Shout First, Ask Questions Later: 2010-01-17

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Spaghetti Tacos

Our daughter loves the TV show iCarly so we had Spaghetti Tacos for the first time.

Enjoy.

(Actually, they were pretty good albeit messy.)

Bad Politicians Bad 01-23

Barack Obama celebrates birth of Roe vs. Wade abortion decision, just turned 37 AND Choosing Life, Despite the Fear

Holder hasn't revealed Justice Dept lawyers who defended Gitmo detainees

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

24% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19. ... Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That’s down four points since Tuesday morning and matches the lowest level of overall approval yet recorded for this President. Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters now disapprove. The number of Democrats who approve has fallen from 84% on Tuesday morning to 78% today.

Quotes of the day

Senator Jon Kyl’s Bad Bet

CEOs to Hill: Quit Calling Us for Campaign Cash

White House nightmare persists

Want to know what campaign finance reform is really about? Watch this video

Holder's Department of InJustice deserves to be investigated - Justice refuses to release documents in Panther case

Is Obama a nut?
There is no evidence President Obama has directly ordered the Department of Justice to break the law. However, the Justice Department may have broken the law, refusing to release Black Panther records requested by The Washington Times.

Did Calif. lawmakers' private lunch violate law?

Mob Rules! In Massachusetts. Apparently We, The Mob are armed with pitchforks. For those on the Left and according to Obama - “My administration, is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.” But I think we all know who the pitchfork-welding mobsters really are...

Obama's Train Wreck of a Town Hall in Ohio

Incompetent Obama teeters on the edge

Any way the wind blows. The flexible political convictions of Michael Bennet

The Lady and the Arlen

They Still Don’t Get It

Post-election Thoughts

Once-endangered Republican leader boosted by Brown's triumph

Barack and the five stages of grief

In Economic Woes 01-23

Joblessness Across the U.S.: December Unemployment Rates by State

A Victory for Fiscal Sovereignty and a Long-Overdue Defeat for the IRS

As long as some firms are considered too big to fail, those firms will take outsized risks.

Welcome back, Glass-Steagall

Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors

Stocks Have Worst Week Since March

CEOs to Hill: Quit Calling Us for Campaign Cash

Obama targets New York

The Great Recession Continues. Americans haven't been fooled by the Dow's rise. What they see ahead are more taxes.

Pork Report, January 22, 2009: Bureaucrats Gone Wild Edition

Illinois enters a state of insolvency

Banks shut in Fla., Mo., NM, Ore., Wash.

Have I mentioned recently that Barbara Boxer is a vile person with the morals and ethics of a flesh-eating zombie? Also she smells funny and looks very tired. And once (just once) she was rude to my husband. I heard she's also incontinent. Boxer’s Hypocrisy on Bernanke

Government payroll across U.S. Presidencies

Frank recommends replacing Fannie and Freddie in overhaul

Casulaties of Corporatism, Obama-Style

Bernanke under pressure

Smooth sailing now; icebergs ahead

Bankers must not be pantomime villains

Stocks Turn Negative for Year; GE Gains

Bayh calls for freeze in discretionary spending

Goldman’s Escape Route Might Be the Private Road: David Reilly AND Cross of Goldman. Obama’s proposals to break up banks and limit their activities will contribute little to financial stability and make it more difficult for them to succeed

Obamacare Daily Round-Up 01-23

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Sixty-one percent (61%) of voters nationwide now say Congress should drop health care and focus on the economy. Seventy percent (70%) believe that the health care issue was at least somewhat important in Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. Rasmussen Reports issued our final tracking poll for the proposed health care reform and found that 58% of voters remain opposed to the plan Congress was considering. That figure includes 50% who are Strongly Opposed.

Obama hunkers down as health care falters

Dems mull options for moving health care bill

Dems Reportedly Eyeing Companion Health Care Legislation to Win Approval

61% Say It’s Time for Congress To Drop Health Care

Defeating Obamacare: The Nail in the Coffin

Decision time looming for new Democratic healthcare strategy

Why would you want to? After ObamaCare. How to resuscitate health reform after Massachusetts.

Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi work to save health care reform

Corruption Daily Round-Up 01-23

Holder's Department of InJustice deserves to be investigated - Justice refuses to release documents in Panther case

The Pentagon’s Fort Hood investigation is a pathetic whitewash.

Is Obama a nut?
There is no evidence President Obama has directly ordered the Department of Justice to break the law. However, the Justice Department may have broken the law, refusing to release Black Panther records requested by The Washington Times.

