"What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF (International Monetary Fund), China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.'"

And that, of course, is just what we want and need. To sink, unresisting, into the mire.

Mark Steyn also reduces the endless parade of lies from Obama to essential facts ...    
     President Obama in February 2009:  "Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office.
     Deficit in January 2009: $800 billion.
     Deficit promised by Obama for January 2013: $400 billion.
    Actual deficit right now: $1.26 trillion.
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     Sounds like a nation resigned to failure and decay, doesn't it? Thanks, Mr. Hope & Change. And from your Marxist masters, you've earned a heartfelt, "Well done!"
 

A further elaboration on Harry Reid's scurrilous charge against Mitt Romney based (he says) on an unsubstantiated rumor that Romney has paid no taxes. This kind of underhanded behavior by Reid does have precedent, as explained in a National Journal article ...
    The late "gonzo" journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, added to American political lore when making a point about unscrupulous politicicians in his campaign chronicle, Fear and Loathing.  On the Campaign Trail, '72.  As a young man running for office in Texas, Thompson wrote, Lyndon Johnson needed to slow down a foe's momentum.  And so LBJ ordered an aide to spread the rumor that their opponent was "enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows.'  The aide blanched, and objected.  No one would believe a claim like that!  'I know,' Johnson was said to have replied, 'but let's make the sonofabitch deny it.'"

By the way, has Harry Reid stopped beating his wife?  I thnk he should be forced to prove it.


Tax tip: If you'd rather not pay enormous taxes on big income, you can do what Romney did. Give millions to charity. At least when you take that course, you make your own decision about how your money should be spent instead of leaving that decision to a bunch of lying political hacks in Washington.

     "It’s possible that many of you are unaware of the fact that over 40 Catholic institutions have filed lawsuits in opposition to ObamaCare. If you missed the news, it’s because the three major TV networks have chosen to ignore what will be a major constitutional court battle, hoping that by circling their wagons they can maintain the charade that it is women’s rights and not religious freedom that is at risk.

     "During the week that the lawsuits were filed, the combined coverage by ABC, CBS and NBC, amounted to less than 20 seconds of air time.

     "The administration has tried to frame the question so that it appears that the Catholic Church is crusading against a woman’s right to birth control and abortion.

     "But the truth is, Obama, whose only god is the one he sees reflected in his bathroom mirror, is attacking the First Amendment. If he can get away with forcing the Church to go against its own basic tenets, it would mean he could do just about anything."

So Kofi Annan quit as UN envoy assigned to try to make sense -- and peace -- of the eternal middle-east mess. He admits failure.
     Did Kofi Annan ever succeed at anything other than high-living on the UN budget, primarily subsidized by American taxpayers?


Ryan Lochte is a stupid punk. The young man who was believed to be on the brink of replacing Michael Phelps as the next big swimming star (not by a long shot!) not only urinates in the pool used by all the swimmers, but actually boasts about it. Besides the execrable taste he exhibits, he should be ejected from the present and future Olympics on grounds of the health threat the juvenile jerk presents.

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