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Mitt Romney plans to turn himself into a one-man truth squad during the first  presidential debate next week, casting President Barack Obama as someone who  can’t be trusted to stick to the facts or keep his promises.

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(CNN) -- More than two weeks after four Americans -- including the U.S. ambassador to Libya -- were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, FBI agents have not yet been granted access to investigate in the eastern Libyan city, and the crime scene has not been secured, sources said.

"They've gotten as far as Tripoli now, but they've never gotten to Benghazi," CNN National Security Analyst Fran Townsend said Wednesday, citing senior law enforcement officials.

Last Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that an FBI team had reached Libya earlier in the week.

"In fairness to the secretary, it may be that she wanted to be coy about where they were in Libya for security concerns. That's understandable. But the fact is, it's not clear they've been in Libya for very long," Townsend said on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360°."

CNN and MSNBC Pundit Arrested for Vandalizing Anti-Muslim Ad In N.Y. Subway System

THIRSTY Thursday September 27, 2012 - The New York Post reported Egyptian-American columnist Mona Eltahawy has been arrested for defacing an anti-Muslim ad in the New York subway system. The video shows her spraying pink paint on the ad while a supporter of the ad tries to block her. She's a journalist for censorship.

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Taxpayers  spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year

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Is Romney's Tax Rate Really Lower Than Yours? 

Obama camp's claim Romney is taxed at a 'lower rate' than someone making $50G a year is open to debate

President Barack Obama is trying hard to win veterans, but it looks like  they’d prefer a new commander in chief.

The Obama campaign had been hoping that veterans and their families — especially among the post-Sept. 11 generation that served in Iraq and  Afghanistan — would be part of their path to victory: They’re a high turn-out  demographic and concentrated in battleground states, with nearly 1 million each  in North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia, and 1.6 million in Florida.

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(Also  on POLITICO: Mitt's transition efforts intensifying)

“It’s no contest,” said Maurice Tamman, a Reuters data news editor who has  polled on veterans and the presidential campaign.

Obama’s campaign has been trying to improve on a historical Democratic  disadvantage on national security and among veterans by touting the killing of  Osama bin Laden, ending Iraq combat operations and winding down the war in  Afghanistan. They’ve also been talking up the administration’s attention to  veterans’ benefits and efforts spearheaded by first lady Michelle Obama, hoping  to appeal not just to the troops but to the spouses and other military family  members who have coped with long separations and multiple deployments.

(Also  on POLITICO: Dan Senor: U.S. 'looks impotent')

Instead, even as Obama has been gaining in the overall polls, several  NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls conducted from Sept. 9-11 had Romney well  ahead of Obama among veterans in Florida, Ohio and Virginia. And in Colorado, a pollreleased Sept. 16 by SurveyUSA and the Denver Post  found both veterans and military families supporting Romney over Obama 53  percent to 39 percent in a survey that included third-party candidates.

Back in May, Obama had the lead among Afghanistan and Iraq veterans. But a  Reuters/Ipsos poll from September says that’s evaporated, with Romney now up 48  percent to 34 percent.

Obama campaign aides said the slip in the polls needs to be considered  alongside recent surveys showing the president ahead of Romney on questions  regarding foreign policy, leadership and keeping the country safe from terrorist  attacks. In the campaign’s final weeks, Obama will try to close the gap among  veterans by pressing Romney over several foreign policy stumbles as well as a  lack of specifics on his plans for troops.

(Also  on POLITICO: Lawmakers eyeing sequestion II?)

Ryan Williams, a Romney campaign spokesman, said the Republican’s lead among  veterans comes from their resistance to the looming potential defense cuts under  the budget sequester, problems with Obama’s foreign policy positions and the  backdrop of the stagnant economy that’s left the post-Sept. 11 generation of  Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with a difficult time finding work when they  return home.

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Editor’s note: The following report is the first in a Daily Caller series  revealing the opposition research Republican Jack Ryan planned to use in his  short-lived 2004 campaign for U.S. Senate against then-Illinois state Sen.  Barack Obama.

CHICAGO — “Obama Research,” reads the front covers of 22 three-ring binders  containing every ounce of opposition research prepared in 2004 by Republican  Jack Ryan’s campaign in his effort to stop then-Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama  from ever rising to the ranks of the U.S. Senate — and perhaps, by extension, to  the presidency.

But Ryan’s campaign never made it off the ground, dragged to its knees by a  Chicago Tribune-led lawsuit that publicly revealed Ryan’s messy 1999 custody  proceedings with actress and ex-wife Jeri Ryan. Those documents showed that Jeri  Ryan claimed her wealthy husband, a former investment banker, had brought her to  sex clubs around the globe, which led her to fall in love with another man.

In Wisconsin, high school athletes are complaining about not getting enough to eat each day, due to the skimpy new school lunch menu mandated by the United States Department of Agriculture and First Lady Michelle Obama. The story we published earlier this week on that subject is unfortunately not unique.  Students across the country are complaining about the new school lunch regulations. Perhaps the real motive is to starve students into slimming down.  Just ask students in Pierre, South Dakota who, too, are in an all-out revolt. "I know a lot of my friends who are just drinking a jug of milk for their lunch. And they are not getting a proper meal," middle school student Samantha Gortmaker told Keloland.com. Despite the fact that the new regulations have increased the cost of a lunch 20 to 25 cents per plate, it’s not pleasing students. Some are throwing away their vegetables while others are adapting to the rules by becoming industrious. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, students have created a black market - for chocolate syrup. The kiddie capitalists are smuggling in bottles of it and selling it by the squeeze, according to SouthCoastToday.com. Nancy Carvalho, director of food services for New Bedford Public Schools, was quoted as saying that hummus and black bean salads have been tough sells in elementary cafeterias. That means even smaller children are going through the day fighting hunger pains, which can never be considered a good thing. One government official tried to put the blame on the students. "One thing I think we need to keep in mind as kids say they're still hungry is that many children aren't used to eating fruits and vegetables at home, much less at school. So it's a change in what they are eating. If they are still hungry, it's that they are not eating all the food that's being offered," USDA Deputy Undersecretary Janey Thornton was quoted as saying. Ms. Thornton just put her finger on the problem. The government is trying to impose a new diet that children are not accustomed to. It’s not reasonable to expect them to either eat what the government deems healthy or go hungry. Many will opt to go hungry, and that’s the government’s fault.

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Pakistani Foreign Minister on anti-Muslim video: America should  'rethink' free speech - TheDC

Proxy battle: CNN poll on Muhammad depictions pits Muslims  against atheists

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Night Train Swimmer

On September 23, 2012, six swimmers will enter the San Francisco Bay and swim 339 miles to Santa Barbara in a relay. Our very own Katie Green will be swimming the first leg of the race. Three days later, multiple running relay teams will take-off to follow them along the coast - non-stop & approximately 400 miles total. Night Train is a group of open-water swimmers dedicated to raising money for charity through ultra-distance swimming events around the world. This year, the Night Train swimmers partnered with Semper Fi Fund. Donate today!

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Romney Wins at Univision Forum; Obama, Facing First Real Questions, Falls

Mitt Romney, at a campaign event in Florida on Thursday, said President Barack Obama had “thrown the white flag of surrender” and had changed his slogan from “Yes, we can” to “No, I can’t.” Romney's comments were in response to Obama’s interview with the Spanish-language station Univision earlier in the day.

As Carney Says 'Terrorist Attack,' Obama Still Cites Anti-Islam Film

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• White House spokesman says deadly attack on US Consulate in Libya was an act of terror, but President Obama seems to backtrack, appearing to stick by story anti-Islam film is to blame, as Pakistan holds national day of protest.

A provocative ad that says Support the Civilized Man, Support Israel, Defeat Jihad Defeat  is set to go up in the city's subway system as violent protests over an anti-Islamic film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad sweep over much of the Muslim world. Those signs have gone up in San Francisco and been defaced.
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And now for your tabloid news....

The Obama administration's initial account of the Libyan consulate attack didn't give the full story about two ex-Navy SEALs who helped repel the security breach until they were killed. Now officials are confirming those two heroes' real jobs at the embassy along with evidence of ties between the attack and al-Qaida.

Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel:  Romney must own ’47 percent’ argument 100 percent of the time.“An ever-shrinking number of Americans finance an ever-growing proportion of the government’s budget. The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who understands power politics. It’s always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up. . . .  Anyone who doesn’t think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn’t paying attention.”

Related:  Howie Carr:  “A huge percentage of Obama’s voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living.”

California's Prop. 31: The Revolution Will Not Be Publicized

Wednesday September 19, 2012 - We are two months away from fundamentally transforming the State of California, and barely anyone knows it. With a five to six point lead in the latest poll, Proposition 31 has a solid shot at passage. The measure is meant to bail out California¡¯s failing cities by creating regional super-governments empowered to raid and redistribute suburban tax money.

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If you pick up a robocall and don't answer, that is recorded as a vote for Obama. Sheesh. No wonder the polls have Obama in the lead, in some places.

This week marks the opening of the 67th session at United Nations Headquarters in New York.  I’m not a big fan of the U.N.; in fact I agree with former U.S. Ambassador John Bolton who once said, “There are 38 floors to the UN building in New York. If you lost 10 of them, it…

Time for Hollywood to pay its fair share–end the Hollywood tax cut

JIM TREACHER:  “If it can happen to me, it can happen to you. And if it does, your own government might just lie about it and then stonewall you for… Oh, let’s see… Two years, seven months, eleven days, and eighteen hours. And counting.  And hell, I didn’t even work for them. God rest your soul, Christopher Stevens. You tried to make the world a better place, the people you trusted let you down, and now they care about nothing but saving their own asses. You deserved better.  We all do.”

ZOMBIE:  Nakoula Arrest Photoshops:  Best Of The Best.

I like this one.  Er, if “like” is the right term.

And, of course, the perennial joke:

That one never fails.  Lots more at the link.

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A two point jump for Romney in the past 24 hours, shocking the mainstream media.

RASMUSSEN:  Romney 48, Obama 45.

Report: Hillary Ignored Warnings

Today, the Independent is reporting shocking details about the attack on the Libyan consulate that resulted in the death of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The details are so explosive that they will result in a Congressional investigation. In fact, they’re so explosive that they should result in the resignation of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The only question now: What did Hillary Clinton know, and when did she know it?              

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Violent Protests in Middle East Target Embassies, Pope's Visit to Lebanon

URGENT:Anti-American violence flares in Cairo and throughout the Middle East following attacks on US diplomatic posts on 9/11, as protesters reportedly break into German Embassy in Sudan and move toward US Embassy

Controversial Anti-Obama Billboard Now On Bumper Stickers,
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Report: Libyan Security Showed Radicals Where to Attack Ambassador (Warning: Graphic Photo)

 

In a sane world, this would be an act of war - when you have an American official kidnapped and dragged through Libyan streets by masses of Islamist extremists.

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WaPo/ABC poll shows no change in race from before convention

Sep 11, 2012 9:21 AM by Ed Morrissey

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Romney up 11 among likely independent voters.

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Debate her opponent? Diane Feinstein won’t even debate reporters asking if she’ll debate her opponent

Joe Biden and the bikers

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Deal Or New Deal?

Obama convention speech promises broad government role in Americans' lives

'Honey Boo Boo' and Bill Clinton's DNC Speech Tie in Rating.s

OBAMA HAMMERED IN FIRST REVIEWS...

both from the Left and from the Right.

FROM THE LEFT: TOMASKY: Pedestrian and Overconfident...

FROM THE RIGHT: KRAUTHAMMER: 'One Of The Emptiest I Have Ever Heard'...

No Obama Bump yet! The latest daily tracking poll found Republican Mitt Romney still clinging to a narrow lead of 45 percent to Obama’s 44 percent among likely voters.

Members of the media have apparently been using “fake” names to buy official Obama gear and contribute to the Obama campaign inside the Time Warner Cable Arena

Former Navy SEAL Team Six Commander Says Special Ops Assault on Obama Is Just Beginning

Is anyone fact-checking Joe Biden AND Barack Obama about his mother's so-called death bed battle for health care insurance  Some tall tales on the convention trail.

The original flip-flopper calls out Romney for flip-flopping -yes, we are talking about John Kerry.

Barney Frank is a cowardly bully, says gay Republican group -

PUTTING THE PARTY IN PARTY HACK:

Former Treasury secretary falls into hotel pool at DNC Happy Hour.

BREAKING HIS SILENCE:

Eastwood says his convention appearance was ‘mission accomplished.’ “A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.”

Democrats focus on equal pay issue while Obama White House pays women less - TheDC

20,000 Democrats cheer attacks on Romney's patriotism - TheDC

Julian Castro's 'progress' agenda for San Antonio: Reduce car use, triple bus ridership, double 'green jobs,' grow arts funding - TheDC

Dems Drop 'God' From Party Platform...
Jerusalem: Pro-Israel Language Removed...
Endorse taxpayer-funded abortions...
DNC Video: 'The Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To'...

First lady Michelle Obama lovingly praised her husband Tuesday night in a prime-time Democratic Convention speech as a devoted husband and caring father at home and a "man we can trust."

ABC News Poll: Obama’s Popularity Dips Underwater; For Romney, a Faint Favorability Bounce

Key SOLYNDRA figure 'ran for exit' after seeing ABCNEWS cameras on DNC floor...

THE CONVENTION OF LOST VAGINAS:

: Code Pink-er abandons vagina costume at DNC Planned Parenthood rally.

WHILE THE DEMOCRATS (AND MOST MEDIA FOLKS) PARTY ON OBLIVIOUSLY:

Power’s Still Out For Many After Isaac, And They’re Boiling.

UPDATE: In response to the uproar over his (below) comments Monday, California Democratic Party Chair John Burton issued this statement: “To correct press reports of my recent comments about Republican lies, I did not call Republicans Nazis nor would I ever. In fact, I didn’t even use the word. “If Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, or the Republicans are insulted by my describing their campaign tactic as the big lie – I most humbly apologize to them or anyone who might have been offended by that comment.”

Charlotte – Greetings from the California delegation breakfast at the DNC where before he had a cup of coffee Democratic Party Chair John Burton – much like his ol’ palGuv Jerry Brown once did– just compared the Republicans to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, for “telling the big lie,” a reference to several falsehoods GOP VP nominee Paul Ryan recently told.

“They lie and they don’t care if people think they lie… Joseph Goebbels – it’s the big lie, you keep repeating it,” Burton said Monday before the Blake Hotel breakfast. He said Ryan told “a bold-faced lie and he doesn’t care that it was a lie. That was Goebbels, the big lie.”

NobamaNevada goes national as Investors Business Dailywrites about it at

http://news.investors.com/article/623617/201208271658/tea-party-travels-to-campaign-in-swing-states.htm?p=full

The Nation is watching to see what role blue California will play in turning America red!

Be a part of NobamaNevada and join us as we precinct walk for Romney-Ryan in Reno on September 28th-29th.

Oh, no! Another Democratic senator in possible election trouble for 2012.

And from California already?

A new Field Poll just released this morning brings news that California's Sen. Dianne Feinstein is -- how can we put this in a liberal kind of way? -- approved by 41% of voters who want to see her reelected next year.

Unfortunately for her, more voters (fully 44%) disapprove of her continued employment in the U.S. Senate after 2012.

In blue California that makes for about a magnitude 5.2 quake.

The same poll finds that only 41% approve of Feinstein's job in Washington, while 39% disapprove.

That 41 approval number is the lowest the former mayor has ever had in her 20 years of no longer really living in California.

Another recent Field Poll showed many Californians are falling out of love with the teleprompter guy from Chicago. His California approval has slid below 50% for the first time ever, down to 46%.

That's a decline of about two points per month recently.

Is his slide now corroding the election prospects of even such party stalwarts as Feinstein?

Add to that the overall -- how can we say this in a polite way? -- disgust with the United States Congress (nine out of every 100 Californians now approve of those guys) and this could spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e for Democrats. They or independent allies need to lose only six seats to turn the Senate over to those people that Vice President Joe "#%$&*(@" Biden politely calls "barbarians."

Democrats next year are defending two-thirds of the 33 Senate seats on state ballots. Good luck with that at 9% unemployment.

In my imagination, I'm watching the Fox News shot of the press room at the White House, as a gaggle of MSM reporters clamor for the opportunity to question the leader of the most powerful nation on earth.

"Mr. President, Mr. President! Did you personally approve the $500 million dollar loan to Solyndra Corporation of Fremont, California? Did you know that your advisors had already warned that the deal was risky? Did you approve this loan personally? Did you profit personally, or others who have campaigned for you? What did you know about Solyndra and when did you know it? "

Okay, I've already snapped out of this ridiculous fantasty and returned to the real world where President Obama has no accountability and no one in the media wishes to force the tough questions.

The American born traitor who inspired the Fort Hood massacre is now taking the long dirt nap, thanks to the fierce fighters of our Air Force.

The hottest corner of hell has been reserved for eternity. Burn, Anwar, Burn.

SANAA, Yemen — Anwar al-Aulaqi, a radical U.S.-born Muslim cleric and one of the most influential al-Qaeda operatives wanted by the United States, was killed Friday in an airstrike in northern Yemen, authorities said, eliminating a prominent recruiter who inspired attacks on U.S. soil.

In Washington, a senior Obama administration official confirmed that Aulaqi is dead.

A U.S. counterterrorism official said intelligence indicates that the 40-year-old cleric, a dual national of the United States and Yemen, perished in an attack on his convoy by a U.S. drone and jet, the Associated Press reported.

The news agency later reported that a second U.S. citizen, who edited an al-Qaeda magazine, was killed with Aulaqi in the airstrike.

The Yemeni Defense Ministry, in a text message sent to journalists, announced that “the terrorist Anwar al- Aulaqi has been killed along with some of his companions,” but did not provide further details. Aulaqi has been falsely reported killed before. He has been the target of previous U.S. strikes and was quoted as laughing off an attempt to kill him in May.

In a separate e-mailed statement, the Yemeni government said Aulaqi was “targeted and killed” five miles from the town of Khashef in Yemen’s northern Jawf province, 87 miles east of the capital Sanaa. The attack, the statement said, was launched at 9:55 a.m. Friday local time.

While the Defense Ministry said Aulaqi was killed in Marib province, other government sources said he was killed in neighboring Jawf province.

A Yemeni security source, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said Aulaqi was killed in an airstrike, possibly by an unmanned American drone. The Obama administration in recent months has escalated the use of drones to target al-Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen and Somalia.

If true, Aulaqi’s death would be considered a significant victory in the U.S. war against global terrorism. It comes less than five months after U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, leader of the al-Qaeda network, in a raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

SHOCKER: Gun crime continues to decrease, despite increase in gun sales.

Despite increases in gun sales, gun crimes continued to decrease in the United States for the fourth straight year in 2010, according to the FBI.

The FBI recently released its Crime in The United States statistics for 2010. Overall, murders in the U.S. have decreased steadily since 2006, dropping from 15,087 to 12,996. Firearms murders — which made up 67 percent of all murders in the U.S. in 2010 — have followed this trend, decreasing by 14 percent.

At the same time that firearms murders were dropping, gun sales were surging. In 2009, FBI background checks for guns increased by 30 percent over the previous year, while firearms sales in large retail outlets increased by almost 40 percent. The number of applications for concealed carry permits jumped across the country as well.

Wow, you could write a book about this phenomenon, if you could just come up with a title or something.

It’s as if Solyndra never happened. The Obama Administration is giving $737 million to a Tonopah Solar, a subsidiary of California-based SolarReserve. PCG is an investment partner with SolarReserve. Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law happens to be the number two man at PCG.

