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Today at 5 pm EST, my interview with Ed Morrissey was broadcast on RFC Radio. It was a great talk on blogging and for those who missed it, I have it posted below. Feel free to download it, or listen to it here.
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While reviewing my vast RSS feeds from stories relating to the firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin, I found two interesting and amusing articles. The first one is from Yael T. Abouhalkah, from the Kansas City Star. Yael is SO proud of Sen. Claire McCaskill for standing up to her political idol, he delares in the headline, “She’s no lapdog“:
Go, Claire, go.Missouri’s sharp-tongued senator is at it again. Claire McCaskill has criticized President Barack Obama for removing Gerald Walpin as Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service.
…if this becomes a long-running D.C. drama, don’t expect to see McCaskill back down from a fight — even when the Obama administration is on the other side.
That’s our tough little Claire, standing tall against the president she helped elect. What a trooper!
However…
One day after criticizing the Obama administration for mishandling the firing of an inspector general, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri said Wednesday that the matter had been satisfactorily resolved.
CLAIRE! HEEL! BAD LACKEY! BAD! LACKEY!
Sen. McCaskill says it’s all good since the Obama Administration said IG Walprin was so “confused” and “disoriented” that there was reason to question “his capacity to serve.”
Here’s Walprin’s repsonse to that on Glenn Back:
Ed Morrissey asks the questions Sen. McCaskill didn’t ask:
Now, if the White House thought that Walpin was somehow incapacitated or disoriented, why bother to make that call at all? In fact, wouldn’t an employer with an ounce of empathy send the employee to a physician for diagnosis first? Even without the empathy, the proper course would have been to address the issue with Congress first instead of making an intimidation attempt to someone the White House now paints as all but senile.
Sen. McCaskill won’t ask these questions because she is a lapdog. She’s like those little yappy dogs that sit on comfortable laps and growl and snap, putting on a good show of looking tough…until they get scolded for all that racket.
One of my favorite people, John Stossel has started a blog. John Stossel’s Take is a blog I have already added to my RSS feed. I recommend you do too.
Then add mine.
Last month, I left you a link about residents of Washington, D.C. who were getting parking tickets while they were parked in their driveways.
Now, the same thing is happening in Toledo:
“I’ve lived here 43 years and last Thursday we had our 44th wedding anniversary,” said Charles Robertson, who received a parking violation. “I got a present from the city. Isn’t that nice?”
Residents’ vehicles were parked on a turn-around portion of their driveway in front of their property, something they need to safely get out of their drive on Holland-Sylvania, which, at times, can be busy.
Megan Robson, spokesperson for Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, released a statement to the media Monday evening.
“The Commissioner of Streets, Bridges and Harbor responded by going to the location of the complaint to assess whether it was valid or not,” Robson said in the statement. “She personally observed that it was a valid complaint. She observed several illegally parked vehicles along the first street she visited.”
“While there, a neighbor asked her to check out his street, which also had a number of illegally parked vehicles. Once she observed they too were illegally parked, she cited them as well. The City of Toledo supports its laws in general and illegally parked vehicles can and will be ticketed, and these tickets are considered valid.”
In the video, you can see the outrageous nature of these parking violations. It’s a wonder they were just ticketed and not shot on sight.
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Check this video out. Obama promising transparency and describing the Bush Administration as one of the most secretive ever:
Despite President Barack Obama’s pledge to introduce a new era of transparency to Washington, and despite two rulings by a federal judge that the records are public, the Secret Service has denied msnbc.com’s request for the names of all White House visitors from Jan. 20 to the present. It also denied a narrower request by the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which sought logs of visits by executives of coal companies.
I disagreed with Bush when he did it, and I disagree with Obama for doing it. But honestly, can we really trust a list released from the government.
“We’d like to see the visitor list.”
“OK, here you go.”
“And this is everyone the President has met with in the White House?”
“As far as you know, yes.”
What about the people he meets with in private outside the White House? What about phone calls he makes? While a visitors list may not be accurate, the refusal to release it shows his dedication to transparency is a strong as his dedication to the Constitution.
