President Obama has said that “Cap & Trade” will cause electricity prices to skyrocket. Do you have an extra $1,500 a year to spend on energy? It’s also expected to increase costs indirectly across the board for each American household on every good or service purchased that uses energy by another $1,500 per year.
If you haven’t heard about the Citizens Grand Juries regarding Barack Obama’s qualification to be POTUS, the coverage in this video clip may surprise you. On March 28th, the State of Georgia convened a constitutionally empowered Grand Jury; they returned indictments against Obama for voter fraud.
Similar Grand Juries have also been formed in Ohio, Illinois, Texas, and Arkansas. Carl Swensson reports the updates.
That collection of classic tales entitled One Thousand and One Nights continues. In the latest episode, a poor homeboy, abandoned by all but his white grandmother and the kindly old communist down the street, becomes a community organizer, stumbles upon a wealthy neo-communist whose financial assistance helps him write two or three books about his life before his thirtieth birthday, and he makes millions. He uses this money as a springboard to a political career. His rhetorical skills and likeable personality cause millions of voters to hail him as a miraculous example of opportunity in the land of the free, and the home of the brave. Shortly afterward, he ascends to the most powerful office in the world.
Recently, our hero stood behind the bully pulpit and proclaimed to zillions of adoring acolytes his value of truth, justice, and the American way. His willingness to tell everyone the difficult truths that they desperately need to hear, particularly as it involves those peaceful, tolerant populations we collectively refer to as the ‘Muslim world’ is unparalleled in the American political experience.
Osama bin-Laden:
“Here is the United States. It was filled with terror from its north to its south and from its east to its west. Praise be to God. What the United States tastes today is a very small thing compared to what we have tasted for tens of years … As for the United States, I tell it and its people these few words: I swear by Almighty God who raised the heavens without pillars that neither the United States nor he who lives in the United States will enjoy security before we can see it as a reality in Palestine and before all the infidel armies leave the land of Mohammed, may God’s peace and blessing be upon him. God is great and glory to Islam. May God’s peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you.”
In January of 2009, shortly after being sworn in as our Illegal-Alien-In-Chief, Barack Obama, commenting on America’s current economic crisis, said these remarkable words:
“There is no disagreement [among economists] that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.”
What follows therefore is a very partial listing of American economists, Nobel laureates among them, who do in fact disagree with Barack’s ridiculous statement, and have even gone on public record saying so:
We all know about the radical muslim militants around the globe. We know that they routinely wage war against one neighbor after another. We know that they consider our country to be the great satan and Israel to be the little satan.
Some also contend that Russia and China are seeking our destruction. Perhaps, on some level they are.
But we have far greater and more devastating enemies within our own borders. Each day they plot and plan and practice to destroy our once great nation … yes … from within. Some attacks are quietly subtle; others are boldly blatant. Either strategy though, their insidious salvos of change are fired upon we, the people, with such unrestrained vigor that it’s hard to grasp their sheer magnitude and their unrelenting speed.
Many of us fully recognize the threat that is upon us. We’re starting to spread the word; we’re beginning to stand our ground. We are uniting against the ever-obvious plot to destroy the land of the free and the home of the brave. We know … without one iota of doubt … we see it all around us … we feel it in our bones … the showdown draws near.
Alas my friends, for each of us there are 50 others who also recognize the imminent danger, but instead of taking action they sit at home watching TV, playing video games, or surfing the Web. They complain, but they are waiting, perhaps, for someone else to take action.
They see it. They hear it. They know it. They can smell it in the air. But, for whatever reason they are not quite ready to take action yet.
But in this battle … the battle against freedom that is waged upon us, we MUST all recognize that silence IS consent.
We, who have begun to heed the call to duty, MUST inspire the hesitant warriors and the steadfast couch potatoes that NOW is the time to get involved … NOW is the time to take action … NOW is the time to put aside petty differences … NOW is the time for the vast millions of us to speak with ONE voice.
Call your friends … tell your co-workers … knock on doors in your neighborhood … invite them to join you in a patriot rally … invite them to join your local Tea Party protest. We MUST speak now, while we can still hold onto the lingering traces of this freedom.
On May 6th on the floor of the US House, Representative Randy Forbes (R-VA) asks the questions “Did America ever consider itself a Judeo-Christian nation?” and “If America was once a Judeo-Christian nation, when did it cease to be?”.
I agree! If you do also, please call and tell your congressmen to support Resolution 397. www.traditionalvalues.org/
Now that President Øbama has decided to reach out to the Muslim world, we wonder what he hopes to achieve on behalf of the American people. Simply stated, governments entreat with one another because each has something they want from the other, and both believe that a treaty will satisfy its own national interests. In the past, American foreign policy has been ill-considered, even juvenile, and according to the president, arrogant.
According to Reuters, the president wants the United States to be a ‘role model’ for the Arab world, although I’m not sure what exactly he had in mind. Does he seek to obtain approval for Christian churches? Does he want Arab promises not to blow up our naval vessels? Or, is he sufficiently narcissistic to think that Arabs will actually come to ‘like’ Americans once he’s demonstrated a renewed willingness to bow to a foreign potentate?
Let’s see … what do the Arab states want from the United States? Hmmm.
If the entire United States were to succeed in the impossible task of curtailing carbon dioxide emissions by 83 percent below current levels — i.e. the goal Barack (et al) has pledged — it would still, in the best-case, only amount to a reduction in global temperatures of less than three-thousandth of a degree Celsius per year, which from both a scientific and non-scientific standpoint is utterly inconsequential.
