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January 22 –

OBAMA UNRESTRAINED …
MORE SHOTS AT GUN LAWS …
A JOHN BOLTON WARNING

The REAL Obama legacy from his first term: Each and every household in the United States is now $50,521 further in debt, as a share of the national debt, than when he took office. (Source: U. S. Treasury Department)

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The Political Director of CBS News says Obama "must destroy the Republican Party."
Please pass this along to any gullible friend who still believes the "mainstream media" are unbiased.

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As you bask in the blow of Obama's second inauguration, you might dwell on this ...
    "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the new wonderful good society which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean more money, more ease, more security, and more living fatly at the expense of the industrious." --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) / The Patriot Post

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Some Republican Congressmen threaten to cut off paychecks for members of both houses if the Senate doesn't finally act on the budget.
    This appears to be nonsense, because constitutional scholars say such action is forbidden in that document.  In which case those making the proposal look like fools.

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The overriding question is this: Where will – and can – Republicans take a stand against the insane economic policies pursued by Obama and endorsed by voters who fail to understand the real fiscal cliff that awaits them?
    One view – mine – is that it will take a catastrophe, either financial or worse, before most voters realize just what they endorsed in November.

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History lesson. Everyone (well, sentient beings) remembers John F. Kennedy's “Ask not what your country can do for you ...” speech.
    Seldom mentioned is the fact that that it was plagiarized and re-worded from this: "We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it... and more concerned about what it can do for the nation." Spoken originally by the widely-reviled (especially by Democrats) Warren G. Harding at the Republican convention of 1916.

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"Having high hopes for the second Obama administration is like having great expectations for a second date with Ted Bundy." – George Gilder
– (Thanks, Curtis) – (Younger readers may need to read up on Mr. Bundy)


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First came one survey showing that two-thirds of gun owners – including 59% of liberals! – would defy any law requiring them to turn in their weapons.
    Now comes this Rasmussen poll showing that 65% of American adults think the purpose of the Second Amendment is to make sure that people are able to protect themselves from tyranny.  Only 17% disagree. (The remainder, as always are presumed to be in a coma.)

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Meantime …
    The weekend scoreboard in Chicago, which has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation: Sixteen people shot from Friday night thru Sunday night.

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Facts the Big Media studiously avoid: A wildly disproportionate number of victims of violence, including shootings, are blacks. So are the perpetrators. That is even more the case in big cities like Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, etc. But, judging by lack of media attention to this aspect of crime problems, this is not to be discussed. After all, to tell the truth about it would be … (gasp!) … racist!

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Wily Wes Pruden addresses an Obama delusion ...
    "Imitation messiahs can’t imagine why anyone should think they need advice and counsel from mere mortals, but Mr. Obama got a little good advice over the weekend from Bill Clinton. It’s not likely this White House will take it, but somebody in the West Wing should write it down and post it next to James Carville’s famous message to Stupid that elections are about the economy.
    “The new message from ol’ Bubba, given in a speech to a group of important party bag men, is that the Democrats must be careful how they campaign against the Second Amendment and against Americans and their guns. The elites are horrified by the notion that anyone should even want to own a gun. That’s their problem.
    "Guns have an emotional appeal in many rural states, but the idea that only hicks, yokels and rednecks rise to this emotional appeal is wrong, and betrays ignorance to the point of foolishness."

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Thinking out-loud …
    If Congress does cave in to Obama on anti-gun legislation, how confident are you that Chief Justice John Roberts, who effectively rewrote the Obamacare legislation to give it a patina of constitutionality for the Affirmative Action president, would uphold the constitution?

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Considering recent events in Libya, Mali and Algeria, are there still Americans so dumb they believe this?
    “Al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.” – Barack Obama, September 6, 2012.
    Well, the second part is true. Part One is a sick joke. But more than half of the voters apparently believed it.

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    “Under Obama, the United States is whistling past the graveyard while the Middle East descends into chaos. Beyond North Africa, the wars in Syria and Yemen wind on. The Arab Spring, far from yielding peaceful alternatives to al-Qaeda-style terrorism, has instead become an adjunct and even an enabler of terrorism — with radical Islamism in power in Egypt and threatening regimes friendly to the United States.
    “Now safely re-elected, will Obama care even less about external threats to America than he did previously? We have a long four years ahead. And our adversaries know it well.” – John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

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    “Why,” you might reasonably ask, “would Fox News hire a wild-eyed leftist like former Congressman Dennis Kucinich as a “contributor?”
    For the same reason left-wing media choose and use the fringe nutjobs they can label as “conservative” and serve as a punching-bag.
    Again at Fox, consider the presence of Juan Williams and Geraldo Rivera. Same reason.

