Sarah Palin is running for president. Make no mistake about it. Everything she says, everything she does is a clear indicator that Palin is not only the key figure in the resurgence of the conservative movement in this country, she expects to carry the torch all the way to Washington and light the flame of freedom from a tyrannical government out of control.

Palin was a hit at the Tea Party convention in Nashville. Her speech electrified everyone in attendance. She made it exceedingly clear that the Democrat agenda was ‘running out of time’ and that the Tea Party movement is part of a brewing “revolution” that constitutes the “future of politics.”

Palin has firmly implanted herself with the Tea Partiers. She is one of them. “This is the future of our country. The tea party movement is the future of politics. America is ready for another revolution.” she said.

And Palin will be the one leading that revolution.

Despite those detractors who consider her a lightweight, her message resonates with an increasingly growing group of disaffected Americans who are fed up with big government. She gets it. She understands that this very powerful grass roots movement must be led from the ground up, not the top down. She said that both political parties need to change the way they do business in Washington. And she warned that the Tea Party movement must not be defined by one leader.

But clearly, by pounding home this lesson, Palin is emerging as the front-runner to school the politicians on what the American people want. And what they want is fiscal responsibility, limited government, and a strong national security.

Palin voices the concerns that many Americans have that Barack Obama has dropped the ball in the war on terror. She questioned why Obama has reached out to hostile regimes, and apologized for America to dangerous dictators.

“What do we have to show for that?” Palin asked. “Here’s what we have to show: North Korea tested nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles. Israel, a friend and a critical ally, now questions strength of our support. Plans for a missile-defense system in Europe, they’ve been scrapped. Relations with China and Russia are no better. And relations with Japan – that key Asian ally – are in the worst shape in years.”

Palin advocates for a strong national defense and an aggressive foreign policy toward our enemies. She also is very concerned, as are most Americans, about the way those who would seek to destroy our nation are being treated.

With regard to the upcoming terror trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 9/11 plotters, Palin said “that’s scares me, for my children, for your children. Treating this like a federal law enforcement matter places our country at grave risk because that’s not how radical Islamic extremists are looking at this. They know we’re at war, and to win that war, we need a commander in chief.”

Palin has called for Eric Holder to resign.

In terms of fiscal restraint, Palin has made it clear that government spending is out of control.

“It’s easy to understand why Americans are shaking their heads when Washington has broken trust with the people that these politicians are to be serving,” Palin said. “They keep printing these dollars, and they keep making us more and more beholden to foreign countries. What they’re doing in proposing these big new programs with giant price tags is they’re sticking our kids with the bill. That’s immoral. That’s generational theft.”

She may be folksy, but Sarah Palin is anything but naive when it comes to understanding the serious problems this nation is facing right now. To put at bay her critics who claim she lacks the gravitas to make a run for high political office, she now receives daily briefings on every issue both foreign and domestic. She will not allow herself to be caught off-guard by the lamestream media, who would seek to destroy her; and let not anyone fool themselves into thinking that they do not have that as their intention. The media is still in the tank for Obama and the Democrats, and any sign that a true leader is emerging from what they consider to be an astro turf rather than a grass roots movement, will be met with smears, character assassination and the politics of personal destruction.

Palin is a lot more savvy than she was during the 2008 presidential elections. She will not allow herself to be co-opted and used by any group for their own devices. Nor will she be relegated to the level of a waterboy for the Republican Party. She fully intends to control her own political destiny.

And that destiny includes running for president.

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Poor CBS. They are caught between a rock and hard place this week. And all for making two very correct programming decisions for which they may end up paying dearly.

First, executives in their Standards and Practices department accepted and ad from Focus on the Family celebrating Pam Tebow’s decision in 1987 to give birth to her son Tim, despite the risk of losing her own life. She had contracted amoebic dysentery in the Philippines, while she was working as a missionary. She was treated with strong antibiotics, which doctors told her had caused fetal damage, and recommended that she abort the pregnancy. Tebow elected to go through with the pregnancy, and she ended up giving birth to a healthy boy, who has since gone on to win the Heisman Trophy.

Women’s groups are up in arms over the decision to run this ad, despite the fact that they have not seen a screening of it. Pro-choice critics say that the ad threatens to “throw women under the bus.”