Obama admires solar panels during a trip to Florida. (Yahoor)

Team Obama is spending $737 million to create 45 permanent jobs.
The Hill reported, via Free Republic:

The Energy Department announced Wednesday that is has finalized a $737 million loan guarantee for a Nevada solar project.

The decision comes several weeks after a California-based solar manufacturer that received a $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration in 2009 filed for bankruptcy and laid off 1,100 workers, setting off a firestorm in Washington.

The $737 million loan guarantee will help finance construction of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, a 110-megawatt solar-power-generating facility in Nye County, Nev. The project is sponsored by Tonopah Solar, a subsidiary of California-based SolarReserve.

Crescent Dunes is the latest solar project to receive a loan guarantee from the Energy Department in recent weeks. The department announced a $1.2 billion loan guarantee to Abengoa Solar for a solar generation project in California and a $150 million loan guarantee to 1366 Technologies for a Massachusetts solar manufacturing project earlier this month.

The Energy Department says the project will result in 600 construction jobs and 45 permanent jobs.

It looks like Rep. Allen West was right.
Obama IS trying to destroy the economy.

POLL SHOCK: OBAMA 39%, CAIN 34%

INDEED: Mitt? Rick? Herman? How much does it matter? “I am thinking more and more that the GOP presidential candidate is a distraction. Whoever it is will be better much than Mr. Obama, so don’t worry about it. Mr. Obama makes Mitt Romney look like George Washington. So, what does matter? Making sure we have a Tea Party Congress in 2012 is the most important thing.”

(Glenn Reynolds)

The gathering clouds on the political horizon are ominous, boiling up and roiling over for the Obama one-term Presidency. Write it down. Whenever there is a "gate" attached to a political scandal, there is no happy ending.

Some folks call him the Hefty Lefty, but I for one would never engage in such trash talk. I just like to repeat it. Sorry, I am a petty person at times. I'm workin' on it!

What we can say is that Chris Christy is giving the most important speech of his political career (so far) and it may signal a final resting place for some Republican Presidential aspirations for the tough talking New Jersey Governor.

Or not.

Apparently, that headline reflects the highest paid, most successful political consultant's strategy to re-elect Barack Obama to another term as President.

Bravo.

Did you know that 100,000 Cold Cases are languishing across America?

Did you know that 40,000 sets of human remains have never been identified?

On TV, Jerry Bruckheimer’s CSI cases are solved in 42 minutes, but tragically, our police departments are overwhelmed and undermanned. If we can't even name the murdered missing, how can their families get justice?

I have been working with some of the best homicide investigators in the country to form a new organization that you will be hearing more about - it's called "International Association of Cold Case Investigators." ( www.cold-case.org)

"IACCI are the best detectives in the world going after the worst criminals in the world, to solve some of the most complex ice-cold cases in the country," as Sgt. Mike Huff (ret.) explains.

Huff, along with Det. Mike Nance (ret.) Tulsa Police Department, Lt. Wayne Farquhar (ret.) San Jose, Ca. PD,  Jack Weakley (volunteer Tulsa Cold Case investigator) and dozens of other exceptionally qualified individuals from varying fields, are donating their time and efforts to name killers in cases that are forgotten in police departments across the country.

Maurice Kanbar, San Francisco's most generous philanthropist, made the first large dollar donation and has given IACCI meeting space in his Tulsa First Tower office complex.

This combination of high powered law enforcement talent and civilian volunteers is also going to offer training and accreditation to newly minted cops who need their knowledge. The gray guys are now balding guys, and retiring in droves.  The young guns need their help. IACCI has offers from Scotland Yard, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and includes forensic specialists as well as former FBI agents.

In 1978, 29-year old Louise Vilott, the first female attorney to work for Phillips Petroleum Company, was shot to death behind a locked door in one of Kansas City’s swankiest hotels. No one has ever been prosecuted for her brutul murder.

“Louise Vilott didn’t deserve to die. And her murder was easily solvable when it happened, but justice has been denied to her family,” said John Wylie, a former Kansas City Star reporter who has covered this tragedy.

I was a young radio reporter who happened to be on the scene when her bullet riddled body was found. I have worked 33 years to move this case forward for her 92-year old mother and her surviving sister. What did I learn?

The way investigations are conducted in this country needs to be super-sized and that’s exactly what IACCI intends to do – with your help.

Our portal to progress is our website - just up and running - and we are making daily improvements, but we need some financial contributions to expand its interactivity. Cold-Case.org will be a one-stop shop for victims families, law enforcement personnel, resources, advocacy and amateur sleuths.

We need your help to make our website the gold standard for Cold Case Investigations.

Join us in this historic effort. Your donation is  tax deductable.

Warmest Regards, Melanie Morgan

Co-Founder, International Association of Cold Case Investigators, former ABC News journalist and co-author of the best selling “American Mourning, The Intimate Stories of Two Families Joined by War, Torn by Beliefs.”

Yes, I'm spending the next few days out-of-town doing some detective work so feel free to make yourself at home... just make sure to clean up after yourselves. There is beer in the fridge.

Or just leave comments, explore the site, patronize some sponsors.

I'll be back in a few.

Approval Among Liberals Hits All-Time Low...


(via DrudgeReport.com)

Can you say "one-term President?" Because that's exactly what Barack Obama is about to become with this dangerous talk of jacking up taxes in the middle of the Great Recession.

Stupid is, as stupid does.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will propose $1.5 trillion in new taxes as part of a plan to identify more than $3 trillion in long-term deficit reduction and slow the nation's escalating national debt.

Obama's tax plan is aimed predominantly at the wealthy and draws sharp contrasts with congressional Republicans.

It comes just days after House Speaker John Boehner ruled out tax increases to lower deficits. It also comes amid a clamor in his own Democratic Party for Obama to take a tougher stance against Republicans. And while the plan stands little chance of passing Congress, its populist pitch is one that the White House believes the public can support.

The core of the president's plan totals just more than $2 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years. It combines the new taxes with $580 billion in cuts to mandatory benefit programs, including $248 billion from Medicare.

The administration also counts savings of $1 trillion over 10 years from the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The deficit reduction plan represents an economic bookend to the $447 billion in tax cuts and new public works spending that Obama has proposed as a short-term measure to stimulate the economy and create jobs. He's submitting his deficit fighting plan to a special joint committee of Congress that is charged with recommending deficit reductions of up to $1.5 trillion over 10 years.

In a defiant note, administration officials made clear Sunday that Obama would veto any Medicare benefit cuts that aren't paired with tax increases on upper-income people.

 Liberals are on their high horses about a single audience member at CNN's Republican debate whom they believe wanted a hypothetical man without health insurance in a hypothetical coma to die -- hypothetically.

(Democrats want people in comas to die only when they are not hypothetical but real, like Terri Schiavo.)

I concur with the audience member who shouted "Yes!" This has nothing to do with any actual people in comas -- the people Democrats want to kill -- it's just a big "screw you" to the moderator.

Following up on Brian Williams' showboating questions at last week's Republican debate about the execution of the innocent and starving children with distended stomachs, this week, CNN's Wolf Blitzer launched his question about an imaginary comatose man without health insurance.

As Rep. Ron Paul began to discuss the pitfalls of collectivism, Blitzer kept interrupting him, concluding with, "But Congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?"

That's when an audience member yelled out "Yes!" -- allowing liberals to luxuriate in self-righteousness, the likes of which we have not seen since the Jersey Girls demanded a Homeland Security Department be created because their husbands died.

Normal people are sick of liberals' emotional stories that play to soccer moms, but always seem to pave the way for disastrous social policies that benefit only left-wing special-interest groups.

Whenever liberals start loftily insisting on our obligation to our fellow man with these tear-jerkers, you know some heinous public policy is coming. As soon as the dust settles, you won't see any innocent victims being helped, only trial lawyers, government employees and other Democratic constituencies.

Obama campaigned for his national health care bill with a sad story about a campaign supporter who died of breast cancer soon after his election because -- he said -- she couldn't afford health insurance, so she didn't get a breast cancer scan in time to stop the disease. Read More »

New polling shows that California Senator Dianne Feinstein is vulnerable to a challenge from the right, and now we might actually see someone step up and do it.

Run, Michael, Run!

"...Two years ago, two major Republican campaigns swarmed the California GOP fall convention, confident that they could drum up the support to beat three-term incumbent Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer, who was considered vulnerable because of her low voter-approval ratings.

This year, as 1,000 GOP activists gather today in Los Angeles for their fall convention, things are different, as even the California Republican Party chairman has no idea who will take on 19-year-incumbent Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein next year - and no major candidates have stepped up.

But the landscape may change soon, analysts said, given Feinstein's recent campaign money problems and a Field Poll released today that gives one of California's most consistently popular politicians a 41 percent approval rating, the lowest of her Senate career.

One person considering a run, The Chronicle has learned, is Michael Reagan, a former conservative talk-radio host and the son of former President Ronald Reagan.

Republicans may consider a challenge to Feinstein less foreboding after the survey of 1,001 registered voters found that 39 percent disapprove of Feinstein's performance and 20 percent have no opinion.

For the first time since being elected to the Senate in 1992, a plurality - 44 percent - of Field Poll respondents were "not inclined" to vote for her while 41 percent were. The margin of error for the survey is plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.

At the same point before each of her three previous re-election bids, at least 52 percent of Field Poll respondents were inclined to support her.

Final note of the day on the subject of Michele Bachmann's appearance in Marin County: Shaky Hand Productions (aka) San Francisco political reporter Carla Marinucci, interviewed me this morning about the GOP field and the front-runner Mitt Romney.

I pulled up to the Marin County home of Bay Area Tea Party Patriot leader Sally Zelikovsky this morning for the breakfast fund-raiser for GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann.

I nearly fell off my spiked high heels.

The Peacock Gap home was surrounded by dozens of television camera crews and other media waiting for Bachmann's appearance.

News media in ultra-liberal Marin? Covering a Tea Party darling?

Hell has officially frozen over.

When Bachmann arrived, I introduced myself (again) to the Congresswoman. She remembered me from the Washington, D.C. emergency "housecall" rally where thousands showed up in a futile effort to stop Obamacare. Talk about retail politics! She's a natural!

Bachmann told the enthusiastic crowd of 150 she was so happy to be in Marin.

"I am so thrilled to be in Marin County. And to see so many Tea Party members is exciting, too.Here in Marin County, do not lose hope because I truly believe this will be a wave election," Bachmann said. "Marin County could go red, you guys."

Bachmann attacked President Obama over the now disgraced deal involving Solyndra Solar Company in Fremont that gambled half a billion dollars of taxpayers dollars, and the lack of a coherent policy in the Mideast. Her biggest applause line came when she affirmed her support for the state of Israel and castigated the President not doing the same. And she demanded that the "genocidal monster" Iranian President Achmadinjad be banned from the United Nations appearance and visit to Columbia University.

Bachmann heads for Hillsborough for another fundraiser later today, and then to Los Angeles for the California GOP convention on Friday.

News Alert! Conservatives watch TV and are measured by Arbitron ratings. That means that we watch commercials and patronize sponsors. And that means bottom line revenues to networks.

 Some of the news executives at CNN have clearly figured that out.

We're waiting for NBC, ABC, and CBS to get a clue.

CNN Tea Party Debate Propels Channel To Top Of Cable News For A Night (TVNewser)
Monday night's CNN Tea Party debate drew 3.6 million total viewers, including 1.1 million adults 25-54 from 8 p.m.-10 p.m. ET. Those numbers put the network at the top of the heap of cable news in primetime, above Fox News and MSNBC, which placed a fairly distant second and third, respectively. Yahoo! News / The Cutline: CNN also managed to increase the audience from its last GOP debate broadcast, on June 13. That one drew 3.2 million total viewers and 918,000 24- to 54-year-olds. Yahoo! News / The Cutline: Handicapping how presidential candidates perform in debates is a tricky proposition. But in this case, the pundits agree: The co-hosts of Monday night's Republican debate -- CNN and the Tea Party Express -- made for "one of the oddest political matches in recent memory," "strange political bedfellows," not unlike "James Carville and Mary Matalin."

The Bluest state in the country, (next to New York) is turning against President Obama.

The latest Field Poll shows that Californians are frightened and discouraged by this administration. (It takes California Liberals a lot longer to figure things out.)

If New York and California go Red....say buh-bye Barack.

FIELD POLL, 9.14.11

#2384: Big drop in Obama's job rating in California. Fewer than half ready to re-elect him. Greater than three to one majority thinks country is seriously off on wrong track.

The American public is not buying what Obama is selling - snake oil plans to revive the economy. The Jobless bill pitched by Mr. Obama is going nowhere in a hurry, according to Bloomberg.com.

Here is the current polling:

"...A majority of Americans don’t believe President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan will help lower the unemployment rate, skepticism he must overcome as he presses Congress for action and positions himself for re- election.

The downbeat assessment of the American Jobs Act reflects a growing and broad sense of dissatisfaction with the president. Americans disapprove of his handling of the economy by 62 percent to 33 percent, a Bloomberg National Poll conducted Sept. 9-12 shows. The disapproval number represents a nine point increase from six months ago.

The president’s job approval rating also stands at the lowest of his presidency -- 45 percent. That rating is driven down in part by a majority of independents, 53 percent, who disapprove of his performance.

“I don’t think he’s done as good a job as I think he could have,” said Paul Kaplan, 58, an unemployed Democrat from Philadelphia. “We were hopeful that things would improve in the economy and they’ve only gotten worse. People in Washington just don’t seem to want to cooperate with each other and work for the people.”

The poll hands Obama new lows in each of the categories that measures his performance on the economy: only 36 percent of respondents approve of his efforts to create jobs, 30 percent approve of how he’s tackled the budget deficit and 39 percent approve of his handling of health care.

Jobs Bill Skepticism

By a margin of 51 percent to 40 percent, Americans doubt the package of tax cuts and spending proposals intended to jumpstart job creation that Obama submitted to Congress this week will bring down the 9.1 percent jobless rate. That sentiment undermines one of the core arguments the president is making on the job act’s behalf in a nationwide campaign to build public support.

Compounding Obama’s challenge is that 56 percent of independents, whom the president won in 2008 and will need to win in 2012, are skeptical it will work.

And the experts are asking if it was Obama's lack of support for Israel that helped undermine the Democrats.

My guess? Anthony Weiner was a (rhymes with stick) and orthodox Jews are hard hit in this economy like anyone else. PLUS the incoherent Mideastern policy by this administration.

"..Did President Obama's positions on Israel cost him a seat in the House? The Republicans have scored an upset victory in a House race that started as a contest to replace New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was forced to step down following a sex-texting scandal, but became a referendum on US President Barack Obama's policies.

Retired media executive and political novice Bob Turner defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin on Tuesday in the special election to fill the seat vacated by Weiner, a seven-term Democrat who resigned in June.

Related stories:

• A disaster called Obama
• Obama, do us a favor
• Poll: Most American Muslims satisfied with Obama

According to the New York Times, Turner took advantage of the discontent among the Jewish community with Obama’s policy toward Israel and his conduct pertaining to the Middle East peace process.

Turner and his wife celebrate victory (Photo: AP) 

Americans across the country gathered to remember the day our innocents died in the Twin Towers of New York. Much has changed. Much has not. But this much is sure …we will always carry the souls of 3,000 heroes in our hearts.

Please watch the video of our gathering in Pleasanton, California on Sunday, September 11^th.

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"What an unusual alliance," said I, after the fifth televised national GOP debate last night. 

CNN, also known to conservatives as the Clinton News Network, worked closely with the Tea Party Express (a group of firebrand conservatives who have been criss-crossing the country with the Tea Party message) and came up with a fine broadcast. It was interesting to watch (boy, those Paulinistas are dedicated to their guy Ron!) as the field attempted to distinguish themselves from each other and President Obama.

Nicely done.

And now for the reviews.

Original Article

POVERTY SOARS, HIGHEST SINCE 1993

HISTORIC TEA PARTY PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TODAY!

12 Monday Sep 2011

Hi everyone!

As you can imagine, we are very excited about tonight's debate.  Watch for us in the CNN audience.  We'll be sitting right up front. ;-)

Amy Kremer of the Tea Party Express sent out this note this morning to the team and TPX supporters:

Dear Friends,

You should be very proud! It is stunning to think how far the tea party movement has come in just two short years. We have entered a new era in American politics, as conservative and engaged voters have pushed tea party principles of limited government, free markets, and fiscal responsibility to the forefront.

Tonight is an important milestone in the tea party movement, as eight candidates for president will face-off in an attempt to win the support of you in the tea party! The debate will focus on a wide-range of topics, including the role, size and scope of government, with a specific emphasis on issue number one to tea party members and all Americans: the economy. The live broadcast starts tonight, Monday, September 12 at 8 pm (ET)

CNN and the Tea Party Express, along with more than 150 local tea party groups from every state across the country, have teamed up to present a first-of-its-kind debate. The live audience in Tampa, FL is made up of tea partiers from across the country. Questions will be submitted and asked from tea party members in person, as well as at three live watch parties in Arizona, Ohio, and Virginia.

The two-hour event will air live on CNN from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. (ET)  from the Florida State Fairgrounds.

Please join in online by submitting your questions for the candidates via comments on CNNPolitics.com, the CNN Politics Facebook page, and by using the #CNNTeaParty hashtag on Twitter.

The debate will be broadcast live nationally on CNN, CNN International, CNN.com, and CNN Radio. It will also be available via live stream in the CNN Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. It will even be broadcast to military bases around the world!

FBI agents on Thursday executed search warrants at the headquarters of Solyndra LLC, which was awarded more than $500 million in federal stimulus loans in 2009 to make solar panels in what the Obama administration called part of an aggressive effort to put more Americans to work and end U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

But the company filed a bankruptcy petition Tuesday in Delaware, asking a court to bar phone, electricity and water and sewer service providers from "altering, refusing or discontinuing service," and now is the focus of an investigation by the FBI and the Energy Department's Office of Inspector General.

FBI spokesman Peter Lee said he could not provide details about the investigation.

A little more than a year ago, President Obama hailed Solyndra during a tour of the company, saying it expected to hire 1,000 workers and make enough panels over the lifetime of its planned expanded facility that it would be like replacing eight coal-fired power plants.

"It's here that companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future," Mr. Obama said.

The company's bankruptcy petition came two years after Energy Secretary Stephen Chu and Vice President Joseph R. Biden announced approval of $535 million in federal loans to Solyndra.

Read more at The Washington Times.

I mentioned last week details of a super great event that I'll be involved with as a speaker this Sunday, September 11th.

I have an unbounding passion, love, support and admiration that I will pour into an electrifying speech in support of our troops, first responders and families of those innocents who were incinerated by the cowards who flew those planes into our Twin Towers.

Please come to the Alameda County Fairgrounds. The event goes all day. I'll be there at 4:30.

"Never Forget", A Tribute to America

Date: 09/11/2011 - 09/11/2011
Time: Day Event 12pm to 6pm. Evening Event 7pm - 9pm
Presented By: Impact for America
For More Information (Details)

The real Sedona.

Ahh. Doesn't that make you feel better just looking at this picture? This is where I'm vacationing for the next few days.

When I return next week, I will resume blogging. And, I will have details on my September 11th speech scheduled for the Alameda County Fairgrounds.

Ten years since the world changed. Hard to believe.

See y'all soon.

Well done, Mr. Speaker. Well done.

Issa to Greta: "We've been gamed."

Paul Chinn-Pool/Getty ImagesPresident Barack Obama on a tour of the Solyndra solar panel company May 26, 2010 in Fremont, California. Solyndra solar panels were used in the LPS installation.

This is such a delicious summary of all things Whitman and the faux scandal manufactured for yesterday's news.

"...Meg Whitman easily bested Jerry Brown in a debate over the future of California on Tuesday night.

