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Despicables claim Republicans are evil. Greedy, Fascist, Racist evil! Find out why...

Notice how Despicables corrupt our language. Can you believe they call themselves "Liberals?"

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“Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale...

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In Wrong on Race, Bruce Bartlett sets the record straight on a hidden past that many Democrats would rather see swept under the carpet. Ranging from the founding of the Republic through to today, it rectifies the unfair perceptions of America's two national parties...

The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet) is a great book to read in the age of Obama when we are constantly bombarded by the orders from the great leader: "Give!", "Serve!", "Give Back!", etc.

If you want to understand Barack Hussein Obama and socialist intellectuals working with him and the type of transformation they are after; you should read the essay written by Ayn Rand in 1962: The Monument Builders.

Ayn Rand starts with the theme I have been using on this blog: Every time it is tried, socialism brought poverty, misery and death to millions of people. In 1962 she starts with: "Fifty years ago, there might have been some excuse (though not justification) for widespread belief that socialism is a political theory motivated by the benevolence and aimed at the achievement of men's well-being. Today, that belief can no longer be regarded as an innocent error. Socialism has been tried on every continent of the globe. In the light of its results, it is time to question the motives of socialism's advocates."

We are in 2010. Almost a half century after Ayn Rand wrote these words, a full century after the socialists started their experiments and failed miserably in achieving their stated the goals, we have right here in the United States of America, a socialist president who is trying to turn the most prosperous country in the world into a third-world socialist tyranny.

Here are my favorite quotes from this essay and how they apply to Obama socialism:

First a definition of socialism:

"The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights; under socialism, the right to property (which is the right of use and disposal) is vested in "society as a whole," i.e., in the collective, with production and distribution controlled by the state, i.e., by the government."

Obama's socialist government already took control of one of the biggest manufacturing base in this country: Car manufacturers. Controlling them is also controlling all the suppliers to these companies. Almost all the banking industry is under Obama's socialist government. Look how Obama is ordering them what to do in dealing with foreclosures and mortgages that are under water. Banks provide the lifeline of the economic system: Credit. Well, now it is all under the control of the Obama's socialist government. Obama can order which industry gets financing and which one does not as he will do with student loans. Be prepared to see a slew of rules about who get these student loans and what kinds of commitments they need to make to get these loans. Then you'll understand what the slogans "Serve" and "Give" truly means. How about that Health Care Reform Law? Now Obama's socialist government has total control of how you live your life. Guess how they are going to save money? By forcing you to eat, drink and live healthy. If you don't, you are becoming an undue burden to the "society" now that the "society" is paying for your health care... Well, the "society" has also have a right to refuse treatment when you are sick if it is too costly and/or you did not follow the healthy-living guidelines of your dear leader.

What is this "society" anyways? What is the "common good" Obama socialists demand we "serve" and "give"? Think about it folks... Who determines what is good for us as a whole? These socialists just passed a bill in spite of the fact that a majority of Americans did not want it. What is the reaction of the socialists? Majority of Americans are too stupid to know or understand what is good for them. So, keep this in mind: whenever a socialist pitches you things for the "good of society", he and a small group of intellectuals who would be dictating what the "common good" is and how it is delivered. Guess what? Your rights and liberties as an individual will be trampled upon.

"Socialism is not a movement of the people. It is a movement of the intellectuals, originated, led and controlled by the intellectuals, carried by them out of their stuffy ivory towers into those bloody fields of practice where they unite with their allies and executors: the thugs."

Think Obama, SEIU thugs, ACORN and a slew of leftist organizations.

Folks, this is serious stuff. Millions of people perished under the brutal socialist regimes and so-called western intellectuals condoned and found excuses for all the atrocities socialist regimes committed against their own people. You see folks, for "the good of society" it is OK to take individual rights and freedoms away, it is OK to confiscate property, it is OK to send people to slave-labor camps and it is OK to slaughter millions. Watch what Obama's friend Ayers had planned for Americans who cannot be re-educated.

The question is why? Why an allegedly smart, brilliant guy like Obama can't see what history clearly proves? What really motivates intellectuals like Obama? Folks, you do not need to be a rocket scientist to see that the United States is the most prosperous country in the world. Heck, there are millions of people in the world who would be better off living here in the U.S even way under the government designated poverty level than living in whatever the level of living standards they have in their country they currently live. Then there is the opportunity the United States offers to average people who choose to live a productive life: They themselves and their children most certainly will be better off, much much better off in the future. They are not trapped in poverty. This opportunity does not exist in any other country in a level it is available here. Why then Obama and his socialist intellectuals are trying to re-make this country?

"What, then, is the motive of such intellectuals? Power-lust. Power-Lust -- as a manifestation of helplessness, of self-loathing and of the desire for the unearned."