Jehmu Greene, director of the Women’s Media Center, said CBS should be forced to pull the ad because Focus on the Family ” is extremely intolerant and divisive and pushing an un-American agenda.”

Excuse me? Un-American? Since when is the celebration of life and family un-American? What these women’s groups and others on the left should admit is that life, family and faith are all very much American values which they can’t stand. It eats at the very core of their being, and they must do everything in their power to trash the very foundations on which this nation was founded.

CBS made the right decision on electing to run this ad. And they also made another correct decision in rejecting another ad for the Super Bowl by a gay dating website.

Mancrunch.com had wanted to run this ad where two men are shown watching the “big game”. Their hands brush as they both reach into a bowl of chips. Suddenly, the two begin making out, much to the shock of a guy sitting close by.

The ad was rejected as being inappropriate by the Network’s Broadcast Standards for Super Bowl Sunday. Executives for the dating site charge discrimination. A representative for Mancrunch.com said “we are very disappointed that in 2010 such discrimination is happening especially given the fact that Focus on the Family is allowed to promote their way of life during the Super Bowl. “We’re calling on every same-sex advocacy group to petition CBS and let them know this discriminatory behavior will not be tolerated.”

CBS is damned if they do and damned if they don’t. They will obviously suffer for taking the moral high road in both cases. They may even face legal action by both aggrieved parties.

But they shouldn’t.

The decisions regarding these two very different commercials were business decisions. And these choices should be left to the network. And yes, even had CBS ruled the other way regarding either of these ads, that should still have been their call. No individual or group should be able to hold any business hostage over the way they choose to run their enterprise, as long as the business is operating within the law. And because CBS is not supported by taxpayers like public TV, they are accountable only to their shareholders, not advocacy groups.

Yes, CBS should be applauded for the decisions regarding both of these ads. They may pay some consequences as a result.

But the choice must still be theirs.

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A historic special election will be taking place this Tuesday in the great state of Massachusetts. The outcome of this election could determine once and for all the fate of the Health Care Bill.

Scott Brown, a Republican state senator is facing off against Democrat Martha Coakley, for the senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy. Massachusetts, a highly liberal state proudly represented by Kennedy for nearly half a century, is now on the precipice of real change, possibly electing a conservative opposed to the Democrat’s health reform bill and government spending. And many in this normally leftist part of the country are behind Brown in his efforts to kill this bill.

Polls currently show the race too close to call. Barack Obama is pulling out all the stops to ensure a Coakley win, making campaign appearances with her across the state this weekend. But his brief cameos may be more of a hindrance to her chances than a help. For her part, Coakley sounded less than sincere in reacting to Obama’s impending arrival. “I don’t think he has to come, I think he wanted to come. He was excited to come,” Coakley told reporters. “Who wouldn’t want the president of the United States campaigning for her in a historic race?”

With all of the angst and anger directed at the Democrats by the public regarding health reform and massive spending, Coakley might have been served better by declining the president’s offer to stump on her behalf.

There is a lot at stake here.

Should Brown prevail, it would force the Senate to pass a bill that he could stop as the key vote in the filibuster process. A concern for Republicans, however, is that the Senate could hold up Brown’s certification process. Rep. Barney Frank, when questioned by a reporter for the Washington Times about this, lashed out. “That is the stupidest thing I’ve been asked in a long time. That is insane, the suggestion could only come from a demented right wing source,” he said.

Another option the Democrats are considering is something called reconciliation, a tactic that allows legislation to pass in the Senate with just 51 votes, or a simple majority. The House Ways and Means Committee structured the bill in such a way that the Senate could hide the legislation in the annual budget spending package, therefore paving the way for reconciliation. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told Bloomberg this week that Democrats are still considering this option.

“Even before Massachusetts and that race was on the radar screen, we prepared for the process of using reconciliation,” Van Hollen said.

“Getting health care reform passed is important,” he said. “Reconciliation is an option.”

Another option being considered by the Democrats is to scrap the negotiations between both chambers, and persuade the House to pass the Senate version of the bill as is, nullifying the need for another Senate vote. However, this option could break the deal negotiators worked out with the union leaders who are opposed to taxing high end insurance plans.

