Obama: A New Kind Of Democrat???

Oops. Here we go again, folks.

Last week, Hillary was caught in a big lie when she "reminisced about visiting Bosnia and having to avoid sniper fire and running for the security of awaiting SUV's. Films of the visit show precisely the opposite, with a very calm Hillary pleasantly strolling alongside her escourting military officers and Chelsea, visiting with an also quite calm audience of attendees...no bullets, no ducking, no running, just another pleasant visit to a secured air-base.

Today, it's Obama's turn. Mendacity at every turn. Politico is reporting their possession of two questionaires, submitted to Obama in 1996 by a Liberal Illinois voters group, which the people in Obama's campaign claim “never saw or approved”.

These papers are particularly problematical because the show Obama as having "played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion– positions that appear at odds with the more moderate image he’s projected during his presidential campaign."

These denials by his campaign are particularly jarring considering that these questionaires contain notations made in Obama's own handwriting.

Here's an excerpt from Politico's report:

Obama had greater role on liberal survey

By KENNETH P. VOGEL
3/31/08 4:35 AM EST

During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion– positions that appear at odds with the more moderate image he’s projected during his presidential campaign.

The evidence comes from an amended version of an Illinois voter group’s detailed questionnaire, filed under his name during his 1996 bid for a state Senate seat.

Late last year, in response to a Politico story about Obama’s answers to the original questionnaire, his aides said he “never saw or approved” the questionnaire.

They asserted the responses were filled out by a campaign aide who “unintentionally mischaracterize(d) his position.”

But a Politico examination determined that Obama was actually interviewed about the issues on the questionnaire by the liberal Chicago non-profit group that issued it. And it found that Obama – the day after sitting for the interview – filed an amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain Obama’s own handwritten notes adding to one answer.

This is someone who is supposed to be a "New kind of Democrat?" Sounds kind of like the same old lying Democrat we've all come to know and love, to me. This is the man who is going to bring us all together?

This criminal loving, gun-grabbing, baby killing Liberal is supposed to "bridge the divide" between the parties and the American People? Is this the "Change We Can Believe In?

Looks like the same old extreme Leftist dogma I've spent my entire life fighting against:

• Declare defeat in Iraq and abandon the Iraqi people to their dismal future as another chaotic, terrorist haven (Better known as "cut and run").
• Take away law-abiding citizens' firearms in direct violation of our Constitution (Let the police protect you, even though they are not under any obligation to do so).
• Eliminate the death penalty (We could always teach murderers how to crochet).
• Promote unfettered access to abortion for underage girls (Expell a girl from school for taking an aspirin, but don't dare interfere with her right to kill her unborn child).
• Socialize our Healthcare Industry (Universal Healthcare).
• Raise our taxes (Hey, you have too much money anyway, let the government have your excess).
• Tell what ever lies it takes to get elected (Do you really believe Obama could have been a member of Pastor Wrights congregation for 20 years and not have been familiar with his fundamental beliefs?).

Yep, looks like the same old Democrat Party to me. What amazes me is that this huckster has any support at all. It's amazing what an attractive, well-spoken, half-white, half-African, man in a business suit can get away with if he has a good line of BS.

P.T. Barnum said it best:

"There's a sucker born every minute." Everytime I see Obama on the news, my respect for P.T. Barnum's intelligence and wisdom climbs a little bit higher.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

SUCKERS!!!

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TPPF releases "Texas Electric Meter"

On January 1, 2007, Texas completed its transition to retail electric competition. Critics of deregulation were vocal during the last legislative session, declaring it to be a failure and barely falling short in their efforts to re-regulate the Texas electric market. But with a full year of competition under our belt, how is competition working out? This week, the Foundation debuted its new project, the Texas Electric Meter, a statistical report that will monitor the health and vitality of the Texas competitive electric market. Bill Peacock, Director of the Foundation's Center for Economic Freedom, compiled the report, and he shares his findings on this week's edition of Texas PolicyCast.

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TPPF COMMENTARY: Murchison on the "right price" and other economic fantasies

The Texas Public Policy Foundation is pleased to announce that nationally syndicated columnist William Murchison has affiliated with the Foundation as a Senior Fellow. Murchison has more than four decades of journalistic experience – most of it with The Dallas Morning News, where he is currently a senior columns writer. As part of his role with the Foundation, he will write a special monthly commentary focused on Texas issues.

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The “right price” and other economic fantasies

By William Murchison

Dr. Arthur Laffer, explaining value theory to readers of his “Thinking Economically” series on the Texas Public Policy Foundation website, has it just right. And here's how I know.

I remember those Edsel cars he talks about at the start of his essay, in which he notes the automotive public's frosty indifference to them, as contrasted with the red-hot-wow-gotta-have-it appeal of the Cabbage Patch Doll a couple of decades later. Laffer tells us "value is in the eye of the beholder." Oh, yes, it certainly is.

As it happened, the Edsel agency in Corsicana, Texas, set up shop in 1958 in the disused brick building my grandfather had constructed during the Roaring '20s to house his Studebaker agency. The site lay between the Southern Pacific depot on the east and the Collin Street Bakery on the west. As the world passed by, heads so minded could take in the family name chiseled on the building's facade – "Murchison."

