The ginormous left-wing conspiracy

Forget about the vast right-wing conspiracy. You need to read about the ginormous ("gigantic" and "enormous") left-wing conspiracy. Happening right in front of your eyes.

Still any doubt of the mainstream media not being a left-leaning establishment?

Have a blessed Easter weekend

Thanks for all your support. I wish you a great Easter weekend with family and friends!

Beyond tea parties... FairTax!

If you're a reader of this blog, I assume you already know about the Tax Day Tea ("Taxed Enough Already") Parties organized across America on April 15. This is a grassroots movement of citizens to protest the irresponsible spending that's coming from Washington under the Obama administration and Democratic Congress. Concerned citizens realize that although we are in a recession, we believe the recent government economic measures prolong the suffering and we do not wish for our future generations to pay for this administration's expansion of power and path to socialism.

The mainstream media, as always, refuses to acknowledge the growing angst among not just conservatives, but any ordinary citizen. I bet you will not see a lot of news coverage about these tea parties. Why? Because in the MSM's minds, these protests are pro-Republican and anti-Obama. They have failed to understand that these tea parties are not about partisan politics. It is about America's principles and the attacks thereof from the current administration.

The hope is that these tea parties will send a clear message to Washington and wake Americans up. But I hope to see the momentum continue on April 16, the day after. America is the least productive from January 1 to April 14 because of Tax Day. Will the tea parties also educate the public about America's ridiculous tax code? Each year Americans spend countless hours filing their tax returns. It's a necessary evil, nobody likes to do taxes -- not even accountants. American corporations are losing competitiveness because of the tax code. Companies and talents are going overseas to build businesses. Something has to be done or we no longer stay as a global economic power.

The FairTax is a good answer and deserves more attention in this recession. It's no coincidence that supporters of the FairTax are also going to tea parties. The FairTax bill, sponsored by Rep. John Linder (GA-7), and endorsed by many other leading policitians and conservatives (e.g. former Gov. Mike Huckabee, talk show host and author Neal Boortz, etc.) is attracting more eyes in Congress as the word is spreading among constituents. People are fed up with taxes!

Take a closer look at the characteristics of a strong nation. It needs a powerful military and a strong economy. Look eastward to Asia and you'll find the Chinese economy and military rival ours. The only difference? China is ruled by communists and Beijing in recent years have been undermining America's military and diplomatic efforts. So it's fitting to say that a strong economy is even a matter of national security.

No one expects the tax code to be revised or the IRS abolished overnight. But now more than ever is a good time to start thinking about how to restore America's economic might again by way of a new tax system.

America's global image isn't any better with "surrender monkey" Obama

Seriously, I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this from the Telegraph:

Then came the dramatic bit, the authentic West Wing script, with the President wakened in the middle of the night in Prague to be told that Kim Jong-il had just launched a Taepodong-2 missile. America had Aegis destroyers tracking the missile and could have shot it down. But Uncle Sam had a sterner reprisal in store for l'il ole Kim (as Dame Edna might call him): a multi-megaton strike of Obama hot air.

"Rules must be binding," declared Obama, referring to the fact that Kim had just breached UN Resolutions 1695 and 1718. "Violations must be punished." (Sounds ominous.) "Words must mean something." (Why, Barack? They never did before, for you - as a cursory glance at your many speeches will show.)

President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America's missile defence programme, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun.

Watch out, France and Co, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever. If you thought the world was a tad unsafe with Dubya around, just wait until President Pantywaist gets into his stride.

"President Pantywaist"? "Surrender monkey"? Where's the love from across the pond, President Obama? Europe absolutely went wild for you even when you were just a candidate! What has changed since January 20, 2009? You spoke of lifting America's global image, but look at us now.

Thanks, Topix readers!

Wow, a lot of traffic coming from Topix today! Thanks to Topix member "Agent of Chaos" for reposting. I take it a lot of readers are paying attention to immigration reform and the White House's take on it. This is an issue that demands more dialog and scrutiny.

EFF: Obama DOJ worse than Bush's

So there you have it. The Electronic Frontier Foundation says President Obama's DOJ is even worse than President Bush's. What really rubs the EFF lawyers the wrong way?