The Democrats appear confident that Coakley will prevail on Tuesday. Or at least they are putting on a brave face. Nonetheless, Tuesday’s election is a referendum on the major component of Obama’s domestic agenda. His entire presidency rides on health care reform. Should the building blocks collapse, Obama is finished.

He could become a lame duck president in his first term. Let’s hope this is the case.

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As we enter a new year and a new decade, let us make some predictions as to what we can expect in 2010.

Under the Obama administration, unemployment will remain high, despite the so-called jobs bill that the Senate will take up in January or February. The official figures will show a rate of 10 percent, but hidden from public consumption will be those who have given up looking for work, or those whose unemployment benefits have run out. The government will put us billions of dollars into debt with this ’son-of-the-stimulus’ plan, with little or no tangible results.

The House will balk at the Senate Health Care Bill, but eventually a compromise will be reached, and President Obama will sign it into law. Despite all the claims that the public option is dead, it will be buried somewhere in this bill, inching us ever so closer to what Europe and Canada are currently dealing with. Everyone will suffer, especially the elderly. The health care profession will also suffer, with doctors electing to stop practicing medicine, and potential candidates deciding to pursue other career paths.

Look for further attempted terrorist attacks on our country, with perhaps at least one succeeding. Obama has dropped the ball on protecting this country, and has done so willfully. Yes, we may see heads roll in the wake of the incident in Detroit. Janet Napolitano may be sent packing for her comments that the system worked. But charging the most recent terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab criminally instead of treating him as an enemy combatant, trying the 9-11 plotters in civilian courts on U.S. soil, and his dogged determination to shutter Gitmo has proven that Obama has not taken his sworn oath to preserve, protect and defend this country from enemies both foreign and domestic seriously.

As these events continue to unfold, the anger the American people felt in 2009 will continue to be expressed at further town hall meetings and tea parties. The liberals in Washington have awakened a sleeping giant that for a long time has been a lazy, apathetic electorate. The heartland of America already has been shaken from its malaise, but moderates and even some who lean to the left will realize that they are suffering from buyer’s remorse when it comes to Obama. They will come to the conclusion that the hope and change this president promised is much more than they bargained for.

The American people’s anger will be reflected at the polls come November, with a housecleaning the nature of which this nation has never witnessed. This bloodletting will render Obama a lame duck in the middle of his first and only term. A strong conservative presidential candidate will emerge, and truly resonate with the traditionalists.

By the end of 2010, we will have begun to take our country back.

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Since Obama elected “Worst Year” for Homegrown Islamic Terrorism

It certainly did not take a long time for one of the world’s greatest athletes to fall from grace. Just a few weeks ago, the only news Tiger Woods made was on the golf course.

Then suddenly, everything changed. In one incredible, tragic moment, Woods became persona non grata. How did this fall from grace occur? Why did this shining star in the world of professional sports virtually destroy his career and marriage in one fell swoop?

Because he could.

Propped up by celebrity, ego massagers and roadies, Woods could get anything and everything he wanted in an easily accessible manner.

And apparently what he wanted, was women. Many, many women. Some of whom he may have paid for. In so doing, he destroyed his marriage and tarnished his reputation as this squeaky clean, all American guy who just loved the game of golf.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Whether it be in politics, business, entertainment or sports. When one reaches a certain stage where God-given talents become an enabler of undesirable behavior, temptation is irresistible. And it doesn’t help that those that Woods surrounded himself with probably didn’t try to stop his self-destruction.

The fallout from this is that his wife Elin will probably divorce him, and take him to the cleaners in the process. She has reportedly already spoken to a divorce attorney, while at the same time purchasing a home on an island in Sweden only accessible by boat.

Big sponsors such as Gillette and AT&T are deserting Woods and rightly so. They cannot be associated with a philanderer, perhaps even a sex addict. It will be interesting to see how his behavior will affect his career, such as it now stands.

It is theoretically possible for Tiger Woods to rebuild himself. Other high profile individuals have recovered from scandals involving sex, drugs and alcohol. But the degree to which Woods sank, especially with the number of women who have come forward to say they were involved with him, including some with whom he reportedly engaged in sex acts in exchange for money, means he has a tough road to hoe.

And this may require him to disappear for a long, long time.