Yes, it was our second shot at automotive celebrity, even if by then we were functioning merely as landlords. It was likewise the Ford Motor Co.'s shot at broadening its market with a sedan supposedly classier – certainly more striking in appearance – than a plain vanilla Ford.

Down the Edsel's front grill ran a narrow chrome oval – the mouth, it might have been, of a teenager caught by the Latin teacher smoking in the high school restroom. Chrysler Corp. then was touting its "Forward Look." A wag said Edsel had achieved "The Surprised Look."

It was all downhill from there. A couple of years more and the Murchison Building was the site of a cardboard box factory. The marketplace had had its way with the Edsel. A car that cost $400 million to develop simply...disappeared.

The Edsel was in various ways, I am told, a good auto. No matter. Few buyers wanted it. Whereas, by contrast, parents all over the country – as Laffer notes – wanted the Cabbage Patch Doll. I recall without affection those absurd looking contrivances. Having boys, my wife and I went unencumbered by request for Cabbage Patch. As if the manufacturers cared! Everyone else wanted one.

You plain can't outguess the buying public, whose standards of value remain stubbornly, yes, even gloriously, non-quantifiable: a point that fans of government intervention never get completely through their skulls.

The ancient myth to which Laffer draws our attention is that the "right" price for a commodity depends in some degree on abstractions like cost, labor, or The Social Good. Oh, yeah? Fantasies about the "right" price shrivel and collapse, like the Wicked West of the West, whenever exposed to the actual desires of buyers and sellers.

The "right" price, every time, is that on which a willing buyer and willing seller agree in an encounter perfected by the tender of a credit card or a handful of pennies. A buyer who doesn't want your Edsel won't be induced at any price to acquire it. A buyer, by contrast, who truly, deeply wants a certain doll will calculate need, resources, and the present or future availability of this wonderful contrivance. He'll buy if he wants; he won't if he doesn't.

Which, by the way, isn't to declare the marketplace a morality-free zone. It's to say that in the establishment of rewards and incentives for economic behavior we do well to keep the government – any government – at bay insofar as practicable. In the '50s the Soviet bosses thought they knew what kinds of automobile the masses needed, and what they should pay for those cars.

The Soviet clunkers, the Edsel – who misses them? One difference, if you please, between the Edsel and the Soviet-era contraptions: It was the free marketplace, not government fantasies about public needs, that wrecked the Edsel, without corresponding damage to consumer ability to purchase a Buick, a Plymouth, a Ford Fairlane.

Art Laffer, whose faith in individual choice revolutionized our understanding of the good that comes from supply-side tax cuts, strikes again. Trust the buyer: He'll know what he ought to pay. So will the guy with the doll or the car in the showroom window.

William Murchison is a Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The “Thinking Economically” series is available on the Foundation’s website, http://www.TexasPolicy.com.

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Global Warming Farce Exposed: Scientist At A Loss To Explain

Okay now, you Liberal idiots are killing me. Check out this article from National Proletariat Radio (NPR). The data from deep sea probes are showing that there has been no global warming in the oceans over the past five years...years which have been reported ad nauseum as the hottest five years on record and as proof of man-made global warming.

As a result, scientists are at a loss to explain the data. Their answer? We must be interpreting the data wrongly. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Let's get this straight. Real world data doesn't match the AGW models, therefore the data are wrong? Such complete arrogance...

The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat

by Richard Harris

Morning Edition, March 19, 2008 · Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them.

This is puzzling in part because here on the surface of the Earth, the years since 2003 have been some of the hottest on record. But Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it comes to global warming.

In fact, 80 percent to 90 percent of global warming involves heating up ocean waters. They hold much more heat than the atmosphere can. So Willis has been studying the ocean with a fleet of robotic instruments called the Argo system. The buoys can dive 3,000 feet down and measure ocean temperature. Since the system was fully deployed in 2003, it has recorded no warming of the global oceans.

"There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant," Willis says. So the buildup of heat on Earth may be on a brief hiatus. "Global warming doesn't mean every year will be warmer than the last. And it may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming."

I especially like the last paragraph where he says "There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant." Yea, I bet it it had been very slight heating, you would be calling it "very significant confirmation of global warming..."

Yep my B.S. alarm is going off at top decibels. You can always tell when Liberals are unhappy about the data they receive, they immediately and reflexively lapse into denial...which is interesting, because that is the precise term they use for those of us not gullible enough to swallow Al Gore, Jr.'s manure.

Yep once again, I hear the clarion song of Liberal mendacity. To once more quote Mel Brooks as Governor LePetamayne in his movie "Blazing Saddles," "Gentlemen, we've got to protect our phony-baloney jobs!"

That's what these AGW alarmists have been doing ever since the more level headed of our society began calling them on their Chicken Little pronouncements of doom and gloom. It is a pitiful (and pitiable) "scientist" indeed who must scramble to explain away data which don't agree with his pet theory, because he couldn't possibly be wrong.

The essence of science, of being a scientist is being open-minded enough to see and acknowledge when you have been wrong. The problems arise when scientists become so attached to their pet theories that they feel personally threatened when the vercity of those theories is challenged.

When that happens AGW ceases to be science and becomes religion; something that occurred several years ago. AGW as a scientific theory was a faulty hypothesis, based on gross an unsupported assumptions and bad computer modelling, which has been savaged again and again by real-world, empirical observations.

