Happy Memorial Day

Daily Round-Up 05-24

President Obama’s top ten insults against Britain – 2011 edition

Dem in NY-26 Race Doesn't Live in District, Can't Vote


THE GOOD NEWS IS...


University Poll: Fox News Most Trusted News Source

The tea party is here to stay in Utah's political races

In Senate, Eye-For-An-Eye Filibuster Stops Democratic Nominee



58% of Americans Believe the Country Would Be No Different or Better Off If Congress Met Every Two Years

Tea Party movement likely to have unglamorous but effective future



GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR


The myth of Sarah Palin’s stupidity

Open Records Requests Uncovers Abuse Of Same-Day Registration In Wisconsin

Automotive Black Boxes, Minus the Gray Area

Lawmakers Concerned About Ex-IMF Director's 'Golden Parachute'

Immigration and ‘Secure Communities’

Supreme Court's Scary Power Grab

Christie’s Education Reforms Run Afoul of Supreme Court (the ruling, not Christie)

It was a stupid mistake. Let's hope he corrects it. Cain pushes back on Muslim comments again

New York Power Company Charges Town Honoring War Hero Flag Fee

AP sources: DNA matches Strauss-Kahn in sex attack BUT New York police deny Strauss-Kahn DNA report

Tax cheats among recipients of stimulus money

Herman Cain Says GOP Gives Him No Respect

On path to riches, no sign of fluffy majors




AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...


Herman Cain: This is "Our" Campaign

Pawlenty calls for phasing out ethanol subsidies -- in Iowa AND In Florida, Pawlenty calls for entitlement reform

Georgia Moms Revolt Against New City Law That Limits Breastfeeding in Public

All 47 Senate Republicans Rip Democrats' Budget Cowardice

Why Scott Walker Drives Liberals Crazy



PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL


Of Course: Obama Administration Will Oppose Indiana's Anti-Planned Parenthood Move

Christine Stansell’s Slanted History

Study shows girls increasingly aborted in India

Gallup: 61 Percent Say All or Most Abortions Should Be Illegal

Why Are Some Pro-Choicers Ruing Roe?

Bad Politician Bad 05-24

President Obama Job Approval

Latest Election Polls

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

Zogby 2012 Presidential Election: 52 Percent Say 'Time for Someone New'

Cain Takes Lead Over Romney

Newt Crashes to Near Zero

58% of Americans Believe the Country Would Be No Different or Better Off If Congress Met Every Two Years



Obama White House Bans Newspaper For Printing a Mitt Romney Op Ed

New Position At The White House: Unfavorable Online Media Czar

WH Hires "Negative Story" Squasher


Richard Milhous Obama?

An Anti-Israel President The president's peace proposal is a formula for war.

Obama's land swap surprise. Perhaps the most stunning element of Netanyahu’s Washington trip is the degree to which he was surprised by Obama.

Powerful Netanyahu Speech Rebukes Obama in Front of Congress AND Bibi Schools Obama On Mideast Reality AND Bibi 4, Obama 1

President Obama’s top ten insults against Britain – 2011 edition

Oh for Pity's Sake! - President Obama Has No Idea What Year It Is And here

Feeding North Korea's madness

Conservative group hits Labor Dept. with FOIA request for cost of iPhone app development

“Don’t look now, Latinos. But you’ve been stung.”

Thomas Sowell - Dependency and Votes. “Entitlement” is just another word for “dependency.”

President Obama’s Excellent Idea

A Superfluous Federal Agency Is Caught Discriminating — Again! This latest scandal involving ugly discrimination against a dedicated member of the military is just another outrageous example of why Congress should shut down the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

Hey, sometimes we love federalism



Lies and the decline of the League of Women Voters

Political Candidates Ignore Social Media at their Peril

Thomas Sowell - Dependency and Votes. “Entitlement” is just another word for “dependency.”

Federal Spending Expands Governance by Bureaucracy

Snowe’s a ‘No’ on the Ryan Budget

League of Women Voters = DNC in hairnets*



All Eyes on NY-26 Republicans are bracing themselves to lose a House seat carried by John McCain.

What Obama's Political Team Thinks of the Republican Field

The Self-Destructing Republican Party?

Don't Let Liberal Establishment Choose Our Candidates

Documents Raise Questions about Kagan’s Role in Obamacare Defense

Facebook upgrade spurs fears of political bias

In Economic Woes 05-24

Never Did Get A Job From A Poor Man

FCC Makes-Up Jobs Claims

Bank Failures Rise for 2011

Reining In Regulation by Delegation: A Guide to the REINS Act

Key small business group missing from big lobbying battle of the year

The Absurd Keynesian Fiscal Factoid

It's All Your Money: Foreign Aid to Muslim/Arab nations



Small businesses about to get HIT

Obama Admits Businesses Creates Jobs, Not Govt

Thomas Sowell - Dependency and Votes. “Entitlement” is just another word for “dependency.”