Sad as that is, it's the Department Of Justice's second argument that is the most pernicious. The DOJ claims that the U.S. Government is completely immune from litigation for illegal spying — that the Government can never be sued for surveillance that violates federal privacy statutes.

This is a radical assertion that is utterly unprecedented. No one — not the White House, not the Justice Department, not any member of Congress, and not the Bush Administration — has ever interpreted the law this way.

Well, I'm not surprised. President Obama and his administration has shown blatant disrespect for the Constitution and other principles of our Republic.

The polarizing president

Remember Obama's promise of bipartisanship during the campaign? Remember his message of unity at the inauguration? Well, that may be kind of hard when he's the most polarizing president in the first few months of his term:

The Pew Research Center reported last week that President Barack Obama "has the most polarized early job approval of any president" since surveys began tracking this 40 years ago. The gap between Mr. Obama's approval rating among Democrats (88%) and Republicans (27%) is 61 points. This "approval gap" is 10 points bigger than George W. Bush's at this point in his presidency, despite Mr. Bush winning a bitterly contested election.

Part of Mr. Obama's polarized standing can be attributed to a long-term trend. University of Missouri political scientist John Petrocik points out that since 1980, each successive first term president has had more polarized support than his predecessor with the exception of 1989, when George H.W. Bush enjoyed a modest improvement over Ronald Reagan's 1981 standing.

But rather than end or ameliorate that trend, Mr. Obama's actions and rhetoric have accelerated it. His campaign promised post-partisanship, but since taking office Mr. Obama has frozen Republicans out of the deliberative process, and his response to their suggestions has been a brusque dismissal that "I won."

Karl Rove in this WSJ piece also points out the fact that even moderate Democrats in Congress decided to join the Republicans to oppose the budget. Ironically, if any unity has been shown in Washington, it's from the Congressional Republicans.

The next bailout: illegal immigration!

The White House with the support of the Democratic Congress so far have bailed out irresponsible homeowners, banks, insurance companies, and automakers. And why stop there? The illegal immigrants deserve their piece of the pie, too!

President Obama strikes the iron while it's hot. With the country still struggling with the recession and jobs are hard to come by, he'll have the undivided attention of the illegal immigrant communities. According to the NYT, he's asking politicians for immigration "reform" to go out amongst the voters (wait, can illegals vote?!) to garner populous support:

That is why Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, a Democrat from Mr. Obama’s hometown, Chicago, has been on the road most weekends since last December, traveling far outside his district to meetings in Hispanic churches, hoping to generate something like a civil rights movement in favor of broad immigration legislation.

Mr. Gutierrez was in Philadelphia on Saturday at the Iglesia Internacional, a big Hispanic evangelical church in a former warehouse, the 17th meeting in a tour that has included cities as far flung as Providence, R.I.; Atlanta; Miami; and San Francisco. Greeted with cheers and amens by a full house of about 350 people, Mr. Gutierrez, shifting fluidly between Spanish and English, called for immigration policies to preserve family unity, the strategic theme of his campaign.

At each meeting, speakers from the community, mainly citizens, tell stories of loved ones who were deported or of delays and setbacks in the immigration system. Illegal immigrants have not been invited to speak.

Mr. Gutierrez’s meetings have all been held in churches, both evangelical and Roman Catholic, with clergy members from various denominations, including in several places Muslim imams. At one meeting in Chicago, Cardinal Francis George, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, officiated.

First, only the NYT would compare this to a civil rights movement. Sorry, but in America you only have civil rights if you're a lawful resident or citizen. (So the Democrats want terrorists to have civil rights, too, but that's another story...)

Second, "broad immigration legislation"? That's liberal-speak for "amnesty." Last time I checked America is still governed by rule of law, and we do have immigration laws in place for law-abiding immigrants to go through a process in order to obtain residency and citizenship. Millions of immigrants do it. Why can't these illegals? If the President and Congress have their way, these illegal immigrants get to take the easy and cheap way out.

Third, why don't we say what this is really about? Much like the other bailouts involving trillions of taxpayers money, illegal immigration amnesty is just indirect vote buying. This isn't just luring voters. This would actually create voters! And guess which party they'll likely to vote for?