Tonight’s All American Radio on RFC Radio I have exclusive interviews with Neal Boortz, Rep. John Linder and Herman Cain on the Republican Party’s message and the role the FairTax plays in it.
Please listen at 8 pm EST on RFC Radio.
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Last night’s show:
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The whole Iranian situation occured while I was working and unable to cover it as it happened. By the time I made it to a computer, there was so much of it already written about, I was hesitant to write anything about it. But, after talking with top blogger Ed Morrissey (a conversation you can listen to this Friday at 5 pm EST on RFC Radio), it’s clear I have to say something about it, even if it is just linking to what others have already said.
First off, it was Twitter that carried the story, and is still carrying the story. You want news breaking from Iran. Go here and enter #iranelection into the search bar. After you are done with that, look up #cnnfail.
Twitterers were so outraged at CNN’s lack of coverage that even non-political website Mashable noticed:
Twitter has proven a powerful tool for spreading news of developing events in the country, but it has also taken on the role of media watchdog: thousands of Twitter users adopted the hashtag #CNNfail to highlight a lack of Iran coverage from the news organization.
So far, my favorite headline on the Iran election and the following protests was written by Jimmie Bise, Jr. at The Sundries Shack, who wrote “President Obama Votes “Present” as the Blood Flows in Iran.”
Some other headlines from around the blogosphere:
Does America have a role to play in this? What do you think?
You know, when I went to the Kansas City Tea Party, I made a t-shirt for my wife to wear. She was about 8 months pregnant and, well you can see it below:
The shirt was a big hit, but the fact is, it was wrong. At the time, I used the estimates for what each citizen owed for the national debt. But according to a “former official in the George H.W. Bush White House,” I used the wrong numbers:
David Walker, the former US Comptroller General, says that the federal debt level is approaching $55 trillion and if you add in the what is owed on the state and local levels — plus personal household debt — it adds up to $75 trillion in obligations.
Walker, who now heads the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, named for the co-founder of the Blackstone Group, warned that without fiscal restraint, Uncle Sam may be guaranteeing that our future is not as prosperous as our past.
At the $75 trillion deficit level a family of four owes $1 million, he said.
Emphasis mine. So, thanks to all the moral busybodies through the years who ignored the Constitutional limits imposed on the federal government by the Constitution, I now owe seven figures. And you can keep that “What about the general welfare?” crap to yourself. That dog won’t hunt.
When you hear President Obama talk about his health care reform, and how it’s ok to borrow for it, remember, If you are a family of four, you already owe $1,000,000 in taxes.
When he talks about instituting a cap and trade plan, which will increase the cost of energy in America, remember, you already owe $1,000,000 in taxes.
When politicians talk about new programs that are needed to do this or that, things the federal government was never meant to do, remember, you already owe $1,000,000 in taxes.
We better get what we owe paid off, if we even can, before we go the way of the USSR, collapsing under the weight of our own fiscal obligations.
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My new article is up at American Issues Project. It’s called:
Three Reasons Why Government Run Health Care Costs More Than Politicians Think
By Alan Caruba
“In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal…” (Article Two, U.S. Constitution).
Since the President takes an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”, a President who acts contrary to the Constitution or is found guilty of breaking the law should be subject to removal.
Constitutionally, removal can be secured by “impeachment for, conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Here’s a question I would pose to you. If the Supreme Court can act within days to approve the sale of Chrysler to Fiat, why can it not act to hear cases filed months ago regarding whether President Obama is a “natural born” citizen of the United States? Why have some lower courts refused to hear such cases citing that the parties bringing them, citizens under the rule of the Constitution, have no “standing” to do so?
The Supreme Court is famous for trying to dodge such cases. The likelihood of impeachment is zero because Democrats control Congress and only one President ever resigned from office and that was Richard M. Nixon. It took an excruciatingly long time to reach that point as anyone who lived through the Watergate scandal will tell you. The nation was shocked to learn that a President engaged in a criminal enterprise while in office.
The question of preserving and protecting the Constitution would be hard to prove except in hindsight, but by then it would be too late for the nation, ruined by excessive, unjustified taxation and borrowing that threatens the collapse of the economy.
