With all the fanatical behavior being exhibited, one must stop to ask would this devotion reach such a fever pitch if Obama was White or, even more importantly, conservative?

Obama raises heart rates, lowers expectations.  How dazzling is President Obama?  So dazzling that he didn't merely give a dazzling inaugural speech.  Any old timeserving hack could do that.  Instead, he had the sheer genius to give a flat dull speech full of the usual shopworn boilerplate.  Brilliant!  At a stroke, he not only gently lowered the expectations of those millions of Americans and billions around the world for whom his triumphant ascendancy is the only thing that gives their drab little lives any meaning ... .

Introducing 'Pocket Obama':  Must-have Anthology of Obama Quotes.  Just in case you can't get through a day without some refreshing and uplifting words from the new president, the History Company has created the "Pocket Obama."  This is a tiny, pocket-sized book filled with "quotations borrowed from Barack Obama's speeches and writings."  According to its creators, "It is an unofficial requirement for every citizen to own, to read, and to carry this book at all times."  I kid you not.

An Uneasy Feeling.  I distilled from the press coverage and the crowds and the punditry yesterday that for all too many suddenly a vote for Obama redeems America.  Now, to paraphrase Michelle Obama, for the first time in their lives they are apparently proud of the United States. ... So I am surprised that suddenly the election of a single individual means that we are united, patriotic, proud of America?  Suddenly Okinawa or Antietam, or all those who died at the Argonne, are ours to claim again?

After less than a week in office, Barack Obama's approval rating plunges 15 points.  Barack Obama might have been in office for less than a week, but the euphoria is beginning to wane.  The new President's approval ratings have fallen from a stratospheric 83 percent to a more modest — although still impressive — 68 percent.

Barack fools us.  [Scroll down]  Even so, the people spoke.  A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups.  A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere.  A victory for the cult of the cult.  A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth.  Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.

Obama's ratings drop 15 points.  Barack Obama's approval ratings have nosedived by 15 points after only six days in office, according to a new poll.  The Gallup poll shows that reality is setting in for the new US President after the euphoria that greeted his inauguration last Tuesday.  But his ratings still stand at an impressive 68 percent despite the fall.

Obama's Little Red Book.  Well, actually it's blue, but that doesn't diminish the Pocket Obama's creepy resemblance to Mao's Little Red Book. ... What exactly justifies this cultish adoration of a man who hasn't been president for even a week?

Time to Beam Down to Earth, President Obama.  We are already seeing that simplistic polarity was infantile — even if the enthralled media desperately wanted to believe in the mythology. ... Obama should decide quickly whether to beam back down to earth.  If he doesn't, at some point even a sympathetic media won't be able to warn him that his all-too-human actions are beginning to make a mockery of his all too holy sermons.

Obamamania sparks changes.  "Good morning, Barack Obama Elementary School!"  That is what children attending the former Ludlum Elementary in Hempstead, New York have been hearing ever since the local school district board voted unanimously to change the name to honour the United States' first black president.  Barack Obama took office barely 10 days ago, but already schools and streets are being renamed.  In the Hempstead case they didn't even wait until Inauguration Day ... .

Sacred Secularism.  Many folks have pointed out that Barack Obama has been treated by his supporters in and out of the media like a new messiah, the savior, the chosen one.  Many other folks, including me, thought that this was not only sacrilegious but a case of downright overblown rhetorical politics.  Now I'm not so sure.

How Obama Stimulates Feminists.  Barack Obama is the first affirmative action president in our nation's history and the evidence for his being so is overwhelming.  Throughout the course of his rise to the pinnacle of American power, he was benefited time and again from the hand of identity politics.  Obama's fairytale life is a Shangri-la fabricated from society's obsessions with oppression. ... Indeed, he is a beacon of promise for all who covet unearned riches.

