LEE RODGERSMICHIGAN MITT-COUNTRY ... OBAMA BILKED
TAXPAYERS ...
PREZ'S PRIORITIES: MUSLIMS VS. MILITARY
PREZ'S PRIORITIES: MUSLIMS VS. MILITARY
Yesterday's primaries in a nutshell:
Romney wins Big in 'zona ... wins Little in Michigan.
Santorum reprises the BeeGees' "Stayin' Alive." Inviting Dems to play in the Michigan Republican primary may have been counterproductive, especially since complaining only a few weeks ago that such tactics were polluting the nominating process.
Ron Paul recalls Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All these Years." (On Iran; wiser on some other issues.)
Newt a no-show, now kibitzing from the sidelines.
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Since it was a central issue in Michigan ...
What did Obama "save" in Michigan? He bailed out (with un-repaid taxpayer dollars) a greedy and short-sighted auto workers union that, in collusion with really stupid management at GM and Chrysler, persisted in turning out junk cars that were outperformed on every level by imports. Imports once disdained by Neanderthals as "pregnant roller skates."
Somehow, Ford managed to survive and thrive without the guiding hand of an Obama czar. And, just for the record, the automobile with the greatest U.S. content -- parts and labor -- is now ... guess what? The Toyota Camry, made in Kentucky. And, by every professional standard, far better than the Canadian-made Chevys or Italian-owned (by Fiat) Chrysler products.
The priorities of Barack Obama become ever more obvious. Consider these two items from this (young) week's news:
#1 -- The administration announces the spending of three-quarters of a million dollars to build a soccer field at our Guantanamo Bay prison for the enjoyment of hard-core terrorists ...
... while announcing ...
#2 -- Cuts in medical benefits for U.S. military personnel.
Case closed.
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Worried about $5 gasoline? Nah ... forget about it. Because we're already there in parts of the country. Time to worry about $6 gasoline. Or higher. Or DON'T worry, because any day now Obama will have your car running on pond-scum, a/k/a algae.
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Some folk make the entirely rational argument that high gasoline prices are largely the byproduct of a dollar that continues to fall in value. Then liberals reach farther and proclaim that Obama is therefore off the hook for those high prices.
Wrong. If you do accept the argument that the problem lies with the weakened dollar, who is responsible for that state of affairs? Obama and his spendthrift, foolish Democrat handmaidens.
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CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, is in a snit over surveillance of some Muslims.
Let's see ... we have adherents of a faith founded 1400 years ago by a bloodthirsty pedophile; followers who regularly commit murder in the name of that religion and repeatedly threaten to either kill or subjugate anyone who refuses to be coerced into joining them and regularly carry out those threats.
What kind of suicidal society WOULDN'T want to keep an eye on them?
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One thought on the anticipated Israeli military strike on the Mad Muslims
of Iran ...
Since much of a largely anti-Semitic world hates you anyway, if you DO hit them, do a thorough job. There is nothing to be gained by a slap that would only delay, instead of eliminate, the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. And don't expect any serious help from an unprincipled, pro-Muslim Obama.
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Another guidepost for skepticism: Beware of candidates at any level who promise to solve budget and debt problems by ending "waste, fraud and abuse."
They all promise it; none have ever succeeded. Minor curtailment is the best to be hoped for.
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My election day (I live in Arizona) pledge made yesterday: I vow to vote against any candidate who is responsible for any of the endless annoying and obnoxious automated phone-calls.
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Thomas Sowell evaluates the Republican campaign process ...
"The only good news for the Republicans coming out of the seemingly endless presidential candidate "debates" is that some Republican leaders are now belatedly thinking about how they can avoid a repetition of this debacle in future elections.
"What could they possibly have been thinking about, in the first place, when they agreed to a format based on short sound bites for dealing with major complex issues, and with media journalists -- 90 percent of them Democrats -- picking the topics?" (Townhall.com)
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Reader Terry views the forthcoming election with dark foreboding ...