So California Democrats had to hope that one of their reliable warhorses would saddle up and do some damage to Whitman with some kind of smear that diverted attention from the knock-down that Brown suffered. Lawyer Gloria Allred turned up, right on schedule, with a headline grabbing, allegation-hurling press conference about the misdeeds of Whitman.

Turns out that Whitman had hired a housekeeper a few years back, after being provided all the necessary documents. Whitman was very serious about complying with the law as any CEO of a major public company ought to be, if only to protect the thousands and thousands of shareholders who cannot afford to have corporate leadership turn out to be law breakers.

Whitman was defrauded. The housekeeper lied. Many years later the housekeeper admitted her lies to Whitman, and Whitman dismissed her.

First the law. Don't believe me. Believe Erwin Chemerinsky, the very liberal dean of the University of California at Irvine Law School. After Allred's press conference I had Erwin on my radio program to state the law, which he did very quickly: Whitman had to fire the housekeeper or break the law.

Then I had Gloria on the program. The audio and transcript are posted at HughHewitt.com.

I have known Gloria for a number of years, and like her. But she's a lefty and publicity-hungry, so when she can combine both her political agenda and her ambitions for the spotlight, don't get between her and the camera. This is why she played herself in the movie Rat Race. Her publicity-seeking is so over the top that even she is willing to make fun of it on the big screen.

She last attacked a Republican candidate for governor when he was leading the polls shortly before a vote when she launched a broadside against Arnold in August of 2003. Her client, Rhonda Miller, alleged sexual harassment. Miller's suit was dismissed.

I began my interview with Allred by asking her how that case turned out. Allred objected to the line of questioning.

I played Erwin's answer to my straightforward question and asked Allred if Erwin had stated the law correctly.. Allred objected to the line of questioning.

I asked Allred if she could state the law. She objected to this line of questioning.

Allred hung up on me when it became obvious that I simply wasn't going to allow her to repeat her allegations without establishing first a theory of the law under which Whitman could be understood to have done anything wrong.

All across the county, Democrats are hanging up on calls from voters, or not answering the phone in the first place.

They aren't holding votes in Congress, and they aren't holding townhalls in their districts.

They make outrageous charges and then refuse, like Allred on my show, to state their cases or make their arguments.

I have waited 20 years in broadcast for the perfect moment to tell a nonsense-spewing guest that they can't handle the truth. I got to do it with Gloria.

Soon the entire country will get to do it to Democrats from the top of the ticket to the bottom. The nonsense and stunts must stop. The country has real problems, problems that trial lawyers cannot solve, that public employee unions cannot divert attention from, and for which the president, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have no answers.

Like Gloria Allred today, the entire party will be embarrassed after the decision is rendered.

Sadly, like Gloria, there is very little evidence that they will change their ways.

Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

That is the central question voters will be asking themselves this November says Kyle Ann Shiver.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/are-you-better-off-now-than-you-were-four-years-ago/?singlepage=true

Reviving the question that got Ronald Reagan elected in the biggest landslide in American history is what I'm recommending for Republicans this year. The Democrats took control of Congress in 2006, fought every Republican effort to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before that bubble burst in all our faces, and have since done nothing but run this country and our economy into the ground. So, all it will take for every fence-sitting voter who doesn't work for the federal government to get out and vote Republican next month is to pose that simple question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago, when the Dems took Congressional control? A landslide in the making.

UPDATE:

I am reminded that Gloria Allred was the devlish Democrat who unleashed the sexual sleaze on former Gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003, nearly de-railing his viability. Except for that backlash thing I write about further down.

People see through the political chicanery.

Delivering on their promised threats, Democrats are dishing the dirt. First up from the sleazy tricks department is a stunning attack on California Republican candidate Meg Whitman.

During a news conference today, fame addict Gloria Allred revealed that her client Nicky Diaz Santillian, Ms. Whitman's housekeeper, is in this country illegally.

"...Allred, a longtime Democratic supporter who once gave money to Democratic candidate Jerry Brown, claimed that the Social Security Administration sent a letter to the Whitman household saying the Social Security number given for Diaz Santillan did not match her name. When asked by reporters about this, Whitman flatly denied receiving any such letters.

The campaign issued a copy of a job application, Social Security card and driver license they say Diaz Santillan presented to Whitman and her husband, which led them to believe she was allowed to work in the U.S.

It's too soon to know what impact this will have on the campaign, but a CNN/Time/Opinion Research poll released Wednesday suggested the Brown is pulling ahead of Whitman (52 percent to 39 percent of likely voters) in what had been characterized in recent polls as a very close race.

The Whitman campaign painted Allred's claims as a political stunt just weeks before November's election.

The accusation came a day after Whitman and her Democratic rival, California Attorney Gen. Jerry Brown, faced off in their first debate of the campaign. When asked about her position on immigration, Whitman said that employers must be held accountable when they employ illegal immigrants.

"We do have to hold employers accountable for hiring only documented workers and we do have to enforce that law."

But Whitman said she fulfilled her legal obligations, letting Diaz Santillan go once she and her husband found out "she was an illegal immigrant."

Here are a few questions that the MSM should be asking but won't: Is Allred representing the Brown campaign or Nicky Santillian? Why has she exposed her client to investigation and deportation, as well as perjury for lying about her status to her employer (Whitman's campaign provided the false documentation that Santillian gave Whitman when hired.)?

Will ICE launch an investigation into Santillian's immigration status? Why has Allred put her client in jeopardy?

I think that anyone (even the Democrats) will consider this a cheap political trick, and one that has a strong likelihood of backfiring. This smacks of the last second LAT attack on Arnold Schwarzenegger, which served to motivate the previously unispired GOP base.

Shame on Allred. Shame on Brown.

Excuse me now....I need to take a shower.

Well, duh. We knew that.

"These are essentially conservative Republicans who are very ticked-off people," said Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart.

If the Republicans win control of the House or Senate this fall, Mr. McInturff added, the survey shows "enormous amounts about how limited the interest is going to be in those new majorities to try to seek negotiation with the president or the Democratic leadership."

The poll found that tea-party supporters make up one-third of the voters most likely to cast ballots in November's midterm elections. This showed the movement "isn't a small little segment, but it is a huge part of what's driving 2010," Mr. Hart said.

The survey also found growing energy among some core Democratic voting blocs, such as African-Americans and Hispanics—a tightening that is common as an election draws closer, according to pollsters.

The GOP now holds a three-point edge, 46% to 43%, when likely voters are asked which party they would prefer to control Congress. That is down from a nine-point Republican lead a month ago.

No wonder Presidential advisor David Alexrod is said to be exhausted and seriously considering returning to Chicago. His boss is out of control on the messaging thingy. Either that, or he's just exposing his true self.

Bets, anyone?

"...In a rare and blunt criticism of education in the nation's capital, President Obama on Monday called D.C. Public Schools a "struggling" system that doesn't measure up to the needs of first daughters Sasha and Malia.

The president's remarks came one day after Education Secretary Arne Duncan also got publicly involved in matters related to D.C. schools, stating his latest praise for embattled D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee.

However, he also implicitly backed a principal criticism of Ms. Rhee pushed by backers of D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray, almost certain to be the city's next mayor. His remarks also prompted a D.C. school board member to tell him to "butt out" of managing local schools.

During his interview Monday on NBC's "Today" show, Mr. Obama was asked by a viewer whether his girls "would get the same high-quality, rigorous education in a D.C. public school as compared" with what they receive at Sidwell Friends, a private school in the city.

Mr. Obama replied, "The answer is 'no' right now. The D.C. public school systems are struggling," though "they have made some important strides over the last several years to move in the right direction of reform."

So it's allright for the President to insist that our children attend failing schools, but not his own?

The optics on this one can only help the GOP. Now run with folks!

The Democrats are flatly stating that Republicans will create "birther" legislation if they win back control of Congress.

Sigh.

This just proves the Democrats will say and do anything they can to hold onto power. Birther legislation. Honestly. We've got a freaking recession going on and people are desperate for J-O-B's.

Great a grip, Congressman Clyburn.

"...House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) warned Republicans will investigate President Obama's birthplace if they take over Congress.

Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said Republicans will grind the government to a halt by issuing subpoenas against the Obama administration over a number of issues if they take power. He predicted that "gridlock" in Congress would "define" Obama's first term if Republicans win the House, but expressed confidence his party would prevail."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/121059-rep-clyburn-gop-majority-will-issue-birther-subpoenas-against-ob

Hollywood Feminism: It’s About the Individual, Not Gender

Leigh Scott: A lot of fun and exciting things happened recently related to feminism and the role of women in American society. The always brilliant Camille Paglia published her awesome take down of Lady Gaga and the end of the Sexual Revolution. Actress Gemma Arterton lamented that Hollywood only thinks of her as a “piece of ass,” [...]
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Historical Parallels: From Kansas-Nebraska to Obamacare

Alan Snyder: One must be careful not to draw exact parallels between a historical event and a current situation, at least not without sufficient evidence. I want to be cautious. However, as I was teaching a class on the Civil War era last week, I noticed what appeared to be a rather striking similarity in the fate of [...]
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Seems Like Yesterday: First Kennedy-Nixon TV Debate was 50 Years Ago Tonight

Ron Futrell: The face of TV and politics changed forever on this date in history. It was 50 years ago this evening that John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon held the first of their 4 debates. It was clearly the most remarkable of their debates—perhaps the most remarkable of all presidential debates. Kennedy was seen as calm, [...]
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FBI Escorts Known Hamas Operative Through Top-Secret National Counterterrorism Center as “Outreach” to Muslim Community

Patrick S. Poole: Sheikh Kifah Mustapha (third from left) touring the National Counterterrorism Center (Photo: FBI) A known Hamas operative and unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history – Kifah Mustapha – was recently escorted into the top-secret National Counterterrorism Center and other secure government facilities, including the FBI’s training center at Quantico, during a [...]
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Breitbart Fires-Up Tea Party 90210

It's my birthday today and I had the opportunity to watch CBS's " Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer as he conducted interviews with two Tea Party candidates - Ken Buck (R) Colorado (for whom I have campaigned) and Marco Rubio (R) in Florida (whom I interviewed last year) as well Sal Russo, the chief strategist for the Tea Party Expresswho has engineered some stunning upsets all across the country (Russo, myself and Howard Kaloogian co-founded Move America Forward, a non-profit group dedicated to supporting our troops and their mission.)

It was a great gift to watch the show and see Schieffer squirm over the mystery of the Tea Party appeal, and predictions of huge gains in November.

It wasn't supposed to go this way, he exclaimed! How did it happen? He even asked point blank whether Ken Buck is a (gasp!) extremist?

Schieffer had diffiuclty grasping the idea that this generation of conservative candidates actually might have a chance to beat establishment Republicans,and go on to defeat the Democrats this November.

I smiled as Russo calmly explained that Ronald Reagan was expected to lose in 1980, and instead brought long 12 other conservative Republicans who were elected and provided key votes for his agenda. But Schieffer (and other so-called experts) still doesn't seem to understand what is happening.

Who are the Tea Party people and what do they stand for?

It's really simple, Bob.

Pay attention, please. We are a country that has had enough. We will not ignore our Constitution. We will not turn our backs on our Founding Fathers or our children. We will stop excessive taxes, excessive spending and forced health care.

Neither President Obama nor Harry Reid has the right to step on our rights. And though they might believe they give us commoners our rights and can force to do things that we know is against our best interests, we can stop them.

It's time to put up, or shut up.

That's why I'm joining with the Tea Party at the Mill Valley, California Community Center today from 2 to 5:30 to speak to hundreds, if not thousands of people who are just like me - sick of the leftist regime in this country, and are aso willing to stand up to the Republican party if necessary.

Come out today. Join Ward Connerly, Professor John Yoo from UC Berkeley and the author of the enhanced interrogation techniques policy, and Brian Sussman from KSFO radio. I'll speak around 5:00 this afternoon.

It's my birthday, and Tea Parties are the perfect way to celebrate.

It's not the death penalty like he deserves, but it's a start. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, close friend and confidant of President Obama, has been denied Professor Emeritus status at the University of Illinois after his retirement earlier this year.

It is a complete mystery to me why he was ever hired at the University of Illinois, unless someone in HR loved radical leftists (and we know that never happens in academia, right?)

To refresh the bidding, Bill Ayers is the 1960's Weatherman terrorist group co-founder who stated "kill all the rich people...bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.'

He actually did kill a San Francisco police officer with a bomb, and, according to FBI informant Larry Grathwohl, planned for the destruction of millions of people during bull sessions with his fellow terrorists.

He got off due to technicality.

Ayers also dedicated his book, in part, to the killer of Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan.

And that's where we pick up the story today, because (wait for it!) RFK's son Christopher is on the Board of Regents at the University of Illinois.

Today, Christopher Kennedy dropped the hammer on the bomber:

"... in an emotional statement, Kennedy discussed his reasons for voting against Ayers' request.

"I am guided by my conscience and one which has been formed by a series of experiences, many of which have been shared with the people of our country and mark each of us in a profound way," Kennedy said.

He said he could not confer the title "to a man whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father."

Kennedy was referring to a 1974 book co-authored by Ayers, "Prairie Fire," which was dedicated to a long list of people including Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan and "all political prisoners in the U.S."

Ayers became a controversial figure in Barack Obama's presidential campaign because they worked on a school-reform initiative together, leading opponents to say Obama was linked to a "terrorist." UIC was forced to release more than 1,000 files detailing the activities of that group. The university also faced questions in 2001 after Ayers wrote in his memoir about helping with the non-fatal bombings of government buildings."

Hundreds of Bay Area residents joined with me to protest the appearance of Bill Ayerson the St. Mary's campus in Moraga, Ca. several years ago. Larry Grathwohl was with us, and demanded to be heard during the Q&A session....but the man who would murder millions for having a different political viewpoint was too chickenshit to stick around and face the crowd.

Somewhere up there, slain officer San Francisco police officer Brian McDonnell is grimacing ..and still waiting for justice that just is beyond the grasp of the grave.

Ticked by the schtick, Capitol Hill lawmakers barely cracked a smile when comedian Stephen Colbert tried to be vaguely amusing - without result.

Well, the result did make ME laugh when he got kicked out of the hearing room, but even D.C. reporters thought Colbert was out of line.

Seven guards were brought in to escort Mr. UnFunny out of the halls of Congress.

While some audience members laughed, most the members of the House Judiciary subcommittee barely cracked a smile.

My friend emailed me this obituary today. Is it true? Dunno. But he’s a cop and I WANT to believe it.

When he opens his mouth, of course.

Seriously, Republicans have plan to make things better. I's a re-worked version of the Contract With America (cooked up by Newt Gingrich waaaay back in the 1990's..) and we will let you decide whether it appeals to you or your undecided neighbor.

CBS News has obtained a final draft of House Republicans' legislative agenda for the next Congress, a 21-page "Pledge to America" that they will formally unveil Thursday morning at a Virginia hardware store.

"The need for urgent action to repair our economy and reclaim our government for the people cannot be overstated," the introduction says.

It continues: "With this document, we pledge to dedicate ourselves to the task of reconnecting our highest aspirations to the permanent truths of our founding by keeping faith with the values our nation was founded on, the principles we stand for, and the priorities of our people. This is our Pledge to America."

For a breakdown of the document, check out "Pledge to America: The New Republican Agenda," by CBS News Senior Political Producer Jill Jackson. Below are some highlights, and the full document is at the bottom.

Jobs:

- Stop job-killing tax hikes

- Allow small businesses to take a tax deduction equal to 20 percent of their income

- Require congressional approval for any new federal regulation that would add to the deficit

- Repeal small business mandates in the new health care law.

Cutting Spending:

- Repeal and Replace health care

- Roll back non-discretionary spending to 2008 levels before TARP and stimulus (will save $100 billion in first year alone)

- Establish strict budget caps to limit federal spending going forward

- Cancel all future TARP payments and reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Reforming Congress:

- Will require that every bill have a citation of constitutional authority

- Give members at least 3 days to read bills before a vote

Defense:

- Provide resources to troops

- Fund missile defense

- Enforce sanctions in Iran

This looks pretty good to me. I think it should appeal to most voters. But hey, I'm an optimist at heart.

The nail-biter in California continues. Help needed at grassroots level. Please sign up.

Election 2010: California Senate

California Senate: Boxer (D) 47%, Fiorina (R) 43%

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The U.S. Senate race in California remains a battle of inches.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state, including leaners, finds incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer earning 47% of the vote, while her Republican challenger Carly Fiorina gets 43% support. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

But the race moves from a Toss-Up to Leans Democrat in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Senate Balance of Power rankings.

Earlier this month, the two candidates were virtually tied when leaners were included in the totals, with Fiorina earning 48% support to Boxer’s 47%. Leaners are those who initially indicate no preference for either of the candidates but answer a follow-up question and say they are leaning towards a particular candidate. From this point forward, Rasmussen Reports considers results with leaners the primary indicator of the race.

In surveys since February, Boxer, a member of the Senate since 1993, has earned 42% to 49% of the vote. Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, has picked up 38% to 48% support in those same surveys.

Eighty-two percent (82%) of Boxer supporters say they already know how they will vote in November. Seventy-nine percent (79%) of Fiorina voters say the same.

The survey of 750 Likely Voters in California was conducted on September 20, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Rasmussen Reports will release new numbers from the California governor's race tomorrow.

Other data from this survey will be released later this week at www.rasmussenreports.com/California.

Boxer is favored by 85% of Democrats, while 80% of Republicans support Fiorina. Voters not affiliated with either major party give a slight edge to the incumbent.

California voters are more evenly divided than voters nationwide when it comes to repealing the health care law. Although 47% of all voters in the state at least somewhat favor repeal, slightly more (49%) oppose repeal. These findings include 38% who Strongly Favor repeal and 41% who are Strongly Opposed.

Eighty-one percent (81%) of those who Strongly Oppose repeal support the Democrat, while 85% of the voters who Strongly Favor repeal back the Republican.

Voters in California place more trust in Democrats to handle the issues of health care and the economy but are more evenly divided when it comes to government ethics and corruption.

Forty-eight percent (48%) of voters in the state share a favorable opinion of Boxer,but 49% view her unfavorably. These numbers include 24% who have a Very Favorable view of the Democrat and 36% who have a Very Unfavorable opinion of her.

For Fiorina, 47% have a favorable impression of her, including 17% who have a Very Favorable impression. Forty-four percent (44%) regard the Republican unfavorably, with 24% who have a Very Unfavorable view of her.

Fifty-seven percent (57%) in California approve of the job President Obama is doing, while 42% disapprove. Those ratings are better than those found nationally for the president in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

In 2008, Rasmussen Reports projected nationally that Obama would defeat John McCain by a 52% to 46% margin. Obama won 53% to 46%. Four years earlier, Rasmussen Reports projected the national vote totals for both George W. Bush and John Kerry within half-a-percentage-point.

In California during the 2008 campaign, Rasmussen Reports polling showed Obama winning the state by a 61% to 34% margin. Obama won 61% to 37%. Four years earlier, Rasmussen Reports polling showed Kerry leading Bush in California 53% to 43%. Kerry won 54% to 44%.

In the 2006 California governor’s race, Rasmussen polling showed Arnold Schwarzenegger defeating Phil Angelides 53% to 40%. Schwarzenegger won 56% to 39%. In the 2006 race for U.S. Senate, Rasmussen polling showed Dianne Feinstein defeating Richard Mountjoy 58% to 35%. Feinstein won 60% to 35%.

Rasmussen Reports has recently surveyed Senate races in Alaska, Arizona, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

First Larry Summers.

Now the gaggle of environmental whackos are really ticked off at their hero.