The con artists have taken over the asylum.  While the Obama Cabinet choices suggest this is already among the more ethically questionable administrations in modern history, that's not even a particularly big deal in my eyes.  The most disturbing thing going on in America today is the art world's complete and utter totalitarian behavior toward the new president.

Illustration courtesy Chicago Sun-Times
Illustration courtesy Chicago Sun-Times
How many of these temporary plates will be used past the 60 day limit?

State unveils Barack Obama license plates.  Can't get enough of Barack Obama?  How about an Obama license plate?  Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White today unveiled an "Illinois Salutes Barack Obama" temporary license plate, which can be used for 60 days beginning Tuesday.

Obama Worship and the Herd Mentality:  Despite pledges of being an open and ethical administration, and despite Obama's promise of a lobbyist-free administration, we now see a long string of ethically questionable Democrats and lobbyists connected to Obama's past and his present nominated for lucrative jobs within his administration.  Yet there are no complaints from the left, who were so caustic over George W. Bush's ethical failings.  Obama can do no wrong in their eyes.  The transition is remarkable but predictable.

Denver archbishop warns against 'spirit of adulation' surrounding Obama.  Canadians packed St. Basil's Church in Toronto on Monday evening [2/23/2009] to hear Archbishop Charles Chaput speak about how Catholics should live out their faith in the public square.  He warned that in the U.S., Catholics need to act on their faith and be on guard against "a spirit of adulation bordering on servility" that exists towards the Obama administration.

He'll Only Break Your Heart.  I owed it to you to give him a chance.  I watched him.  I listened to him.  I read about him.  And as I learned who he really was and what he really wanted, it became harder and harder for me to bite my tongue.  It was too much to hope that you would see this on your own, and now it's time someone told you what you need to hear.  You hang on his every word.  Each of his silver-tongued pronouncements takes you higher, draws you closer, beckons you to drink deeper.  You want to believe the promises of a better life, of being whisked away to a place where danger can't find you, of a place where your heart can stay intact.  He promises you the world and he gives you something to believe in.

Professor Barack Who?  During the presidential campaign, I alternately ground my teeth and laughed uproariously every time I heard Barack Obama described as a "former professor of constitutional law" on the basis of several years of part-time lecturing at the University of Chicago Law School.  Obama supporters assured us that never had any presidential candidate before Obama been so wise, so learned, so scholarly in his knowledge of the U.S. Constitution.

The Celebrity President.  Americans have a long-standing infatuation with celebrities. ... The emergence of Barack Obama marries American popular culture and American politics.  Unfortunately, as a result, mounting evidence suggests that up to this point the general public has disconnected Obama the celebrity from Obama the politician.

Obama:  The Hollow Man.  [Scroll down]  This point may say more about Obama's supporters than the man himself.  His fans — and "fans" is certainly the right word — don't look on him as a manager they've hired to make sure the Department of Housing and Urban Development keeps its graft to a minimum.  They regard him as spiritual leader. ... Political cults of personality are bad for another reason, besides their intellectual shallowness.  They blur the proper distinctions between public and private life. ... The blurring of public and private realms, such as we see in the idolatry of public figures as if they were revered family members or respected religious leaders, is a troubling sign for liberty.

100 days in office, coronated Messiah.  On his 100th day in office, President Obama will be "crowned" in messianic imagery at New York City's Union Square.  Artist Michael D'Antuono's painting "The Truth" — featuring Obama with his arms outstretched and wearing a crown of thorns upon his head — will be unveiled on April 29 at the Square's South Plaza.

Suckers United for Change.  [Scroll down]  Anyone with a single grain of common sense saw right through the man with the postage-stamp sized resume the first day he announced his bid for the presidency.  And as exit polling demonstrated beyond any doubt, Obama voters were so swept-off-their-feet they didn't even know the basic facts about the candidates last year.  They voted with their feelings, their fancies, and their fools' gold blinders.  Were they just old fashioned ninnies?  Or were they actually brainwashed?

