The relentless march towards the Left involves your kids, my kids, OUR youth and I don't like this one single bit.

It's wrong - at so many levels.

There are so many reminders from our not so distant past about what what happens when national leaders begin to brainwash the youth.

From WorldNetDaily.com:

"...President Obama's army of citizen volunteers is now actively recruiting college students in states across the country to "build support for President Obama's agenda" – and earn college credit while advocating for "change."

Obama for America, Obama's 2008 political campaign, merged with the Democratic National Committee in January and is now known as Organizing for America, or OFA. The movement some call "Obama 2.0" is now recruiting students and offering to provide credits toward degree plans in exchange for their advocacy skills.

A message from OFA national volunteer coordinators announcing the recruitment campaign and internship opportunities has been posted on several websites and on Facebook."

My son is now a college freshmen and beginning the process of looking for an internship. Will he go for college credit while playing the part of an activist? Maybe. It depends on how much peer pressure is exerted as well as the influence of his professors. Already his current events teacher instructed the class to read the New York Times and the Washington Post, bastions of the left-wing media.

When my son asked about the Washington Times (where Mom works on her radio show America's Morning News) "teach" said no, it's not where the students should be getting their "news."

Beware parents. Beware.

...and are smashing into into a snowbank. As we follow the Big "O" we see that he is in deep kimchi ove health care - well, the pundits say Obamacare is doing him in - but I see his downward slope as far more problematic.

It's the economy, stupid.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President. The previous low of -12 was reached on July 30 (see trends).

The Tinfoil hat brigade can't articulate a coherent arguement to support the Democrats efforts to bring Obamacare to this country - so they are determined to demonize, marginalize, and diminish talk radio hosts and ordinary Americans who are taking to town halls, or tea parties, to protest what the government is planning to do to them.

...and it is hugely frightening what lengths they are going to accomplish the goal - including calling dissenters potential assassins.

This is reckless, dangerous and stupidly short-sighted.

It is backfiring in blue and red state, alike.

"..The summer congressional recess brings with it a bit of good news for the GOP. Pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that, "for the first time in over two years of polling, voters trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats on the handling of the issue of healthcare," 44 percent to 41 percent.

For a party that was considered in many quarters to be irrelevant after the November 2008 election, and given the full court press in which the White House and its allies are currently engaged, the shift is nothing less than amazing.

According to Rasmussen, "Democrats held a four-point lead on the issue last month and a 10-point lead in June. For most of the past two years, more than 50 percent of voters said they trusted Democrats on healthcare. The latest results mark the lowest level of support measured for the party on the now-contentious issue."

How can we save Mother Earth if we can't escape her? The Obama administration is set to throw rocks at the Lunar exploration program, and knock it right out of orbit by denying funding for future space travel.

Good night, moon travel.

"... incredibly expensive efforts like a manned space program can be sustained only by a very rich country that doesn't have desperate Earth-based missions for its scientific and engineering talent -- and for the tens of billions of dollars such a program requires. You can reach for the stars, but only when you have everything else you need firmly in your grasp."

But, but, what about the children? They need to dream, too.

I guess this rules out warp travel in my lifetime.

Damn.

Shocking, but true.

If lawyers could stop the swine flu, my teenage son would be independently wealthy, instead of fighting the virus while confined to his bedroom.

The family of a New York City assistant principal is suing the city because he contracted HIN1 - better known as the Swine flu.

Obama supporters who file reports to the White House on so-called "fishy" health care plan protestors is probably illegal, critics are saying this weekend.

While Democrats say they are just trying to get out "the truth", others are moving to stop the efforts.

"...The White House said it wanted to be made aware of "fishy" comments about its health care plan because it wants to set the record straight. But critics called White House move an Orwellian tactic designed to control the health care debate.

"This is a very troubling attempt to stifle the free speech of Americans who have the constitutional right to express their opinion and concerns about health care," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice. He called on Obama to repudiate his blog."

Remember when it was patriotic to dissent? It wasn't all that long ago. It was fashionable as recently as November 3rd.

Congresswoman Michele Bachman (R) Minnestoa knows how to communicate her conservative ideals.

She's very, very good at it.

That is what drives Democrats into a frenzy.

And that's why they'll do ANYTHING to bring her down.

Next week Congress locks up the limosines and boards jets for individual home districts, but what will they find when they get there?

Mobs of angry protestors, if the last couple of weeks are any indication.