Obama's sensitive diplomacy is idiotic

President Obama is afraid that accepting a sincere invitation from French President Nicolas Sarkozy to visit Normandy would offend the Germans and British. According to the Telegraph:

"During this trip, we wanted to maintain a balance between the British, German and France". A White House spokesman in London declined to comment. Last month, White House officials briefed that a Normandy visit had been considered but it had not been logistically possible.

Mr Obama will arrive in Strasbourg on Friday for the Nato summit. He will hold a meeting with Mr Sarkozy and a brief press appearance in Strasbourg and then fly to Baden-Baden to do exactly the same with Chancellor Merkel of Germany. He will then fly to Prague on Saturday.

This is so Obama, the celebrity. He thinks the presidency is a popularity contest. Since he gave the speech at the DNC as the junior Senator of Illinois, the mainstream media has been treating him like a king, and he really does think he's a global celebrity these days. He'll do anything to stay as the most likable world leader, even at the cost of showing his unprincipled diplomacy skills to the press.

When one of America's foremost European allies invites you to visit a historic site, it's a no-brainer. If for whatever reason the invitation is to be declined, you don't say it's for the sake of being sensitive to other nations. Come on, we're all adults, we've already learned from history and understand that life isn't fair.

What would he say if America suffers another Islamist terrorist attack? Would he refrain from issuing a statement for fear of offending the millions of Muslims in the world? His views on diplomacy is amateurish at best. I sure hope he has it in his heart knowing that America is great because it's not afraid to offend.

Sham bill: D.C. House Voting Rights Act

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is sponsoring this bill, along with a bunch of other Democratic Senators and a couple of RINOs, to give the people of Washington, D.C. a House representative because their voices need to be heard blah-blah-blah...

Never mind that Article I Section 2 of the Constitution clearly states that only states can have members in the House:

The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

D.C. is not a state. D.C. does not have a state legislature. So why are Congressmen sponsoring such a bill which blatantly violates the Supreme Law of the Land? I mean, how can this even be constitutional if passed?

Congressional Black Caucus politicking in Cuba

You think the North Korean nuts are demanding attention? I give you the Congressional Black Caucus. No, these black Congressmen are not shooting missiles, but they fly to communist Cuba to cozy up with the Castro brothers. Maybe the socialists and communists are exchanging ideas on how to better their respective countries. I'm waiting on the day that Islamofascists are invited to the meeting too.

The PUMA Weeniemobile: Detroit nails its own coffin

Say hello to PUMA, the Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility project from General Motors with the help of Segway. Obama doesn't think the G.M. Volt could save the company, so he "kindly" asks for a replacement project, and it's going to be PUMA. Oh yes, that's what happens when the government runs an auto company. The Volt was generating a lot of buzz, and G.M. poured so much time and money into the project, but now we have to look forward to PUMA.

Fierce sounding name, but it's just a glorified Segway. Top speed: 35 mph for 35 miles. That means commuters will have to wake up another hour early just to make it in time to the office. That is, if PUMA drivers don't get killed by SUVs and trucks first. And hoping the weather is balmy.

Seriously, nobody in Detroit would even want to drive this. Do you know how cold it gets in Detroit?

I want to see a picture of the President sitting in one of these ugly things. He ought to take the lead in endorsing this product.

Obama should re-read the Declaration of Independence

I get it: Obama wants to define his presidency as one of tolerance, unity, and change. That's probably why he made a global fool of himself while speaking in Turkey:

President Obama told reporters in Turkey that America is not defined by any one religion. "I've said before that one of the great strengths of the United States is, although as I mentioned we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values," said the president.

Is he not fan of U.S. history and our Founding Fathers? The Declaration of Independence, which founded the country, contains the words "God" and "Creator" and "Divine Providence." Look at the U.S. currency: "In God We Trust." Many leaders end their speeches with "God bless America"...

We are a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values and are not afraid to stand up for God (unless you're a President worried about how Muslims perceive you).

Chinese national plotted to help Iran with nukes

Chinese financier Le Wang Fei is indicted on 118 counts for using U.S. banks to help Tehran get materials for nuclear weapons. He set up shell entities and false identifies to open accounts in all the major N.Y. banks like Mellon, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Wachovia, Bank of America, and Standard Charter Bank.

Chance of extradition? I don't know, but Beijing has always been close to Tehran. Maybe the Chinese government is involved in this as well. Beijing will do anything to throw Washington off balance in the global grab for power.

