Anti-Obamacare = Pro-Slavery?

Tea Party Nation Founder: Let's Get Rid Of The 'Socialist' Methodist Church
Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips has a dream: "No more Methodist Church." A blog post on his Tea Party Nation page says that on Friday he walked by the United Methodist Building in Washington D.C., which had a sign that said, "Pass the DREAM Act." Phillips wrote: " I have a DREAM. That is, no more United Methodist Church." [TPM SLIDESHOW: Sound The Alarm! The 'Code Red' Tea Party] Phillips explains that he was formerly a member of the church, but he left because it's "the first Church ...

The Coming Collapse in the State Budgets
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Last Call
Well, we all know that according to the Tea Party, the subset of Real Americans can't include any Minorities, atheists, Mormons, Muslims, gays, Democrats, liberals, and anyone who watches Glee. Now you have to add Methodists to the list of people who don't count as actual Americans, and who should have no say in American society. A blog post on his Tea Party Nation page says that on Friday he walked by the United Methodist Building in Washington D.C., which had a sign that said, "Pass the DREAM ...

Harvards disingenuous Solomon Amendment statement.
With the Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell almost certain now to be passed into law*, there has been some discussion of one thing that Conservatives and Republicans will absolutely require to have happen: to wit, the ending of the Ivy League’s continuing campaign against the Military by forbidding ROTC programs on their campuses.  Said campaign absolutely flaunts the intent of Congress (as per the ‘Solomon Amendment’), but has been generally tacitly tolerated by th...

Statement on FCC Net Neutrality Power Grab
AFP responses to President Obama's multiple attacks on our 1.6 million Free Market Activists. Proud Socialists march at the so-called "One Nation" rally led by labor Unions as an attempt to counter Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally. "The FCC has fittingly chosen the darkest day in 372 years to impose potentially devastating regulations on the up-to-now free-market Internet. As The Moon was eclipsed earlier today, Congress and the American People will be eclipsed by this regulatory coup d'é...

What Was the Most Important Story of 2010? Healthcare? Elections?
What do you think was the most important story of 2010? That can be a hard call. There are obvious choices that land loudly in the headlines: the GOP landslide in the House, the signing of ObamaCare (otherwise known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). There are incremental stories, like the chronically high jobless rate or the crumbling euro. The Tea Party was a phenomenon, not just a headline. And we are, in Afghanistan, approaching the second decade of the longest war we've e...

Budget Fight May Deny Funding to New Financial Regulation
Republicans appear to be succeeding at starving the beast after all, or at least some of the beast's spawn. By refusing to allow the omnibus spending bill to provide the government a new Budget for next year, spending will instead mirror that of 2010. Of course, this year's Budget didn't reflect all of the aggressive Legislation passed by Democrats, including Health Care reform and the giant Financial Regulation package. Although more media focus has been on what this means for Health Care bill,...

ObamaCare 2011
Good summary, looking forward: There are, however, two possible means of Repeal. There is actual legislative repeal, passed by both Houses and signed by the president, which cannot happen until 2013 at the earliest. And there is effective repeal, in which the body politic rejects the substance of the bill, seeks waivers and exemptions, supports defunding important provisions, and challenges it in court, all of which would have the effect of maki...

The Tyranny of Technology
The Federal Communication is expected to declare themselves Lords of the Internet, disappointing leftists that wanted the tyranny to be more strict—perhaps more punitively Chinese—and infuriating everyone else. It is just the latest example of the Obama Administration's creeping tyranny, delegating authority to itself that is not provided in the law or the Constitution. Like all leftists, Barack Obama's classmate Julius Genachowski craves power and control. The wide-open, unregulat...

Socialism v. Liberalism v. Communism
Dave Weigel should be commended for trying to be fair to Stan’s book. And I’ll leave it to Stan to respond to the point-by-point stuff. But there’s one aspect of Weigel’s review that bothers me. It’s a common tendency and I’m only singling Weigel out because I just read his piece. He writes of Stan: His first problem is that so much of his case depends on the power of that magic word socialism. Kurtz benefits from the fact that it causes a full-body freak-out ...

Canada PM Harper Chided for Vote on Forced Abortion Bill
In the aftermath of the vote in the Canadian House of Commons on a bill the prevent forced and pressured Abortions, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is coming under fire for opposing the measure. Harper has said all along he doesn’t want to open Canada’s abortion debate but the Legislation, modeled after successful bills in the United States that don’t affect the status of legalized abortion, was defeated by MPs. Paul Wells of Macleans noted Harper took the unusual step of voting ...

Random Comments
1. I’ve revised my analysis of Mad Men for the season. 2. So someone wrote me that Socialist MONARCHIST is the same as RED TORY. And that puts the PORCHERS at the greatest possible distance from the Libertarian Populist members of the Tea Party. 3. But we have to add: The Tea Partiers are especially attached to the forms and formalities of the Constitution, and they hold that Democracy is limited by the liberty given to people by God. They’re also, like the Porchers, all in favor o...

Time for the Administration to Change its Gitmo Talk
For the past several months, the Obama Administration has been in a weird limbo about Guantanamo. On the one hand, it has barely lifted a finger to effectuate its declared policy of closing the facility-afraid of the politics of the fight it would have on its hands were it to try. It has rope-a-doped spending restriction after spending restriction on bringing Detainees to the United States and transferring them abroad. And it has buckled on the much ballyhooed civilian trials it promised i...