California Senator Dianne Feinstein called the cops last week when a group of seven elderly men and women showed up at her Los Angeles office to complain about the health care plan reform proposals, who ejected the gray hairs after complaints from Feinstein's office staff.

Like Feinstein, the junior Senator from the Golden State is going to face the ire of many conservatives (and Democrats) who are planning various "Tea Party" protests, focusing on the deficit spending as well as the Obamacare reform measure that was de-railed by Republican attacks.

While Boxer has no "offical" Town Hall meetings planned for the summer break, she IS making time to promote her new book at various book stores across the country. Here's what the Sacramento Bee had to say about A Time to Run: A Novel.

"....Suffice it to say, this effort reads more like a cross between a bad romance novel and a soap opera script. The Congressional Record might be more entertaining. And it's free," noted the Bee, which obtained an uncorrected proof of the novel last month but was prohibited from quoting directly from it."

Boxer will be autographing copies of her book here in DC at Politics and Prose this Monday, and August 12th in Corte Madera, California. From the buzz on the blogs, this book tour is going to be very interesting.

As Sarah Palin might say, "You Betcha!"

More from John Nolte at Big Hollywood.

The National Endowment for the Arts might be the strongest proof yet that Leftists are much more invested in the culture war than say, oh, feeding the hungry. You would think anyone truly concerned with the downtrodden would be outraged over the very idea of the NEA: “People living in the streets and we’re spending tax dollars on Perverts Put Out?!?”

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If there’s any program Republicans like myself would be willing to immediately de-fund, dismantle, and move its resources over to Head Start and “green initiatives” (is porn more important than Mother Earth?), it’s the NEA. For the asking, millions upon millions of dollars in federal relief could be transferred to hunger programs, breast cancer research and third-world vaccinations. But no, obviously the screening of [2] skin-flicks featuring Gorillas takes precedent:

The NEA was given $80 million of the government’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill to spread around to needy artists nationwide …

[I]ncluding a $50,000 infusion for the [3] Frameline film house, which recently screened [4] Thundercrack, “the world’s only underground kinky art porno horror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla.” …

[T]he weekly production of “[5] Perverts Put Out” at San Francisco’s CounterPULSE, whose “long-running pansexual performance series” invites guests to “join your fellow pervs for some explicit, twisted fun.” …

[A]n additional boost from a $25,000 stimulus grant [will go to] “[6] The Symmetry Project,” …

The show depicts “the sharing of a central axis, [as] spine, mouth, genitals, face, and anus reveal their interconnectedness and centrality in embodied experience[.]”

In the flesh — and there’s a lot of it — it amounts to two people writhing naked on the floor, a government-funded tango in the altogether.

So “for the children” I ask my friends on the left for the children to embrace this new spirit of bi-partisanship for the children and let us come together for the children, dismantle the NEA for the children, and use this money for the children.

And now for something from the lighter side: the motion to tax plastic surgery and Botox. Oh Boy.

Talk about temptation. But I will not make any disparaging comments about the Speaker of the House and her fellow Democrats - and their ill-fated proposal.

Nope.

Not gonna do it.

Wouldn't be prudent.

"....Face-lifts, tummy tucks and hair transplants could be hit with a new tax to help finance the trillion-dollar healthcare overhaul plan, according to sources familiar with the Senate talks.

The Senate Finance Committee has discussed imposing a 10 percent excise tax on cosmetic surgery deemed unnecessary for medical purposes. The idea was broached in a meeting with OMB Director Orszag in mid-July, after which Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus told reporters he had heard some "interesting," "creative," and "kind of fun" ideas.

The tax, which has not been officially scored, would plug some of the revenue gap senators are seeking to fill to keep on schedule for a markup the week of Aug. 3. It would target procedures prohibited under Section 213 of the tax code, which deals with itemized deductions for medical expenses not covered by health insurance.

The 1990 deficit-reduction law prohibited taxpayers from taking deductions for cosmetic surgery "unless the surgery or procedure is necessary to ameliorate a deformity arising from, or directly related to, a congenital abnormality, a personal injury resulting from an accident or trauma, or a disfiguring disease."

The law defines cosmetic surgery as "any procedure which is directed at improving the patient's appearance and does not meaningfully promote the proper function of the body or prevent or treat illness or disease."

According to the IRS, deductions for procedures such as reconstructive surgery due to cancer or laser eye surgery would be allowed. But nose jobs, liposuction, teeth-whitening procedures and Botox injections to smooth wrinkles would be prohibited under Sec. 213 and subject to the new tax."