Muslims don't want nearby restaurant to serve alcohol

Oh, please. America is a free country, and that's why Muslims can worship freely and build mosques. And because it's a free country, that's why restaurants can serve alcoholic beverages, sweet beverages, bland beverages, and all sorts of other drinks.

Of course, these guys claim that

...the protest isn't an attack on drinking in general, just a call for buffer zones for religious establishments.

"People may say 'we may not want to go to this mosque' if it's not a good environment," Sidiqqi said. "You want an area where you can bring your kids or your family."

Hill counters that mosque-goers are unlikely to be disturbed by noise or patrons from his restaurant. The entrances are on opposites sides of the two buildings, and Hill said that he has offered to work with mosque board members during the holy period of Ramadan, when Knoxville-area Muslims often pray at the mosque late into the night.

I mean, if it were a hog farm near the mosque, then okay I may call that insensitive (but not illegal). But come on, let the gentleman open his restaurant in peace!

Harold and Kumar go to White House, indeed

With all the crisis facing the nation, the White House apparently thinks it's important to have a liaison between the administration and Hollywood:

WASHINGTON -- The White House has hired actor Kal Penn as a liaison between President Barack Obama's administration and Hollywood.

White House spokesman Shin Inouye said Tuesday that the actor who has a recurring role on Fox's TV show "House" and has starred in several movies would join the staff as an associate director in the Office of Public Liaison. His role will be to connect Obama with the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities, as well as arts and entertainment groups.

Penn starred as Kumar in the movie, "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay."

Penn was an Obama supporter during the campaign. The White House says a start date for Penn hasn't been set.

The hire was first reported by Entertainment Weekly.

Seriously? Many already consider Hollywood an extension of Washington in the west with all the liberals talking trash about the military and the environmentally unfriendly conservatives. Al Franken as Senator, Kal Penn as liaison... what next? Maybe Bono is looking for a job in D.C.

Successful D.C. voucher program killed, of course it doesn't affect Obama's kids

The D.C. school voucher program has been a success story in the country's often grim education system. This program allows disadvantaged D.C. children in failing schools to attend others to get a good education.

But the Senate killed the program. Worse yet, the White House and senators knew from a report how successful the D.C. program has been, and they delayed the release of the report until after killing the program.

The children of these politicians, including the First Daughters, won't be affected by this for obvious reasons. Poor minority kids are the ones who will suffer. Whatever happened to President Obama's promise on improving education for all children?

Blame the teacher's unions. Blame their lobbyists. Blame their cozy relations with the Democrats. Blame those Democratic Senators whose only concern is staying in power -- not the welfare of children.

The religion of peace?

Muslims in Egypt, followers of the religion of peace, certainly has a violent way of showing it to their Baha'i brothers.

High taxes will turn NYC into a dump

New York City is a great place to visit and to live. It's one of the top American cities which attracts millions of tourists per year. The Big Apple, in some ways, embodies what many others think of America.

But all that greatness may soon disappear as Gov. Paterson and the state legislature prepare to increase taxes, especially for those earning over $250,000 annually. Talk show giant Rush Limbaugh has already voiced his displeasure with this and contemplates relocating to Texas for a backup studio (he spends only a few days in NYC per year). The governor doesn't seem to mind the negative publicity Limbaugh has inflicted on the city.

Does the governor think New York is so great that people simply won't leave the state because of high taxes? Hopefully he knows that there are 49 other states competing against N.Y., and a few of them without state income taxes. When the wealthy decides to leave the state, they take with them not only the tax revenues, but also job creation and consumption power.

When the next election is up we'll find out how Gov. Paterson fare with this move. My prediction: a new governor.

Obama refusing repayment of TARP

Why would the White House refuse TARP repayment from banks? After all, it's millions and trillions of dollars we're talking about, not exactly pocket change.

Could it be that the administration wants to maintain power over these TARP recipients? This is very troublesome to know. It clearly shows the administration intends to push its own economic agenda to these financial institutions, and by now many of them are regretting to ever have received these government funds.

What's happening now is that the bank executives actually work for the federal government. These banks are no longer serving consumers, but rather serving its master, the gigantic federal government. The government will now dictate who runs the banks, who to lend money to, the interest rate, etc. Does that sound like a healthy banking system?