Enough Is Enough

GENERAL CORRUPTION

Filibuster reform bill headed for Senate floor, faces uphill battle

Should People Acting through Corporations be Denied Constitutional Rights Because Corporations are “State-Created Entities”?

At SEC, the system can be deaf to whistleblowing

THE NEW BLACKLIST: Oakland Mayor to Theatre Board Member — ‘Do you now or have you ever supported traditional marriage?’ AND S.F. Chronicle Columnist Says Tactics Against Traditional Marriage-Backer ‘Go Too Far’

PJTV Video (VodkaPundit) - Week In Blogs: Revenge of the Tea Party & May the Corset Be With You

The Islamization of the World AND Shameful Drivel at the Huffington Post

Scott Brown's Senate win tied to dissatisfaction with Obama, Washington and federal activism

The Context Of Middle-Class Frustration

Killing Muslims. America needs to publicize al Qaeda's main 'achievement'

EMILY’s List reexamines strategy and mission in wake of Democratic loss in Massachusetts How about not encouraging the murder of unborn babies?

ACORN/BIG UNION CORRUPTION

Public Employee Unions Are Sinking California. Months after closing its last budget gap, the Golden State is $20 billion in the red.

Most Union Members Are Govt Workers, Not Private Sector

MEDIA BIAS AND LIES

How the Enquirer Exposed the John Edwards Affair. The former senator might be your attorney general today if our reporters hadn't stuck with the story.

‘Excrement in Broadcasting’: DC NPR Commentator Rips Rush

GE/MSNBC political commentator pretty upset about political influence of corporations

The Propaganda of Omission

Censorship Inc. A division of the New York Times Co. wants free speech all to itself.

Who is helped, or hurt, by the Citizens United decision?

The Clinton Internet Doctrine. 'An attack on one nation's networks can be an attack on all.'

The Demise of Air America

JUNK SCIENCE

How Green Are Your Nukes? Environmentalists spar over nuclear power

GOOD! Move Afoot in the Senate to Can EPA CO2 Regs

UN climate change expert: there could be more errors in report AND U.N. Climate Change Expert Cites More Errors in Report

Food Nazi Alert - The Empire State strikes snack

World Poverty Falls. I blame technological advances!

The Fiction Of Climate Science

FIGHTING CORRUPTION

How the Enquirer Exposed the John Edwards Affair. The former senator might be your attorney general today if our reporters hadn't stuck with the story.

A Resounding Defense of the First Amendment: ‘Congress Shall Make No Law’

There's No Iniquity In Income Inequality

For Conservatives, It’s Christmas in January: That Was the Week That Was

A Victory for Free Speech AND 24 States’ Laws Open to Attack After Campaign Finance Ruling

Spare the Spanking, Spoil the Report Card? What a new study and the Bible say about punishing children.

The Election of Scott Brown, the Newfound Power of Independents, and Why the Framers Would Be Smilings

It's Time to 'Roll Back' Liberalism

Take a page from EL AL’s safety manual

Glenn Beck's "Live Free or Die Documentary"

Polanski denied in absentia sentencing

Friday, January 22, 2010

March For Life

Marching for Life

Pro-Lifers Revel in the Election of Brown on Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

From the March for Life

Remembering Roe: A Forgotten Warning from Ronald Reagan

Majority of Americans, and Nearly 6 in 10 Young Adults, View Abortion as Morally Wrong

More from the March for Life

Republican leaders praise March for Life demonstrators, criticize president

Today's March for Life

'Mugged by Ultrasound' [Ed Whelan]

On this anniversary of the Supreme Court’s atrocious decision in Roe v. Wade, I’d like to highlight this interesting Weekly Standard article, “Mugged by Ultrasound,” by David Daleiden and Jon A. Shields. The article discusses how “advances in ultrasound imaging and abortion procedures have forced [abortion] providers ever closer to the nub of their work,” causing emotional distress that has led to numerous defections to the pro-life cause. Some excerpts:

When [abortionist Lisa Harris] herself was 18 weeks pregnant, [she] performed a D&E abortion on an 18-week-old fetus. Harris felt her own child kick precisely at the moment that she ripped a fetal leg off with her forceps:

“Instantly, tears were streaming from my eyes — without me — meaning my conscious brain — even being aware of what was going on. I felt as if my response had come entirely from my body, bypassing my usual cognitive processing completely. A message seemed to travel from my hand and my uterus to my tear ducts. It was an overwhelming feeling — a brutally visceral response — heartfelt and unmediated by my training or my feminist pro-choice politics. It was one of the more raw moments in my life.…” [Harris remains in the abortion business.]

