Archive for September, 2010

Bob Maistros

A federal district court in California today declared the U.S. Constitution unconstitutional.

Ruling in a suit brought by a coalition of groups representing gays, women, minorities, illegal aliens, the disabled, the disadvantaged, atheists, the elderly, the obese, left-handed individuals and the follicularly challenged, Judge Giada B. Kidding claimed that “the majoritarian impulses that permeate the basic document establishing our system of government represent a per se violation of the rights of the underrepresented.”

Fuhgeddaboudit.

Wrote Kidding, “The fact that under the current constitutional scheme, majorities or pluralities in various districts elect members of Congress, and majorities and pluralities in states select electors who in turn choose the President, virtually ensures that the personal preferences of voters as a whole will crowd out the rights of Plaintiffs and the individuals they represent.  This result is simply unacceptable in the 21^st century.”

Kidding also criticized the role of elections in forming state and local governments and decried the increasing prevalence of state-level referenda allowing voters to enact laws directly, calling them “instruments of popular oppression.”

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Dan Calabrese

So you support “true conservative” Christine O’Donnell over dastardly RINO Mike Castle in the Delaware Senate race, because you won’t be satisfied with a Republican majority. You want only real, rock-ribbed conservatives in the Republican caucus. And some day, because of your brave, principled stand, we will have a governing majority of conservatives running this country.

That’s your plan, is it? Good luck. The ascension of such an ideologically monolithic governing majority is impossible. Not just here, but anywhere that has free elections. It will never happen.

Delusion.

That doesn’t mean key conservative priorities can’t be passed. But it can’t be done by electing only pre-approved ideological purists to office, because that can’t be done.

Ask our allies.

In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party has to cobble together a majority that includes the Labor Party in order to govern.

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Dacia Nichol Taylor

I believe we are at a juncture in political thought that has the potential to poison the future of our country. It can be summed up as follows: The idea of an international community and with it, international “citizenship,” is absurd.

“You can’t be a citizen of an entity that doesn’t exist.” – John Bolton, former Ambassador to the United Nations.

He knew.

And it will never exist. As long as we are Americans, it never can. Admittedly, growing up in a world where Captain Planet gave me the vision of world cooperation and peace, I saw that the motto “we are the world” was the common understanding of what we were all setting out to achieve. It was second nature. All things relating to “global good” were seen as just that – good. Never did it occur to me that this was one of the greatest threats to Americans, disguised in pretty wrapping paper.

Ironically, there was another idea that I didn’t remember hearing about at all in relation to the United States: American sovereignty, emphasis on “American”. The right of an entity to have control over its own affairs is supposedly something to which all legal states are entitled. There are basic rules for the road that we all pretend to understand are necessary in order to hold on to “legitimate” power. Yet it is those countries that defy them in the most vile ways that are defended by international advocates in the name of sovereignty.

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Jill Ciminillo

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Looking at the all-new Lincoln MKX is like glimpsing the future.

While the MKX is completely redesigned inside and out for 2011, the bigger part of the story is the amazing amount of industry-first technology housed within the attractive egg-shaped package.

I had multiple tech demonstrations during the press preview, and my head is still spinning from the sheer coolness of what Lincoln has produced.

2011 Lincoln MKX

The vision is connectivity. From computer to cell phone to iPod to car, Lincoln is trying to make the transition a little more seamless.

For example, between MyLincoln Touch and the newest iteration of Sync, you can search for MapQuest directions on your computer prior to leaving home, send it to your phone as you head out the door and then sync your phone to the car to download immediate directions without futzing with the nav system.
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Herman Cain

The Obama Administration and congressional Democrats have intensified their tactics of  trying to Shift attention away from their hugely unpopular legislative blunders. They’re Ignoring the fact that their economic policies and programs are not working. And they’re Name-calling their critics to try to minimize their anticipated losses in the November elections.

The liberals’ SIN tactics are not new, as I have written about them in previous commentaries. They have just turned up the volume.

Name-calling.