As Ayn Rand states, intellectuals like Obama has the desire for unearned greatness. These seekers of unearned greatness release and legalize the seekers of unearned material benefits. That's why it is a great day to be a moocher, parasite, looter in Obama's America. Obama the seeker of unearned greatness is announcing government handouts in the name of "public" needs and the looters, parasites and moochers pocket what they have not earned. Spreading the wealth as Obama calls it. Obama is "the spiritual parasite; who derives his illusion of 'greatness' -- like a fence receiving stolen goods -- from the power to dispose of that which he has not earned and from the mystic view of himself as the embodied voice of 'the public.'"

Look at what Obama has been doing since he took office: Giving away our hard-earned money while devising more schemes to confiscate more of it. More taxes, more fees, more regulations, more rules for productive Americans and more handouts to seekers of unearned benefits in the name of "public good." He is also living in a "Czarist-like luxury" with parties in the White house.

"... the only source of satisfaction open to the spiritual parasite, his only means to gain 'prestige' (apart from giving orders and spreading terror), is the most wasteful, useless and meaningless activity of all: the building of public monuments.

... a delusion of grandeur can be served only by switching, undefinable chimera of a public monument -- which is presented as a munificent gift to the victims whose forced labor or extorted money had paid for it -- which is dedicate to the service of all and none, owned by all and none, gaped at by all enjoyed by none."

Barack Hussein Obama, socialist ruler of the United States has just built his first monument: Health Care Reform Law. You can bet there are more monuments to be built to satisfy this parasite's desire for unearned greatness.

"When you consider the global devastation perpetrated by socialism, the sea of blood and millions of victims, remember that they were sacrificed, not for 'the good of 'mankind' nor for any 'noble ideal,' but for the festering vanity of some scared brute or some pretentious mediocrity who craved a mantle of unearned 'greatness' -- and that the monument to socialism is a pyramid of public factories, public theaters and public parks, erected on a foundation of human corpses, with the figure of the ruler posturing on top, beating his chest and screaming his plea for 'prestige' to the starless void above him."

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Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.

Fellow Regnery author, friend, and patriot Marc Thiessen’s new book launches today. Courting Disaster is a must-must-read that gives you an inside, in-depth look at the successful CIA interrogations program under the Bush administration and the reckless subversion of our security by the current administration and its jihadi-abetting bedfellows.

Courting Disaster: One of the most important books of the year -Michelle Malkin

We've already been attacked at least three times right here in our own country by islamist terrorists since Obama became president. Barack Obama and his administration has been a miserable failure in protecting us from terrorist attacks. All three major domestic terror attacks of 2009 were directly enabled by Obama's reverse-profiling orders.

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From her humble beginnings to her time in the spotlight as the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin has led an extraordinary life. Going Rogue will recount her political experiences, her time as Mayor of Wasilla and as the first female governor of Alaska, as well as her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign. Additionally, she’ll share insights into the personal challenges she’s faced including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war’s impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability and supporting her teenage daughter through an unplanned pregnancy.

Palin has received much attention through the media, but never before has her complete story been told in her own words. The memoir will be both a personal and political chronicle of her life.

This book hasn't even been printed yet! It already is number one on Amazon.com. it also is number one on Barnes & Noble.com.

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Ann Coulter's latest column has great points about Kenyan-Indonesian-muslim president's address to the muslims.

Welcome Back, Carter

Obama's "I'm OK, You're OK" speech would be hilarious, if it weren't so terrifying.

This is so true. It also applies to his speeches about others subjects. Obama says the silliest things and does the most damaging things to the United States of America.

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Within the last month or so, I signed up for a twitter account to expand the reach of this blog. Twitter is not only for people who are obsessed with themselves typing away short sentences about what they are doing. I mainly use it to talk about my blog posts and to make short posts linked to interesting posts I find on the internet. It also is a great way to find like-minded or interesting people.

Here is one I found Today: Dambiso Moyo

In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth.

In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the “need” for more aid.

Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance.

Dead Aid by Dambiso Moyo

Our Kenyan-Indonesian President is working hard to turn our country into one of these dependent poor African countries. Better read this book folks.

Senator Obama’s pre-emptive election victory tour through Europe has inspired a variety of comparisons, ranging from General Eisenhower’s post-war ticker-tape procession in New York City to Bill and Ted’s excellent adventures through time. Another analogy, one not cited yet (to my knowledge) in the gushing reviews of the senator’s voyage, can be found in a fictional quest based on an actual journey that took place near the end of the 19th century. The traveler was Joseph Conrad; the account of his expedition is Heart of Darkness.

Obamacalypse Now: A Tale of Two Journeys By Dr. Marvin Folkertsma July 30, 2008

I just came across this article. Great article! I love the title: Obamacalypse Now!.