I would argue that a President who appoints over twenty “czars” to supersede the powers of the secretaries of various federal departments; people who are apparently exempt from Congressional approval or oversight, and people who apparently do not feel the need to hold press conferences to explain what they are doing, is distinctly unconstitutional.
It will be argued that there have been various such “czars” in the past, mostly particularly “drug czars” whose purpose was to oversee and coordinate efforts to address the nation’s problems with illegal drugs, but the imposition of people to virtually replace members of the President’s cabinet is unprecedented. Cabinet officers must receive the approval of Congress, but these “czars” have not.
Even the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has been reduced to a mere figurehead as various personal envoys of the President have been authorized to act for him regarding sensitive diplomatic affairs, answerable presumably only to him.
What we have is a President who is running the government through an invisible network of people who are not answerable to the citizens of the nation, yet granted powers to determine the extent of the rights of those citizens including how much compensation they may receive.
This is a President who has said during a C-Span interview that the government is out of money, but who is pressing forward for legislation to impose trillions in taxes on all energy use, who advocates the borrowing of tens of billions by the nation for a proposed healthcare “reform”, and who has already signed a so-called stimulus bill of nearly 9,000 items representing $700 billion that he deemed “imperfect.”
The economy does not need a stimulus. It needs the government to get out of the way of the free market system to correct itself and for the nation’s famed entrepreneurial spirit to initiate new businesses and new jobs. We do not “rescue” people who took on too much debt.
He has approved “bailouts” to private companies that should have been allowed to seek bankruptcy protection and he has demanded that the former head of General Motors be fired by its board of directors. He has launched an attack on the Constitutional sanctity of contracts, abrogating the rights of lenders. Banks which received TARP funds are desperate to return such funding to the U.S. Treasury rather than give up control over their affairs.
We have all watched the President in action since January 20, 2009 and what we have seen and heard has been constant criticism of America that has been an affront to our great history and our defense of human rights. He has done this in one foreign nation after another.
A speech in Cairo to the worldwide Muslim community President Obama distorted the facts of American history and conflated the deliberate murder of six million European Jews in the last century with the suffering inflicted on so-called Palestinians by their fellow Arabs; the result of repeated wars on Israel. No such comparison can be made and is by definition obscene.
Within months, “tea parties”, citizen protests, occurred from coast to coast and others are being planned for July Fourth. Not since the advent of the Civil War under threat of secession has a President faced such widespread opposition after taking office.
In State after State, resolutions are being passed in opposition to his proposed legislation and policies. An organization of “Oath-Keepers”, members of the U.S. military, the reserves, the National Guard, peace officers, and veterans, has emerged to say they will not blindly “follow orders” issued by this President that are contrary to the oath to uphold the Constitution they have taken.
This is a President whose Department of Homeland Security has defined as “extremist” anyone who criticizes or disagrees with his policies.
Americans who are fearful of the havoc President Barack Obama has let loose on this nation need to flood Congress with the demand that he be removed from office for his failure to protect, preserve, and defend the Constitution. Indeed, to conclusively prove he was constitutionally qualified to run for the presidency.
The White House has to hear from Americans calling on the President to resign.
He and the Democrat-controlled Congress are proposing onerous taxation and reckless borrowing that will destroy the nation’s economy.
Americans cannot afford to let this President hold power until the next election in 2012. They cannot hope that the midterm elections in 2010 will be sufficient to protect them against the damage he will do to them, to their children, and to their grandchildren before they are held.
We cannot even be sure that as the result of the White House takeover of the Census and its close association with ACORN that those elections will not be rigged.
President Barack Hussein Obama must go!
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Originally posted at WesternFront America
Gallup released the results of a poll today, showing that 40% of Americans identify themselves as “conservative,” with 9 percent identifying themselves as “Very Conservative” and 31 percent saying they are just “Conservative.”
Americans identifying themselves as “Very Liberal” comprised 5 percent of those polled, with 16 percent saying they were “Liberal.” Moderates made up 35 percent of those polled
These are important numbers to remember come 2012. We can support another candidate like John McCain, who embraced the middle and tried in vain to reach out to the conservatives, or we can support a candidate who already has 40 percent of the voters in his or her camp.