The Chris Christie Magic
I was just reminiscing about the halcyon era of a popular New Jersey Governor whose brash style and Reaganite agenda took the Garden State by storm, proving that true conservative principles can win the day even in deep Blue States. Come on the nostalgia tour with me, won't you? Here's Jennifer Rubin at Commentary: The good news for Christie fans is that there are a few scraps suggesting that he hasn’t entirely closed the door on a 2012 run. (”Christie’s actions aren’t t...

RNC chair candidate: Lets get state ballot initiatives on repealing ObamaCare in 2012
One of the biggest problems with the RNC effort in the 2010 midterms was a lack of effort and funding for get-out-the-vote functions, for which Michael Steele has to answer in his bid for a Second Term as RNC chair.  A rival for the slot has offered an idea that could reasonably be seen as a GOTV project, charging up the Voter Base and recapturing the Tea Party momentum for another election cycle: A Candidate to lead the Republican National Committee warned Monday that the GOP will hand a sec...

Rep. Jan Schakowski (D-IL) has a fever, and the only prescription is more redistribution of wealth
Wealth in this country is earned. But to Marxists like Jan Schakowski - a Socialist that also sits on Obama's Debt commission simply as a sign of how much of a farce that commission is - that simply isn't fair. She wants the producers to pay the non-producers to continue to not produce. Via Freedom's Lighthouse on YouTube: Schakowski has also contended in the past that free people cannot govern themselves, that there is no 10th amendment, that Abortion is safer than bearing Children, that we ha...

Today's rage-a-holic IS "The Real John McCain"
Our own Cliff Schecter nailed it on The Last Word last night: Yes, Anna Marie Cox was amusing, but Cliff focused like a laser on the core rage, resentment and demonizing fury that has been an underlying constant in John McCain's political life, even as he's managed to fool the vast majority of Versailles the vast majority of the time. Even Anne Marie Cox still exhibited some residual fondness for a mask McCain once wore, and the Cliff's clear-cut dissociation from that sort of confusion is wh...

Uphold the Constitution
  We discussed this before, Cite Constitution for Every Bill, from the head of the House Rules Working Group, Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah). Now a different idea with the same outcome is coming from the Senate. From OneNewsNow Wicker: It’s time for the 10th A United States senator is discussing his proposed Legislation that would restore the Tenth Amendment. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) says it is high time members of the House and Senate began questioning whether the federal legisla...

New Twist on the War on Christmas: Maybe Theyre Right
Two items in my inbox came together in a surprising way for me this morning. First, Billie Tucker, local First Coast Tea Party Leader, urges tea partiers to join her in "correcting" those of us who say anything other than Merry Christmas to convey our good wishes. She writes, "It's time we all take a stand and remind people the reason we are celebrating Christmas. Will you join me on this mission?" She was distraught that she could not find a nativity version of those lighted lawn ornaments that...

FCC To Vote On Net Neutrality Today, Create Problem Where None Existed
Liberals blame Bush era policies for the economic mess we’re in right now, as well as a raft of other problems. Conservatives (rightly) blame the economic mess on Democrat policies, and highlight the problems caused by other Legislation, such as ObamaCare and the Porkulus. Altogether, though, notice that government tends to create more problems while supposedly solving others. Enter the FCC The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a Controversial set of rules that broad...

Haley Barbour: Citizens councils 'indefensible' - Jonathan Martin
Any misstep he makes — anything at all that can be portrayed as insensitive — will be pounced upon by an opposition that has much to gain by painting the portrait of an unreconstructed good ol' boy. Barbour’s comments in the Standard weren’t the first time he sought to defuse a race-related question by downplaying the issue. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset It’s the approach he took in April when he was asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley about Virginia's fa...

Statement on FCC Net Neutrality Power Grab
AFP responses to President Obama's multiple attacks on our 1.6 million Free Market Activists. Proud Socialists march at the so-called "One Nation" rally led by labor Unions as an attempt to counter Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally. "The FCC has fittingly chosen the darkest day in 372 years to impose potentially devastating regulations on the up-to-now free-market Internet. As The Moon was eclipsed earlier today, Congress and the American People will be eclipsed by this regulatory coup d'é...

Progress Means Doing Things
It has been fascinating watching the criticism aimed at me for basically being insufficiently pro-DREAM. I headlined my piece on Jon that he is wrong on the DREAM Act. I first called him out publicly on Immigration in 2007. But here's the thing, DREAM is a great piece of Legislation. I love it. But is it "quite possibly one of the best pieces of policy" of the last four years? Is that defined in that it was all good and no bad? Because if we're talking on net good, the ARRA and TARP kept mill...

New Dog Breeding Laws Raise The Bar For Animal Rights
Wall Street Journal: Pushed by animal-rights Activists, lawmakers in more than a dozen states have enacted restrictions on dog breeders in the past two years. [...] This fall, the animal-rights movement scored its biggest victory yet, as the top puppy-producing states in the nation, Missouri and Oklahoma, moved to enact some of the toughest standards anywhere. Critics are pushing to overturn the new rules in both states, but if they do take effect next year, all sides agree they c...

Conservatives and Treaties
I see no reason to attribute conservative opposition to New START to anything other than conservative opposition to all treaties. ~Jonathan Bernstein As Patrick Appel says, Senate Republicans have not always been so reluctant to support Arms Control treaties. Kyl is a good example of this. The Moscow Treaty negotiated and signed by George W. Bush was ratified without a single Senator voting against it, and it reduced both arsenals much more than New START will, and it had no verification provi...