Obama criticism shuts down conversation.  If you want to stop a conversation in its tracks, just question something President Barack Obama has said or done.  It's not open to debate — and I don't think that's healthy, for the country or the president. ... One example:  Obama's comment to Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show," comparing his bowling abilities to someone in the Special Olympics.  Can you imagine the uproar had Bush said that?

St. Paul School wants to change name to Obama.  A St. Paul elementary school has voted to officially change its name to "Barack and Michelle Obama Service Learning Elementary," pending approval of the school board. ... The Webster school name has been around since the 1880s, even though the current Webster building was built in 1925.  The school is named after statesman Daniel Webster.

An Unhealthy Infatuation With Obama.  [Scroll down slowly]  The infatuation matters because Obama's ambitions are so grand.  He wants to expand health care subsidies, tightly control energy use and overhaul immigration.  He envisions the greatest growth of government since Lyndon Johnson. ... Are his proposals practical, even if desirable?  Maybe they're neither.

Antigua's 'Mount Obama' to be national park.  Antigua plans to do more than just rename its highest peak to honor President Barack Obama.  Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer says his government wants to create Mount Obama Monument and National Park with a new network of hiking trails.

Nearer, My God.  When Gerard Baker a year ago wrote in the Times of London that Barack Obama had "Ventured Forth to Bring Light to the World," it was widely acknowledged to be a clever satire, but this past week we have broken new ground in divinity politics. ... Religious tradition tells us that God created man in His image, but the press has created this God in its image — diverse, multilateral, and nonconfrontational.  He is cool, hip, urbane, and extremely un-Texan.  He is all that the Fourth Estate values in life, and aspires to be in its own private dealings.  He is all it holds dear.

America's Fatal Attraction:  Excuse my mastery of the obvious, but I have to believe the greatest obstacle to America's return to policy sanity is the electorate's cultish adoration of Barack Obama. ... I don't quite understand how people, especially religious people, can place their trust for salvation in a fellow mortal, but history shows they do, and present-day America shows they are. ... The mainstream media are his biggest institutional enablers, drooling over his every utterance, irrespective of his many contradictions, his assaults on the Constitution and our liberties, and his spate of broken promises.

Obama's Top Five Health Care Lies:  President Barack Obama walked into the Oval Office with a veritable halo over his head.  In the eyes of his backers, he could say or do no wrong because he had evidently descended directly from heaven to return celestial order to our fallen world.  Oprah declared his tongue to be "dipped in the unvarnished truth."  Newsweek editor Evan Thomas averred that Obama "stands above the country and above the world as a sort of a God."  But when it comes to health care reform, with every passing day, Obama seems less God and more demagogue, uttering not transcendental truths, but bald-faced lies.

Gathering My Thoughts.  As far as I'm concerned, respecting the office of the president has nothing to do with loving America and everything to do with the man occupying the White House.  The way I see it, it makes no sense to respect a man whom I believe is single-handedly destroying the country simply because he won a beauty contest last November.  Furthermore, I'm getting tired of hearing what a magnificent orator he is.

'We want him to rule all African countries'.  In flip-flops, a faded old T-shirt and ragged trousers, Abraham Laeyea looked the image of Africa's frustrating, dispiriting poverty.  "We like Obama," he said.  "We want him to come and rule all African countries.  He brings hope but we need employment, jobs for the youth."

Even Wide Awake, I'm Having Nightmares.  [President Obama] is doing his best to destroy our industries with Cap and Trade; bankrupt our economy with trillion dollar stimulus bills; bring Cuban-style socialized medicine to America; turn a blind eye to nuclear-armed enemies; fund a criminal organization like ACORN with taxpayer dollars; allow the DNC to take control of the census; threaten to silence the opposition through the so-called Fairness Doctrine; and do everything but fly the hammer-and-sickle from the roof of the White House, and yet let him be photographed holding hands with Michelle and the kids, and millions of us seem ready to give him a "Well done!" and a friendly pat on the back.