That is the reason those who have promoted AGW as a fact have done so on the basis of computer modelling, and those who have disagreed with the theory of global warming were the scientists who examined empirical data.

Thus we have what is a disconnect between what "scientist" Josh Willis is seeing in his data and what his faith in the religion of global warming is telling him. Such a disconnect leads him to make the absurd statements he makes in this article..."global warming is on a hiatus"...or as NPR's Richard Harris put it (don't laugh now, he's perfectly serious) "Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them."

"Scientist aren't understanding what their robots are telling them" because THEY DON'T WANT TO!

It would really suck for them if they were forced to find another source for their funding, so they just stick their fingers in their ears and go "NANANANANANANANANANANA, I can't hear you. Your not there. I'm not listening."

It's disgusting!

I used to pride myself in being part of the "scientific community," but that was before the scientific method fell victim to the publish or perish mentality of university life. In Galleleo's time, it was the Church that controlled all of the monies for research and which controlled the culture in general, so any research which revealed data contrary to Church doctrine was suppressed.

Now it is the Ivory Towers of Academia which controls the purse strings and the scientific community, so any research which defies the secular, elitist, Leftist dogma of Academia is suppressed or explained away as an abberation.

It is time for scientists to develop a backbone and reject the pseudo-religion of AGW and the secular centers of power in our universities. Science is not religion and it cannot survive in an environment in which theory becomes religious doctrine.

If a scientific theory is correct, let the data confirm it to be so. If it is flawed and the data show it, it should die and be replaced with a theory which better fits the data...that is the essence of science.

It will be several more years before scientists finally acknowledge that AGW is and always has been a flawed and incorrect theory, because too many "scientists" have their entire careers wrapped up in this faux science. Time for science to reject dogma and return to the skeptical ways of the past.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

I (heart) Big Oil! By an SUV today!

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TPPF COMMENTARY: Mandating Expensive Health Insurance in Texas

Lawmakers across the country apparently believe their idea of necessary health care benefits supersedes that of their constituents. Rather than allowing individuals to make their own decisions, elected officials have dictated the structure and benefits of health insurance policies through legislative “mandates.”

There are many motivations for health insurance mandates; among them, guaranteeing a payment source for providers offering certain treatments and securing coverage for individuals trying to cope with a particular disease or condition.

Unfortunately, these same mandates arbitrarily inflate the cost of health insurance, making even a basic plan too expensive for many consumers and forcing them to rely on the government to provide these benefits or forego coverage altogether.

Of course, a single mandate does not have a crushing impact on the cost of health insurance. However, researchers have found that the combined effect of the mandates drive up the cost of a basic health plan by nearly 50%.

With 55 mandates, Texas ranks among the five most heavily regulated health insurance markets in the country. Recent studies show that one-fourth of uninsured individuals go without coverage because of the increased costs from health insurance mandates. Curtailing such mandates presents an immediate opportunity for lawmakers to lower the cost of insurance plans and help reduce the number of uninsured.

Texas mandates require coverage for services such as in vitro fertilization, marriage and occupational therapists, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation. The latest addition is the “mental health parity” mandate, which alone has been estimated to increase premiums by as much as 10%.

This approach of limiting health insurance to heavily mandated plans that require coverage of “bells and whistles” services is like telling someone in the market for a new car that they can buy the fully-loaded, top-of-the-line Cadillac off the show room floor…or nothing at all.

In today’s health insurance market, people are forced to choose between the Cadillac-style plans, relying on the government to provide insurance through Medicaid and CHIP, or going without coverage at all.

Instead of having legislators determine what services consumers need, insurance products should respond to consumer demands and consumer judgments on value and price.

In today’s customer service driven environment, consumers can engineer a computer built to their specifications, customize their cell phone plans, and even design their own shoes. It only makes sense that an item as personal and critical as health insurance would be adaptable to the specific needs and financial resources of individual consumers.

Eliminating government-enforced mandates so that customizable plans are more accessible would allow consumers to craft inexpensive plans that not only meet their basic requirements but also allow personalization according to an individual’s specific needs.

Fortunately, Texas lawmakers interested in expanding coverage can put health insurance within reach for more Texans by resisting the temptation to regulate the marketplace and by providing consumers with more options.

Several state legislatures have already designed legislation that would allow people in their states to purchase health insurance plans that have been approved for sale in other states. Lifting the barrier to interstate purchase would give individuals the opportunity to buy a more affordable health insurance policy from a state with fewer mandates, while simultaneously encouraging heavily regulated states to deregulate. This competition would curb the impulse of lawmakers to expand the number of mandates each session, and provide an incentive for protecting “mandate lite” health insurance policies the legislature has already approved for sale to certain people.

Minimizing regulations and allowing consumers to choose a health plan tailored to their specific health needs and personal financial capabilities is the first step to making health insurance a real possibility for everyone.

Kalese Hammonds is a health care policy analyst for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin.

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Score Another One For the Global Warming "Deniers"

You believe Al Gore? You think that Anthropogenic Global Warming is for real, not just a clever get rich scheme for Al Gore Jr.? Check this out. Especially note the date of the original article...1922...oops!