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NOT a Coosome Twosome: Burt Prelutsky and the Hildabeast … as Burt
explains …
    “I used to believe that perhaps the most ignominious title one could cart around was New York Times editorial writer, MSNBC host or Nobel Peace Prize recipient, but by now I have to regard Secretary of State as a strong contender. After all, in just the past 30-odd years, we’ve had the likes of Ed Muskie, Alexander Haig, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Hillary Clinton and, presumably, John Kerry, serving as the guiding lights of our foreign policy. Let’s face it -- that’s a group you wouldn’t trust to babysit your cat.
    “Frankly, the notion that Secretary Clinton appears to once again be first in line to run for the presidency in 2016 fills me with angst, which is a ten dollar word for nausea. We have all grown accustomed to women being held in high regard for no better reason than they got some fellow to marry them. The politically incorrect list includes everyone from Coretta King and Winnie Mandella to Imelda Marcos, Madame Nhu, Evita Peron and Michelle Obama. But nobody ever seriously referred to any of them as the smartest person in the world.
    “But aside from marrying Bill, Hillary’s not so distinguished resume consists in having been a corrupt lawyer in Arkansas, a mediocre senator from New York and the Secretary of State who oversaw the murder of her ambassador to Libya and three other gallant Americans, and then mimicked the three monkeys in the shameful aftermath.
    “Other than that, so far as I can see, her only notable accomplishment consists in having done for pants suits what Muammar Gaddafi did for movie usher uniforms.”

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John Crudele, financial writer for the NY Post (previously, the NY Times) surveys the economic cloud hanging over us …
    “Right now this country is going through a crisis. And if you believe it will be solved by just cutting off payments to lazy, stupid and incompetent people — in no particular order — then you are quite a fool.
    “The fact is, the US has a spending crisis. And it is spending too much in a lot of different ways.
    “But basically, we lived above our means for more than a decade, borrowed excessively, acted foolish, fought too many wars. And we are now paying the price.”

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A question every Republican member of Congress should be pressured to answer:
    “Are you reluctant to force a showdown over government debt and spending because you believe the ridiculous proposition that playing the old political game of 'kick the can down the road' will make Obama and Harry Reid more amenable to compromise, or are you simply afraid that you can't succeed at anything else if you lose your job?”

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History lesson #2: On Ronald Reagan's Inauguration day, the lunatics running Iran (they still do) released the American hostages.
    As a preamble to Obama's second inaugural, Algerian Islamic terrorists massacred American hostages.
    It's hardly a great leap to assume that the Iranians figured Reagan would do something large and fatal to them, while their fellow Muslim murderers in Algeria have no such concerns about their soul-mate currently in the White House.
    And please don't bother with that “He killed Osama bin Laden” nonsense. After he'd already denied permission at least twice, the final – and fatal – launching of the raid was done without his knowledge, too late for him to stop it. That's why he looks like a crouching, whimpering puppy in that photo of him, Hillary and others clustered and watching the assault in progress.

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Another example of government thinking …
    A town in Maryland is forcing residents of a mobile home park out of their homes in order to build apartments for the homeless. In doing so, they will make residents of the park … homeless.

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Argus Hamilton –
    “Fox News announced it's signed Karl Rove to continue as a commentator. Conservative viewers love his die-hard attitude. Karl Rove thanked Fox News for their support but he admitted that it's starting to look pretty bad for Romney.”

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If you believe Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o's story of being the innocent victim of a hoax about his non-existent girlfriend, I have a large bridge from San Francisco to Marin County I'd like to sell you.

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Courtesy of the sensitive Dan Sorkin …
    A man goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doctor, my wife is unfaithful to me. Every evening, she goes to Larry's bar and picks up men. In fact, she sleeps with anybody who asks her! I'm going crazy. What do you think I should do?"
      "Relax," says the Doctor, "Take a deep breath and calm down. Now. Tell me, exactly where is Larry's bar?
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