"Heart of Darkness", "very little more than a voice", and "Hollow To The Core"... Phrases you can use describing Barack Hussein Obama and his ilk...

And now we have Obama. Certainly, he is not Kurtz. This attractive, likable, and voluble young politician may be many things, but he is not evil, he is not Kurtz. What is he, then? The senator’s July 24 Berlin speech offers some clues. After deigning to his congregants with pieties about shared destinies and melting icecaps, the senator launched into renditions of tearing down walls that divide our “common humanity”–between “races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christians and Muslims and Jews.” More than that, renewed commitment to a world without nuclear weapons calls for shared sacrifices and, more specifically, “sending a direct message to Iran that it must abandon its nuclear ambitions.” End the “scourge of AIDS in our time,” support human rights in Burma, the bloggers in Iran, the voters in Zimbabwe, because “this is our moment, this is our time,” and “our aspirations are bigger than anything that drives us apart.”

A splendid speech in every way–articulate, inspirational, even heartwarming, and it was received as such by the throng of enthusiastic Berliners who witnessed it firsthand, as well as the millions who listened and watched the senator perform. The address was also meaningless. It was filled with allusions to “love, justice, conduct of life–or whatnot” given by a man whose admirers insist cannot be judged “as you would an ordinary man.” That is the problem with Senator Barack Obama: not that he is Kurtz, but rather a sort of Kurtz-lite, espousing verbiage that cannot possibly be taken seriously by any audience familiar with the realities of life. That is why Obama appeals to the young, the naïve, to those who are insulated from the bracing effects of a world of doers and consequences, and those who for two generations have lived in the verbal culture of a land under American military protection. Like the natives near the Inner Station, they adore their Mr. Kurtz. The media may be likened to Kurtz’s babbling toady: shallow, impressionable, ultimately cowardly, ready to flee if personally threatened, which is what happened in Conrad’s novel.

The danger of all this is not that the senator’s supporters will ultimately face what the fictional Kurtz did, eliciting his famous words, “The horror! The horror!” Rather, the danger is that Americans too late will arrive at Marlow’s conclusion, which was that Kurtz was “very little more than a voice.” Worse than that, “he was hollow to the core.” A journey into the 21st century led by such a person is likely to produce more catastrophes than even Joseph Conrad could imagine.

"... shallow, impressionable, ultimately cowardly, ready to flee if personally threatened,"

This is a great description of people like Gibson, Couric, Olberman, Mathhews and many others in the mainstream media.

"espousing verbiage that cannot possibly be taken seriously by any audience familiar with the realities of life. That is why Obama appeals to the young, the naïve, to those who are insulated from the bracing effects of a world of doers and consequences,"

Simply put: Barack Hussein Obama is Full of Shit!

Mark Levin's new book Liberty and Tyranny is number 1 on Amazon.com.

Conservative talk radio's fastest-growing superstar is also a New York Times bestselling phenomenon: the author of the groundbreaking critique of the Supreme Court, Men in Black, and the deeply personal dog lover's memoir Rescuing Sprite, Mark R. Levin now delivers the book that characterizes both his devotion to his more than 5 million listeners and his love of our country and the legacy of our Founding Fathers: Liberty and Tyranny is Mark R. Levin's clarion call to conservative America, a new manifesto for the conservative movement for the 21st century.

In the face of the modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values, an attack that has steadily snowballed since President Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s and resulted in a federal government that is a massive, unaccountable conglomerate, the time for re-enforcing the intellectual and practical case for conservatism is now. Conservative beliefs in individual freedoms do in the end stand for liberty for all Americans, while liberal dictates lead to the breakdown of civilized society -- in short, tyranny. Looking back to look to the future, Levin writes "conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are our founding principles." And in a series of powerful essays, Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming, immigration, and more -- and illustrates how change, as seen through the conservative lens, is always prudent, and always an enhancement to individual freedom.

As provocative, well-reasoned, robust, and informed as his on-air commentary, Levin's narrative will galvanize readers to begin a new era in conservative thinking and action. Liberty and Tyranny provides a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for revitalizing the conservative vision and ensuring the preservation of American society.

Mark R. Levin is a nationally syndicated talk radio host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation. He has also worked as an attorney in the private sector and as a top adviser and administrator to several members of President Reagan's cabinet. The author of the New York Times bestselling books Rescuing Sprite and Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America, Mark holds a B.A. from Temple University and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law.

Visit Mark Levin on the web at www.marklevinshow.com.

Watch Hannity Interview With Mark Levin Liberty & Tyranny

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Big Brother Has Turned Green
The environmental movement has cultivated a warm and fuzzy public image, but behind the smiley-face rhetoric of "sustainability" and "conservation" lies a dark agenda. The Greens aim to regulate your behavior, downsize your lifestyle, and invade the most intimate aspects of your personal life.