You may well recall the frequently reported campaign promise by Barack Obama that “under his presidency no one with an income under $250,000 would see a tax increase”. His resolute promise to the American people may soon be tested.
There is a growing buzz in our nation’s capital to implement a Value Added Tax (VAT) of as much as 25% on all goods purchased and services rendered. Created in 1954 by French economist Maurice Lauré, then director of the French tax authority, a VAT is actually an indirect tax.
This Value Added Tax is one of the most efficient systems for taking revenue from citizens ever contrived. It is used in 130 countries around the globe, mostly in socialist countries … so that average citizens bare the burden of enormous government expansion and ever-increasing government handouts. The VAT is essentially a sales tax, except that it’s charged at each stage in the development of a product instead of at the moment when the product is sold.

Egalitarianism is a fashionable term that in essence means equalization. It is also the main banner under which socialism, including socialism’s little sister environmentalism, flies today.
As a political philosophy, egalitarianism tells us that the legitimate functions of government do extend to such acts as keeping people relatively equal (a task that requires a massive act of governmental compulsion) despite the fact that humans possess varying degrees of ability, skills, intelligence, and, most important of all, ambition.
The late Kurt Vonnegut Jr. persuasively illustrates the sheer folly (and criminality) of egalitarianism in his fine short story Harrison Bergeron, which I recommend (you can read it entirely online via that link; it’s very short).
Here’s another great one by the inimitable AlfonZo Rachael (Macho Sauce Productions). This parody is based on the song “Under My Thumb”. Obama puts it in gear and rolls over friends and foes alike … if they get in his way.
What has happened to our country … what has happened to our constitution … WHEN the President can force auto makers to shut down their dealerships and put business owners OUT of business?
Our federal government has ordered 800 Chrysler dealerships to close, even ones that are profitable (during a time when auto sales are down 46% over last year). Meanwhile, Obama’s car czar, Steven Rattner, is constructing a 15 million dollar home in Martha’s Vineyard.
This video is comprised of two clips from the Rush Limbaugh radio show.
Bob Basso, as his famous Thomas Paine character, admonishes the President to uphold our founding principles.
Canadian comedian Greg Morton weighs in on the current financial crisis and how President Obama plans to get us out of it. His song, “Obama Man”, premiered on the Bob & Tom Show.
Well, it appears the Congressional Dems — praying that they’re flying under the hard-left’s radar — are stripping funds from the federal budget that were earmarked for the closure of Gitmo and the relocation of the POWs there, Rebuffing Obama on Gitmo.
I’ve got an idea on what to do with these hate-America terrorists or wannabes — build a theme park in, oh, maybe Panama. Call it Water Board Park and have the Gitmo “detainees,” the ACLU, and lots of the Keystone Kops from Congress and the current Administration strapped into dunking tanks.
You know, $2 buys you, say, 5 balls to hurl at the bull’s eye; hitting it would send the “water board” and its occupant tipping into b.s. and c.s. transported from Washington.

Dr. George Reisman
The economist George Reisman writes:
The two essential claims of the environmentalists, which I take for granted are already well known to everyone, are (1) that continued economic progress is impossible, because of the impending exhaustion of natural resources (it is from this notion that the slogan “reduce, reuse, recycle” comes), and (2) that continued economic progress, indeed, much of the economic progress that we have had up to now, is destructive of the environment and is therefore dangerous.
The essential policy prescription of the environmentalists is the prohibition of self-interested individual action insofar as the byproduct of such action when performed on a mass basis is alleged damage to the environment. The leading concrete example of this policy prescription is the attempt now underway to force individuals to give up such things as their automobiles and air conditioners on the grounds that the byproduct of hundreds of millions or billions of people operating such devices is to cause global warming. And this same example, of course, is presently the leading example of the alleged dangers of economic progress (source).
Dr. Reisman goes on to explain how the founder of the Austrian School of Economics, Carl Menger (1840-1921), in his excellent Principles of Economics, developed what Menger named the Theory of Goods. (read this entire post…)
Presidential Job Description:
Article II (Sections 2-4) of the United States Constitution, which enumerates the powers of the President, contains a mere four paragraphs.
When the President of the United States is sworn into office, he or she must take an oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
In response to which oath, the erudite economist and historian Robert Higgs says this:
Not since the presidency of Grover Cleveland has any President achieved greatness by this standard [Article II, Sections 2-4]. Worse, the most admired have been those who failed most miserably…. Grover Cleveland, though far from perfect, may have been the best [in the last 200 years]. He kept the country at peace. He respected the Constitution, acknowledging that the national government has only a limited mission to perform and shaping his policies accordingly. He fought to lower tariffs; preserved the gold standard in its time of crisis; and restored order forcibly when hoodlums disturbed the peace on a wide front during the great railroad strike of 1894.
At the end of this eventful year, I’d like to thank you for visiting this blog the last couple of months. It has been a delight to have researched and written these conservative-leaning posts. But, the endeavors have usurped a large amount of my time from other duties and responsibilities.
Moreover, unpublished research is leading me to anticipate a series of events for the upcoming year which consume me with dread at the thought of ongoing research. Below, you’ll find my predictions for 2009. You may want to save this article as a time-stamped MHT or PDF for comparison one year from now. You could also save it as a browser bookmark.