Hey Al, read it and weep...of course I doubt you really care, seeing as how your personal fortune has grown to $Tens of millions since you began your con-game:

Inside the Beltway
John McCaslin
August 14, 2007

Before Gore

D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: "Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."

The 1922 article, obtained by Inside the Beltway, goes on to mention "great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones," and "at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared."

"This was one of several such articles I have found at the Library of Congress for the 1920s and 1930s," says Mr. Lockwood. "I had read of the just-released NASA estimates, that four of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. were actually in the 1930s, with 1934 the hottest of all."

Oh dear, all of those ardent true believers punked once again by the Left. Al Gore and his AGW buddies get wealthy off the gullibility of Liberal Idiot Lemmings who jumped on his train. BWAAAHAAAHAAA!

Liberals are soooo predictable. All anyone has to do is come up with a scheme which simultaneously predicts the end of the world and blames it on the evils of capitalism and even worse, America, and they will beat a path to prop you up with money and worship you. Liberals are just children waiting on the next Pied Piper to come along and play the right tune.

Oh yea, for you GOREBOTS, here is a copy of the original 1922 article.

I know I shouldn't, but I just can't help myself. I told you so. For you geekspeaker/texters out there-ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!

It sucks to be stupid and it sucks even more to be a stupid Liberal.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

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Barack's Pastoral Albatross: "G-- D--- America!"

Stick a fork in Obama, he's done (or should be). His intimate 20 year association with Trinity Church of Christ's Pastor Jeremiah Wright, including his journey to Christianity, his marriage and the baptism of his children, cannot be explained away with a simple declaration of repudiation.

Yes this is guilt by association, and don't even begin to go there. Senator Obama is trapped in a "Catch 22" of his own and the Democrat Party's making. The Democrat Party has been using "guilt by association" as their bread and butter issue for years and years.

Remember Trent Lott and his simple effort to compliment his long time friend and colleague, the late Senator Strom Thurman? Remember Senator George Allen's "macaca moment?" What about Bob Jones University? Democrats in Congress wanted to pass a bill condemning Bob Jones University following Presidential Candidate Bush's 2000 visit there, for there stand on inter-racial dating.

For Democrats now to bridle at Conservatives,' and for that matter, the Clinton Campaign's use of "guilt by association" is the absolute height of hypocrisy and it ain't gonna fly. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Barack's long association with Pastor Wright is his albatross. This issue ain't gonna be going away anytime soon. Barack Obama should be and hopefully is, finished as a presidential candidate.

His support of and adherence to his reverend and mentor, Jeremiah Wright, Jr., raises questions about his judgment and leads one to wonder how a man, whose own mother was white, could be so strongly attracted to a pastor who regularly preached hatred of "white America." Interesting insight into the mind of a man who is, half-white. Is this self-hatred illustrative of his inner demons?

Tapes and video of Pastor Jeramiah Wright, Jr., saying that 9-11 was a "wake-up call for white America." So I guess there were no black-Americans killed in the 9/11 attack.

But that is just touching the surface of this purveyor of hatred that Barack Obama described as the man who led him to Christianity.

From the New York Times comes this article:

"A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for Faith"

...Mr. Wright recalled his first encounters with Mr. Obama in the late 1980s, when the future senator was organizing Chicago neighborhoods. Though minister after minister told Mr. Obama he would be more credible if he joined a church, he was not a believer.

“I remained a reluctant skeptic, doubtful of my own motives, wary of expedient conversion, having too many quarrels with God to accept a salvation too easily won,” he wrote in his first book, “Dreams From My Father.”

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Audacity and Hope

It was a 1988 sermon called “The Audacity to Hope” that turned Mr. Obama, in his late 20s, from spiritual outsider to enthusiastic churchgoer. Mr. Wright in the sermon jumped from 19th-century art to his own youthful brushes with crime and Islam to illustrate faith’s power to inspire underdogs. Mr. Obama was seeing the same thing in public housing projects where poor residents sustained themselves through sheer belief.

In “Dreams From My Father,” Mr. Obama described his teary-eyed reaction to the minister’s words. “Inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion’s den, Ezekiel’s field of dry bones,” Mr. Obama wrote. “Those stories — of survival, and freedom, and hope — became our story, my story.”

Mr. Obama was baptized that year, and joining Trinity helped him “embrace the African-American community in a way that was whole and profound,” said Ms. Soetoro, his half sister.

It also helped give him spiritual bona fides and a new assurance. Services at Trinity were a weekly master class in how to move an audience. When Mr. Obama arrived at Harvard Law School later that year, where he fortified himself with recordings of Mr. Wright’s sermons, he was delivering stirring speeches as a student leader in the classic oratorical style of the black church.

[Emphasis added]Interesting. It would seem that from these statements Obama's desire to be Christian had more to do with getting "his bona fides" than his search for a closer relationship with God.

Here are some more words of "compassion" and clear Biblical teaching from this black separatist pastor from the ABC News Brian Ross Investigative Team report, Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11:

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," he said in a 2003 sermon. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.""We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.

"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost," he told his congregation.

“Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college.

"Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.

"We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. ... We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. ... We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means.

"And ... And ... And! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this shit!"

Truly a loving compassionate Christian teaching his flock from the Bible how to forgive, love, and care for his fellow man...NOT!!!

