tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16592115743923643592011-11-27T18:32:30.409-05:00Jim Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10489941526094600428noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1659211574392364359.post-9210419756685210982010-10-19T10:56:00.005-04:002010-10-19T11:11:43.609-04:00

My mother just ran across a poem that I had written in the wake of 9/11 and subsequently forgotten. Thought I would share it here:Souls of a NationCloudless skies of azure blueGraceful birds of riveted steelUnseen wires bring last words of love,But the soul lives on...Scorching tongues of blazing fire,Billowing clouds of choking smoke,Mortal vessels are broken and burned,But the soul lives on...

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Watching today's "health summit," I keep thinking of Burger King.Why Burger King? Because Obama keeps claiming that he's trying to find common ground - in essence, saying that he's willing to let everyone have it their way so long as everyone agrees to eat the sandwich he's serving.Here's the problem: The meat is spoiled, and there's nothing that can be done to change that very basic fact.The

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Before the 2008 election, I told my wife that I think the real reason that the media was completely tossing aside even the pretense of objectivity was that it was - to me - obviously an "extinction burst."Consider the following: 1) The continuing daisy chain of newspaper/newsmagazine failures 2) The utter failure of liberal talk radio 3) The declining ratings of the alphabet networks, CNN

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There's a reason why boxers say you should always punch up to the next higher weight class and never punch down. By taking on fighters in a higher weight class, you enhance your own reputation. When you take on fighters in a lower weight class, you elevate them to your level and inevitably diminish your own reputation in the process.So it makes perfect sense that Sarah Palin would take on Barack

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One of my favorite bloggers, Ann Althouse, put up a post on yesterday's interaction between Obama and the House Republicans at their retreat. I'm reposting here my intial comments which I originally left at her site:I agree with the general assertion that Obama didn't really say much yesterday that he didn't say in his SOTU speech. Nor was his tone any better. He repeatedly blamed the Republicans

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Since this seems to be the day for it, let me set up the rules for tonight's State of the Union address.1. Make sure you're not drinking anything with higher than 80 proof. Alcohol poisoning can be fatal.2. On second thought, 80 proof might be too high. Or you'll only be able to take small sips rather than do full shots. Either way, use your discretion to avoid any unintended 911 calls.3. Don't

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While running for president in 1992, Bill Clinton famously repudiated Sister Souljah's statement that we should "have a week and kill White people." This gave rise to the term "Sister Souljah moment" in which a candidate proves that he's not beholden to his base by publicly taking on an extreme member of it. It gave many people confidence in Bill Clinton's determination to govern the nation from

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If Obama and the Democrats get their way, here's what ordering a pizza in the future might be like: What are you complaining about? The government has an obligation to take whatever steps are necessary to "bend the cost curve." Just shut up and take the blue pill. It's half the price of the red one you know...Barack Obama, Democrats, ObamaCare, Privacy

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Last night I blogged about the failure of the Australian Senate to pass a cap-and-trade system and predicted that it would spell trouble for senators looking to pass a similar system here. So what headline are we seeing from Bloomberg this morning? "Climate Change Measure Should Be Set Aside, U.S. Senators Say"Go figure. Also note the bias in the headline which refers to "U.S. Senators" when the

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Republicans were sensing momentum earlier in the summer, but events ofthe August recess -- specifically, the town hall meetings in whichopponents of the Democratic health care reform plan have turned out inforce -- have changed their view. "This month has opened our eyes,"says one plugged-in House aide. "We're seeing real people who are firedup who weren't engaged before -- the first time we've

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In a sure sign that cap-and-trade is in serious trouble here, the Australian Senate has voted down a cap-and-trade system in their country.Why does it matter what the Aussies are doing? Because one of the primary arguments for a cap-and-trade system in this country is that everybody else is doing it, and we're not living up to our global responsibilities if we don't. It becomes awfully difficult

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"I owe China how much? Thanks a lot, Mr. President."TEA Parties

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Once again doing the job that the mainstream American media refuses to do, the Financial Times has an article about two wavering "Blue Dog" Democrats who are both saying that they could not vote for the House version of ObamaCare in its current form.If there was any doubt that the TEA Partiers are having a profound effect on the current debate over socialized medicine, this should put an end to

