Archive for July, 2010

Dacia Nichol Taylor

For anyone who understands the incredible potential behind Mitt Romney holding an national executive office in this country, his new START Op-Ed in the National Review comes as some relief, particularly after his first START rebuttal (“Obama’s greatest foreign policy mistake“) was well…a non-starter for the most part.

Call it abstract, call it weak, or call it unable to defend with any serious aggression – just make sure you acknowledge today’s do-over as the real deal.

Nice work.

What did he have to say? Plenty.

The New START absolutely is a threat to America’s ability to defend itself.

Both the preamble and the Russian interpretation of the treaty mean that, yes, offensive and defensive missiles are seen as essentially one and the same. Basically, if we want to increase our stockpile of anti-ballistic missiles, that will be seen as a breach of the treaty. If any future president wants to stay within the ambiguous terms of the treaty, they’re going to halt any more development of missile defense systems launched into areas where we need them. The Russians will pull out if we do, and of course the president that caused the pullout will be branded whatever the left wants to brand him/her.

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Brett Noel

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Gregory D. Lee

Last week, Department of Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod received a career-ending cell phone call from her department while driving home from work. After several failed attempts to contact Ms. Sherrod, the caller, presumably Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack himself, finally reached her because he asked Georgia state troopers to issue an Amber Alert on electronic road signs asking her to call the office immediately!

Make room for one more!

She was told to pull over to the curb and asked to resign or be fired before the six o’clock news cycle began, because of a soon-to-be-aired videotape of her giving a speech last March at an NAACP meeting.

During this speech, she allegedly boasted about not giving as much assistance to a distressed white farmer as she could, simply because he was white. Because the speech was for an NAACP gathering, and a few days later the organization accused the Tea Party of having racial tendencies, the White House didn’t want to be a part of the controversy.

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Herman Cain

The frustration and anger by conservatives about the direction of this country continue to grow. Even many moderates are starting to wake up to the failed policies and lack of leadership by the Obama Administration.

In the Georgia primary election last Tuesday, July 20, Republicans cast more ballots than Democrats for governor by a two-to-one margin. The other races on the ballot also showed that significantly more Republicans voted than Democrats, but the highest office on the ticket is a most telling sign about what could happen in November.

Proving it.

“Could happen” is the operative phrase, because Republicans could take back control of Congress if conservatives get out and vote the right way in November. The results in the recent Georgia primary are consistent with an on-going Gallup poll showing that conservatives outnumber liberals two-to-one. Moderates have a one-and-a-half head count advantage over liberals in the same poll.

I am not suggesting that Georgia is indicative of the entire country, but those results along with the Gallup poll provide a huge ray of hope for November.

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Joe Bell

This month President Barack Obama signed the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act” into law, declaring, “There will be no more taxpayer funded bailouts, period.”

Obama’s critique of previous bills he has signed has been wrong and it is likely his record will remain unblemished. One glaring past error is illustrated by an interview with ABC News, where George Stephanopoulos asked the president if the mandate to purchase health care insurance is a tax. Failure to comply will result in paying a penalty to the Internal Revenue Service.

Obama rejected Stephanopoulos’s assertion that the penalty seemed to conform to the dictionary definition of a tax and said, “Nobody considers that a tax increase.”

Congress should end the income tax

The Times said, “The law describes the levy on the uninsured as a ‘penalty’ rather than a tax.

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Dan Calabrese

Remember the “irresponsible” Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003? The ones that caused budget deficits by reducing revenue to the Treasury?

Of course you don’t, because no such thing ever happened. The Bush tax cuts helped bring about a prolonged period of economic growth that saw revenue to the Treasury increase from$1.78 trillion in 2003 – the last year before the full tax cuts took effect – to $2.5 trillion in 2008. Even after the economy collapsed late in 2008, which was certainly not because of the tax cuts, revenues to the Treasury in 2009 still came in at $2.1 trillion.

Right all along.

What changed, of course, was not that tax rates were lower, but that economic growth receded dramatically.

But if you live in the world in which fact is confused with left-wing propaganda or Associated Press “news” reporting, then you believe the Bush tax cuts lowered federal revenues and caused the deficit. And if that’s what you confuse with reality, you must be awfully confused today.

With the Bush tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year, panicky Democrats are worried that they will get their heads handed to them – even worse than what they are already headed for – if they sit back and allow what would be, in effect, a huge tax increase in the middle of a still shaky economy.

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Brett Noel

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Mark Watson

Barack Obama, the first left-handed, cigarette-smoking, Hawaiian-born, Reverend Wright devotee ever elected president has proven once again that Democratic presidents work tirelessly on behalf of the downtrodden and working poor that Republicans hate.

A 24-year-old snippet from a speech before the NAACP by a current US Agriculture Department worker was released this past weekend. The employee, Shirley Sherrod, talked about not helping a white farmer because he was white. Sherrod is African-American.

Johnny Stupidly.

When the sound bites began making the media rounds, the Obama Administration did what it does best, it overreacted and fired Sherrod. According to Sherrod, she was called on Monday, while she was driving, and told to pull over to the side of the road so she could be told she had to resign or get fired.

Sherrod insisted her remarks were about reconciliation, not the stoking of racism. Her claims of innocence were ignored.

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Ashley Stinnett

When news first broke that The Daily Caller had obtained documents and other such evidence asserting that a left-wing journalist web site had plotted to cover up controversial stories revolving around then-candidate Barack Obama’s pastor, as well as conspire to destroy the lives of anyone who opposes their agenda, most Americans probably shrugged it off realizing this is simply old news.

We feel the same way about you!

After all, conservatives and traditional Americans alike have come to accept (like it or not) the reality that they are indisputably hated by the mainstream media.

But something else happened. Professionals all across the so-called journalism industry took a step back and realized just how badly the industry is faltering.

And this new evidence that has been brought to the public’s attention is the most damaging.

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Dan Calabrese

In some ways, the now-released banter on JournoList – the private e-mail group established by the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein for liberal journalists only – sounds rather familiar to me. If you’ve ever been a journalist working in a newsroom, especially if you lean to the conservative side in your politics, you should know what I mean.

Years of wisdom. Or not.

That’s why this stuff doesn’t prove anything new about media bias. What it demonstrates is that there is little difference today between journalism and political activism – on either side of the aisle – and for some of us who still embrace quaint notions of what journalism should be, that’s the real problem.

The rantings of these guys don’t sound all that different than normal newsroom banter at most newspapers. Most of the reporters are liberals. Even if there are a few conservatives in the mix, the liberals don’t really worry too much about that because they know they rule the roost. So the snide comments about Christians, free marketeers and Second Amendment enthusiasts flow freely throughout the day.

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