One of the first doctors to change his allegiance was Paul Jarrett, who quit after only 23 abortions. His turning point came in 1974, when he performed an abortion on a fetus at 14 weeks’ gestation: “As I brought out the rib cage, I looked and saw a tiny, beating heart,” he would recall. “And when I found the head of the baby, I looked squarely in the face of another human being — a human being that I just killed.” . . .

Kathy Sparks is another convert formerly responsible for disposing of fetal remains, this time at an Illinois abortion clinic. Her account of the experience that led her to exit the abortion industry (taken from the Pro-Life Action League website in 2004) reads in part:

“The baby’s bones were far too developed to rip them up with [the doctor’s] curette, so he had to pull the baby out with forceps. He brought out three or four major pieces. . . . I took the baby to the clean up room, I set him down and I began weeping uncontrollably. . . . I cried and cried. This little face was perfectly formed.”

As Daleiden and Shields sum it up:

This handful of stories is representative of many more. In fact, with the exception of communism, we can think of few other movements from which so many activists have defected to the opposition. Nonetheless, the vast majority of clinic workers remain committed to the pro-choice cause. Perhaps some of those who stay behind are haunted by their work. Most, however, find a way to cope with the dissonance

Bad Politicians Bad 01-22

Five Memes Destroyed by Scott Brown’s Victory

Oh my: Huckabee 45, Obama 44

Senate Dems Not Sure They Can Get Enough Votes to Reconfirm Bernanke

America's Mayors Grade The President

Unless you've been principled, they ain't gonna bite. Boehner Denies Plan to Court Tea Partiers as GOP, Dems Struggle to Keep Up

If Republicans run as strongly as Brown, only 103 House Dems are safe.

The Audacity of Huck?

Ohioans shouldn't miss the chance to give President Obama an earful -- Rep. John Boehner

PJTV Video - MASS UPHEAVAL: The Dem's Super Majority Is Gone and Michael Barone Says It's Only the Beginning

Obama To Mayors: I’m Going To Take Some Of Your Questions But First The Cameras Have To Go So You Can Tell Me The Truth

After the Massachusetts Upset, the Left Turns on Obama

Obama: The Anti-John Adams

The Democrats' Long Road Back from Massachusetts. After Republican Scott Brown's stunning upset, the best President Obama and his party can hope for may be a watered-down health bill with insurance reforms

Thomas Sowell! - Are Republicans "Due"?: Part IV

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18. ... Overall, 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-four percent (54%) disapprove.

I dunno, I'm pretty angry - Can Obama Blunt the Anger?

Ya think? - Dodd: Dems might need a month off from reform

Feeling the Heat, Obama Pours Kool-Aid

White House caught in Democrats' crossfire

Obama: My Unpopularity Is Worth It Because I'm Doing This For You

Mass. Vote Shows Obama a Rerun of Carter

In Ohio, Obama vows to 'never stop fighting'

Obama's 180 Degrees Out of Phase With the People

Lawmakers Race to Limit Corporate Spending on Elections After Court Ruling

The Incredible Deflation of Barack Obama

Fine Tuning the Message

The Lesson of Scott Brown’s Win: Never Give an Inch

Has Obama Lost White America?

Hilarious!

Here’s Senator Scott Brown’s wife in 1984
She appeared in this music video for Boston-based musician Digney Fignus. It’s saucy!
As you watch it, remember: Somehow this is supposed to make you like him and his family less.

Let's go on a vacation on the Taxpayer's Dime - Asheville Regional Airport Board’s Hawaiian Holiday: UPDATE

Taking the Ball and Going Home

Latest tea party target: Its own convention Don't Be Evil Guys.

W II. Obama's first term is looking a lot like Bush's second term.

Analysis: A new law to offset Citizens United?

Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome

The New Political Rumbling. Massachusetts may signal an end to old ways of fighting

Politics in the Age of Distrust

Are Republicans Listening to the Scott Brown Message?

Obama's options, in a post-Massachusetts nation

Senate 2010: More Shocks on the Way?

In Economic Woes 01-22

It's as if Obama wants his fiscal policies to get increasingly stupider and more damaging!

Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors

Revenge Isn’t An Economic Policy

Scary Times in Obama High

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Should Be Eliminated, Frank Says

Exploding Debt Threatens Economic Recovery

New Questions Surface About Bernanke’s Role In AIG Bailout

State Needs More Revenue? Why Not Tax a Tax?

The Feds Are Out of Money: Healthcare Is Their New Bank

Obamanomics: Crony Capitalism Disguised as Progressive Reforms

Geithner aired concern on bank limits: sources

The Volcker rule

Senate Dems Not Sure They Can Get Enough Votes to Reconfirm Bernanke

Obama, Senate Dems turn attention to jobs while health reform stalls

Stocks slide as Obama calls for tougher bank rules

Obama hammers Wall Street banks

Stocks Turn Negative for Year; GE Gains

Obama: ‘Break Out Your Pitchforks And Head For The Banks!’

Why Stop at Banks? 13 Other Great Taxes

Obama's Student Loan Grab Will Cost Jobs, Eliminate Competition And Grow Government

The Government's Endless Appetite for Spending

Obama to talk economy, new jobs in hard-hit battleground state

Amnesty legislation will kill jobs

Bloomberg: Obama Will Cost NYC Jobs

Unemployment Up in 43 States in December

Geithner’s Advance Cover

White House fights for Bernanke support in Senate

'Obama Team Pushes Quotas'

Beware the Goldman Sachs populist

Glass-Steagall lite. Barack Obama proposes limiting the activities of big banks

Geithner Nails It

Banks Need Clear Capital Rules. The new White House proposals on size and trading only add to the uncertainty.

Obama's financial reform falls short

Obamacare Daily Round-Up 01-22

Gallup - In U.S., Majority Favors Suspending Work on Healthcare Bill

Gallup Poll: Americans Want Congress to Shelve Obamacare

Fantastic PJTV Video by AlfonZo Rachel - Health Care Reform Will Not Be Televised

AP: Obama's Health Care Plan Lost Massachusetts For Dems

Louisiana Legislature Floating Bill Making Obamacare Illegal in State

But in CA - California Democrats Ignore Brown Win: Vote For Bankruptcy

Obama concedes health overhaul hit 'buzz saw'

The Day ObamaCare Died!

Dems Lose Control of Health Care Agenda

Obama health plan in doubt as Dems reject fast fix

Chump “Change”

Nutmeggers Sour on Obamacare

Massachusetts Voters Decided To Make A Stand, But Is It Enough To Save American Healthcare?

Do the Right Thing

Obama on health care: Flight or fight?

Getting It Done: The Year In Obama-Led Health Care Reform

Dodd: Dems might need a month off from reform

Corruption Daily Round-Up 01-22

On bombing suspect, tough questions for Eric Holder

'Duh' Another intelligence blunder.

GENERAL CORRUPTION

Gay voter remorse as McCains step up where Obama fails

‘Head Start’: The $166 Billion Fed Ed Failure The State - whether via regulations or education - can NEVER replace parents. Period.

Blogging Heads Talk It Out

The New Catechism. Liberaldom has new articles of faith.

America’s U.N. Ambassador Has Been AWOL AND Where Has Susan Rice, our UN Ambassador, Been This Past Year?

ACORN/BIG UNION CORRUPTION

ACORN Filmmakers Giles, O’Keefe Sued in Philadelphia Federal Court

The New Face of Organized Labor

AFL-CIO Poll Shows Union Households Boosted Brown

JUNK SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENTALISM CORRUPTION

Copenhagen Accord on Climate Change Collapsing?

Change: Three Blue Dogs now support GOP measure to block EPA from regulating carbon dioxide

East Asian Pollution Driving Western North America Ozone

As Olympics Near, They’re Ordering Snow

Actually, Weather Is Climate

MEDIA CORRUPTION

Pulitzer Committee Rules National Enquirer Not Eligible for Prize for John Edwards Story

LA Times: Sexism is OK – as long as it’s directed at a Republican

Video: Stewart slams Olby

Olbermann calls tea-partiers ‘poor, dumb, manipulated bastards’ [video]

Rush and the ADL

Why would you leave? - Obama To Mayors: I’m Going To Take Some Of Your Questions But First The Cameras Have To Go So You Can Tell Me The Truth

Ann Althouse - AirAmerica Crashes AND Air America to cease live broadcasts and file for bankruptcy

Another Day, Another Slander

CORRUPTING FREE SPEECH?

Obama blasts Court decision on campaign finance Yet Wasn't He A Law Professor?