Greens Throw Obama Under the Bus! 'Environmentalists need a new president...we need to start looking for a primary challenger who has the heart and soul required to save the planet' -- Grist Mag. 'Obama's unwillingness or inability to confront our great planetary crisis...he is actively going out of his way to fight climate action on many fronts'

Flashback Nov. 2009: 'Welcome to the delayers': Obama's 'half-hearted climate efforts' welcomed by skeptics

VIDEO: See how they Run! Dems Running from questions on cap-and-trade -- refuses to answer, call my office for answer

She's Singing! America's top climate change negotiator: 'We're not pushing to have legally binding commitments on China or India or Brazil or anybody else'

First Green President (Obama) to skip super-important planet-saving UN climate meeting in Cancun -- 'no world leaders expected'

Dems fighting election battles ask environmentalists, 'Where are you guys?' 'Groups face lagging donations and enthusiasm for campaigns key to climate change action' --'They promised to support candidates who took a tough vote for climate change. Where are they? Where's the cavalry?'

For latest, go to www.ClimateDepot.com

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Karl Rove is reminding everybody exactly why the Tea Party movement began in the first place....because Karl and his former boss threw out fiscal responsibility and then got pissed off when called out by the grassroots.

So if you expect a Rove cheerleader, Melanie Morgan isn't your woman.

"...If Republicans want a cheerleader, Karl Rove isn’t their man. The star political strategist raised eyebrows and some political hackles with his brutal assessment that Republican U.S. Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell in Delaware isn’t electable. After he and other Republicans balked at supporting her, although GOP establishment figures voiced support for the tea party candidate, Rove shot back at critics today, The Hill reports.

Rove, formerly President George W. Bush’s key adviser, told Fox News that he’ll evaluate each candidate individually. "My job is not to be a cheerleader for every Republican. It’s to call them as I see them," he bristled.

Among his comments that had riled supporters were his description of O’Donnell’s “checkered background” and his observation that she had said "nutty things." Assessing her election Tuesday night, he had said, “How does she make her living? Why did she mislead voters about her college education? How come it took her nearly two decades to pay her college bills so she could get a degree?

To be sure, he expressed appreciation for the “energy” and enthusiasm” of tea party activists. "Be careful when you call me an establishment Republican, I’m not sure what that is," he said.

(from Newsmax.com)

How long will it take before Rove backtracks? My guess is when he starts feeling the financial pinch. Just a guess, though. His ego may prevent him from walking back his shocking attack on Christine O'Donnell.

That interview by Sean Hannity is going to hound Rove. Of that....I am completely secure.

Here's what Andrea Tantaros has to say on the subject:

"...Tuesday night was a terrible evening for political operatives because people voted with their conscience, not along party lines. Elites aren't happy about it, and even the GOP is fuming. Meanwhile, Washington Democrats are trying desperately to paint anti-establishment candidates as a pack of crazies. They're hoping to distract the public from the more pressing issues that have their party's polls in the dumps. Sure, many that comprise this new wave of politics are atypical. They aren't polished. They're not carefully scripted, and they lack TelePrompTers, pedigree and cozy friendships with Karl Rove. Because of it, political consultants and "insiders" ..

read more here.

Christine O'Donnell, expected to lose the GOP Senate nomination by the so-called political experts, wins handily in Delaware against establishment Republican Mike Castle.

Tea Party Express laser focused on the race with money and support, helping to propel O'Donnell to victory.

This primary season is shaping up to be a pretty darn exciting one. Amazing, really.

Rock on, Patriots!

Final thought.

Poor Dana Perino and Karl Rove. They looked like they were sucking lemons on TV tonight, trying to explain why conservatives are making a mistake supporting, well, a conservative. In other words, their pal Mike Castle lost and they didn't like it a bit.

Oh well.

Final, final thought.

Congratulations to the Tea Party Express for come from behind victories in Nevada with Sharron Angle, Joe Miller in Alaska, and now Christine O'Donnell.

Sal Russo and Joe Wierzbicki, the Sacramento, Ca. political giants with whom I have worked since 2004 on the Recall of former California Governor Gray Davis and co-founded Move America Forward in support of our troops, are rock solid conservatives now using their formidable skills to boost the enthusiam and support of Tea Party patriots all across the country.

Kudos guys.

I am very proud of you and your team.

Kim Hatley([email protected]) wife of 1st.Sgt John Hatley (www.defendjohnhatley.com) is going to visit her Husband whom is in Ft. Leavenworth, the last part of Sept. (SOON) She can only afford a 2 day visit. Cost of airflight, Motel, Car rental, etc, adds up real fast. I would like to help her make this trip,so if anyone else would like to help, ANY AMOUNT, maybe she could spend a few more days with her Husband. Her P.O.Box is on her web site. Thank you in advance for helping Kim. Kim, I will put a check in the mail tomorrow towards your trip for $50.00. Not accepting it is not an OPTION.

Kim Hatley
P.O.Box 498
Groesbeck, Tx. 76642

Some 300 people, many of them members of the Bay Area Patriots and the San Francisco Tea Party, heard U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina speak Friday at the Mill Valley Community Center, where they were joined by about 50 California Nurses Association members who picketed the event.

Speaking on behalf of the nurses, Martha Kuhl, a pediatric nurse at Children's Hospital in Oakland, said she objects to Fiorina's support of Proposition 23. The initiative on the Nov. 2 ballot would suspend the Global Warming Act of 2006, also known as AB 32, until California's unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent or below for four consecutive quarters.

"She would repeal an environmental law that protects us from greenhouse gases," Kuhl said. "I take care of children with cancer and children with asthma. If this law is repealed, it will make my patients sicker. It will cost the state of California more money because of more illness."

After a stump speech indoors, Fiorina answered questions from the audience. One woman insisted that she make her stand on AB 32 explicit. Fiorina had drawn criticism for dodging the issue after her Sept. 1 debate with Democratic opponent Sen. Barbara Boxer.

At Friday's event, Fiorina said, "I support 23." She said she didn't make that clear during the debate because she was waiting so she could study all of the propositions on the November ballot and issue all of her stands at once.

But Fiorina added nuance to her answer.

"Suspending AB 32, while it is better than continuing with AB 32, isn't the right answer," she said. "The right answer is a national, rational energy policy."

Fiorina took a similar tack when criticizing Boxer for her support of the Endangered Species Act over water for Central Valley farmers.

"Do you know that we have more endangered species than any other state in the nation?" Fiorina asked. "I believe it's important to protect fish and flies and frogs but I believe it is important to protect families and their jobs as well."

Fiorina's position on AB 32 pleased John Numnelee, a Larkspur builder and a member of the Bay Area Patriots.

Numnelee said one of the chief reasons he wants to see Boxer defeated is her support for AB 32.

"It does nothing to help global warming because the jobs simply get moved to other locations," Numnelee said. "She would like to institute that nationally through a cap and trade program."

Numnelee said, "I like many people are concerned about the level of spending, the deficits, the over-regulation and the increase in the public sector. Those are the issues."

Don Bibeault, a corporate turnaround consultant based in Novato, said, "California is definitely off the track. You'd have to be an imbecile not to see that. Fiscal responsibility has gone way off. Barbara Boxer is part of the mix."

Another attendee who would only give the name "Dave" said he belongs to both the Bay Area Patriots and the San Francisco Tea Party.

"A lot of people don't know what the Constitution is anymore. That's why I like the Tea Party," he said.

He said he declined to give his full name because, "I don't trust you as far as I can throw a tank."

Fiorina initially announced that Friday's meeting was closed to the press because it was a strategy session with grassroots supporters. But a Marin Independent Journal reporter was allowed in for most of the meeting, which was sponsored by the Marin County Republican Party and the Novato Republican Women, Federated along with the Bay Area Patriots and the San Francisco Tea Party.

Remembering 9/11 San Francisco and New York (many video and 2001 archival links...this is a keeper)
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/09/remembering-911-san-francisco-and-new-york/

Deadly Explosion will have long term impact on San Bruno CAl
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/09/deadly-explosion-will-have-long-term-impact-on-san-bruno-ca/

Who the hell is this man, the Reverand Terry Jones, who has the entire world dancing to his will-he-or-won't-he burn the Quran?

I think he is a self-promoting, narcissistic, ego-maniac who is trying to build his name recognition and Church attendance numbers.

I say this because if he was a real Christian, he wouldn't for a minute put the lives on our American troops in danger.

And yet he has.

The world needs to turn our backs to this rotten scoundrel. If it isn't on TV, did it really happen? Hmm?

The newest catch phrase for the political pundits is the "enthusiam gap" or "passion gap" of Republicans versus Democrat voters. The mere fact that the dopes in the so-called know are just now figuring out that the conservatives and GOP are going to walk on broken shards of glass to get to the polls gives me a case of the giggles.

Regardless - it's good news and we'll take it! From the folks at American University in Washington...( a fabulous institution and I say that with all humility since my son attends school there) we are getting the scoop.

"...For the first time since 1930, more Republican voters showed up to vote in statewide primaries this year than Democrats -- another sign of the huge challenges facing President Obama's party in this year's elections.

The new figures come from a just-released report by voter turnout expert Curtis Gans of American University.

Gans looked at 35 primaries held before Sept. 1 and found that 4 million more Republicans voted than Democrats -- statistical proof of the "enthusiasm gap" that pollsters and pundits have been talking about.

That, combined with the fact that the percentage of voters who identify themselves as Democrats has been on a steady decline for decades, spells big trouble for the president's party, Gans said: "The Democrats are at an enormous disadvantage."

This comes after the 2008 election, when all the energy was on the Democratic side. But Gans said he's seen those kinds of turnaround in voter sentiment before. The last time was between the 1992 election when Bill Clinton won the White House and the midterm contests two years later that booted Democrats from power on Capitol Hill.

"This is precisely the kind of disillusion that brought the Democrats down in 1994," said Gans. He blamed the faltering economy for the latest numbers. "What the last 16 months have done is rob the public of the hope that was engendered in 2008," Gans said.

(Posted by Kathy Kiely)

I just got back from an 8 day European swing that ended in Barcelona, Spain (I loved the Las Ramblas!) and I'm already exhausted.

Why? Six loads of dirty laundry, re-starting the newspaper and mail service, picking up the dog from the kennel, forgetting the cat at the kennel, sorting out vacation photos, calling my mother (endlessly) sending emergency money to my son in college, watching two DVR'ed Project Runways, planning my new diet... and last but not least - cruising the Internet for news developments.

I found one.

In London, of all places.

The Daily Mail reports on the BBC TV News Chief admitting to bias against conservatives.

Huh. Imagine that.

My co-host John McCaslin and I have been talking about former Secretary of State Madeline Albright's firm breasts this morning. Seriously. She has a story on CNN that she tells about her famous diplomatic hug and kiss technique she used when she was meeting heads of state.

That steered the conversation around to Nancy Pelosi's mammory moment with McCaslin.

Read about it here.

Am I the only one who finds it more than odd that President Obama is flying to Denmark on Friday with his First Lady to lobby the International Olympic Committee for the summer Olympic games in 2016 to be held in Chicago?

A US President lobbying the IOC for the Olympic games???? It's NEVER happened before.

Yet, this President apparently has nothing more important going on in his life, his country or the world -- he's going to lobby for the 2016 games in Chicago. Not the US economy, not unemployment, not Iran or North Korea, not even healthcare. There's no time for him to consider General McChrystol's memo begging for more troops and resources for Afghanistan. None of these is important enough to keep him at his desk, as it were. There's something more pressing -- and it takes him and the First Lady to Denmark.

What's that expression: Something smelly in Denmark? And it ain't the cheese.

One only has to dig a little to find out the motivation. As it happens, I've just started Michelle Malkin's new book, Culture of Corruption. (Full bibiliographic citations found in Michelle Malkin's book in "Notes" Section.) On pages 48-52 she details the relationship Michelle Obama developed with Valerie Jarrett, the great niece of Vernon Jordan, the black mover and shaker who has been one of the upper-crust elites and extremely active and influential through Presidential administrations since Jimmy Carter.

As it turns out Ms. Jarrett, an extremely close friend of the Obamas and the one who fostered Michelle Obama's various career moves is a Democrat activist and real estate mogul in Chicago who has "... always been the other side of Barack's brain," (as quoted from the Chicago Tribune, September 20, 2007) and "Barack's rock" (Time, "Valerie Jarrett" November 11, 2008). President Obama affirmed his relationship with Jarrett by being quoted as saying, "I trust her completely," (Chicago Tribune, "Insider has Obama's ear: What's she telling him?" July 27, 2008).

Why does this matter? Stay with me on this.

Ms. Jarrett was Executive Vice President of the Habitat Company for 12 years. The Habitat Company is a real estate company that develops, owns and partners with the Federal government to manage Federal low-income housing projects in Chicago. On January 31, 2007 Ms. Jarrett became President and CEO of Habitat Company. One of the properties Habitat oversaw is Grove Parc Plaza, a Section-8 apartment complex that in 2006 was graded 11 on a scale of 100 by federal inspectors. It was so bad that today the complex is facing demolition because it is uninhabitable.

What does this have to do with Obama going to Denmark? The property where Grove Parc Plaza (which is slated for demolition) sits is "in the shadows of proposed site of [Chicago's] 2016 Olympics Stadium."

And guess what?!?! "Valerie Jarrett is Vice Chair of Chicago's Olympics Committee!"

Cronyism at it's best.... So much for Hope and Change.

Listen to America's Morning News today!

We have a full line-up on completely riveting stories including how Obama's safe school Czar is under fire because he didn't report a homosexual encounter between a 15-year old boy and his school teacher, plus emergency money is now in the federal pipeline to serve soldiers who are returning to colleges and universities around the country - without the checks they were promised for tuition.

And that's because of the Washington Times exclusive reporting on this shameful situation which resulted in Veterans Affairs Director Eric Shinseki taking extraordinary action after the story broke last week.

We'll have another EXCLUSIVE story from the Washington Times on one of the most powerful and well-funded lobbying groups in the nation is hemorraging money and drowing in debt - you won't believe who we are talking about!

Former United States Ambassordor to the United Nations John Bolton reacts to the frightening developments over the weekend when we found out that Iran is test firing missiles that could reach Israel.

...AND IT'S BACK TO THE FUTURE --Bill Clinton is crying about the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - saying it is still alive and well, with President Obama in their sights.

Those stories and more on America's Morning News - PLUS the Doctor's Doc is in hot water over a botched nipple tuck.

Tune in wherever you are - listen to the stream on the computer at KFWB.com in Los Angeles or here in Washington at WTNT. Or check us out at the www.washingtontimes.com

...in the GOP sweepstakes is undoubtedly Mitt Romney. Romney is the central casting Republican presidential candidate with impossibly perfect - hair.

And he's the same Republican who proudly boasted of his Universal health care in Massachusetts that has been roundly criticized as a Universal FLOP.

What do the top terrorist leaders of the world say when they pitch their tents on American soil and pour out their hearts before a global TV audience?

They start yammering about conspiracy theories, of course.

Dave in London writes:

Did you see Kaddafi's at the UN offering his peer reviewed UNIFIED CONSPIRACY THEORY.

This has long been the holy grail for theoretic conspiracists: A unified theory which can link the Jews to EVERY conspiracy ever and also include the US as both a fellow conspirator and a victim of the Jews, as well.

It's on a par with Stephen Hawking and the search for a Unified Theory of everything including gravity. But it's a stubborn little bugger.

(Albert Einstein famously spent the last two decades of his life searching for a Unified Field Theory.)

Using the giant conspiracy accelerator at CERN Switzerland, Professor Ghaddafi and his crackpot team are closing in on such a theory that explains everything is the Jews fault.

Here are just a few of the sub-moronic particles that the giant accelerator has collided so far...

The Kennedy Assassination
The Fake Moon Landings
The perpetual electric batter killed by the evil oil companies
The car that runs on water killed by the evil oil companies
9/11
The perpetual oil well killed by the evil water companies

This indeed is exciting times in the Theoretical Conspiracy Field, which explains the billions in government funding.

...from The Daily Beast.com

An outrageous assault on Old Glory as we learn from Washington Times Hot Button columnist Amanda Carpenter that our flag is in tatters, flying bravely above the nation's capitol buildings.

Learn more about this shocking story here.

Alright conservatives everywhere. Don't just sit there. Click something.

"...The Washington Times has launched TheConservatives.com, a Web site with technology that allows activists to talk up to ideological and party leaders and interact in innovative ways.

TheConservatives.com - a joint online media venture from The Washington Times and the Heritage Foundation - is a tool to "reinvent the right" and help move the public discourse.

"TheConservatives.com creates a cutting-edge new marriage between the social publishing world of bloggers and the social networking world of Twitter, YouTube and the like," said John Solomon, executive editor and vice president for content of The Times. "Most opinion sites today enable thought-leaders to talk down to the masses, but TheConservatives.com empowers users to change the direction of that dialogue, allowing the Joe the Plumbers of the world to speak up to major thinkers, like Newt Gingrich."

Mr. Solomon said similar Web sites that would appeal to progressive and moderate online readers are being considered.

Speaking of TheConservatives.com, he said, "It is convenient, it is groundbreaking and we believe it will transform grass-roots communications, enabling a two-way dialogue. The best ideas can grow up from the netroots, reaching like-minded opinion leaders. It is a technology and a concept that can be adapted by thinkers on the right, the left and the center."

The site also provides a wealth of information, TheConservatives.com editor Brian Faughnan said.

"Readers can track the latest news in The Washington Times and other news organizations, and take in analysis and commentary from Times reporters and personalities like Amanda Carpenter or issue experts from Heritage and other leading conservative policy groups," Mr. Faughnan said.

"There's a very vibrant debate within conservative circles about the future of their movement, and TheConservatives.com is uniquely positioned to capture that in a thoughtful way," Mrs. Carpenter said.

In a crowded media marketplace, the site offers a focused, comprehensive experience - tracking important fragments of daily conservative thought and offering a true bloggers forum.

"We've also built in a social media aggregator, one that no other political blog is currently using. The aggregator sweeps Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and other social media and delivers updates in real time from more than a dozen leading conservative officials, strategists, bloggers, talk-show hosts and others," Mr. Faughnan said.

"So if you're a fan of Jim DeMint, Mike Huckabee, Glenn Beck, Karl Rove or others, we offer a one-stop shop where you can find everything that they're talking about, and in real time," he added.

The mechanism is part of new technology that provides a nimble, personable link for visitors.

"We're thrilled to be providing TheConservatives with cutting-edge social publishing technology that enables their readers to engage and connect with the news, the editors and the designated political experts on the site," said Chris Alden, chief executive officer of Six Apart, the San Francisco-based provider of the social-publishing software.

"Readers can easily find the content they need, and 'action streams' keep them current on the latest from elsewhere on the Web," Mr. Alden said.

Users can publish their own microblog posts, weigh in on the issues and get feedback from the big-name individuals.

"Anyone can create an account and start blogging," said Mr. Faughnan. "Or you can vote on the items written by others. In another feature unique to our site, we will take the top-scoring items at the end of each day and send them to one of a range of nationally recognized conservative leaders for an answer.

"So if you register and write a post on health care, or tax policy, or political strategy, and that post is voted by other users as one of the site's best, then that post will get a reaction from a leading conservative expert in that area."

The Washington Times already maintains a substantial presence online. Consistently ranked among the 40 most visited news sources by Nielsen Online, The Times' site boasts multiplatform applications for readers interested in on-demand video, opinion polls, slide shows and other fare."

UPDATE!

Well, it appears my sources were wrong about BoBo, the First Dog attending obedience school in Old Towne, Alexandria. Sandy Meijas, the owner of the dog training school, posted her correction on my site.

I apologize for the error, especially if I caused Bo any embarassment! Still checking further to see what's up.