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By Douglas V. Gibbs

Political Pistachio Radio Revolution Addresses Income Tax Thievery by the State of California:

Last November the State of California began acting upon a new scam to suck more money out of the populace. The state is broke because the leftist progressive idiots of California’s government can’t seem to budget. The thievery is being accomplished by increasing the income tax withholding allowance by 10%. By taking more money out of our paychecks, the state is literally taking more taxes, while calling it something else. Problem is, the tax is being withheld unconstitutionally, and illegally.

The State Constitution of California requires a vote to approve any increase in income tax. A vote never went to the State Congress. The governor and his cronies decided, without asking anyone, to increase tax withholding, claiming that technically it isn’t a tax because they plan to give it back at tax time.

What’s the difference between borrowing without permission, and stealing?

California is broke, and the government hacks are running around in circles trying to figure out how to save the state. They can’t print money like Obama is doing, they sure as heck are not going to cut spending, and they know darn well the voters would never approve of a tax increase - so they resolved to take the money - and to do so during an economic down-turn when for most people every penny counts in their already difficult to manage budget.

This “forced” withholding is thievery. The State of California is stealing from the populace, and doing it without our voice allowing it.

An important point here is that this is not just a local California problem. Remember the old saying? As California goes, so goes the nation.

How long before other states get the same idea? How long before the federal government catches on and does the same thing?

The officials say that 10% is only a small amount. But as I said earlier, for those counting pennies it could mean the difference between paying bills or not, or even being able to buy food.

And how will business owners respond to this? Will they just allow themselves to take home less income as profit? Of course not. The difference will be made up through higher prices.

So, while the economy struggles, the average Californian faces less money in their paychecks, and a rise in prices, all because California can’t run a budget, and has decided that thievery is the best way to delay their inevitable journey to bankruptcy.

How much does this ten percent mean to the average Californian?

For a single taxpayer earning $51,000 a year with no dependents, the state is grabbing an extra $17.59 each month. A married person earning $90,000 with two dependents is receiving $24.87 less in monthly pay.

Experts are expecting California to continue to collect the tax at a higher rate for many years, too, without ever taking a vote!

As for the promise to pay us back, how does a broke state do that? IOUs?

Some folks have figured out that there is a way around it. It is possible stop the increased withholding by adjusting the number of personal withholding allowances claimed on employer tax forms. But why should I have to do that, and how many people know to do so?

The largest concern is that this decision to steal from Californians comes at a time when the holiday shopping season in full swing, and parents are scrimping together their pennies to pull off a decent Christmas for their kids. It also is coming at a time when many small store owners depend on these consumers, who now have less in their paycheck, to keep their businesses in survival mode.

Consumer spending is already struggling, and California has been hit harder than most states. If Sacramento wants any kind of economic growth, this is not the way to do it.

As I said already, every penny counts, and they are simply making it harder for citizens to survive. This is a great example of government doing whatever it wants for its own survival, at the expense of the citizens, short of cutting spending.

The progressives still don’t get it. The problem is not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem.

Tonight, my guest is Philip Tirone of 7 Steps to a 720 Credit Score, and he is on fire about this move by Sacramento. In fact, he is so angry about it that he has a petition out there designed to bring attention to this issue. The Petition is at No To Sacramento dot org. Sign it, and then tell your family, friends, and as many other people you can. This needs national attention, and tonight’s radio program is the first step in that direction.

Join us live at 7:00 PM Pacific, or catch the archive later, as we discuss California’s willingness to steal from the people. BlogTalkRadio.com/PoliticalPistachio.

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I’ve made my list and checked it twice. As we approach Christmas 2009, here are some of the things this conservative proudly hopes for in the new year.

I wish that the war on one of the most sacred and revered holidays would cease. I’m referring to Christmas. The secularists who have inserted something into the Constitution which does not exist, namely a separation of church and state, are trying to destroy something which the vast majority of Americans celebrate: the birth of Jesus Christ. Idiots like Erik Brown, principal of Walsh Elementary School in Waterbury, Connecticut, who has banned Christmas and replaced it with the celebration of winter, should be run out of town on a rail. It’s time for parents to take a stand by either confronting school officials and demanding that they stop this crap, or pull their kids out of the public education system and put them in private schools or home school them.