Voters vs. the Welfare State

From Social Security to Food Benefits, It’s Welfare Gone Wild. New revelations suggest just how badly the broken system busts budgets.

Federal Spending Expands Governance by Bureaucracy

This is What Stagflation Looks Like

US Worse Off Financially Than Euro Nations

General Motors Will Never Repay Taxpayers. Obama's spin on GM's latest profit report is pure baloney



Why New York's future is fleeing. Nowhere near enough jobs for the younger generation

A Pension Crisis Hits Illinois

Illinois Treasurer: We're broke. Stop lending us money

Where Dreams Die

House to Vote on ‘Clean’ Debt Increase

Community Banks Lobby to Limit New Regulations

Low-Tax Jurisdictions Should Resist OECD Attacks Against Tax Competition and Fiscal Sovereignty

In Europe, Rifts Widen Over Greece

Obamacare 05-24

Documents Raise Questions about Kagan’s Role in Obamacare Defense

Small businesses about to get HIT

What to Take Away from the Trustees Reports

Cookbook Medicine

5 Reasons We Need To Reform Medicare Right Now



One Option for Medicare Reform

Tort reform bill takes fire from right

Federalism and Tort Reform

Tea Party Doctor Issues Obamacare Debate Challenge

Junk Science 05-24

USDA Closes Rabbit Show Loophole

NASA Scientist Helps Teens Sue Government over Climate Change

BWAHAHAHA - SUVs saved Chrysler

Something Rotten (and I Don’t Mean the Marmite)

New Issa report goes after Obama administration’s energy agenda



Al Gore addresses Hamilton grads (grads yawn)

Truth to power: Tim Pawlenty goes to Iowa, demands an end to farm subsidies

The world hasn’t ended and it’s not going to, because global warming is [EXPLETIVE DELETED]

NBC’s Al Roker: Climate change bringing tornadoes to urban areas

White House: No more full-size vehicles unless essential. This from the man who got stuck in "The Beast"?

They don’t want you to travel

Media Bias 05-24

Obama White House Bans Newspaper For Printing a Mitt Romney Op Ed

The Credibility Canard. For the MSM, political experience only counts when Democratic presidents are in trouble.

Senate debates president’s power during cyber-attack. Existing law crafted in 1934 for radio

Ex-Manhattan Madam: ABC News has ‘no balls’

Key Internet summit to discuss online rules

Facebook upgrade spurs fears of political bias

Fact-checking the fact-checker

Mainstream Media’s French Kiss to Alleged IMF Pervert Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Internet rules at center of 'e-G8' forum in Paris

The myth of Sarah Palin’s stupidity

Fox News Executives Dispute Quote About Palin

What Is ‘The Tragedy of Sarah Palin’? To the Atlantic, it's that she didn't choose to be a liberal.

New Position At The White House: Unfavorable Online Media Czar

WH Hires "Negative Story" Squasher

Big Sis? Feds Seize 8 More Domains in Piracy Crackdown

See No Evil: Challenging the Narrative on Homegrown Islamic Terrorism. A review of Erick Stakelbeck’s The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government is Deceiving You about the Islamist Threat.

NBC’s Al Roker: Climate change bringing tornadoes to urban areas

A Tell-All With Nothing to Tell

Washington Post Whitewashes Obama’s Illegal War

Beck’s Out of Control Lies About His Role In The Shirley Sherrod Media Trainwreck

Media Circus of Biblical Proportions at Armageddon HQ

Big Union/Leftie Groups 05-24

AFL-CIO leader gives blessing to disclosure order on donations

The NLRB’s Opening Of Pandora’s Box Beyond Boeing

The Wages of Envy

Pension Proposal Draws Ire of Federal Unions

Union Member Strikes Back at the Obama-Big Labor Regulatory Attack on Employees

MoveOn presses Dems to take hard line against Medicare cuts

Labor Studies Professor: Andrew Breitbart’s ‘Electronic Brownshirts’

Fighting Corruption/TEA Party News 05-24

Reading Tea (Party) Leaves

Tea Party Doctor Issues Obamacare Debate Challenge

The tea party is here to stay in Utah's political races

Union Member Strikes Back at the Obama-Big Labor Regulatory Attack on Employees

Tea Party movement likely to have unglamorous but effective future

Open Records Requests Uncovers Abuse Of Same-Day Registration In Wisconsin

Random Round-Up 05-23

President Obama Job Approval

Latest Election Polls

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

The Case for Voter ID You can't cash a check, board a plane, or even buy full-strength Sudafed over the counter without ID. Why should voting be different?