Would it surprise you to learn that the most popular member of the Obama family is receiving royal treatment at taxpayer expense?

Speak up, I can't heeeeeeeeeear you!

Animal activists, who were growling over the fact that President Obama refused to adopt from a rescue shelter, will be pleased to hear that the presidential pooch is quite pampered - at taxpayer expense.

Two sources have told me that Bo, the Portuguese water dog that President and Mrs. Obama adopted, is being shuttled to Alexandria, Virginia from the White House regularly for obedience training.

One of my impeccably accurate sources is my co-host John McCaslin, a native Alexandria resident - who is mobbed by his millions of friends and fans every time he ventures into public.

But, I digress.

From the looks of things, BoBo doesn't need any obedience training. It looks to me like he's got the President pretty well under control.

Pot, meet kettle.

...and meet Shane Bauer, one of those being held captive by the Iranians.

He's a liberal investigative reporter for the Nation magazine, who strayed into dangerous terroritory in search of a story. Now he and his two pals are paying a terrible price.

"...Three UC Berkeley graduates arrested in Iran in July broke the law and must be punished, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said this week - but implied that a U.S. decision to release some Iranian prisoners could make a difference in their fates.

The Iranian president's comments, made Thursday to NBC News, may say less about the prisoners' likely fates than about the complicated political chessboard on which they are now pawns, said Kamran Bokhari, regional director for the Middle East and South Asia at Stratfor, a private global intelligence company.

"What he's saying is we can work out a deal - without actually saying it," Bokhari said Friday.

Ahmadinejad's comments, in his first interview with a Western broadcaster since his disputed re-election in June, come at a moment of flux, as the Obama administration tries to reboot U.S.-Iranian relations and as Iran's domestic situation is in turmoil.

The Iranian president is coming to the United States to address the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday in New York. Families of the three imprisoned Americans - Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal - sent a letter to him this week asking for their release.

The families maintain that although two of the three detainees are journalists, their entry into Iran was an innocent mistake during a hiking trip in the neighboring Kurdish region of Iraq. U.S. State Department officials said Thursday that the Iranians have failed to make the three available to Swiss officials who represent U.S. interests in Iran, where there is no American Embassy.

Did you catch what Democrat Congressman Pete "Fortney" Stark of California said to a constituent during a Town Hall meeting earlier this week?

The same Pete Stark who famously called former President George W. Bush "a liar" who wanted to "blow up Iraq"?

From SFGate.com and Joe Garofoli's blog...

Rep. Pete Stark, the pride of the East Bay in Congresssince 1973, gave us a new high in Town Hall entertainmentthe other day at his Fremont Townie. After a constituent -- and we're all constituents, aren't we? -- stood a few feet away ticking off why he was opposed to the "smoke and mirrors" in President Obama's health care plan, the gentleman closed his remarks by saying:

"Mr. Congressman, don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining."

The Member of Congress continued the high level of discourse by responding:

"I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg," Stark said. "It wouldn't be worth wasting the urine."

So glad we've all decided to up the civility quotientof our public discourse. So if Dems want Rep. Joe Wilson to apologizefor his "You lie!" smackdown, shouldn't Rep. Stark apologize for ahem, crossing swords with this constituent?

P.S. No one yelled "You lie!" at Stark's claim of urine waste, but nonetheless Politifact is looking into whether it indeed would be. (Kidding! Don't look there for it.)

If Obamacare is so wonderful that Senator Ted Kennedy spent the last dozen years of his life working his heart out for it - why did he feel it necessary to leave Massachusetts (which has socialized medicine) and recieve brain surgery in North Carolina?

Reader Joanie G. sent this along: an actual letter to the editor of the local newspaper in Charlotte, N.C. wondering the same thing:

“With all the publicity about national health care, perhaps a fact has
escaped the general public - that Sen. Ted Kennedy chose to use NC's
Duke University Hospital for his brain surgery.
He represents Massachusetts , which has Socialized health care. His
actions tell us that Socialized Care is not good enough for him. Thanks
Senator for illustrating this."

After Jimmy Carter accused critics of President Obama, apparently including Rep. Joe Wilson after his interjection during Barack Obama’s speech to Congress, of being racist, one might think that Wilson would have a pungent response or two to the former President. Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin gave him that opportunity on America’s Morning News today, but Wilson opted for the high road instead. He lamented the accusations of racism and told the two hosts that charges of racism only serve to distract from the deep problems in Obama’s health-care system overhaul, and that perhaps Carter would do better to focus on the issues:

Why shouldn’t Wilson take the high road? Besides the fact that “You lie!” has nothing to do with race, Wilson actually wound up winning this battle. A week after his outburst, which Wilson himself acknowledged was inappropriate and for which he had already apologized, the media finally took a closer look at the issue of illegal immigrants in ObamaCare. The Senate finally acknowledged that HR3200 needed fixing to prevent tax dollars going to illegal immigrants. Wilson raised at least $1.6 million for his next campaign.

What did the Democrats get out of it? A resolution of “disapproval” that carries no penalties at all. Its net effect was to galvanize conservatives to the defense of a backbencher that no one outside of South Carolina could have identified two weeks ago. Instead of moving forward on legislation, the House ground to a halt, not over whether Wilson should have apologized, but on the question of whether the location of his apology was sufficient.

It was a clear waste of time and effort, pursued by a House leadership desperate to distract from the fact that ObamaCare was unpopular before Barack Obama’s speech, and it remains unpopular afterward.

Heck, with that big of a win, even I could be gracious to Jimmy Carter. For a few moments, anyway.

Gotta love the new National's Stadium - at least I do!

Real picture, Real people

Congratulations, patriots – we are so proud!

CAN YOU HEAR US NOW???

At first I was confused about who to blame for this monumental financial mortgage mess. But I can see clearly now.

Bill Clinton is responsible. 

            "...One of the most effective things we did was to reform the regulations governing financial institutions under the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act.  The law required federally insured lenders to make an extra effort to give loans to low – and modest-income borrowers, but before 1993 it had never had much impact.  After the changes we made, between 1993 and 2000, banks would offer more than $800 billion in home mortgage, small-business, and community development loans to borrowers covered by the law, a staggering figure that amounted to well over 90 percent of all the loans made in the twenty-three years of the Community Reinvestment Act."

The MSM are publishing and airing dozens, hundreds of stories about how un-qualified Sarah Palin is to become one heart-beat away from the Presidency, should John McCain be elected. This is just a smokescreen for their ill-disguised contempt of a proudly conservative woman.

Do you think I am being hyper partisan? Think again.

If the media is really so concerned, why aren't they reporting on the massive failure of leadership by another woman - the most powerful in the world - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi?

As we get closer to the debate on Thursday night, I am constantly being asked how Sarah Palin will perform. My answer is summed up in two words - Joe Biden.

"..When Hillary Clinton told a tall tale about "landing under sniper fire" in Bosnia, she was accused of "inflating her war experience" by rival Democrat Barack Obama's campaign. 

But the campaign has been silent about Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, telling his own questionable story about being "shot at" in Iraq. 

"Let's start telling the truth," Biden said during a presidential primary debate sponsored by YouTube last year. "Number one, you take all the troops out - you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at. You better make sure you have protection for them, or let them die." 

But when questioned about the episode afterward by the Hill newspaper, Biden backpedaled from his claim of being "shot at" and instead allowed: "I was near where a shot landed." 

Uh-huh. Why isn't Katie Couric pressing Joe Biden on these kind of gaffe's? Brian? Charlie? Anybody?

If McCain's campaign staff will leave Sarah alone, and let her answer questions from her heart and her experience, she'll be just fine. All this whining by the media, including some conservative commentors, is totally unwarranted. Palin has had a steep learning curve, but she's smart, capable and determined.

I think everyone will be quite shocked at how well Governor Palin will do on Thursday. Then watch the freak-out by the Obama camp (that means ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and all the rest of the BS'ers) the following day.

I will be speaking to a group of Palin/McCain supporters in San Rafael, California at 5:30 pm on Thursday night. Then we are going to watch the debates together. If you are around, join us!

Since I will be busy speaking, please click over to www.Smartnow.com and join the live-blog especially for women - if you want to. You can see what the Democrat women are saying, and watch for what the Republican women are writing.

Here is what I predict:

Palin will be confident, secure, sly, prepared, and heartfelt. Sarah Palin will do the country proud.

Quin Hillyer at American Spectator is belching flames over the tactics of GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, and I can't say I blame him.

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The Senate tomorrow will attach the Wall Street bailout to a "must pass" tax extender bill. This is dirty pool. When you are talking about the single most significant growth of government power EVER, you should let it sink or swim on its own. You don't attach it to a goodie basket and dare the other chamber to vote against it. To do so is a cheap, despicable tactic. It is the tactic of people without the courage of their convictions -- the tactic of cowards. Yes, cowards. I am utterly disgusted with McConnell and the entire Senate leadership. This is not the way to handle legislations as serious as this is. If the House GOP had any guts, then if the Senate sends the House the bill in this form -- thus also making a mockery, via legerdemain, of the requirement that such financial bills should start in the House -- MORE of the House GOP than before should vote against it, in protest against this sort of hardball pressure.

I think every conservative in the country should raise holy hell about this. AGAINST this tactic. WHATEVER you think about the underlying bailout, this BS is utterly insulting.

Yippee! The McCain campaign has finally let the clutch out, and Sarah Palin is racing onto the Interstate.

Governor Palin has recieved scathing reviews from MSM, and even some whiny conservatives. But she's finally being allowed to road-test her themes without the talking point filters on, where else,  talk radio.

NRO's Jim Geraghty has the reviews.

Hugh Hewitt Interviews Sarah Palin

The McCain-Palin campaign finally did something its supporters have been calling for for weeks now they unleashed Sarah Palin. She did an interview with Hugh Hewitt this evening. (Check HughHewitt.com http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog); Hugh will replay it twice on his program.

• She mentioned that she and Todd had lost $20,000 in the past few weeks in their 401(k)s. Can you recall the last time a politician gave a specific number to how much an economic crisis had impacted them? She talked about how she and Todd were worried about paying for college for their children.
• She mentioned she and Todd got their first health insurance when they were hired for union jobs.
• She said the only time the criticism had gotten "hurtful" was the commentary about Trig Palin, and the insinuation that carrying him to term was a mistake.
• She said she had spoken to her son in the Army, Track, when he was in Kuwait on his way to Iraq and that "the little stinker" had called his girlfriend before calling his mother in recent days.

The last couple answers were a lot like talking to a neighbor - issues like the financial crisis, the culture of life, and the war in Iraq in strikingly personal, human terms. This is the Sarah Palin who had gotten conservatives fired up like little else a month ago.

The million dollar question is... will we see this Sarah Thursday night?

Astonishingly, the most powerful woman in the world, could not bring her own caucus to stitch together a Wall Street bail-out deal they could vote for...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, drawn and defeated, failed due to her compulsive need to inject every vote with partisan hatred of Republicans and this administration. 

No wonder her approval rating hovers around 9 percent.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

"...But in the end Pelosi could not pass the bill with her own party's votes.

The Congressional Black Caucus, whose new leader is Oakland's Barbara Lee, joined conservative free-market Republicans in the revolt. Lee said she was voting against the bill because it did nothing to create jobs.

GOP leaders, one of whom waved Pelosi's speech, blamed her for pushing over the edge 12 wavering Republicans. "We put everything we had into getting the votes to get there today," Boehner said. "But the Speaker had to give a partisan voice that poisoned our conference; caused a number of members, who we thought we could get, to go south."

 It's DEAD!

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could not even round-up her majority in Congress to vote for the trillion dollar bail-out.

But the Democrats say they'll try again.

What are the right-bloggers saying? Mixed bag, at least right now.

The pain is coming whether this bill passes or not, and the bulk of evidence is that the Paulson plan will make things worse.  At least now there's a chance to pass a positive bill that addresses the crisis, includes reform, and doesn't punish taxpayers.
 

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Mike Krempasky

Good luck with that, Josh. They're out there blaming a mean speech by the Speaker for losing the last few votes. They're cooked.

{Ed. Republicans are really pissed off at Pelosi, and they are whining about it on TV.}

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Joshua Trevino wrote:

Disaster? Nah.

Politically, the Republican party is acting principled on a spending matter, which was a too-rare thing in 2001-2007.
Economically, the notion that a bailout is the only thing between us and a crushing depression is, to be charitable, suspect.

Of course Wall Street is going to react negatively after being denied $700 billion of other people's money, but that's not an indictment of a failure to pass.

While the national political scene is riveted by the nearly trillion dollar bail-out plan that everyone is fighting over, California Republicans were busy with something more important – REVENGE..

For the record, I was "inside the bubble" near Disneyland with State Republicans in Anaheim, California...we came, we saw, we kvetched. Yeah, lots of talking, networking, meetings, workshops, speeches and drainkin', so all in all, the state GOP had a highly successful bi-annual convention.

I was honored to participate in an Alternative Media panel with Jon Fleischman of the FlashReport (a highly prestigous state political website) and to be able to speak to the California Federation of Republican Women. Although the Federation doesn't get the publicity of other so-called "women's groups" such as the leftist and socialist National Organization of Women, the National Federation of Republican Women actually supportswomen in the choices we make every day.

You know, if Republican women choose to work outside of the home (and we all know that every woman works full-time in the home even while carrying a full-time job elsewhere,) then we are still good Republicans. But the bra-burners on the left can't stomach the real choices that real women make every day. They prefer that women have one child, drive a Volvo with an Obama sticker on the back, and wear pantsuits that would look better on an undertaker than a woman.

But I digress.

I promised some inside stuff, gossipy items and my observations. So let's begin with the backroom moves of some conservatives to insert language into the official paper thingy-bob that deliberately snubbed Governor Schwarzenegger by not praising him. Yes, that is how it sometimes works at these conventions. The most conservative of the Assembly caucus members praised themselves for stopping any tax increase (well-deserved, I might add) but did not point out the Governor's role in the sausage-making of the budget this year (finally signed last week.)

Bottom line: The Governor doesn't like conservative Republicans, and conservative Republicans do not like him. While nobody was (publicly) supporting a Democrat sponsored movement to Recall Arnold Schwarzenegger, many of us are certainly tempted. However, the GOP has bigger fish to fry, and I smell some B.O. stink over the campfire right now. 

Although I skipped the Schwarzenkennedy dinner on Friday night because I really dislike our Governor -- his left-wing politics and global warming baloney chief among the reasons (and the fact that he won't even speak to the Republicans in his own party) I did enjoy a delightful dinner Saturday evening at the head table, listening to Governor Mitt Romney's speech.

I will admit that I was simply dazzled by Romney's speech which showed a far-ranging grasp of economic, social and foreign policy issues that I never heard during the campaign. Maybe because he's just too good looking. I will admit now, publicly, that I held that against Governor Romney. I figured that a candidate right out of Central Casting couldn't be that smart. Boy, was I wrong.

And I apologize to the entire world. Truly.

Romney is a brainiac, and I missed the boat. Damn.

Two final things of note. The GOP is going to be super lucky if we nominate Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner for California Governor two years from now.

Poizner has been quietly funding voter registration drives in California for the Republican party, when the CRP was too broke and distracted from intramural fighting to get things done on its own. Poizner is SUPER smart, very talented, and humble as well. Oh, and rich. He invented that GPS device inside your cellphone. He sold SnapTrack for one billion dollars.

But as the San Jose Mercury reports, its going to be a crowded field in 2010.

....First, Poizner will have to navigate a GOP primary. Earlier this summer, former Silicon Valley congressman and Schwarzenegger finance director Tom Campbell formed an exploratory committee. Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, a billionaire, is also believed to be interested in running for the state's top job. All three are considered social moderates and fiscal conservatives.

Count me on the Poizner band-wagon.

Finally, CRP Vice-Chair Tom Del Beccero is doing an excellent job organizing Republicans in this state, fund-raising as well as recruiting qualified candidates. In short, he's ready to assume leadership of the party when Ron Nehring steps down.

And that's all good. Because as California goes, so goes the rest of the country. And we don't wish ourselves on the rest of the country. It would simply be too painful.

Wrong on so many levels.

Jeff Emanuel at RedState.com reports that a man known for lying, er, embellishments has just dropped the Mother-Of-All-Stunners just after the debates Friday night during the post-debate chat with Fox News's Chris Wallace.

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Biden: (at 0:18) "The fact of the matter is, the only thing succeeding in Iraq right now is the plan that Barack and I talked about that Petraeus is implementing -- giving local control in the very areas with a limited central government."

This comes as news to everybody who has followed events in Iraq and the political debates surrounding events and strategy there, including myself -- andI have, of course, followed all of the above quite a bit.

This revelation suggests that we are to view the actions of both of these men with regard to Iraq in a new light.

For example, I suppose we are now expected to believe that when Bidensaid, "The president and others who support the surge have it exactly backwards," in December 2006, he secretly meant, "Go through with the surge, Gen. Petraeus -- I believe in you!"

Or, when Biden was pushing for Iraq to be divided intointo three ethnically-homogeneous, unsustainable "states," then abandoned, he was actually working behind the scenes with the freshman Senator from Illinois and General Petraeus to craft a plan to make Iraq more unified and sustainable.

We are likewise expected to believe that, when Barack Obama sponsored legislation that would have withdrawn U.S. troops from that country beginning last year -- at the most sensitive point to date in the entire conflict -- with a full retreat having been completed by this past March, thereby rendering every single achievement made possible by the 'Surge,' from the rising up of Concerned Local Citizens, to the driving out of al Qaeda in Iraq, to the quelling of sectarian violence, to the growing political reconciliation that made possible legislation passed this week setting the stage for provincial elections in that country, entirely null and void, he was actually laying the ground work for success there. Good thing General Petraeus was somehow in on the secret there, and understood that all of Obama's posturing was actually cover for Petraeus to do what he has done to date in Iraq.

Or not. What this actually was, was simply this: perhaps the most brazen engagement in revisionist history -- if not the most brazen outright lie -- ever to leave the lips of a man who is known for his embellishments.

For a staunch opponent of all progress in Iraq to attempt to claim credit for the blood, sweat, tears, and sacrifice of those Americans who have given their all to make that country the near-success it is today is nothing short of a travesty, and clearly shows the depths to which Barack Obama and his ultimate-Washington-insider sidekick Joe Biden will do to win an election, regardless of the dishonesty in which they have to engage in order to do so.

And that's just pathetic.

Okay, you have already formed your own opinion on the debates by now, or will shortly, so I might as well throw in my take (since it is my website!)

Random Thoughts:

-McCain wins debate, but just barely, by defying expectations with an energetic appearance, cogent arguments, and the ability to attack Obama and unnerve him, especially on the issue of on-the-job training, and calling Obama's world view dangerous. 

-Obama did well by showing up, and giving the liberal line. He hit hard on Iraq and the economy. Listening on the radio, however, Obama stuttered on occasion, and it was annoying.

-The political prism remains the same for both right and left, and I don't think the debates changed the 'swing' voters much.

-My teenage son thought Obama came across as very friendly because he addressed McCain as "John" while McCain seemed formal and "old" because he called Obama "Senator." I thought Obama seemed disrespectful ..and vice versa for McCain.

-T. Boone Pickens is a genius. The first TV spot out of the debates he urged people to continue the debates at his website. What a way to drive traffic!

-Finally, the debate was actually much more interesting than I thought it was going to be. The next debate between Governor Palin and Senator Biden will be far more intriguing, I think, than this one.

I am off to Anaheim, California tomorrow to attend the state Republican party convention, where I am going to speak on a panel and deliver a speech for the California Federation of Republican women. Later in the evening, I have been invited to attend a reception with Mitt Romney.