I wish that the health care bill will die a horrible death. It is a trillion dollar debacle that will force private insurers out of business, run good people out of the medical profession, and socialize this country. You want to save health care? Allow insurance companies to sell across state lines.

I wish that the hackers who exposed the fraud of global warming be given a ticker tape parade on Wall Street. I wish that Barbara Boxer, who has called for a criminal investigation of those who brought the truth to light, gets a lump of coal in her stocking, and a liberal dose of “shut up”.
Al Gore should crawl back under his rock and stay there, after giving back his Nobel prize and his Oscar.

I wish that our troops will be given everything they need to finish the mission in Afghanistan. Barack Obama, by his dithering, has endangered the lives of the fine men and women serving in our military. He should be ashamed of hanging them out to dry and using them as photo ops.

I wish that Obama’s birth certificate surfaces and proves that he is not a natural born citizen. This guy is a usurper to the Oval Office.

I wish that somehow, some way, we find Osama bin Laden and kill him.

I wish that the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four other plotters of the 9/11 terror attacks is reversed. The United States should not be put on trial, and these guys should not be allowed to spew their venom against this nation.

I wish that the anger that spawned the tea parties and the town hall meetings will continue unabated through the midterm election cycle and result in a bloodletting at the polls come next November.

I wish that Barack Obama will be a lame duck, one term president who disappears and is never, ever heard from again.

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The ditherer-in-chief will finally announce to our military and the rest of the world his decision regarding General McChrystal’s request for additional troops in Afghanistan this Tuesday.

After months of keeping the fine men and women serving our country twisting in the wind, Barack Obama has at last made up his mind. It is estimated that he will elect to give McChrystal roughly 30,000 to 35,000 of the 40,000 troops McChrystal requested. The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan had warned in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needed more forces within the next year and had bluntly stated that without them, the eight-year conflict would likely result in failure.

During the presidential campaign of 2008, Obama repeatedly stated that the real war, the one the United States military should be engaged in, was the war in Afghanistan. He was hell bent on pulling our troops out of Iraq. He based most of bid for the White House on ending our presence there until the surge worked and took the wind out of his sails.

So what took him so long to make up his mind on McChrystal’s request?

Two things are in play here.

First, Obama’s base is opposed to any surge in Afghanistan. Democrats are in revolt because a.) they believe the real threat from Al-Qaeda exists in Pakistan and b.) Obama has yet to convince his own supporters that the United States has an exit strategy and will not become bogged down, as it did in Vietnam.

Secondly, Obama has never shown much support for the war on terror. He has eliminated the word ‘terror’ from the lexicon and replaced it with ‘overseas contingency operation’. Terrorist attacks are now referred to as ‘man-made disasters’. The fact that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his minions are being brought to New York to face charges in a civilian court, where they will be allowed to spew their venom and rail against the United States as opposed to a military tribunal, is a clear indication that Obama has gone soft on terror at best, and is in bed with radical Islam at worst.

Witness also the three Navy SEALS who are facing criminal charges stemming from the capture of one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq. The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called a captain’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial in the capture of Ahmed Hashim Abed. He claims that he was punched by his captors — and had his lip bloodied. Now, instead of being lauded for the capture of this high-value target, the three SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained attorneys.

If Obama were truly a supporter of our military and their mission, he would have answered McChrystal’s request much sooner. And he would immediately put a halt to the prosecution of these three SEALS.

But this president is allowing the fine men and women of the United States military to be thrown under the bus.

What a disgrace to our nation.

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by Eric Dondero

I have been involved with the Anti-Draft movement for over 25 years: first as a Draft Resistor myself; then assisting others with avoiding the Draft such as my friend Paul Jacob who spent 6 months in federal prison for refusal; lobbying on Capitol Hill with my friend Alaska Libertarian Chair Scott Kohlhaas in 1994 to abolish Selective Service, and finally in helping draft legislation for my boss Congressman Ron Paul to abolish the Agency in the late 1990s. I thought I’d heard and subsequently espoused every argument there was against Mandatory Service.

A few examples:

* Draftees make poor soldiers and sailors.

* No soldier or sailor wants to fight by the side of someone who doesn’t want to be there.

* The Draft runs completely counter to American values of liberty and freedom of choice.