I've heard this kind of hatred coming from the mouths of KKK members in the 1940's and 50's, I'v heard it from Adolph Hitler, I've heard it from Louis Farakan of the Nation of Islam, and I've heard it from Malik Zulu Shabazz and Quanell X of the New Black Panthers, but I never heard it from Martin Luther King. I've never heard anything like it coming from the pulpit of a house of God that I ever attended.

Barack Hussein Obama is 46 years old and he has been an active member in this very church for 20 years...almost half of his life...and he only now has become aware of how objectionable Pastor Wright's language is to the American people? Barack has been "deeply affected" by Pastor Wright, who he chose to conduct his wedding to Michelle, who he chose to baptize his children, who he selected as his spiritual advisor, and who even now, following his "retirement" from Trinity Church, is a consultant to Barack's campaign.

Sorry folks, repudiation won't work on this. This is a lifetime belief in and support of a man who blames "white America" for the attacks on 9/11. For Barack to repudiate this man is for Barack to repudiate his Christian beliefs, reawakening the specter of his being a Muslim.

In the eyes of the Muslims Barack is a Muslim, as is any man born to a Muslim.

So either Barack is an America hating, black separatist Christian, or he is a Muslim. This is one he cannot walk away from with a simple apology.

This is poor judgment and an evil philosophy to which he has been a party for two decades. No wonder Michelle found it so easy to say that "for the first time in my life I feel really proud to be an American." She really meant it.

If this is the Democrat nominee, have no doubt that as flawed as I find John McCain and his temperament, I will be casting my vote for him.

I would fight against a white racist running for the presidency as I am now going to fight against a black racist.

Of course it helps that Barack is also a hard core socialist who would take us backward to the failed ideals of the twentieth century and Karl Marx...but then so is Hillary.

No folks. The Republican party, as flawed as it is, is still the sane choice (even if it's being led by a marginally sane candidate like John McCain. At least he doesn't hate America.

Long Live Our American Republic !!!

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A Rose by any other Name...

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A Rose by any other Name...

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Statement by Kathleen Hartnett White, Director of TPPF's Center for Natural Resources

Statement by Kathleen Hartnett White, Director of the Center for Natural Resources

On the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new ozone standard

“The new 75-part-per-billion ozone standard announced tonight by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency relies on flawed science to stymie the Texas economy. Many leading scientists and medical doctors have testified and submitted formal comments that this new standard will not provide any health benefits beyond today’s 85-part-per-billion standard.

“With today’s decision, the Austin, San Antonio, Tyler/Longview, and El Paso regions will join Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston/Galveston in non-attainment status. The new standard could quadruple the number of counties across the country in non-attainment status, including all Texas counties east of IH-35.

“Ozone is only produced in the presence of sunlight and heat. Some rural counties, particularly behind the ‘Pine Curtain’, have naturally occurring ozone levels above the new standard. Eliminating all the industrial activity associated with the Houston/Galveston Ship Channel would not even get that region’s ozone levels to the current standard.

“Last year, the state of Texas adopted rules to meet the current ozone standard. Those controls will continue to improve Texas ozone levels for years. But there is no action the state can take – not even draconian measures – that can overcome Texas’ climate and topography, as today’s EPA action requires.”

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NOTE: Kathleen Hartnett White is the former Chair of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

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What America can learn from Finland

Teenagers in Finland recently earned the distinction as being the smartest students in the world. Finnish 15-year-olds outpaced 56 other countries, including the United States, on the PISA tests in math, science, and reading.

Naturally, researchers, policymakers, and parents want to know why. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal examines Finland’s school system and reveals some surprising findings:

• Children don’t start school until age seven. There is no school pre-k or kindergarten. This is in strong contrast to the United States, where most states have a publicly funded and growing pre-k and kindergarten program for children ages four and five.

• They spend $1,200 less per student than the U.S. Finnish schools spent $7,500 per student per year compared to the U.S. average of $8,700. Somehow, they manage to do more with less.

• High teacher quality and no teacher shortages. While the U.S. struggles to find enough math and science teachers to fill its classrooms, Finland has more than 40 applicants for each teaching job. All Finnish teachers have master’s degrees. Teachers compete to teach in Finland. Yet, higher teacher salaries doesn’t account for the higher quality because Finland has similar teacher salaries to the United States.

• No sports teams, marching band, or prom. Finland schools focus on teaching, not extracurricular activities. In contrast, many American schools (and parents) get carried away with the success of their athletic or extracurricular programs at the expense of learning.

The American education establishment continually lectures us that the way to improve student learning is by hiring more teachers, paying them larger salaries, and starting children in public school at earlier ages. Finland establishes that everything they tell us is wrong.

- Brooke Terry

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Heflin named Director of Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation announced today that former House Appropriations Chairman Talmadge Heflin will become Director of the Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy, effective March 15, 2008.

“There are few people in Austin with Talmadge’s knowledge of the state budget and a reputation as a committed fiscal conservative and leader,” said Foundation president Brooke Rollins. “We are honored by his decision to work more closely with the Foundation in this capacity. His practical experience with the state budget and taxes makes him a great asset to our organization.”