In this stunning exposé, Steve Milloy unveils the authoritarian impulse underlying the Green crusade. Whether they're demanding that you turn down your thermostat, stop driving your car, or engage in some other senseless act of self-denial, the Greens are envisioning a grim future for you marked by endless privation.
Steamrolling nearly all opposition with its apocalyptic predictions of environmental doom, the Green movement has gained influence throughout American society--from schools and local planning boards to the biggest corporations in the country. And their plans are much more ambitious than you think, says Milloy. What the Greens really seek, with increasing success, is to dictate the very parameters of your daily life--where you can live, what transportation you can use, what you can eat, and even how many children you can have.

Citing the tactics and goals of Green groups as explained by their own activists and leaders, Green Hell demonstrates:

* How Green pressure campaigns threaten the safety of your home and your car, and public health overall
* Why the election of President Obama portends a giant leap forward for coercive Green policies
* Why Greens obstruct the use of all forms of energy--even the renewable sources they tout to the public
* How wealthy Green elites stand to profit fabulously from the restrictions and regulations they seek to impose on the rest of us
* How Green pressure campaigns are hamstringing the military and endangering our national security
* Why big business is not only knuckling under to the Greens, but is aggressively promoting the green agenda to the detriment of its own stockholders
* What you can do to help stop the great Green machine
A one-of-a-kind, comprehensive takedown of the entire environmental movement, Green Hell will open your eyes to a looming threat to our economy, our civil liberties, and the entire American way of life.

Green movement is no different than global warming scam: It is another scam designed to take away our freedoms and prosperity away.

Greens couldn't care less about saving the planet or helping the humankind. they are all about enriching and empowering themselves. They are today's communist tyrants.

Your democRAT representatives and senators actively conspire with these people to mislead and decive you.

Current administration and current democRAT majority in congress working with these snakes who push this anti-freedom, anti-capitalism agenda disguised as saving the planet is the biggest threat to our very survival. I am not exaggerating here. These schmucks would rather see humans starve to death to save a non-existent supposedly endangered worm.

The planet is not equal to United States America folks. Don't you wonder why these assholes target us? Sure it is easy to target the most free and prosperous country. If they genuinely cared about the planet they would've targeted the bigger polluters of the planet: communist China and Russia plus all the other third-world tyrannies. Why do you think that is? Sure we know that these jackasses are cowards. We won't jail them here for their effort to ruin our lives... They can act all brave and mighty in a free country that respects human rights. But, what if there is another motivation? What if these traitors actually don't give a hoot about planet either and only interested in destroying western civilization?

I am talking to you young people... I know you are brainwashed in your schools about recycling and being green and global warming. Question them! Question your teachers! They are lying to you. Look around the world. talk to new immigrant kids. Not the muslims who come here to invade but who actually run away from the hell holes they used to live. The ones who come here for liberty, freedom and prosperity United States of America offers. Read "Green Hell". Don't be stupid!

Stupid CEOs, shareholders and business owners: You are in business to make money not to appease green tyrants. Even if you play into their hands by playing the being green game they will still destroy you. Speak the truth! Most of our businesses are in trouble because they have been focusing on stuff like green BS not making great products they can sell and make money. Any stupid business who claims it is in business to save the planet will perish sooner or later.

And most importantly: Do not believe anything Obama says.

From the Inside Flap
Is Capitalism the Culprit?
The media tells us that "deregulation" and "unfettered free markets" have wrecked our economy and will continue to make things worse without a heavy dose of federal regulation. But the real blame lies elsewhere. In Meltdown, bestselling author Thomas E. Woods Jr. unearths the real causes behind the collapse of housing values and the stock market--and it turns out the culprits reside more in Washington than on Wall Street.

And the trillions of dollars in federal bailouts? Our politicians' ham-handed attempts to fix the problems they themselves created will only make things much worse.
Woods, a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and winner of the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Award, busts the media myths and government spin. He explains how government intervention in the economy--from the Democratic hobby horse called Fannie Mae to affirmative action programs like the Community Redevelopment Act--actually caused the housing bubble.

Most important, Woods, author of the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, traces this most recent boom-and-bust--and all such booms and busts of the past century--back to one of the most revered government institutions of all: the Federal Reserve System, which allows busy-body bureaucrats and ambitious politicians to pull the strings of our financial sector and manipulate the value of the very money we use.

Meltdown also provides a timely history lesson to counter the current clamor for a new New Deal. The Great Depression, Woods demonstrates, was only as deep and as long as it was because of the government interventions by Herbert Hoover (no free-market capitalist, despite what your high school history teacher may have taught you) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (no savior of the American economy, in spite of what the mainstream media says). If you want to understand what caused the financial meltdown--and why none of the big-government solutions being tried today will work--Meltdown explains it all.