* The Draft is an expensive and inefficient way of boosting Military ranks.

* The Draft fundamentally denigrates the service of those who voluteered to serve.

* The Draft amounts to compulsory service which is essentially a form of slavery.

How incredibly ironic that the Major Nidal Malik Hasan murderous rampage at Ft. Hood has created yet another reason to oppose the Military Draft. And it’s an argument that is wholly conservative and appeals to conservative instincts, not just one that would be supported by libertarians on the Right.

From the American Thinker, “Dismiss General Casey” by Ken Blackwell of the Heritage Foundation:

No one has a right to serve. Service is an honor and a privilege, but it is not a right. Colorblind people and people with heart murmurs are perfectly loyal Americans. It casts no aspersion on them or their families to be excluded from military service.

All military personnel in the U.S. Armed Forces must demonstrate their loyalty to the United States of America. When they raise their right hand and take that oath before God to protect the Constitution of the United States “from all enemies foreign and domestic,” Americans have a right to expect that that oath will be enforced. No one gets a pass.

Precisely! Military Service should be restricted to only those individuals who are among the most Patriotic and Loyal in the land. AntiWar Liberals, Hard Lefties, and certainly any individual who professes loyalty to another country or religion that is hostile to the United States should not be permitted to wear the uniform of any of our Military branches. Mandatory Service through a Military Draft, would of course run completely counter to this, and be applied to everyone, regardless of their political ideology or if they were associated with a religious belief hostile to America.

The honor of serving one’s country should be preserved for Real Americans who uphold our United States Constitution, subscribe to American cultural values, and respect our Flag, our History, and everything that our great Nation stands for.

This includes the lowly Private all the way up to the Commander in Chief.

Note - In 1985, as an honorably discharged and decorated US Navy Veteran, the Selective Service System attempted to force me to sign up for the draft, because I hadn’t signed up before I joined 5 years earlier, and upon my discharge I was still under the age of 25. They hadn’t prepared for such an occurence. I refused and threatened to go to the media. My case went to the highest levels of the SS. They backed off. I won. Today I serve as one of three Libertarian members of the Selective Service Board nationwide who openly advocates abolishing the Agency.

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The decision by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other masterminds of the 911 attacks on this country to New York City to face a civilian trial is an insult to every citizen of the United States.

Mohammed and his minions should be facing a military tribunal for the worst attack on our soil. What they did was not a crime; it was an act of terror and an act of war. The plan to try them here has infuriated New Yorkers, still reeling from the horror of that day, and the loss of almost 3000 of their fellow countrymen.

This decision was wrong on many fronts and may come back haunt the Obama administration.

First, by trying them in New York City, Obama and Holder are playing directly into the hands of Mohammed, who wants nothing more than to use this trial as a bully pulpit to spew Islamic venom against the United States. What better venue to launch verbal attacks against the ‘Great Satan’ than the city where Islam ‘taught us a lesson’?

Second, our national security is placed at high risk. The threat of another attack occurring during the course of these trials is very high, and will put the city of New York on high alert, sapping the resources of the New York police to protect the citizenry.

Third, bestowing upon these enemy combatants the same rights afforded to U. S. citizens is not only disrespectful of the American people, it also puts the prosecution at risk. If a court decides that any confession or evidence obtained through techniques that it deems illegal is inadmissible due to a violation of the combatants’ rights, these guys could actually walk.

Imagine that. The worst attack against our nation ever, and these terrorists get off.

Why would Barack Obama and this administration take such a risk?

Quite simply because in the eyes of this president the war on terror no longer exists. The term has disappeared from the lexicon. It has been replaced with ‘overseas contingency operation’. And as far as what happened on that fateful day in September 2001, it was a ‘man-made disaster’.

Barack Obama is doing everything in his power to diminish the respect of the United States in the eyes of the world. He continues to make apologies for our country and what it stands for. He bows down before leaders of other nations, such as the King of Saudi Arabia and the Emperor of Japan. By doing this, he makes us look weak.

Barack Obama wants to appease the Islamic world by giving them and admiration they do not deserve. After all, he has said he is one of them. But Islam does not value such a stance of sub ordinance. They take advantage of it.

And they will take advantage of these civilian trials to the detriment of our nation.