Citizens United vs. FEC – Supreme Court Protects First Amendment Rights

High Court rules for free speech

People Organized as Corporations are People Too

The Court’s Blow to Democracy

Free speech triumphs

Government can't squelch free speech

A Big Victory for Free Speech

Analysis: A new law to offset Citizens United?

Filibuster reform bill headed for Senate floor, faces uphill battle

Lawmakers Race to Limit Corporate Spending on Elections After Court Ruling

Candidates and Political Parties Are Losers in Campaign Finance Case

FIGHTING CORRUPTION

Can This Week Possibly Get Any Better?

CNBC host Larry Kudlow declines to rule out bid to unseat Schumer

New York Democratic Leader Says He Won’t Support Junior Just Because He’s Black

This Week in Liberalism AND 'I Love This Week'

Charles Krauthammer - The Meaning of Brown

REVIEW: ‘To Save a Life’ — Authentic, Touching Look at Teen Life and Faith (And Steven Crowder’s In It!)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Gramsci in Action

(Originally posted on NRO by my husband)

The Sierra Club is usually regarded as one of the more genteel of the environmental groups. That is probably about to change, as they have just hired a hardened anti-capitalist activist as their new executive director. Michael Brune, 38, is currently head of the Rainforest Action Network, a hardcore group that has taken bullying corporations to a new level. Carter Wood has the full story.

By the way, Brune's predecessor at the helm of the Sierra Club, Carl Pope, had a compensation package that totalled just over $241,000 in 2007. Never forget, Earth Day is pay day.

Last year, CEI celebrated Earth Day with this here (and here). Watch video here.

This year, why not buy a copy of The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them It'll will gratifyingly annoy all the tree-huggers you know.

Random Round-Up 01-21

Still. Not. Listening. - Hands Off Our Slush Fund! Thune Amendment Fails

Total Makeover: ACORN Edition

The Union Rules. What better to call the White House’s latest handout?

Questionable Policy on Interrogations

Democrat CYA

Now Barney Frank and the Dems are for the Nuclear Option

It's Reconciliation AND Paul Ryan on Reconciliation

Obama and Pelosi Ignoring Public’s Message, Boehner Says

Obama to 'let dust settle' on health care

PJTV Video (Medically Incorrect) - Democrats Are Playing Doctor? Get Me A Lawyer!

A Warning For The Next Scott Brown

Virginia governor to deliver GOP response to Obama

Putting 'limited' back in government. Democrats squander your money, your liberty

For California Democrats, GOP upset in Massachusetts is a cause for worry. Strategists say confidence has faded that Sen. Boxer, running for reelection, and Atty. Gen. Brown, perhaps running for governor, would coast to wins. Analysts say GOP could pick up legislative seats

Could Obey Be Coakley’d?

Madison’s Gift to America. A new study points to the Virginian’s emphasis on civic virtue.

The Two Promises Obama's Managed to Keep

Election 2010: Missouri Senate- Roy Blunt leads Robin Carnahan for first time in Rasmussen poll

Unsafe in Any State. The Massachusetts Senate shocker puts Democrats on notice nationwide.

‘Scam, Scam, Scam!’: European Parliament Member Rips Global Warming Hysteria

Illinois to receive $6 million for green jobs

FCC launches an internal task force to determine effect of current and future rules and regulations on consumers

The Future of Campaign-Finance Laws: Citizens United is Just the Latest Battle in a Long-Running War

Specter Tells Bachmann To Act Like A "Lady"

The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm. California taxpayers don't get much bang for their bucks.

BWAHAHAHA! Air America Ceases Live Programming, Will File for Bankruptcy AND FNC Keeps Rising, Air America Crashes.

President Obama’s Excellent New Banking Proposal AND More Like a Bogus Journey

4 Headwinds That Stocks Are Ignoring

The End of Wall Street As We Know It

The End of Moral Hazard?

Raising the Debt Limit. Again

Invasion of the European Economists. A generation of free-market exiles has made the U.S. campus its home.

Slime Molds are some of the coolest creatures on Earth. Seriously. Can Slime Molds Solve Traffic Jams?

Grading the Presidency

(By my husband and originally posted on NRO)
Grading the Presidency

CEI has released its report card for the president's first year, and the best grade he gets is a C- for his management of OMB, with some half-way decent appointments. The overall grade is D-, with Fs for Energy, EPA, FTC, ICE/USCIS, Interior, Justice, PCAOB, and Transportation.

Wayne Crews explains further about the D grade for the Department of the Treasury over at The Daily Caller.