"2012 has given a unique set of circumstances that will test the mettle of our electorate. Unfortunately, it has also revealed some of the dumbest voters in the history of history. You would expect illegal aliens, preschoolers and brain dead prison inmates to not know any of our Supreme Court Justices, Congressmen or even the vice-president. But college students!
"Not a week goes by that some well known talking head with a microphone goes on the street to ask passers-by to identify top office holders, world leaders or even their own representatives, only to get a shrug and a deer-in-the-headlights look. But by God, they know Snooki, SnoopDog and Justin Bieber."
Of course! That's how Obama got elected!
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Unlike most conservatives, I applaud Juan Williams of Fox News. After all, it takes drive and ambition to build a career based on simply reading the Democratic National Committee's daily "talking points" memo.
By the way, I also get the same kind of memo every day from the Republican National Committee. I never open it; don't need it to form my own opinions.
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Gary DeMar recalls a pertinent quote and some highly relevant history ...
“To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last — but eat you he will.” — Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was the consummate collector of great quotations. The one about the crocodile was borrowed and adapted from Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill took a dim view of neutrals. For him there were only two options in the face of Hitler: fight or surrender. Each neutral, Churchill said on 20 January 1940, ‘hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear — I fear greatly — the storm will not pass.’”
What was true of Hitler and Nazism is equally true of radical, murderous Islam. But Obamunists go on feeding the crocodile.
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Happy birthday to all Leap Year babies! I forgot the card this time ... catch you in four years!
And to those born in 1972 ... welcome to the big One-Oh!
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Victor Volsky in The American Thinker borrows from Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might be a Redneck" concept to provide a scoreboard for deluded liberals ...
If you believe that freedom of expression is sacrosanct but would like nothing better than to deny it to anyone who doesn't share your views, you are a liberal.
If you believe that the 1st Amendment separates church from state, but not state from church, you are a liberal.
If you believe that endlessly discussing a problem amounts to actually solving it, you are a liberal.
If you believe that the results of progressive programs are irrelevant and that only good intentions count, you are a liberal.
If you believe that a decades-old drunk-driving episode in George W. Bush's biography comes under the "people's right to know" doctrine while the entire past of Barack Obama is protected by his right to privacy, you are a liberal.
If you believe, with Nancy Pelosi and Valerie Jarrett, that unemployment benefits are a boon to the economy (but without taking this brilliant insight to its logical conclusion: that the path to unprecedented prosperity lies through 100% unemployment), you are a liberal.
If you believe that Jimmy Carter, who has been working indefatigably over the last three decades to subvert his country's foreign policy, is the best ex-president ever, you are a liberal.
If you believe that the anarchists, hoodlums, and hobos who make up the Occupy movement are noble idealists who truly represent the 99 percent of America while the Tea Partiers are Nazi troglodytes and racists, you are a liberal.
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I didn't see more than ten minutes of the Oscar telecast, so I have no review. I'll settle for a "me too" with Ben Shapiro of NRO ...
"This year’s Oscars were just the latest in a seemingly endless trend of boring, self-important evenings on which we are supposed to be reminded of the 'magic of movies,' only to be reminded how shallow the movie business is. Hollywood is afraid to offend those who truly deserve offending, like Islamic dictators (witness their initial hesitance to allow Sacha Baron Cohen on the red carpet dressed like a dictator — this in an industry where people dress up as other people for a living). But they’re all too happy to offend red-state America by having the supremely-straight George Clooney make out with Billy Crystal, or allow the Bridesmaids gals to make raunchy penis jokes."
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Last thoughts on the Academy Awards ...
Craig Ferguson --
"Forty million people watched the Academy Awards. To give you an idea how many that is, take the number of people who saw "The Artist" and add 40 million."
Jimmy Kimmel --
"People are talking about Angelina Jolie's dress, which showed off none of one leg and all of the other leg. She's very thin. Uggie the dog from the "The Artist" was behind
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."