Dear Congress, Your Credit Application Has Been Turned Down. Why should the American people keep extending credit to Capitol Hill?

Wisconsin Recount Over, Results Unchanged

NLRB Admits Boeing Complaint Applies To Every Business & State

For Democrats, It's All About Tax Hikes

Job creation limps along after recession

Debt-limit crisis could force us to do the right thing

Madison on the Pacific

Americans Still Split Along "Pro-Choice," "Pro-Life" Lines. Majorities believe abortion is morally wrong, legal access to it should be restricted

You Stay Classy, CNN

Would You Prefer Privatization or a Death Panel?

Obamacare waiver corruption must stop. If some Americans deserve exemption from a bad law, then all Americans do

More useless gov't. New fed agency won't solve anything

Trumka issues threat to Dems: Help us or pay

How Do Unions Affect State Budgets?

Swift Teens Speak Now

Rotten Argument: SEIU Now Attacking Sodexo on Food Quality, Workers Rights Nowhere to be Seen

Obama digging up dirt on potential opponent Chris Christie





Spain's Socialists Trounced Amid Economic Turmoil

Civil Unions And "White's Only"

Recently I've been asked a lot and repeatedly about my views on "gay marriage" and my relatively liberal questioners have given the same dismissive response to my position - "but that's 'separate but equal'." I'd like to take this opportunity to lay out my position on "gay marriage" and explain why the liberal talking point of "separate but equal" is profoundly insulting and outright wrong.

Before I begin, I want to make it clear that my position is not based on religion in any way. Also, it needs to be said that America's freedom of religion means that no American government can force any religious institution to perform a marriage ceremony for people that institution deems outside their beliefs. Period. American Catholics, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Shintos, Buddhists, and many Protestant sects will never marry anyone except a man and a woman.

Additionally, love is love. What I outline below in no way means I believe that any two people who are committed to one another have to be male and female for it to be "real". That is a disgusting position. Love is real.

My position begins with the very basic fact that for vast numbers of organisms living on planet earth, life and evolution exists because a male and female breed offspring. That reproduction, the most basic element of life itself, is the root from which marriage evolved as a social construct amongst human cultures.

That throughout human history and across human cultures, the vast percentage of humans view marriage as between a man and a woman. Basically because of the biological facts above.

The huge majority of humans are heterosexual. America is democracy. Advocates of "gay marriage" within the gay population itself represent a relatively small population of that community as well. The concept of "gay marriage" has been gaining acceptance for years but changing the definition of marriage itself has not. Which is why most Americans have rejected "gay marriage" laws.

Civil Unions are a legitimate offer to provide homosexuals wishing to enter into a committed union the same legal protections as heterosexual couples have when married while preserving the ancient meaning of marriage.

In my opinion, Civil Unions offer a heartfelt solution to this situation. While as I've indicated above, I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, I wholeheartedly believe that love is transcendental and that anyone who wishes to commit their love to another person deserves the same legal status. However, the long, deep, and consistent history of marriage being between a man and a woman means that I can only support Civil Unions as an honest remedy to helping homosexual couples receive the same legal protections as heterosexual ones.

Yet, Civil Unions are dismissed as "Separate But Equal". And this is where I get really mad.

Given the context of "separate but equal" using it as the knee-jerk reaction to honest debate and attempts at a real solution is bullying and an attempt to shut down the discussion. The racist origins of "separate but equal" were exclusionary. "White's Only". The offer of Civil Unions is inclusive.

The context of "separate but equal" means to claim Civil Unions are "separate but equal" is tantamount to saying those who support Civil Unions are the equivalent of racists.

Worse, suggesting that homosexuals who can not marry are suffering the same as African Americans did during segregation is degrading to all those who had to sit at the back of the bus, who couldn't vote or eat in most restaurants. It is degrading to all the Freedom Riders who fought and died to end segregation. What does it say about the liberal view of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King's legacy when they compare situations?

Just how many gay couples wake up to burning crosses on their front lawn?

Yes racism exists. Yes homophobia exists. Yes both are on the decline. Civil Unions are NOT 'separate but equal' but a serious offer to address a legitimate concern. An offer of Civil Union status in no way compares to a "Whites Only" sign.

And suggesting that it does is nothing but an attempt to shut down the debate and ignore an honest perspective and remedy.

So that's it. My position on "gay marriage". Love is real and transcendental. Marriage is the ancient social contract between a man and a woman. I believe that the new social contract of Civil Unions addresses the legal needs of homosexuals wishing to enter a legally committed relationship.

And finally, I believe that comparing Civil Unions to Segregation and the historic and brutal treatment of African-Americans as an attempt to shut down debate by ad homenin attacks via the racism card. That is wrong, unfair, and illiberal.