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After reading the latest updates on the fake doctor at Sheila Jackson Lee's "townhall," I was directed to an article at the Lone Star Times website that covers much of the same ground. What caught my eye was this comment on that article: I live in new Hampshire and was particularily interested in seeing how well Obama’s staged “town hall” meeting held in Portsmouth, NH, resonated with “Granite

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Rahm Emanuel said 3 weeks ago that they had "rescued the economy." At the time, John Boehner took to the floor of the House to disagree: So who was right, Emanuel or Boehner? Let's look at today's headlines and see, shall we?Foreclosures Rise 7 Percent in July from June - The filings were up 32 percent from last July, but we're supposed to believe that the housing market is improving and

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It's becoming glaringly obvious why Barack Obama was pushing so hard to have Congress pass ObamaCare before they left for their August recess. By the time they reconvene in September, they're going to be dealing with an unpopular president.With seemingly every day that passes, Obama is not only losing ground on the debate over his socialized medicine but on his overall job approval rating as

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Just a couple of weeks ago Barack Obama got himself into hot water with cops across the country by saying that Officer Crowley "acted stupidly." Then a couple of days, he managed to get under the skin of postal workers by pointing out the failures of the Post Office while extolling the performance of UPS and FedEx. Now he's got surgeons angry by lying about them again.Obama really is beginning to

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Yet another townhall meeting. Yet another phony "random audience member."I'm not even keeping up with all the planted questioners at all the townhalls that Democrats are holding across the country, yet my blogging seems to be becoming one long string of revealing plant after plant at these meetings. This time it's Sheila Jackson Lee with a student at the university where her husband works who

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I've talked to several people recently about the various lies being told by Barack Obama and the Democrats about ObamaCare, and the constant refrain I hear is that it's difficult to find out what actually is and isn't true about the proposed government takeover of our health care system.Karl over at HotAir has done some yeoman's work in putting together some highlights of Obama's most outrageous

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It's been all over the news: anti-ObamaCare protesters are using Nazi imagery! They're putting Hitleresque mustaches on pictures of Obama and demanding a stop to Obama's "Nazi" Health Care. Those TEA Partiers are just crazy!One major problem with the narrative: the Obama-Hitler signs aren't from TEA Partiers at all: The takeaway from the video? LaRouchePAC created the 'Obama as Hitler' signs,

Jim Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10489941526094600428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1659211574392364359.post-11594751221558884552009-08-12T11:41:00.001-04:002009-08-12T11:41:57.458-04:00

In response to the grassroots TEA parties that have sprung up around the country, Barack Obama has decided to do a series of townhall meetings where he takes supposedly random questions from the audience about ObamaCare. One problem: he can't find enough supporters of ObamaCare to fill a townhall, so he has to bus them in.This has become such a debacle for Democrats that Obama's people actually

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They're just handing out free money for people on welfare in New York.Silly me. I thought the "stimulus bill" was meant to actually put people back to work or keep them from losing their jobs. Giving people money to keep NOT working is so much more obviously sound economics that it's a wonder no one thought of it sooner.That's $140 million of your hard-earned money neither you nor your children

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Michael Lind published a piece asking "Are Liberals Seceding From Sanity?" in which he argues for the "big tent" approach to the Democratic Party. His argument, naturally, is pure condescension to Southerners who are simply the products of having been economically repressed and so woefully uneducated for so many years. They couldn't possibly hold conservative beliefs because they are worthy of

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Jeffrey Lord has an interesting piece up over at American Spectator comparing Linda Douglass and Arthur Sylvester, the press secretary for Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. He contends that Linda Douglass is Sylvester's intellectual descendent in her eagerness to lie to the American people on behalf of Barack Obama about the actions of their government.He reprints a quote of David

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Cassy's post reminded me about an odd piece of news out of Florida the other day: namely that Mel Martinez wouldn't be returning to his seat in the Senate after the August recess. While she, and others, are rightfully thinking about the implications for Charlie Crist who is the current governor and has already stated his intention to run for the Senate seat, I'm simply struck by the oddity of the

Jim Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10489941526094600428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1659211574392364359.post-520027595616077802009-08-11T09:22:00.002-04:002009-08-11T11:41:53.463-04:00