I'll share the gossip when I get back. See you Sunday!

 My favorite read today on the 'Net?

The Courage to do Nothing by Melanie Morgan (hmm, I wonder why?)

 ...More from AmericanPower.com, summing up the situation as it exists, not as the liberals wish it to be.

There's a lot of talk suggesting the Bush administration's plan to rescue financial markets is "Republican Socialism" for "Wall Street evil-doers."

Protests were held this week to "bail out people before bankers."

Take note ofthe kind of folks involved:

A coalition of grassroots groups, including Credo Mobile, Code Pink, United for Peace and Justice and MoveOn.org are planning to express their opposition to Paulson's bailout plan and call for those clear principles this Thursday, September 25 in arally and march at 4:00pm near Wall Street in lower Manhattan.

Inside it was all business: President Bush was meeting with the congressional leaders, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama about the nation's financial crisis.

Outside, it was business as usual.

The chant was the all-purpose rhythm-and-rhyme that on any given day since the Vietnam War might be heard outside the White House.

But rarely is it applied to... financial markets.

Nevertheless, while the meeting was taking place in the Cabinet Room, along Pennsylvania Avenue the $700-billion bailout for Wall Street was a magnet for complaint.

About 50 people marched in a circle, their umbrellas an array of color against a rainy sky and the early dusk as they shouted over and over:

Hey hey, ho ho
Bush bailout's got to go.

It's stunningly pathetic. The Democrats (read Obama camp) are spreading a massive disinformation campaign about John McCain's trip to the Hill to work on a bi-partisan approach to the Wall Street bail-out plan.

American Power has the machiavellian strategery - lie and lie again.

Think Progress is leading the left's political attack on John McCain tonight, alleging that the Arizona Senator killed the bipartisan Wall Street rescue plan.

While to be expected, the McCain-killed-the-bailout meme is bogus.Jennifer Rubin explains:

The Democrats have begun a ludicrous game: try to blame John McCain for nixing a mythical deal that was eminently reachable before he forced Barack Obama back in town. Throw in sometrash talkand you have a perfect display of shabbiness.

The tale does not mesh with any available facts from reports we are getting. First, there was no “deal” — hence the cries of help from Harry Reid and Hank Paulson on Wednesday for McCain to come to town. My own conversations with Senate offices bear this out: McCain’s entry helped push a deal among Senators, but House Republicans were never on board (and still aren’t). Second, unlike his mute counterpart, John McCain is taking anactive rolein the negotiations and a constructive one. Third, the House Democrats likely have the votes to pass a deal – they simply wanted cover from at least 100 House Republicans.

A chilling assault on American Free Speech rights is taking place right here, right now, on our soil.

CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations (which tried to get myself and my former radio co-host fired for criticizing them) is at it again by taking the producers of a very compelling movie to court in an effort to squelch their right to speak.

"Hard is not hopeless."- Gen. David Petraeus, 2007

• 58 percent of respondents now say the war in Iraq is going well or very well. This is a 14 percent increase since June, and the highest rating on this question in more than four years.
• Positive perceptions of the war increased since June by 15 percent among women, and by 17 percent among independents.
• 58 percent also now say that the U.S. will definitely or probably succeed in Iraq.  A year ago, 47 percent predicted failure.

• A solid majority (55 percent) now support drilling in ANWR. That’s an increase of 13 percent—just since February—including 52 percent of independents. As the report puts it, “Support for ANWR drilling has increased across demographic groups.”
• Respondents overwhelming support an “all of the above” approach to energy independence, with more than two thirds of respondents supporting everything from drilling in coastal waters to greater fuel efficiency, development of renewable fuels and increased fuel efficiency.
• Support for offshore exploration “garners the same level of support in coastal states as it does elsewhere.”
• Respondents were evenly split on the nation’s overall energy priorities: “45% say that expanding exploration, mining, and drilling, and the construction of new power plants should be the more important priority, while 47% say the priority should be on more energy conservation and regulation on energy use and prices.” That’s a sharp change from February, when 35 percent favored increased exploration, etc., and 55 percent conservation and regulation as the priority.

UPDATE! 

Digital Media has picked up the story here.

A founding member of the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois met in New York City Wednesday night with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Jodie Evans, who co-hosted Obama's first major fundraiser in Hollywood in February 2007 just after Obama announced his candidacy and is a top fundraiser and donor to Obama's campaign, led a delegation of leftist anti-American groups that held a private meeting near the United Nations. The stated purpose of the meeting was to "serve as an opening for diplomatic resolution" to prevent war between Iran and the United States.

The government of Iran is listed as a state sponsor of terrorism by the State Department and is strongly believed to be developing nuclear weapons.

Obama has stated that he would be willing to meet with Ahmadinejad and other enemies of the United States without conditions. Evans met with Obama in Beverly Hills last week at an exclusive $28,500 per person fundraiser. As a bundler for Obama, Evans is granted regular briefings with top Obama staff members and meeting with Obama and his vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.

Obama has come under heavy criticism from military families and troops support organizations over his alliance with Evans.

Evans is co-founder of the pro-terrorist group Code Pink and works with state sponsors of terrorism to undermine America in the war on terror. She also has publicly announced her support for the terrorists in Iraq, her sympathy for Osama bin Laden and her "love" of Hugo Chavez.

Given Evans' closeness to regular contacts with Obama and his campaign, it is fair to ask if she is acting as an intermediary for Obama.

Obama recently put his seal of approval on Evans' attempt to storm the stage during the acceptance speech of Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska when he welcomed her to his two Hollywood fundraisers last week, the exclusive $28,500 per person event and the $2500 per person event Barbra Streisand sang at the same evening.

Others attending the meeting with Ahmadinejad included anti-American activists who support the terrorists in Iraq and work anti-American governments: Medea Benjamin, Brian Becker, Leslie Cagan, Larry Holmes and Ramsey Clark.

The press release announcing the meeting can be found here.

Update: Jodie Evans issued the following statement tonight on her meeting with Ahmadinejad.

“It’s rare for a head of state to take time during an official U.N. visit to meet with the peace community, especially in a situation where the host government —represented by the Bush administration — is so hostile,” said Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK. “The fact that the meeting took place and was so positive is, in itself, a major step forward.”

(This report is written by Kristinn Taylor at FreeRepublic.com)

Kill This Bill.

"....You’ve heard a lot about Fannie/Freddie and the minority lending shakedowns, but you haven’t heard most commentators/analysts on either the left or the right talk about the massive illegal alien mortgage racket — a topic I’ve reported on for the past five years. That’s because fault lies at the feet of the crime-enabling banking industry andthe ethnic lobbyists andthe illegal alien-enabling Bush administration.

They screwed us. Now, they want us to fork over a trillion dollars.

Screw them.

Kill this bailout."

I want to share a very amusing story with you from last night where I was invited to attend a San Francisco “salon” of 20 High Tech CEO’s and Venture Capitalists at the home of Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal and on the board of Facebook, along with eight other political types who were invited to speak (including me.) 

There were some Dem operatives there like Donnie Fowler (former DNC Chairman Don Fowler’s son) and Chris LeHane …you've heard of LeHane, former consultant to Bill and Hillary Clinton, ran the campaign to save California Governor Gray Davis from the Recall effort (unsuccessfully, I might add) and a host of other well-known clients.

Fowler just grinned.

Item Two: LeHane admitted that the Internet generated attacks and smears on Sarah Palin may not have been the smartest move in the world. He called it a “Billion Dollar Bitterfest Backfire by the Left.”He also said “it’s like the guy who calls a woman for a date, calls her stupid, un-educated, and unattractive- then says ‘wanna go out’?

From the "Not Holding My Breath" department.

This morning on the Today Show, Schumer agreed with Senator DeMint that any politician who broke the law and helped cause this financial crisis should go to jail.

Including a politician who is at the center of IndyMac's collapse? "whoever. you bet."

Transcript--

VIEIRA: finally a question to both of you, yes or no, fbi investigating these financial institutions right now to determine whether there's any criminal behavior. do you think that people should go to jail for this massive failure, senator demint, can i start with you?

SEN. DEMINT: well, if they've broken the law, see that. i think that includes politicians who presided over this mess and caused the problem. i agree we have a problem but the way to fix it is not more government.

VIEIRA: senator schumer.

SEN. SCHUMER: yes, they certain -- if they broke the law they certainly should go to jail.

VIEIRA: including politicians.

SEN. SCHUMER: whoever. you bet.

Still on the subject of the financial melt-down and the rescue package working its way through Congress, Mike Kremparsky of Strategy One  has some new polling available, a regular survey of Beltway elites or opinion makers.

Despite the back-tracking and the denials (as well as admissions) the pattern of deception has become so clear that even the dumbest mainstream media reporter can't help but notice that something is not right in ObamaLand.

That "something" is the astroturfing campaign that resulted in unspeakable lies about Sarah Palin, some of the dirtiest campaign trickery I have witnessed in quite some time.

Did I mention that it is the Democrats who are sliming Governor Palin? Did I mention that Obama's campaign operatives are likely involved?

The Jawa Report's Dr. Rusty Shackleford (who tracks jihadists on the Internet) has been following the origination of the smears and followed the leads right into David Axelrod's frontyard.

Andrea Shea-King at the Radio Patriot has scheduled Dr. Shackleford for later this evening for a live interview.

Tune in. 9:00 pm EST, 6:00 pm PST.

This story has legs, and they are marching towards a WHITE HOT tipping point.

BUT BUT BUT BUT...I thought Joe Biden was supposed to be the attack dog in this campaign?!

Biden scolded by the Boss. Ouch.

It's funny how when someone gets busted they suddenly want to do 'the right thing .'

And what is also odd is that you can go to jail for much, much longer by stealing a piece of mail...but email...not so much.

Congress needs to do something about that. Maybe Sarah Palin as Vice-President can help the process along.

It is nice to know that the FBI jumped on this case, nailing this punk , his pals and the ones who also hit Bill O'Reilly's website in retaliation for his comments about them.

 UPDATE!

 A BlogFire has erupted over a new investigation conducted by Dr. Rusty Shackleford at The Jawa Report - suggesting that the Sarah Palin smears including reports she was a member of the Alaska Independence Party (advocating secession from the union) and has radical anti-American views begins and ends with the Obama campaign.

Must Reading here.

If the allegations of cyber ambush prove to be true, the Federal Elections Commission must get  involved. The "astroturfing" or making it appear as if the smears began organically on the 'net instead of orchestrated by a political PR firm is morally wrong....and it's illegal.

Stay clicked for further developments.

This is gonna be a Big One, folks.

It turns out that stabbing unborn babies in the head and suctioning out their brains isn't exactly what the Catholic Church has in mind when it teaches its pro-life position.

Nancy Pelosi apparently didn't get the memo. Perhaps Madame Speaker was too busy speaking out of both sides of her mouth this election cycle?

But maybe she'll get the point from the Archbishop of San Francisco after hearing from him directly.

Palin Derangement Syndrome is again on full display. Liberal women, primarily from the Northwest, begin twitching and flailing, visibly perturbed, their MAC make-up melting as their internal thermometer is heating way past the boiling point.

The New York Daily News has a piece about the love/hate relationship to Mrs. Palin. On the left, it really boils down to Bush Derangement Syndrome by proxy (I coined this term, just now, but please feel free to spread it around.) 

But scratch a politically active opponent of BushWhite House policies and fury erupts.

"Eva Peron reminds me a lot of why I'm so frightened of Sarah Palin," said authorNaomi Wolf, referring to the woman who put a movie-star face onArgentina's autocratic regime in the 1940s.

"She was this glossy, telegenic figurehead for a police state," said Wolf, a formerAl Gore campaign adviser.

Wolf sees Palin as an extension not of McCain but of the current White House.

In addition to Bush Derangement Syndrome by proxy, there's more. My friend Phylis Schlaffley has it all scoped out (naturally.)

"...The feminist tirades against Sarah are mostly so tiresome, but one line of their complaints is really funny. After 40 years of telling wives and mothers to get out of the home (which Betty Friedan called "a comfortable concentration camp"), put their children in day care (tax-funded, of course) and join the workforce, these same feminists now tell Sarah to stay home with her children.

Sarah doesn't need feminist approval for her lifestyle; the only person whose OK she needs for her double career as mother and politician is her husband's, and he seems very happy with Sarah.

Sarah Palin is an exemplar of a successful, can-do woman, and the feminists simply don't know how to deal with her. I hope she will usher in a new era where conventional wisdom recognizes that feminist negativism is ancient history and American women are so fortunate to live in the greatest country on Earth."

Joe? Joe who?

Most of America might be asking that question as Joe Biden wanders in the political wilderness, committing 'gaffes' while attacking McCain, poking reporters in the pec's, and generally being ignored by the national media.

This is an except from The New York Times, official campaign cheerleaders for Obama:

“If I sound angry, it’s because I am angry,” Mr. Biden told a few hundred people gathered at a high school football field. Yes, he sounds angry, yelling through his stump speeches, flailing his arms and telling a (supportive) member of the audience to “Shush up, will you?” (“I’m kidding,” he added, but did not sound it.)

But the reality for Mr. Biden is that while running mates are second-fiddlers by definition, the phenomenon of Ms. Palin has rendered him something of a fourth or fifth fiddle. It is not like last month, when reporters swarmed Mr. Biden’s Delaware home and delegates swooned at the Democratic convention. He is now trailed by just a few national reporters, and struggling to break through in a race marked by historic firsts, political celebrities and charismatic newcomers — none named Joe Biden.

The Obama campaign was hoping to reintroduce Mr. Biden this week as running mate attack dog. But his penchant for verbal rambling ensured that much of the attention he drew was unwanted: he said wealthy Americans had a “patriotic” duty to pay more taxes, a remark the McCain campaign mocked relentlessly.

Yet Joltin’ Joe has also become a fascinating Off Broadway spectacle in his own right. He is a distinctive blend of pit bull and odd duck whose weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything — “gaffes,” out-of-nowhere comments (pivoting midspeech to say “Excuse my back!” to people seated behind him), goofy asides (tapping a reporter’s chest and telling him, “You need to work on your pecs.”)

Read the whole thing here.

This is the best piece I have read to date on the melt-down of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - who was responsible, what happened, and why the Democrats (especially Barack Obama) are strangely mute on the biggest economic story in 60 years.

From the Hartford Courant

"...Taxpayers face a tab of as much as $200 billion for a government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the formerly semi-autonomous mortgage finance clearinghouses. And Sen. Christopher Dodd, the Democratic chairman of the Senate banking committee, has the gall to say in a Bloomberg Television interview: "I have a lot of questions about where was the administration over the last eight years."

We will save the senator some trouble. Here is what we saw firsthand at the White House from late 2002 through 2007: Starting in 2002, White House and Treasury Department economic policy staffers, with support from then-Chief of Staff Andy Card, began to press for meaningful reforms of Fannie, Freddie and other government-sponsored enterprises, known GSEs.

The crux of their concern was this: Investors believed that the GSEs were government-backed, so shouldn't the GSEs also be subject to meaningful government supervision?

This was not the first time a White House had tried to confront this issue. During the Clinton years, Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Treasury official Gary Gensler both spoke out on the issue of Fannie and Freddie's investment portfolios, which had already begun to resemble hedge funds with risky holdings. Nor were others silent: As chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan regularly warned about the risks posed by Fannie and Freddie's holdings."

Oh Dear, The Chosen One was booed on the trail today - by African-Americans!

And he didn't like it one bit.

ABC News has the story, but as usual misses the point.

Due to the excellent investigative skills of right-wing bloggers and investigators, we now know (or think we know) that the person who hacked into Governor Palin's private email account is the son of a Tennessee State Representative - oh, did I forgot to mention that he's a Democrat?

My bad.

Details from Gateway Pundit here.

Guess the mainstream media was too busy digging up dirt on Mrs. Palin in Alaska to be bothered with the over-the-line assault on her privacy from Tennessee.

Remember hearing about the big Obama Hollywood fund-raiser hosted by Barbara Streisand earlier this week?

(CBS/ AP) Barack Obama partied with Hollywood celebrities Tuesday night and with the help of Oscar-winning singer and actress Barbra Streisand raised an eye-popping $9 million for his presidential campaign and the Democratic Party.

The night was split into two glitzy events, a reception and dinner costing $28,500 each at the Greystone Mansion, followed by entertainment by Streisand at the nearby Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. About 250-300 people were expected at the dinner and about 800 at the entertainment, which cost $2,500 a ticket.

Dinner guests seen by reporters, or noted by waiters, included Will Ferrell, Jodie Foster, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Lee Curtis and DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

There was another special guest and good friend of Barack Obama in attendance. Her name is Jodi Evans. She supports terrorists. She gave over $600,000 to the families of Al Qaeda jihadists in the Anbar province in Iraq. She co-founded CodePink and is regularly arrested with her anti-war stunts on Capitol Hill.

Why is Jodi Evans at an Obama fund-raiser? He promised to end the war, now he's negotiating to keep American forces in Iraq until after the November election. Remember what CodePink did to Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi for not "doing enough to bring our troops home" by heckling and stalking both women at every campaign event or book signing?

Kristinn Taylor at FreeRepublic.com has new details of the nexus between The Chosen One, The Terrorist Supporter, and their Hollywood Pals here.

Democrat presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois put his seal of approval on the woman whoattempted to storm the stage during the acceptance speech by Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska at the Republican National Convention by welcoming her to his $28,500 per person fundraiser held in Hollywood on Tuesday night.

Less than two weeks after garnering worldwide attention by getting within feet of the stage where Palin stood before getting dragged away by security personnel, Obama bundler Jodie Evans, co-founder of the anti-American group Code Pink, was one of about 300 donors attending the high-priced fundraiser Obama held at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills that brought in approximately $8 million for the Obama campaign and the Democratic party, according toEntertainment Weekly, which published the donor list for the event.

During a campaign appearance today, Governor Palin was quoted saying that she doesn't question Barack Obama's patriotism. She questions his judgement. I question both - and his fitness to become our next Commander-in-Chief.

BillO'Reilly hosted the segment tonight in which I was invited to speak, alongwith the highly skilled Tim Graham of the Media Research Center. The subject matter was the snub of NBC by the McCain campaign by scheduling Sarah Palin with CBS, for her next major network interview. ABC has already interviewed Governor Palin.

Make no mistake about it. McCain's campaign was intentionally insulting NBC, which has a long and sordid history of biased, vitriolic coverage of Republicans, and especially conservatives.

Katie Couric may not get a tingle up her leg when she interviews Gov. Palin, but she has to be more even-handed than the hacks at MSNBC. This is a good move by McCain. He is showing strength to face his detractors and, at the same time, his willingness to deal with the mainstream media who have treated him like Obama's houseboy.

McCain has been over backwards over the years with the MSM, yet they stab him in the back every chance they get. The hatemongers at MSNBC are the worst, of course.

MSNBC itself admitted liberal media bias in a 2004 report that showed 125 reporters form major media sent money to Democrats, and only 16 contributed to the GOP. that's putting their money where their mouths and hearts are. NBC finally recognized that their presidential coverage has been well out of bounds, which is why they canned the hateful Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchoring.

Due to time considerations, I did not get a chance to cite a few of the examples that I have documented of NBC's bias, but here is a sampling. 

McCain campaign complains about NBC coverage
   On Aug. 17, McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis wrote a letter to Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, to protest what the campaign called signs that the network is "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the presidential race."

   The campaign is objected to a statement by NBC's Andrea Mitchell on "Meet the Press" questioning whether McCain might have gotten a heads-up on some of the questions that were asked of Obama, who was the first candidate to be interviewed by Pastor Rick Warren at a presidential forum on faith on Aug. 16.