Antigua's highest peak renamed 'Mount Obama'.  Antigua's highest mountain officially became "Mount Obama" on Tuesday [8/4/2009] as the small Caribbean nation celebrated the American president on his birthday and saluted him as a symbol of black achievement.

Debate Heats Up Over Renaming Of Dallas Schools.  The debate to rename two Dallas schools after President Barack Obama and newly sworn-in Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor is heating up.  Much of the focus has been on the call to add Mr. Obama's name to a much-loved south Dallas school.

Obama and the Cult of Personality:  [George Washington] set the country on a democratic course that would explicitly reject the cult of personality. ... Perhaps for the first time in our history since Washington, the nation's present leader has come to power through the cult of personality, except this time he appears to welcome and encourage the movement surrounding him rather than reject it, as Washington did, in the interests of democracy.  Barack Obama ran a campaign largely based on personal charisma as well as the promise of "change."

The Theological Virtue of Obama.  For quite a while now, there has been an excessive embrace of Obama, sometimes bordering on reverence, from Europeans literally hailing him as their Messiah to schoolchildren singing songs of praise to their dear leader.  Have you seen the Obama "prayer candles?"  How about the crucified Obama? ... To observe Americans putting their "hope" in Obama, and even making Obama hope, is troubling.  Sadly, though, this is a logical, inevitable conclusion of an increasingly secular left that seeks salvation in politics rather than conventional forms of religion.

Do Not Blame Barack.  Contrary to what my title indicates, I probably judge Barack Obama more harshly than most reading this page.  I don't think he is just a misguided ideologue or merely a creature of expediency.  I believe, practically speaking, he is an evil man.  That is to say, while he is largely ignorant like so many others, he has developed an affinity for evil.  He mistakes it for good. ... [But] without millions of fawning Americans, he would just be a community agitator, vainly preaching Alinsky principles from a soapbox.

Michelle Obama, joins Barack, gets action figure.  The toy company that created the Barack Obama action figure has done the same for his wife, Michelle — but don't even think about calling her a sidekick.

Dreams of their Fathers.  The popularity of Barack Obama with the nation's youth is attributable to the success in weaning children from the authority of their parents; Obama acts surrogate.  He's hip, cool (unlike their parents) yet speaks with authority and seeming moral righteousness, it should be pointed out.  Our young desperately seek someone to represent authority and virtue to them; they have been taught to ignore it in their homes, so seek it from celebrities, with Obama tapping into that fundamental need.

He Came, He Saw, He Kowtowed.  It seems Rocco Landesman, the head of the National Endowment for the Arts, didn't get the memo, literally. ... By demonstrating with brazenly self-abasing ignorance that he is wholly Obama's man, Landesman is making it clear that the NEA is completely committed to Obamaism.  There's no need for any more of Mr. Sergant's tacky, Chicago-style pay-to-play.  Self-humiliation sends a far more powerful signal.  No doubt the provincial official has pleased his Caesar.


The Obama Highway — one of many!

Should I-20 be named the Barack Obama Freeway?  Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas) has proposed a bill that names Interstate 20 between Dowdy Ferry Road and Mountain Creek Parkway as the President Barack Obama Freeway.  The bill — SB 1510 — will be considered in a public hearing before the Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Monday April 6 at the Capitol.

Testimony Against Naming Freeway After Barack Obama.  Choosing this name for the freeway does not reflect the values of the Texans that will drive on it.  President Obama did not carry the state of Texas.  His extreme liberal views on the issues of Life, Taxes, and Global Government are not shared by the majority of Texans.

YCT Oppose Barack Obama Freeway Bill (SB 1510).  "We should be naming highways after people who have done things for Texas, not Chicago machine politicians trying to do things to Texas," said Laura Elizabeth Morales, Senior Vice Chairman of YCT [Young Conservatives of Texas].