How can Obama live with himself knowing what he is doing by making this decision to try these terrorists in this fashion?

Well, come to think of it, probably quite easily.

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Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have taken over health care.

Despite the tea parties, the town halls, the rallies and the protests, the House of Representatives passed the health care bill 220-215. The bill now heads to the Senate. The legislation on which Barack Obama has hinged his presidency is close to coming to fruition.

Unless we act.

Republicans, almost to a man, fought the good fight in attempting to stop this massive $2 trillion monstrosity from seeing the light of day. Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich. said, “We are going to have a complete government takeover of our health care system faster than you can say, `this is making me sick.’” But in the end, the liberals rammed it through along party lines as they had planned to do all along. This is the arrogance of the left. A jubilant Pelosi even had the audacity to compare the legislation to the passage of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare 30 years later.

So are we doomed to Obamacare? Is this the end of the battle to prevent socialized medicine from taking over our health care system? Will we be like Europe or Canada, where people wait endlessly for life saving treatments? Will death panels determine ho lives and who dies?

That depends on the degree to which we allow apathy to take over.

It is so easy to become complacent and to decide that what the Democrats have done was inevitable. But this is no time for apathy.

Now is the time for us as Americans to rise up. The question is, do we have the backbone to do it? And if we do, is there a blueprint for getting it done?

The answer is unequivocally yes. And there are two excellent resources for stopping the oncoming juggernaut of massive government expansion.

The first is a new book by Don Crist. What Can I do? After The Tea Party offers outstanding ideas on how to take American angst toward bloated government to the next level. Crist provides a blueprint for organizing relatives, friends and neighbors in a cohesive effort to stop those in Washington who wish to take away our liberties and erode our form of government to the point where what the Founding Fathers intended becomes unrecognizable.

The second resource for putting the brakes on government control of our lives is a relatively new organization called Pinecone Conservatives(www.pineconeconservatives.org). This group has as its mission statement “motivating all voters that share our desire for a return to fiscal responsibility and conservative thoughts to our local, state and national communities”. When joining their forum, you receive a free practical guide to conservative community organizing. This guide offers insightful ideas on how to coordinate efforts to stop government from completely taking over our lives.

These two excellent resources provide a method for taking the anger that many conservatives feel toward what the Obama administration has done and designing a proactive plan to stop it utilizing the greatest asset available: people.

We do have a choice. We can be apathetic. Or we can take our nation back.

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Last night was an interesting night for the Conservative Movement. For the most part it was a good night, with some setbacks. Last night the Conservatives won 2 out of 3 of the major elections the country was watching. The only loss was in NY 23, when Bill Owens beat Doug Hoffman for the special election. But overall the Conservatives did well in many local state elections, and state wide elections

Was this a repudiation of Obama??? Well I think is is yes and no. Yes, inthe fact that many Independents elected Conservatives because of the economy. The policies that Obama has put forth have not taken us out of the Recession that he “inherited”. If nothing else most of them made things worse. So in some ways it was elections based on Obama’s presidency. But on the other hand there was much to say about local and state politics that affected the elections. Corzine and the Democrats in New Jersey have been affected by the arrests of many Democrats in a state run on corruption. Without these big time arrests would Christie have won??? That is hard to say.

There will be much debate over what really happened in NY 23. Hoffman was a little known entity just a few weeks ago. Before the Conservative bloggers and new media (73 Wire) arrived on the seen, Hoffman was running in 3rd place at 20%. After all is said and done, he got around 46%, after much attention. It goes to show that when Conservatives get their act together we can change election results. Did we win?? Yes and no. We lost the election but won the battle against the GOP establishment.

I do think that the GOP should be the “Big Tent” Party. I do not think that we should kick out every Moderate republican, we need them in the whole scheme of things. But as a whole the GOP needs to listen to the base instead of always thinking the Moderate candidate is the best way to go. NY 23 is a Conservative district and Dede Scozzafava was not the person to pick. She was a Liberal Moderate in a a Conservative district. Bill Owens is more likely more Conservative than she is.

So overall I think this should be considered a win for the Conservative Movement. We are not going to be able to win overnight these are baby steps in bringing some sanity back in government. And hopefully the RNC will at least not take the Conservatives for granite anymore and start listening to us.

originally posted at Stix Blog