Heflin originally joined the Foundation in November 2005 as a Visiting Research Fellow. In that capacity, he supervised a comprehensive study of the Texas state budget. As the Center’s Director, Heflin will join the Foundation on a full-time basis.

“The Foundation’s board of directors and entire staff has enjoyed working with Talmadge in his capacity as a visiting fellow over the last several years,” Rollins continued. “I am ecstatic that he will be working with us on a daily basis.”

Heflin served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1983 through 2005. For much of his career, he was the only House member to serve on both the Ways & Means and Appropriations committees. During the 78th Texas Legislature, Heflin chaired the Appropriations committee, closing a $10 billion state budget shortfall through targeted spending cuts that allowed Texans to avoid a tax increase.

The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin.

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McCain's Melanoma...And So the Attacks Begin

You knew that the Left would balk at nothing to win this 2008 Presidential Election, so you should not be surprised that, suddenly, John McCain's 2000 bout with skin cancer (melanoma) would become a topic of discussion.

This is just the start. McCain's age is ripe for attack and the Dems have already begun to make little cutting remarks and ask questions about his capability of withstanding the rigors of being President of the United States of America.

Democrats are nothing if not ruthless and hateful in their political tactics. Remember it was Al Gore, not George Bush who first floated the Willie Horton issue in the 1988 presidential campaign. So why would anyone be surprised by this latest "trial balloon" being floated by the Democrat Party surrogates in the MSM?

This from the International Herald Tribune (by way of the Drudge Report):

Little spoken on the campaign trail: McCain's bouts with melanoma

By Lawrence K. Altman
March 9, 2008

Along with his signature bright white hair, the most striking aspects of Senator John McCain's physical appearance are his puffy left cheek and the scar that runs down the back of his neck.

The marks are cosmetic reminders of the melanoma surgery he underwent in August 2000. McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, sometimes tells audiences that he has "more scars than Frankenstein."

The operation was performed mainly to determine whether the melanoma, a potentially fatal form of skin cancer, had spread from his left temple to a key lymph node in his neck; a preliminary pathology test at the time showed that it had not.

But because such a test cannot be definitive, the surgeons, with McCain's advance permission, removed the surrounding lymph nodes and part of the parotid gland, which produces saliva, in the same operation, which lasted five and a half hours.

The final pathology analysis showed no evidence of spread of the melanoma, his staff said at the time. McCain, of Arizona, has said he did not need chemotherapy or radiation.

Uhhh yeah Lawrence, little spoken of, but you don't mind speaking of it do you? This is the old "Not to mention McCain's melanoma problem, but did you know about McCain's melanoma problem? Not that it's any big deal, but do you think it might be a big deal that McCain has had melanoma? Oh yeah, it has been in remission for sometime, but you never know..." ad infinitum, ad nauseum routine that Liberals like to play.

These Liberal media types are so predictable. Now that Senator John McCain, their favorite Republican, has been forced upon the Republican Party largely by RINO's and the Republican machine, with the assistance of large crossover voting by Liberals hoping to influence the Republican ticket, the MSM who have championed McCain, can begin to tear him down.

The goal of these "off-hand" comments is to try and find some issue that will stick to McCain and torpedo his Presidential aspirations. In pursuing this, the Leftist media will spare no effort. They want a female or black Democrat as president and they will do whatever's necessary to make it happen, even if it means tearing down someone they admire.

I have made it clear that I do not like McCain as a prospective president and that I am disinclined to vote for his election, but these kinds of below the belt attacks cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. This is an attempted political assassination by implication and association. Lawrence and his fellow hit teams don't care whether McCain is likely to face further difficulties with cancer, they only wish to raise the issue in an effort to skewer his presidential campaign.

I still have not decided whether or not I will support McCain in the general election, but the more of these attacks I see and the more I hear Hillary and Barack promote pure socialism, the closer I draw to voting for McCain. I may have to take an air-sickness bag with me to the voting booth, but I could very well wind up voting for him.

All the Democrats are offering us is a return to the failed policies of the sixties and seventies, with huge increases in welfare spending, socialized medicine, and high marginal tax-rates. They want to return to the failed socialism of the past.

The rest of the Western world is moving in the opposite direction, moving toward more capitalist economies.

It's true that Obama offers us change. Hillary offers us change as well. They will be real vessels for change. The problem is the change they are offering is a big step backwards into the dark years of Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter. The change they offer is change for the worse. They will lead us down the path to lower employment, sluggish economies, and rampant inflation; the "malaise" of Jimmy Carter's term.

I have seen the "future" that Hillary and Barack offer. I lived through it and it was disasterous for the American people and our psyche. It was a time not of "shared prosperity," but of shared misery. Of course Liberals love misery. If they aren't able to complain, if the American people are not suffering, then Liberals can't relax and "enjoy" their lives.

Afterall, we are America and so we are the greatest evil on the face of the planet. Liberals believe that if one is prosperous, then they are bad and have done something evil to achieve that prosperity. Therefore they suffer from guilt at living in the most prosperous nation on Earth and continually seek a means of bringing that prosperity to an end.

Liberls dream of the halcyon days of our national post Vietnam depression. They were in total control of our government, everyone (so they thought) was properly miserable, so naturally Democrats were in Heaven.

Well we are now faced with the very real possibility of having to live through such times again, because Liberals have successfully crippled our education system to the point that younger voters are completely unaware of the misery that Democrat Party policies brought about in America.