   "We are concerned that your News Division is following MSNBC's lead in abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race. We would like to request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss our deep concerns about the news standards and level of objectivity at NBC," Davis wrote.

White House attacks NBC News coverage
   In May, The White House launched an attack on NBC News for its editing of an interview with President Bush.
   In a letter to NBC News President Steve Capus, presidential counselor Ed Gillespie complained that a report on the "Today" show distorted Bush's remarks Bush made to the Israeli Knesset in May -- where he compared negotiations with Iran to the appeasement of Nazis -- and did not include the president's objections to questions from reporter Richard Engel.

   "This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible," Gillespie wrote, adding that NBC should air Bush's responses "in full."

   NBC News said in a statement that the story "accurately reflects the interview" and questioned the White House's criticisms.

NBC Military Analyst Quits Network, Citing Left-wing Bias
   In Feb. 2007 NBC military analyst Ken Allard, a former army colonel, resigned from the network, citing a general drift to the left and especially following NBC's inaction over scurrilous remarks made by one of its other analysts, Bill Arkin, that implied the military was full of "mercenaries" raking in "obscene amenities."

Team McCain scores against Obama the Beautiful...during a Iowa Townhall meeting Johnny Mac smacked The Annnointed One with the truth: Obama took more money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than any other politican except Chris Dodd. And he has done nothing to avert the crisis.

Let's not forget Sarah Barracuda, who went after Biden's patriotism.

Heh.

As for CHANGE, fah-geddah about itObama wants his supporters to get up in your face!

Barack Obama sharpened his attacks on John McCain and mocked the Republican's recent calls for reform in two stops in Nevada on Wednesday after days of listening to nervous supporters fret about the Democrat's chances of taking the White House.....many of his supporters are upset that polls show the race is pretty much even, despite Obama running against a Republican who used to brag that he voted 90 percent of the time with the unpopular President Bush. The economy is teetering, and the country is still at war, but seven weeks from Election Day the race is far from the slam-dunk that Democrats dreamed about.

Meanwhile, the odor of desperation is wafting through the ranks of Obama's campaign staff.

It's not funny anymore. The dirty tricks by the netroots - the crackpots with keyboards - has risen to a level I have not personally witnessed in years.

Now Governor Palin's personal email account has been hacked, and some contents disseminated.

I thought liberals were all about their privacy rights. Oh excuse me, I must have misunderstood. They want their privacy protected, but they don't give a rats rear-end about conservative Republicans.

I've seen a lot of this kind of response to the illegal act that took place by a group or person identifying themselves as Anonymous(clever, huh?)

"...Obviously, hacking into private e-mails is a crime and wrong.... but kudos anonymous for trying to get some truth out of someone whose been hiding illegal things and getting around subpoenas for the emails..."

Michelle Malkin has the latest on Palin Derangement Syndrome.

Is this why John McCain doesn't use email?

Alert the Media!

Yours Truly will be appearing on The Factor with Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Network this Thursday, September 18th.

Bill's producers have invited me to discuss the snub of NBC News by the McCain campaign, awarding the next MSM national network interview of Sarah Palin to Katie Curic at CBS.

What does this mean? For one thing, it means that the campaign is smart to punish NBC for its endless bias against conservatives (particularly women) and the hateful diatribes by Keith Olbermann and the adolescent leerings of Chris Matthews.

Tim Graham from Media Research Center will be on the program, too.

Tune in 5:00 pm PST.

The blogosphere is responding to the Move America Forward Freedom PAC ad that we produced yesterday in response to the shameful attempt by Senator Obama to pressure the Iraqi government into slowing troop withdrawals from the war theater - for political gain.

Gateway Pundit here.

Amir Tehari of the New York Post has new developments here.

Michelle Malkin's Hot Air here.

Pat Dollard here.

Susan Duclos at WakeUpAmericans here.

Senator Obama must be held to account for this shameful attempt...it's clear the Bush administration won't do it, so it must be up to the people to scorn him for placing his personal ambition above the welfare of our troops.

Move America Forward  Freedom PAC denounces Senator Obama over negotiations with the Iraqi government to slow troop withdrawals – for political gain.

Spread this video around. This man might become our next Commander-in-Chief.

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The most powerful woman in the world (just ask her) Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi has seen the political writing on the wall, and guided an energy bill in Congress to a successful vote.

The only problem is - the bill sucks.

Read it for yourself here.

The truth hurts. 

Flip, flop, tick tock, Barack Obama is in the dock.

The appalling secret negotiation of Barack Obama with the Iraqi government back in July to DELAY the withdrawal of American troops has been confirmed, despite Obama's denial.

Shameful. Have these people never heard of the Logan Act?

The year - 2000. The candidate? Barack Obama. The criticism? He lacked  experience for the job of state senator. A pretty familiar refrain, eh?

But Barack went on the offensive, explaining to interviewers that his curricula vitae included work for William Ayers and the group he co-founded called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. You remember Billy, right? The 60's bomber who refuses to recant the murder rampage he and his weathermen buddies engaged in until they were finally arrested.

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75384

UPDATE! 

Move America Forward's new political action committee (PAC) has issued a press release today condemning the actions of Senator Obama.

Meanwhile, Obama's terrorist supporting friends Jodi Evans and Medea Benjamin are milking the cash cow for him.

The political bare-knuckle brawling is underway, but pretty soon (like tomorrow)you are gonna see the Dem's carrying baseball bats, knives, chains, and tasers.

Yes folks, it's gonna get a lot uglier after the newest Rasmussen poll, which puts John McCain above the 50 percent approval threshold for the first time in the campaign.

"...The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows John McCain reaching the 50% level of support for the first time since Barack Obama wrapped up the Democratic Presidential Nomination. McCain retains a three-point advantage for the third straight day, 50% to 47% (seerecent daily results). "

(photograph of angry Democrats courtesy New Haven Independant)

Fox News Sunday dropped the ball a bit on the Democrat hack attack hurled against Governor Palin, according to Ron Winter, an East Coast Blogger, pal, and GOP consultant.

A little political jujitsu is order from the MCain campaign, says Ron.

There is one issue that came up during the Wallace pre-game show that should have been developed more but unfortunately Wallace really came up short, that being the so-called Troopergate issue.

The heart of this issue is that Gov. Palin's former brother-in-law, an Alaska State Trooper, went through a vicious divorce from the governor's sister. In the course of the proceedings allegations surfaced that the trooper used a taser on his 11-year-old stepson, that he threatened to kill the Governor's father, and that he drank on the job.

That has morphed in the world of Alaska's partisan politics to a claim that the Governor tried to force her Department of Public Safety commissioner to fire the trooper, and when he wouldn't, she fired the department head in retaliation.

Now, the former department head says she actually never did tell him to fire the trooper, but he "felt pressure," whatever the hell that means.

But let's go back to the original allegations. The trooper admitted that he used a taser ON AN 11-YEAR-OLD-KID! What part of the rules and regulations governing use of a taser came into play when a little kid was involved? Was this full grown trooper threatened, did the kid pose a hazard to public safety? Nope, none of the above.

This cop sent thousands of volts of electricity through a child's body, using a device that has been known to cause cardiac arrest in full-grown adults, and we are arguing about Alaska's ex-Commissioner of Public Safety saying he "felt pressure!?" Is the world completely upside down in Washington, D.C.?

He tased a kid! And an internal investigation found that he indeed threatened to kill the Governor's father! Enough said. Fire his ass!

Deep in the heart of every "progressive" beats the desire to remake society according to their ideology and anybody who gets in their way is by definition reactionary, corrupt and contemptible, so any and all measures are justified to end their opposition. This is not a personality quirk of selected progressives, it is a fundamental tenet of their world view. Mark Tapscott's Sunday columnof The Washington Examiner warns the Palin family of what is likely ahead for them.

Meanwhile, the newest polling shows key states now in play for McCain. Panic for the Dem's.

Okay, I am seriously annoyed with my former employer ABC News. Executive Producers, Associate Producers, Line Producers, Operations Managers - whomever made the decision to cut up the Sarah Palin interview into chunks and air her comments piece-meal are out for ratings, and not edification on her worldview nor her policy positions.

I admit I do not watch mainstream television anymore, so that's part of the problem. And it is why I don't have any comment on part 273 of Charlie Gibson's interview with the Governor.

Thank Goodness, though, Lori Byrd at Wizbang has done the heavy lifting for us.

In my opinion, the biggest news to come out of it is that Charlie Gibson did not apologize to Sarah Palin for misquoting her "exact words" in the first part of the interview, and even worse did not apologize to his viewers for giving them incorrect information and misleading them to believe that Palin was a nutty Christian bent on Holy War. He did not issue a correction when he had the perfect opportunity. The huge mistake he made was in the first day of interviewing. He has since had a chance to realize his mistake, since many have pointed it out. He had an interview with Palin the following day, and an hour of network television, with more to come on Nightline tonight so he had the perfect opening to set the record straight. For all the fact checking Gibson and ABC did of Palin (probably more than they have done of Obama the past two years), he didn't think to check his own facts and then when he realized they were wrong, did nothing to correct the information for his viewers. No wonder people trust used car salesmen more than journalists these days. At least the people I know do. If you are not yet aware of the "exact words" Gibson misquoted, there is a great post containing transcript and video atDartblog.

Media jackals and the shreiking we are hearing after last nights Q & A by Charlie Gibson, liberal anchorman for ABC News, is so typical.

The frothing begins with Governor Palin's answer to the question about the Bush Doctorine and whether she agreed with it.

Josh Trevino, a right-blogger, alertly has the push-back here.

My column  for WorldNetDaily.com coincides with what 3rd Wave Dave and Andrea Shea King are thinking, too.

Today’s venture begins in the pigpen, where liberals wallow in lies, innuendos, and depravity unfitting of even the lowliest swine.

We’ve all by now heard about Barack Obama’s “ lipstick” jab of Gov. Sarah Palin. “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.” That was the line that got his supporters howling with laughter. They understood that it was a slight at the woman who has stolen his thunder.

No longer are women fainting at Obama’s feet as he yammers about change. Instead they are buying up Palin’s style Kazuo Kawasaki glasses,and getting their hair cut like the Alaska governor.

One TV station inChicago asked women to comment on Obama’s “lipstick” comments, and here are a couple of responses:

“It's definitely inappropriate-we also seem to be ignoring the second comment that he made. The comment regarding a fish that stinks and wrapping it in paper- I'm sorry but any "lady" would find that comment truly offensive. How would Barack like some one saying that comment when referring to anything to do with his wife?????? Give me a break....I don't know of any woman that would. As a lady I find this disgusting. – Kim Piskorowski, Des Plaines.

Obama said he was using the "same phrase McCain had used"..McCain was talking about a program (medical care), not a person. Obama was definitely talking about Gov. Sarah Palin. It was not appropriate and he owes her an apology. – Glenda Cain, St. Charles.

Some women, of course, support Obama because he has a baritone voice and a D behind his name. And some of those women are self-described feminists who have been unmasked as radical leftists – not supporters of women - by their churning hatred of Palin.

Ever since Sen. John McCain’s announcement that he chose Gov. Palin as his running mate, cynical leftists and Democrat agitators have hounded her with lies about her family, her politics, her religion, and belittled her hair and skirts. They have slandered her because she has a family AND works.

“South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain had chosen a mate ‘whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion,’ according to thePolitico.

Nice, eh?

“To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs," Steinem wrote in the LA Times.

Well, that’s supportive, isn’t it? Comparing a vote for Palin to amputating one’s legs is a real feminist position.

Even Hollywood has weighed in, with its predictable hate for anything that is truly American.Asked about his opinion of Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin on an interview with EXTRA Tabloid TV, actor Brad Garrett of “Everybody Loves Raymond” responded without hesitation “White Trash in the White House."

Well, you gotta hand it to Garrett. He’s saying out loud what the rest of the Hollywood liberal democrat elite are saying behind closed doors.

 These are just a few of the foul thoughts from the left. Let them keep talking, because they’re goring their own pigs. The country now knows that the lies they’ve told us about equal treatment for all women and all people was just a way to get them headlines and make them money.

I’m no bra-burning hippy chick who faints at the sight of a former community organizer, but my estrogen is on fire with this hateful treatment of a woman. Attacking her because of her policies is one thing. But going after her because you don’t like her hair, or the fact that she has five children, her youngest with Down syndrome, is sexist in the basest sense of the word.

Real women, the soccer and hockey moms, working women who run to the store after work, and those whose work is at home, see something else in Palin. They see real hope, not that mystical snake oil Obama is pushing from atop his Barackopolis.

Palin stands for family and she shows it. She stands for those with disabilities instead of standing with those who encourage abortion of those with disabilities. She stands for fewer taxes on working families, and freedom from foreign oil. She stands for all of the Constitution – including the Second Amendment.

The vicious and slanderous attacks will continue. Gov. Palin knows it and so does her family. As somebody who has faced the hateful left, I know how brutal the onslaught can be on a day-to-day basis.

The attacks have changed the face of this presidential election and laid bare the true intents of Gloria Steinhem, Obama and the rest of the two-faced liberals who’ve marched all over this country for far too long.

Obama, the self-described “feminists” and the sinking democrats are going to have to find another act. The lipstick’s off the pigs, and it ain’t pretty.

 UPDATE!

ABC News Blows It

My fears for Sarah Palin in the hands of Charlie Gibson were realized. While I have yet to view World News Tonight, Michelle Malkin and others have. I watched a clip of Gibson trying to play 'gotcha' over the Bush Doctrine, in which Governor Palin appeared to hesitate. Governor Palin answered the question correctly. But this condescending attitude is going to backfire. Redstate.com reports that Gibson relied on the Associated Press. Um, that would be The Fake But Accurate news service.

UPDATE II:

Politico.com says Palin holds her own.

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While the East Coast is seeing Palin shortly, those of us here in the Western states still have to wait a few more hours to watch Charlie Gibson interview Governor Palin in Alaska.

But ABC News is touting its exclusive here.

As you watch the Charlie Gibson interview, keep this in mind. Charlie Gibson is a liberal.

And some "facts" on the ABC website about Sarah Palin are wrong, including an allegation that she fired a librarian in Wasilla because she wouldn't pull out some books that Palin wanted censored.

That story has been de-bunked numerous times.

More on the interview when it comes across my airwaves.

My friend Joe is writing to you this morning from Dearborn, Michigan where he  traveled with a colleague to host a special screening of the movie, "Obsession: Radical Islams War Against the West."  (More information on this special 9/11 event can be found -HERE).  

Many people are eloquently writing and speaking about the seventh anniversary of the hellish national nightmare we endured in our country. But shockingly, in some parts of the country, no one cares...in my local newspaper (the San Francisco Chronicle) there wasn't a single story honoring the fallen who were murdered September 11th 2001.

So I turn to Lawhawk, who has a somber accounting of then and now.a moving piece, updates on where we stand today, and links to other writers whom I admire.

"....Anyone who walks around Ground Zero in Manhattan would find people selling photos or books of the 9/11 attacks, along with photos of the day. I find that somewhat crass, but at the same time, it's important that people see what happened that day and not forget what happened. The further away from 9/11 we get, the more the details fade away. It is just too important to let that happen.

Then again, there are plenty of people who don't quite get what happened on 9/11 is a reflection of an ongoing war by Islamists against the US. They don't (as seen by commentshere). It can be traced back to the the PLO hijackings of the 1970s, Iranian attack on the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, and through to the Hizbullah bombing of the US Marine Barracks in 1983, the1993 WTC bombing (which happened15 years ago), and then the attacks on the US Embassies in Africa, the USS Cole, to say nothing of the dozens of terror attacks in between.

The failure treat the Islamist threat seriously convinced Islamic terrorist group leaders, including Osama bin Laden, that they could launch ever more audacious attacks to impose their view on the world - to force the US to leave its allies hanging and to enable the Islamists to establish dominion. It was only after 9/11 that the US responded to the Islamists' war on the US with the kind of vigor necessary to defeat the Islamists.

Al Qaeda and the Islamists disdain for non believers grew increasingly violent as they saw that they could attack and attack without repercussions. They saw that there were tremendous weaknesses in US will and security, and they took advantage of it, to deadly effect. Now, they have to spend more time watching their backs than plotting future attacks."

Bloomberg Reports: Democrats are afraid of losing the election.

"...After months of leading in voter enthusiasm, fundraising and most surveys, Barack Obama lost momentum to John McCain after the Republican convention last week. McCain has gotten a boost from his pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate and has surged ahead of Obama in some national polls, while running even in others.

Arizona Senator McCain, 72, is drawing larger crowds to his rallies than ever before. Illinois Senator Obama's campaign, meanwhile, may struggle to keep up the record fundraising pace it has maintained all year.

The campaign's ``novelty has worn off,'' said Representative Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat. The Obama campaign ``seems to have lost its speed, its response time.''

"....Public support for Republican Party candidates to the House of Representatives increased dramatically this month in the United States, according to a poll by Gallup released by USA Today. 50 per cent of respondents would vote for the GOP contender in their congressional district, up eight points since August.

Democratic Party contenders are second with 45 per cent, down six points in a month. Six per cent of respondents would vote for other candidates or are undecided.

This is for all the ladies out there! As a result of Obama’s BAD joke, a new idea has been launched. All the women who are offended by this can send Obama their lipsticks. Now we all have ¾ used tubes sitting in drawers that we’ll never wear again. Send them off!

http://michellemalkin.com/

Send it all to his Washington DC office at the address below:

Read more at THIRDWAVEDAVE, and listen in to my interview with Andrea Shea King last night!

p.s.

Lori Byrd at Wizbang writes,  "The Anchoress pointed me to these greatMcCain-Palin "lipstick" buttons that were created by "a home schooling mother of 8 - with one seriously autistic child" who she said could really use the $$.  The graphic is pretty cool."

My, what a difference a few days can make in Presidential politics. MediaBistro has the stunning news that the MSM is shifting from Obamania to persecuting Palin.

"...For quite some time, Sen. Barack Obama has dominated media coverage. So much so that even the Washington Post's ombudsman had to call out her own paper for skewed coverage.

Now, via the Project for Excellence in Journalism, we learn that a shift has occured, thanks to Sen. John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin:

 

For the first time in three months, John McCain generated more coverage than Democratic hopeful Barack Obama last week. But McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, earned even more attention during Republican National Convention week, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Palin appeared as a significant or dominant factor in 60% of campaign stories the week of Sept.1-7 while McCain registered in 52% of the stories. Obama appeared as a key figure in 22% of election coverage last week. His VP pick, Joe Biden, was a leading newsmaker in 2%.

Taken together, storylines focusing on Palin accounted for 45% of the campaign newshole last week. The biggest Palin narrative was the response to her selection (28%), which included her Sept. 3 convention speech. Coverage of her personal and family life accounted for 10% and stories about her public record registered at 6%. The claims made by the McCain campaign that the media were unfairly attacking Palin constituted 1% of last week's campaign coverage."

Full report can be read here.

This news, plus a 12-point lead that has opened up for Team McCain may account for John Fund's report in the Wall Street Journal.

"... Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin's hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. My sources report the first wave arrived in Anchorage less than 24 hours after John McCain selected her on August 29."

Bastards.

Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS) has now risen to the top of the Obama campaign.

The Very Top.

Barry, a word of advice, if I may.

 Women Vote.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_Lipstick_on_a_pig.html

Republican women are on Sexism Patrol. The Obama campaign is reeking of desperation. What are they scared of --a girl?

What a bunch of sissies.

Man Up!

I will be appearing tonight on the Andrea Shea King show to discuss the PDS symptoms and experts who are available (like myself) to cure the afflicted.Listen in at 6:00 pm PST.