To shift attention away from their not-so-proud legislative feats, the Democrats did not hold many town hall meetings during the congressional August recess. They did not want to get hammered by their constituents like they got hammered during the 2009 August recess. In fact, they did not even want to face their voters because, in 2009, the Democrats were trying to sell the unpopular health care deform legislation, and in 2010 they had voted it into law.

Add that massive legislative mistake to the out-of-control spending and failed economic policies of this administration, and it adds up to having nothing to boast about leading up to the November mid-term elections.

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Brett Noel

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Dan Calabrese

Here we go again. I turned on the TV this morning and the first thing I saw was Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell speaking at a solemn, somber ceremony, perhaps in front of a field in Shanksville, oddly with wind turbines conspicuous in the background.

Do Democrats have to combine remembrances of 9/11 with the pimping of “green” energy?

Now that's what I call a commemoration.

America’s “commemoration” of 9/11 is all wrong. I am all for never forgetting, but we need to keep the reality of what happened that day fresh in our mind, not with moments of silence, not with tears, but by doing what Americans do best and kicking terrorist ass around the globe.

This year, we should observe the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by attacking Iran. We should take out Iran’s nuclear facilities, take out all their strategic defense installations and openly encourage the people to rise up in rebellion against the mad mullahs who are trying to set themselves up as nuclear blackmailers.

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Tina Trimble Belliston

The anniversary of 9/11 is always a very emotional time for me, as it is for the entire country. Nine years ago today, the most horrific terror attack in the history of our country took place. It plunged an unsuspecting city into panic and set the entire nation reeling from shock. We were absolutely paralyzed that day, and I, like so many of my fellow Americans, still weep at its remembrance.

So many of us lost family, friends, and loved ones – as did people from more than 70 countries around the world.

What the hell happened?

The impact of 9/11 wasn’t just felt here at home. The aftershocks were felt around the globe. Most of us can remember exactly where we were that day, what we were doing, and what we were feeling with amazing clarity.

So much is now happening in our nation that would have seemed inconceivable just nine years ago, and I think I’m safe in saying that much of it has our collective heads spinning.

I do not believe for one fleeting second that, on September 12, 2001, there would have even been a shred of discussion about whether a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero would be “appropriate”. It was a time in our nation when we weren’t Republicans and Democrats, or blacks and whites and Hispanics and Asians, or this religion or that one. Instead, we were Americans.

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Dacia Nichol Taylor

I hate talking about the economy, and rightly so.  No, not just because all of the news is incredibly depressing, but because there’s a lack of common sense in the leaderhip on the issues.  Politics will always be attached to economics, there’s no divorce allowance unfortunately, and even with that in mind I’m constantly baffled why there isn’t a prevailing logic that always shouts down its detractors.  To put it bluntly, how many times do you need to test arsenic to know that it’s poison?

Stymied.

If there’s one thing about the economic mess that flatly annoys me (about a half step from pissing me off), it’s the attempt by the left to swing Republican positions and put them in the same light as these neo-Keynesian ideas.  Look, if we want to adapt the word “stimulus” to fit any fancy we like, I’m sure there are better ways to do so that might be more effective at getting people to bridge their differences…except that’s absolutely disgusting to even joke about.

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Dan Calabrese

I suppose it’s widely known that I like and respect Sarah Palin. I think highly of her record governing Alaska. I think she’s made a huge and positive impact endorsing candidates around the country this year. And I certainly don’t share the unhinged notions about her that afflict one of my friends and colleagues.

But why the hell did Palin endorse Christine O’Donnell yesterday in the Delaware Senate primary?

Nobody's perfect.

I haven’t agreed with all of Palin’s endorsements to date. John McCain in Arizona, I understood because a) she’s personally loyal to him; b) J.D. Hayworth is a moron; and c) on the issues that matter most, spending and national security, McCain is better than Hayworth, whether “true conservatives” like it or not.

I wasn’t crazy about the endorsement of Rand Paul in Kentucky, but that’s mainly because of Paul’s moonbat father, and the fact that the kid sounds an awful lot like him. But given the choices in Kentucky this year, it’s probably fair to say Paul is now the most palatable choice.

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