The difficult task facing Republicans and McCain is the education of those young voters who have become so enamored of the platitudes of the Left. They have never learned the failings of socialism, never witnessed the misery that the false promises and empty rhetoric of the Left causes.

We definitely have our work cut out for us it we are to avoid another descent into the morass that was the misery of Democrat policy. It took the optimism and patriotic love of country that Ronald Reagan had to shake Americans out of the Jimmy Carter malaise.

I am not so sanguine about John McCain's ability to lift the nation up into the optimism of the eighties.

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Democrats Advocate Corruption in Defense Contracting

Well, it would appear as though the Democrats, who were elected largely on their agenda of "cleaning up" Washington and eliminating "the corruption" of the Bush administration and the Republican Party only care about corruption when it suits their political agenda.

Apparently it was okay with Nancy Pelosi, D-CA , Norm Dicks, D-WA, and Rahm Emanuel, D-IL, for Boeing to bribe the Air Force procurement official in their pursuit of the lucrative new tanker deal which has now been awarded to Northrop Grumman.

Leave it to Democrats to lead the way in displaying hypocrisy. Here's the AP story:

Angry Boeing Supporters Target McCain

Mar 8, 9:44 AM (ET)
By MATTHEW DALY

WASHINGTON (AP) - Angry Boeing supporters are vowing revenge against Republican presidential candidate John McCain over Chicago-based Boeing's loss of a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract to the parent company of European plane maker Airbus.

There are other targets for their ire - the Air Force, the defense secretary and even the entire Bush administration.

But Boeing supporters in Congress are directing their wrath at McCain, the Arizona senator and nominee in waiting, for scuttling an earlier deal that would have let Boeing build the next generation of Air Force refueling tankers. Boeing now will miss out on a deal that it says would have supported 44,000 new and existing jobs at the company and suppliers in 40 states.

"I hope the voters of this state remember what John McCain has done to them and their jobs," said Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., whose state would have been home to the tanker program and gained about 9,000 jobs.

Ethics? Ethics? We don' need no stinkin' ethics.

What was Democrat Congressional Campaign Chairman Rahm Emanuel's reaction?

"Having made sure that Iraq gets new schools, roads, bridges and dams that we deny America, now we are making sure that France gets the jobs that Americans used to have. We are sending the jobs overseas, all because John McCain demanded it."

Rahm, you are a true blue Democrat.

Seems John McCain's crime is in questioning a clear case of criminal corruption.

More from the AP article:

"The deal was killed in 2004 after a former Boeing executive improperly recruited an Air Force official while she was still overseeing contracts involving prospective Boeing deals. The former Air Force official, Darleen Druyun, and a top Boeing executive both served time in prison, and the scandal led to the departure of Boeing's chief executive and several top Air Force officials."[Emphasis added.]

My word! We can't have a President who actually dared to intervene in a corrupt deal between a defense contractor and members of our military. Why this might lead to people questioning the $ millions in contracts that Diane Feinstein's husband got while she was on the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee.

Of course no article would be complete without a few words of wisdom from the Wicked Witch of the Left. Madame Speaker of the House, that paragon of virtue, had this to say:

"I mean, the thought was that it would be a domestic supplier for it. Senator McCain intervened, and now we have a situation where the contract may be - this work may be outsourced...Given the ramifications of this decision for the United States, the Air Force must explain to Congress how it meets the long-term needs of our military and the American people."

Excuse me Madame Speaker, as Senator McCain said, the purpose of defense contracts is not to provide employment to American citizens, it is to provide the equipment our military needs to fulfill their obligation to defend our nation.

Of course, what should you expect from people who believe that the primary purpose of government is to provide employment to those who are unemployed, even if the jobs it provides are less efficient, more costly, and counter-productive to the needs of the country.

With this hypocritical campaign against McCain, the Democrat Party is once more proving that what angered them about Haliburton and their "no-bid" contracts was not the possibility that America was being bilked out of $Billions, it was merely a convenient vehicle for their attempts to destroy the Bush Administration.

Besides, Northrup Grumman is an American Corporation. Yes some of the parts for the tanker will be manufactured in France, but it will be assembled in Alabama, so jobs will be created for American citizens...just not those citizens in the Democrat state of Washington.

Democrats don't care about the people, they only care about acquiring and holding onto power and anyone who doesn't see this is a gullible fool.

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Michell Malkin: Tracking Attacks Against Our Military Recruiting Stations

Michelle Malkin has a great summary of the Left-wings attacks against our military recruiting stations and the fine young heroes who work in them.

She provide quite a disturbing picture of what the Liberals think of our troops whom they claim to "support." Break-ins and vandalism are very common and, except in cases like the Times Square bombing which the press could not ignore, go virtually unreported by the MSM:

Special report: Tracing the Left’s escalating war on military recruiters

By Michelle Malkin • March 7, 2008 12:54 AM

Ideas have consequences. Inaction has consequences. For the past several years, I’ve chronicled the Left’s escalating war on military recruiters–and the apathetic, weak-kneed response to it. In Unhinged, I devoted a sub-section of my chapter “They Don’t Support Our Troops” to the organized campaign of harassment against recruitment offices on college campuses nationwide. The anti-recruiter thugs have thrived thanks to a combination of public indifference, law enforcement fecklessness, and left-wing ideological apologism. As you may recall, I have personal experience with the anti-recruiter propagandists, who lie through their teeth, exploit media sympathy, and harbor nothing but raw hatred for the men and women who protect and defend their rights to bitch and moan.