ARLINGTON, VA -- Today at 7:00 p.m. EDT, Gov. Jane Swift, Chair of the Palin Truth Squad, will hold a press conference call to discuss Barack Obama's comments about Governor Sarah Palin this afternoon in Lebanon, Va.

Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee further information about  my exclusive story yesterday involving the so-called veterans group attacking Governor Palin for releasing details of her sons deployment to Iraq. 

But the claim Gov. Palin violated operational security is demonstrably false, which Soltz, as a former soldier, should have know before posting his claims. CNN's Anderson Cooperdismantled Soltz's transparently partisan attack, pointing out that the Pentagon announced Track Palin's unit was deploying to Iraqback in May, and that the unit itself had announced a public deployment ceremony a month before Palin was announced as John McCain's running mate. Two separate field-grade officers contacted have confirmed that Palin in no way violated operational security.

Some news agencies have released far more about Track Palin's deployment and his unit, including claiming to know to which province his unit would be deploying in Iraq. Without the benefit of any evidence at all, Soltz claims that the McCain-Palin campaign must be behind this disclosure. Though it damages his credibility and tarnishes the veteran's group he chairs, Jon Soltz has put his credibility and that of VoteVets.org on the line in hopes of undermining a proud soldier's mother for releasing already public information.

A left-wing organization that I have tangled with publicly in the past has identified its newest target: Track Palin. 

This effort is being led by Jon Soltz, who runs a 501c3, called VoteVets.org.  Soltz is demanding that the Department of Defense investigate a so-called leak of Track Palin’s deployment details to Iraq. The hidden agenda is to investigate Sarah Palin for 'leaking' deployment details.

In an appearance on the liberal "Real Time with Bill Maher" show reveals Eaton's white-hot, deranged hatred for the Republican Party and his great willingness to serve as a partisan hack for the Democrat Party.

It was Nancy Pelosi.

Soltz goes on to say, "We want to win this war, that's why we're here."

Prepare to laugh out loud.

Some very enterprising GOP attendees interviewed a St. Paul cab driver who decided the Pepto Dismal Code Pinko commie-loving, terrorist-supporting, Marine-hating, anarchist crowd wouldn’t be sharing a ride in his vehicle.

Find out why by watching this video.

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With the polls virtually tied between Obama and McCain (I say virtually because McCain is really leadingat RCP) the game has moved into high gear. That means every assault on the GOP has to be answered in real time, without hesitation.

The Dems are now trying to portray Goveror Palin as a flip-flopper on the Bridge to Nowhere and the issue of earmarks.

Amanda Carpenter at Townhall.com advises the Obamans to bring in on!

McCain's Rope-a-Dope Strategy

I believe it was John Podhoretz who first called attention to the Bush "rope-a-dope" strategy during 43's first term.   It went something like this: 

BUSH43: "I'm calling for a $1.7 trillion tax cut"
DEMS: "That's WAY too much"
BUSH43: "OK, I'll settle for $1.1 trillion"

BUSH43: "We don't need congressional approval to go into Iraq."
DEMS: "What!  No way.. you've got to go through us first!"
BUSH43: "OK.  I'll give you the issue to vote on."

(Of course, that was before the bully pulpit withered away, neglected.)

Thankfully, the McCain camp has dusted off the playbook and is making good use of it.

MCCAIN: "We might just release the VP name during Obama's speech"
DEMS: "Don't you dare!"
MCCAIN: "OK.  We'll steal the thunder away AFTER the speech."

DEMS: "Palin is a lightweight who will wither in front of a national audience."
MCCAIN: "You're probably right.  Better set expectations REALLY low."
[Palin rocks St. Paul]
DEMS: "Ooops"

MCCAIN: (thinking) "How are we going to lower expectations after THAT performance?"
DEMS: "Palin is REALLY good at reading a teleprompter, that's all"
MCCAIN: "Gee. Thanks."

PRESS & DEMS: "Where is this Palin girl?   She'll bomb under our scrutiny."
MCCAIN: "Hmmm... you might be right.  We better not let her out."
PRESS & DEMS: "She needs to be on our pitiful shows.  Stop hiding her!"
MCCAIN: "OK, OK.  We give in."

You write the rest of the story.

( Ed: Justin Hart is a genius, he's got those tricky McCainiacs all figured out)

It's official - Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann were forced out of their political anchor positions at MSNBC.

Please folks - get a grip, hold back those tears, hug each other for support. I know its devastating news, but we'll just have to live with it.

Conservatives (like me) have railed against the blatant bias by these two clowns, especially Olbermann who let no insult, no lie, no slander against myself and others remain unspoken.

 Senator John McCain's campaign got involved, going as far as writing to NBC to complain about the appalling coverage of Sarah Palin after her nomination.

 And until recently, MSNBC gleefully paraded Mathews and Olbermann as the 'new face' of its network.

Not anymore.

"....After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent networkNBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC hostDavid Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage.

The change — which comes in the home stretch of the long election cycle — is a direct result of tensions associated with the channel’s perceived shift to the political left. "

“The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into what’s supposed to be straight news programming,” said Davidson Goldin, formerly the editorial director of MSNBC and a co-founder of the reputation management firm DolceGoldin.

Looks like Chris, Keith and the squabbling children at PMSNBC are getting a time out. The grown-ups are back in charge.

Update! Real Clear Politics has McCain pulling ahead overall. Fantastic news, due undoubtedly to Sarah Palin's popularity.

It's just one poll, but we'll take 'em when we get 'em.

My pal Rob (N.Z. Bear) observes that its too bad USA Today led the story by reporting the 4 point lead among registered voters in the second paragraph. News of the 10 point lead among likely doesn't appear until the eighth. But media bias aside, googly-moogly.

Rob says another blogger pal "Ace" just tipped him to the new McCain slogan:

That's right, Trig is a Fake Pregnancy Changeling Baby.
What are you gonna do about it, punk?!

Now that's the sort of confident straight-talking leadership we need!

The blowback for all the faux scandals is hitting big time.

I really hate saying anything nice about former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown -not because he's a Democrat (annoying as that may be) but specifically because he tried to screw-up one of my most successful pieces of street theater during the impeachment proceedings against William Jefferson Clinton. (More on that in a minute.)

But I am forced to acknowledge that he has a damn fine column in the San Francisco Chronicle, a left-leaning newspaper that is hemorraging red ink and laying off staff fairly regularly now.

Da Mayor has actually figured out that Sarah Palin in playing in Peoria, Pinole, and Pontiac, although the jury is still out on the Potomac.

 Ya think the GOP and its conservative base are fired up now?

Yah, you betcha.

A photo of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his Code Pink bundler, terrorist supporter Jodie Evans, has finally surfaced. Ironically, it most likely was released by Code Pink.

Medea Benjamin and Jodi Evans, co-founders, have also disrupted the RNC convention, and were booed by the delegates.

The WCCO reporter, Esme Murphy, included the unsourced photo of Evans and Obama to illustrate Code Pink's claim that they go after both sides. Murphy describes the photo as a Code Pink member "interrupting Obama", yet the the photo shows nothing of the tension and hostility that Code Pink shows when confronting targets like John McCain or Nancy Pelosi.

She's a crack-addicted, porno whore who shot Sasquatch dammit which is why we can't find Big Foot buried under the frozen tundra in Alaska poor poor Sasquatch and all the polar bears and wolves who died because Sarah Palin sent out goon squads to murder wildlife which just sucks it makes me sooo mad WHAT A BITCH.

(Sniff, sniff.)

Yup, the crackpots with keyboards have been spreading some wild rumors about Sarah Palin, and people are sick of it.

Charles Martin started a list everyone needs to bookmark. It de-bunks the Palin paranoids on steroids. 

Bias? What media bias? The TV heavy-weight (pun intended) who dominates the female demographic cried her eyelashes off when Obama delivered his powerful acceptance speech at the DNC in Denver.

But when Sarah Palin, the first female nominee for the GOP in history crashes the Nielson ratings with the highest numbers for ANY convention, EVER...Oprah shrugs. Rolls her eyes. Professes objectivity. Yeah, right.

Drudge Report is in the cross-hairs over this story.

The TVZone has Five Reasons Why Her O'ness Should Interview Sarah Palin:

1.) To talk about motherhood, her family and Bristol; if you're really hung up on politics, O, then this doesn't have to be a "political" debriefing at all, per se, but a larger look at even more important issues, which your show claims to care about.

2.) It'd get a huge number. Hell yeah! Perhaps one of the biggest numbers in "O" history. This is a mercenary business, O, in case you've forgotten.

3.) It'd get the show back to that sweet spot of "relevance" and "news-worthiness." Wonderful to have all 150-or-so Olympians on Monday's season premiere, but the Olympics are old news; Palin is fresh news.

4.) Of course, it's O's right to support Obama in whatever forum she chooses, but she's simply too transcendent- her word - a cultural figure to pretend she's lil' ol' objective and non-political Oprah on her show, and yet Obama's most important supporter in the WORLD when she's not on screen. That's a silly artifice, transparent to all. Why not get Palin on and say, "OK, lady, I happen to think this guy walks on water. Now you tell me why he doesn't, and let's go at this." That would be great TV, and far better than a dreary debate between Palin and Joe Biden.

5.) O helped secure at least a million additional votes for Obama but probably lost hundreds of thousands of McCain supporter-viewers - if not more - to her show in the process. Here's her chance to say to everyone, "I have a right to support whomever I choose, and now to prove to you just how open-minded I am, here's the gun-toting mama from Alaska on the show."

Back on the campaign trail, the object of Miss O's affection, the Big O, seemed well, defensive. Ed Morrissey the race card was tossed on the table - again.

O+O = Zero.

Everyone is still talking about the political world right now, and I can hardly blame folks.

But something else happened in the past few days (besides the re-birth of a doomed GOP candidacy.)

Please read my latest column at WorldNetDaily about the murder of a fine young man who was destined for greatness, but will never achieve it.

The challenge now is to carry the excitement of the Republican National Convention forward to November. Newt Gingrich says that Governor Palin needs to "campaign toe to toe against Senator Obama, preferably on college campuses across the country."

Back in St. Paul, tonight's speech by John McCain didn't stoke the conservative fires, at least until the very end, when he rocked the house. But his style was flat, and he struggled with the applause lines and timing, and it didn't read well on television. Of course, expectations were high after the barn-burner delivered by his running mate and new political star Sarah Palin.

McCain got fired up at the end. Here are the best lines of the speech.

I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else’s. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency; for its faith in the wisdom, justice and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again. I wasn’t my own man anymore. I was my country’s.

I’m not running for president because I think I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.

If you find faults with our country, make it a better one. If you’re disappointed with the mistakes of government, join its ranks and work to correct them. Enlist in our Armed Forces. Become a teacher. Enter the ministry. Run for public office. Feed a hungry child. Teach an illiterate adult to read. Comfort the afflicted. Defend the rights of the oppressed. Our country will be the better, and you will be the happier. Because nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself.

Still, the speech was disappointing because Senator McCain is not comfortable with a set piece, otherwise the comparison to another Republican President who stumbles under the lights will be inevitable.

Now, back to celebrating a winning team against Obama!

                              THE BARRICUDA AND THE MAVERICK.

postscript

                   Lori Byrd at Wizbang has linked to a great reminder piece from Gateway Pundit about the women in Pepto Dismal Pink who stormed the RNC - Jodi Evans and Medea Benjamin, also known as Barack Obama bundlers. Make no mistake - these women are traitors. They have sent money to the families of terrorists who have murdered American soldiers. They are an insult to our country. 

Stunning numbers for the RNC as America watched Sarah Palin's beaming face coming into our living rooms, speaking from her heart.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's highly anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night nearly matched the record-setting numbers of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Palin pulled in 37.2 million viewers across broadcast and cable networks, according to Nielsen Media Research.

That's 55% higher than Day 3 of the DNC, when her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, and President Clinton took the stage (24 million).

It's also up a sharp 99% from the Republican convention's third day in 2004 (18.7 million) and easily bests the numbers viewers attracted by George W. Bush when he accepted the nomination (27.6 million). In fact, it came close to upsetting Obama's historic address last Thursday -- the most-watched convention speech in history (38.4 million viewers).

Tie Me a River

CBS News has the election all tied up, but let's take that with a grain of salt, shall we? Rasmussen polling has the more definitive (and accurate) data.

The presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain is now even at 42 percent, according to a new CBS News poll conducted Monday-Wednesday of this week. Twelve percent are undecided according to the poll, and one percent said they wouldn't vote.

This is in contrast to a poll conducted last weekend, where the Obama-Biden ticket led McCain-Palin by eight points, 48 percent to 40 percent.

McCain has also closed the enthusiasm gap some with Obama, but it still exists. Fifty-five percent of Obama's supporters are enthusiastic about their choice, and now so are 35% of McCain's. Last weekend, just 25 percent of McCain's supporters were enthusiastic about him, compared to 67 of Obama's supporters.

Still.Shaking.My.Head.

Hillarys gals agreeing that Sarah Palin is receiving unfair treatment by the elite media.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Sarah Palin found some unlikely allies Wednesday as leading academics and even former top aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton endorsed the Republican charge that John McCain’s running mate has been subject to a sexist double standard by the news media and Democrats.

Georgetown University professor Deborah Tannen, who has written best-selling books on gender differences, said she agrees with complaints that Palin skeptics — including prominent voices in the news media — have crossed a line by speculating about whether the Alaska governor is neglecting her family in pursuit of national office.

“What we’re dealing with now, there’s nothing subtle about it,” said Tannen. “We’re dealing with the assumption that child-rearing is the job of women and not men. Is it sexist? Yes.”

SP4VP08

Palin's speech electrifies Marin conservatives

Former conservative radio talk show host Melanie Morgan of Greenbrae said, 'Sarah Palin electrified the Republican Party and dazzled Americans. A star was born tonight.' (AP photo/Ron Edmonds)

Former conservative radio talk show host Melanie Morgan of Greenbrae didn't mince words in her assessment of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention Wednesday.

"Sarah Palin electrified the Republican Party and dazzled Americans," Morgan said. "She truly hit a home run. A star was born tonight.

"Her story was so compelling. I think she'll slay Joe Biden in any debate."

Newt Gingrich Smackdown on MSNBC

-Michelle Malkin Panic is setting in with Liberals, attacks intensifying

-Josh Trevino

...There is the Sarah Palin you saw on television, and there is the Sarah Palin I saw in the XCel Center here in St Paul, Minnesota. I don’t know how it played on TV. I don’t know what the news media said. I don’t know how the pundits assessed the speech. I don’t know what narratives the blogs are spinning. I only know what I saw. I only know what I felt. I only know what effect Sarah Palin had on the thousands of men, women and children assembled to hear her accept the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States. I only know what word describes all that best.

The word is electric.

-Amanda Carpenter from Townhall.com

The atrocious, demeaning, sexist lies leveled at Sarah Palin are being orchestrated by- who else- Democrats. Why? They want to force McCain to dump her from the ticket.

How do I know? Hillary supporters are telling us the stratergy.

Fight, Sarah, Fight!

Joe Biden's 21-year old daughter was arrested over the weekend for obstructing a police officer during a bar brawl in Chicago.

But the campaign won't have any comment, saying quote "it's a family matter."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/727603/posts

Oh, EXCUSE ME! This arrest took place in 2002! Funny, I didn't hear about it then. I must have missed the crushing media play it received.

Outraged GOP women, including McCain campaign finance chair Carly Fiorina, held a news conference today and  blasted the media and democrats who have attacked Governor Palin for sexism.

.....In a comment sent out by the Arizona Republican's aides, adviser Carly Fiorina said she was "appalled by the Obama campaign's attempts to belittle Governor Sarah Palin's experience. The facts are that Sarah Palin has made more executive decisions as a Mayor and Governor than Barack Obama has made in his life. Because of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the Presidency and the treatment she received, American women are more highly tuned than ever to recognize and decry sexism in all its forms. They will not tolerate sexist treatment of Governor Palin."

It's too soon for links (I just heard it on the car radio.) But here is what Peggy Noonan is saying about Sarah.

....Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.

Andrea Peyser of the New York Post wonders when we turned back the clock to 1958?

Byron York at NRO is reporting (speculating?) that some conservatives are going to find Levin Johnston's (Bristol's baby daddy) presence on the stage tonight problematic.

But I have a different take. As the mother of a 17-year old teenager, I think that the presence of the father-to-be sends a strong statement that he is welcome in the Palin family, a place where Momma Sarah and Dad Todd can keep an eagle eye on him, and help mold his values and particularly his parenting style in the future.

It would also make a nice statement tonight if Bristol is wearing a ring on her left fourth finger.

The applause for Sarah Palin is rolling through the dome in St. Paul, Minnesota as Senator Leiberman extols the McCain/Palin ticket. Fred Thompson is doing a superb job describing Mrs. Palin's experience and character.

But I am seriously disturbed by the viciousness leveled at the Governor, and her 17-year old daughter. It's a double standard, and it is sickening. 

Justin Hart, a right-blogger who has stayed on top of the Democrat slime machine, says it is no coincidence that US Weekly is firing away. 

This is an ugly front page smear:

http://www.usmagazine.com/sarah-palin-very-difficult-to-work-with

Erick Erickson did a good job covering this:

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/sep/02/guess-who-is-pushing-the-us-weekly-story/

Of course, this is the same magazine that lauded and praised the younger Spears daughter for her out-of-wedlock baby.

On the front page their running a poll asking readers if Palin should step down.

FYI...

Contact info for Mark Nechis

[email protected]

212-484-3419

Contact info for US Weekly:

http://www.srds.com/mediakits/us_weekly/contact.html

Within the next week, Governor Sarah Palin will be defined forever in the eyes of the public, Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com said. 

In a statement, Viguerie said:

“A critical rule in politics is: Define or be defined. Fairly or unfairly, Dan Quayle’s image was set within days of his selection as a candidate for vice president, and, forever after, the media sought out evidence that fit in with that pre-conceived image.  

“Liberal Democrats are working quickly to Quayle-ize her. They are downplaying her experience and expertise, and trying to define her as ‘just a little housewife from Alaska.’ And, with the help of their friends in the media, they will get away with it – if the Republicans let them.

Former Presidential candidate Fred Thompson is going on television this evening from the Republican national convention in St. Paul with a vigorous defense of our Vice-Presidential choice, Sarah Palin.

The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes is breaking the story.

Fred Thompson will forcefully defend the selection of Sarah Palin tonight in a speech Republicans are characterizing as "red meat." He will argue that the feeding frenzy over Palin's is the result of "panic" from the Democrat-friendly mainstream media.

"What a breath of fresh air Governor Sarah Palin is. She is from a small town, with small town values, but that's not good enough for those folks who are attacking her and her family. Let's be clear, the selection of Governor Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a courageous, successful, reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment."

There might be some truth to the contention that Hillary supporters, disgusted by sexism in the Obama campaign, are changing registration to vote for John McCain. One guy is none other than John Coale, Fox News anchorwoman Greta Van Sustern's husband.

The Palin family was forced to respond to rumors about their beautiful baby boy Trig, who the fantatists on the Left were portraying was actually born to Bristol, Sarah's 17-year old daughter.

The scum wrote all sorts of vile lies, forcing Governor Palin to acknowledge that their teenage daughter is pregnant, will keep her baby, and marry the boyfriend.

Who would engage in such loathsome innuendo, allegation, and flat-out lying?

A Lot of people want the answer to that question.

Palin's unmarried daughter is pregnant

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13050.html

Reaction is flooding in from around the right and left side of the blogosphere. I'm keeping tabs for you.

OBAMA RESPONDS

"I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits," Obama said. "And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics."

On charges that his campaign has stoked the story via liberal blogs:

"I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us," he said. "Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in something like that, they would be fired."

--Ron Winter wonders "what kind of country are we?"