Texas Lawmakers Propose Renaming Interstate Highway After Obama.  [Senator Royce] West's measure attempts to bypass current laws which state that Texas freeways are named only in honor of 'deceased people,' and only people who 'were significant in the state's history, or in the lives of people in this state.'  Opponents, like Laura Elizabeth Morales of the Young Conservatives of Texas, joked that any road named after Obama should be a toll road, with tolls that 'increase with a driver's income.'

The Prospect of Variable Toll Collection on the Obama Highway.  Laura Elizabeth Morales has humorously suggested that if there is to be a highway named after Mr. Obama, it should be a toll road.  (I would suggest perhaps a toll road that runs headlong into an inescapable abyss, a black hole, or an enormous pit of quicksand.)  Ms. Morales further suggested that the toll should "increase with a driver's income."  That's an amusing quip, but upon further consideration, such a system is not impossible.



President for life?

All the adulation (noted in the subsection immediately above) can lead to dangerous consequences, and it would, if Congressman Jose Serrano had his way.  This just goes to show that liberals are out of step with the American mainstream.

Proposed repeal of the 22nd Amendment.  Introduced by Rep. Jose Serrano [D, NY].

Democrat Proposes Repealing 22nd Amendment on Presidential Term Limit.  This bill was introduced into the Judiciary Committee on January 6 (first day of the 111th Congress) and has no co-sponsors.  Before anyone starts freaking out, remember that a bill such as this must first make it out of committee, then be passed by two-thirds of the House and Senate, then be passed by three-fourths of the States before actually happening.  Regardless, this simply goes to show that the minority party or individual (the smallest minority there is) should always have their rights respected so as to provide a check against the majority.

Hail King Obama:  President for life.  As Inauguration Day approaches and Barack Obama prepares to assume his first term as president, some in Congress are hoping to make it possible for the Democrat to not only seek a second term in office, but a third and fourth as well.  The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary is considering a bill that would repeal the Constitution's 22nd Amendment prohibiting a president from being elected to more than two terms in office.

King of America!  And you wondered why this country is in the shape it is in today!  The sheer idiocy of such a move is breath taking.  But as long as we Americans continue to elect these clowns to lead us in the Congress, and in the office of President, this is the kind of country we will continue to have, until it implodes as it has nearly done in the past few weeks.

Getting started on term #2...
 Obama in perpetual campaign, Barbour says.  It's no coincidence President Obama has traveled to key swing states to push his massive stimulus measure, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Sunday.  Barbour, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Obama's recent travel is an indication that the new president is already running for reelection.

And term #3...
 Limbaugh:  Obama planning third term.  Rush Limbaugh stirred up some trouble today [6/30/2009] when he suggested Obama might have his sights on a third term:  "You have to wonder if Obama is just trying to lay a foundation for not being a hypocrite when he tries to serve beyond 2016.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if in the next number of years there is a move on the 22nd Amendment, which term limits the President of the United States."

What If It Happened Here?  Suppose, from a purely hypothetical standpoint, the crisis in Honduras was mimicked in the United States?  A fictional American president, lacking the votes in Congress and the judicial nod from the Supreme Court, circumvents the constitutional process and holds an illegal national referendum to repeal the 22nd Amendment — thus infinitely extending his potential for reelection.  The obvious legislative differences between the United States and Honduras aside, reactions would be nearly identical.  Members of the Armed Forces take a solemn oath to "support and defend the Constitution," not to a specific individual.

100 minutes in the life of Muammar Gaddafi.  [Scroll down]  "Terrorism is not just al-Qaida, it takes many forms."  In case the point was lost on anyone, he tore up his copy of the UN rule book.  Having thus abused and alienated 99.99% of the world's top diplomats, he suddenly changed tack, heaping praise and devotion on the one man he appears to respect.  "Now the black man doesn't have to sit in the back of the bus, the American people made him president and we are proud of that.  We would be happy if Obama stayed president of America forever."


Evidently Obama hates America

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