The GOP cut together the previous clips of Obama stating his desire for single-payer health care into a web ad: Somebody needs to turn them in to flag@whitehouse.gov because Linda Douglass is definitely going to find this fishy. Somebody needs to make that Barack Obama guy quit spreading disinformation about the goals of ObamaCare.Barack Obama, ObamaCare, Disinformation, Republicans

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Over the weekend, Nancy Pelosi and her houseboy, Steny Hoyer, declared that attempting to "drown out" opposing viewpoints was un-American. Their position was that TEA Partiers weren't there to call their congressmen to account for their attempt to jam ObamaCare down our collective throats: it was simply to drown out any attempt at health care reform at all. So they called out their SEIU union

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As soon as Nancy Pelosi and her minions started rolling out the latest Democratic talking points about how the TEA Partiers were AstroTurfed crowds who only showed up at the behest of the Republican Party and insurance companies, I knew that it was bound to backfire. Instead of intimidating people into staying away from townhall meetings, such accusations are only redoubling their

Jim Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10489941526094600428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1659211574392364359.post-18264086921702377372009-08-10T20:22:00.002-04:002009-08-11T11:42:22.837-04:00

A translated question from a Congolese student got Hillary Clinton hot under the collar when she thought he asked what Bill Clinton thought about a Chinese trade deal. Her response? ""My husband is not secretary of state, I am," she replied. "If you wantmy opinion I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channelingmy husband."On one hand, I can appreciate that she's perturbed that she's

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Good news on the amnesty front: illegal immigration is still going to be illegal at least through the end of the year.Barack Obama admitted today that his attempt to grant amnesty is going to have to wait. With Cap-and-Tax still up in the air (and likely dead) and ObamaCare in doubt, he's decided that it would be too much to try to move his amnesty bill this year.Given the reality of election

Jim Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10489941526094600428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1659211574392364359.post-40841668990268076752009-08-10T14:39:00.002-04:002009-08-11T11:42:59.006-04:00

The TEA in TEA parties stands for Taxed Enough Already. According to this post from TaxProf, it looks like American businesses should be joining the TEA Partiers on the picket lines.The US has the second highest corporate taxes in the industrialized world: behind only Japan. And it's not by much, American corporate tax rates are at 39.1% while Japan's are at barely higher rate of 39.6%. Everybody

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Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress can't seem to find enough people to get out and hit the streets in support of their government takeover of health care, so now they're advertising on Craigslist to hire them instead.But remember that it's the TEA Partiers who are supposedly the ones who are "AstroTurfing," right? Not the Leftists who are actually paying people to do the work that

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The Botox Queen, Nancy Pelosi, and her court jester, Steny Hoyer, have spoken.If you're angry that Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress are trying to ram through a government takeover of your healthcare in less time than it took for him to pick out a family dog, then you're un-American.If you're unwilling to be told what to think by people who are blatantly lying to your face, then you're

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CNN's Reliable Sources had ABC's Obama mouthpiece turned White House Obama mouthpiece, Linda Douglass, on to discuss the Naked Emperor News YouTube video compilation of Obama repeatedly stated desire for single-payer healthcare.Fair enough. But only if CNN had actually bothered to actually show the damning portions of the video where Barack Obama actually said over and over again that he wanted

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It seems that some Congressmen still aren't getting the message that people are fed up with government waste, fraud and abuse.10 members of Congress decided that, in the middle of one of the most contentious public debates in years, they should skip town with their spouses to go on a "global warming fact finding mission" rather than go home and meet with their constituents.1) If you still believe

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Via Hot Air.A company called Health Systems Innovations has done their own estimates of the cost of ObamaCare, and their numbers show that the CBO estimates of a $1 trillion price tag on ObamaCare are probably inaccurate. To the tune of more than $1 trillion.They say that the CBO models are based on outdated information from 2000-2001 while theirs is based on more current information from 2006.

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Since this blog is literally only hours old and the question has already arisen, I thought now would be a good time to explain from where the title, Polimerican, originates.Polimerican is simply a portmanteau of "Political American." Let me explain.The vast majority of the American public claims to not be interested in politics at all. In fact, a great number of those same people take enormous

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."The arc of the TEA parties brought something to mind today: they are living proof of the truth of this quote from Mahatma Gandhi.When the TEA parties first began earlier this year, there was a collective yawn from pretty much everybody in the media - with the notable exception of Fox News. Perhaps because they have

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