Many observers wanted to shut out any possibility that yesterday’s bombing at the Times Square recruitment center was ideologically motivated.

But will any on the left and in the Democrat Party raise their voices–loudly and clearly–to condemn the ongoing, militant anti-recruiter campaign?

Will they urge the Code Pinkos and their ilk to halt their intimidation and obstruction efforts?

Or will they continue to sit silently and attempt to downplay yesterday’s bombing as an isolated incident– instead of the all-too-predictable symptom of reckless tolerance for dangerous “peace”-peddlers skating on the edge of sedition?

I believe it is time for some of our fine upstanding citizens to knock a few heads. Why don't the police provide adequate protection? Why won't our Liberal "loyal Americans" stand up and speak out against these acts of hate?

Where are our so-called loyal Democrat leaders? Harry? Nancy? Dick? Chuck? Hmmm...it would appear that these Democrat leaders who are tireless in their proclamations of support for our troops are AWOL when it comes to actually demonstrating that support.

No surprise there, Liberals hate America and all for which it stands. They hate the Constitution, the military, and the people (for whom they hold boundless contempt).

Maybe it is time to meet fire with fire and for some of us to go out and knock a few Liberal heads. These people are not "exercising their rights to free speech," they are vandalizing federal property and violating the rights of others to exercise their right of free speech.

Recently the group calling themselves a Gathering of Eagles traveled to Berkeley, California to stage a counter protest against the Code Pinko's protesting the Berkeley recruiting center. The Berkeley police chose to stand by and do nothing as members of Code Pink and their supporting organizations like ACTUP verbally and physically assaulted the members of GOE and, on at least one occasion seized one of the groups flags to burn it.

When approached by the members of GOE, who were valiantly attempting to maintain a non-violent posture, the police simply shrugged their shoulders and refused to intervene.

I guarantee you that had the GOE members been invading the Pinko's space, these cops would have come in like Nazi stormtroopers knocking the GOE members heads and hauling them off to jail.

Nothing like "equal justice" in a Leftist municipality.

Cut off all federal funds to Berkeley and lets see how long this laissez faire law enforcement attitude lasts.

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Hillary Will Win Texas and Ohio Today

Okay, so I blew it. Like many, I had Hillary dead and buried in my February 26th article, Stick a Fork in Hillary...She's Done. I guess I was a little too anxious to be done with this harridan and her whore-mongering hick husband.

I do have great antipathy for the Clintons (as you may have surmised from my words above) but I am constantly astonished at their ability to suvive seeming inevitable defeat. It appears that once again, I have underestimated the Clinton machines ability to fight back against seemingly insurmoutable odds.

So tonight, with half an hour to go in the Ohio primary, and one and a half before all of the polls in Texas close, I am going out on a limb and predict that she will win the vote in both states...I know, it's a small stretch and a low risk gamble this late in the race, but it sure looks to me like Hillary's campaign has staunched the hemorhage and made significant gains in Texas.

A week ago I wouldn't have given you a plug nickel for her chances, but I believe that she has a chance at the big prize now. She still faces an uphill battle in the delegate count race, but I won't count her out again until I hear it from her own lips.

I also know that there are a number of Texas Republicans crossing over to support Hillary in hopes of causing more chaos in the democrat party...well why not, they did it to us in New Hampshire and we wound up with McCain because of it...turn about's fair play.

I doubt however that the number of crossover voters will significantly affect the outcome. I think that Hillary pretty much did the impossible here and actually turned the race around with her retread of the "Red Phone" add and with Obama's major gaff in his nudge and a wink to the Canadian government over NAFTA.

By the way, it would appear that the NAFTA story has more legs than originally thought, as the Canadian governments response was a little too carefully worded to alieviate Obama's difficulties. It also appears that the Obama spell has been broken somewhat.

Hey everybody you should be enjoying this race. These kinds of contests are really rare and are American Electoral theater at its best.

I'm off to pop some popcorn right now. Bon Apetit!

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The real significance of the Texas/Ohio primary

Today, voters in Texas and Ohio will cast ballots in one of the most consequential presidential primaries in recent memory. While both are large states, an article last week on Politico.com and yesterday’s editorial in The Wall Street Journal reveal that their governing philosophies and future outlooks could not be further apart.

As the Journal put it, “the eyes of America will be on these two states moving in different directions. Ohio has an economy burdened by high taxes and work rules that impose heavy costs on employers. Texas embraces free trade, keeps taxes low, doesn’t impose unions on business and has tooled itself for 21st century global competition.”

What have those differences meant? While Texas has added 1.6 million jobs over the last decade, Ohio has lost jobs. Texas is the nation’s #1 export state – exporting four times as much as Ohio. Our income growth over the last decade is much higher, while our unemployment rate is much lower.

Regardless who wins today’s balloting, I’m going to be interested in hearing from the presidential candidates on their model for the national economy. Will they move America toward Texas, or back to Ohio?

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