The idea that your base is in the squishy middle that can’t make up its mind about whether they are a conservative or liberal is asinine. You get the support of the base and reach out to the middle, picking off what you can. With conservatism being twice as popular as liberalism, it tends to figure that more of the middle will lean more right than left.
Where would libertarians fall in this poll? Most support limited government, which is conservative, but advocate drug legalization, which is considered a liberal position (which is interesting considering William F. Buckley, a conservative icon, was for it as well.)
I would be interested in seeing this poll with “Libertarian” being an option. I wonder what impact it would have on the “Moderate” numbers.
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One of the most dangerous things President Barack Obama and other leftists in Washington, D.C. are trying to implement is a cap and trade plan to combat global warming. While I have written extensively on the global warming myth, there are others out there who have dedicated their sites to the debate.
Here are some of the resources I have used, and currently follow. Some are blogs, some are forum pages, but they are all full of information to help you learn more about the subject, and keep up to date on climate change news:
If I were to recommend one site, most would think it to be Climate Audit, or Watts Up With That. However, I recommend subscribing to at least Tom Nelson’s blog. He is like the Glenn Reynolds of global warming, a relentless global warming news aggregator. You will not only find updates from Climate Audit and Watts on Tom Nelson’s blog, you will find so many other stories you might not have heard anywhere else (including, I’m guessing, this one.)
And bookmark this page. It’s a forum page and is one of the most comprehensive resources for information on the subject.
I also encourage you to visit the “Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet” series I put together for All American Blogger. While you can talk to some people, or hand them a paper and say, “Read this,” others are more influenced by video. There are four parts to the series:
If there are videos I should add, please let me know.
I hope you use these resources to educate yourself and your friends about the climate change debate, and help them understand why cap and trade is not only unnecessary and useless, but a dangerous failure. It will take an active citizenry to encourage Democrats, and some Republicans (*cough John McCain cough*), not to enact programs that will increase our energy prices.
As for the sites that I missed, please feel free to add them to the comments section.
Update: Linked up at Conservative Grapevine. Thanks, John!
Update 2: Some more sites and pages from our friends at Free Republic:
Today I was up at 0300 so I could make the four hour trip to Columbia, Missouri for the Midwest FairTax rally.
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Today I will be talking blogging with Katie Favazza. The topic goes from how she builds a blog post to how to start as a blogger and become a columnist.
The show starts at 5 EST on RFC Radio. Remember to donate to our fundraising drive. Every bit helps.
When Don Imus called the Rutgers girls basketball team a bunch of nappy headed hos, it cost him his job.
Imus was initially suspended for two weeks, despite offering a straightforward apology to the girls team.
It didn’t matter. He was vilified. NBC called his comments “deplorable and he had to go on an apology tour, talking with every race pimp in the game. Jesse Jackson protested in front of NBC Studios
He was finally fired. He worked for CBS radio.
Guess who else works for CBS? David Letterman, who made jokes about Sarah Palin’s 14 year old daughter getting impregnated during the 7th inning of a Yankee game by A-Rod:
Letterman has come out and said “Oh, I wasn’t talking about the 14 year old, but the 18 year old.” Because, you know, joking about an 18 year old getting pregnant is funny, right? I mean, she’s legal, right?
One problem…Bristol wasn’t with the Governor, Willow was. Willow is 14. That’s called statutory rape. That’s not funny.
The National Organization of Women has come out against the comment now, but for the most part, liberals are defending Letterman’s comments as an joke.
So what’s the difference? Well, for starters, Imus was talking about grown women, not teenagers. And Imus’s comments were aimed at at least three protected classes: minorities, women and tattooed folks (ok, that last on is a bit of a stretch, but have you seen Janeane Garafalo lately.)
Letterman is joking about the daughter of a conservative politician being raped, so it’s treated differently.
He can try to justify it all he wants. Explain away, Dave. But you should get the same treatment as Imus.
And here’s the thing, I didn’t think Imus should have been treated the way he was. But what the difference is here is that we are talking about a 14 year old girl.
That’s a big difference.
What do you think? Is it much ado about nothing?
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