Following Europe’s Path Over The Cliff

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Freedom is a two-edged sword, in that it grants us the opportunity to destroy our own destiny should we make wrong choices. But it doesn’t have to be that way, should we choose to learn from others’ mistakes.

The voice of reason beckons those who are willing to listen: Czech Republic president Vaclav Klaus sounded the warning bell regarding our economy last summer while in Berlin. “With the way your American government has been going,” Klaus said, “you might be able to catch up with us — in terms of our problems — very soon.”

Klaus was not kidding. Klaus was referring to America’s snowballing debt and unbridled spending as compared to the dilemma faced by our European neighbors across the pond. Klaus said much of Europe’s demise is due to over-regulation, an out-of-control welfare system, “new and more sophisticated forms of protectionism, and continuously growing legal and regulatory burdens on business.”

Sound familiar? Klaus may as well have been describing policies under the current administration, and left unchecked, it would be arrogant for us to expect a better outcome.

Klaus has clout and knows what he’s talking about. He earned a doctorate in economics, but it is the degree he earned from the school of hard knocks that carries the most weight. Having survived both the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and later, Soviet communism, Klaus has a comprehensive understanding of good and evil and liberty and suppression; his words should be taken seriously.

 Read More at Western Journalism By Susan Stamper Brown, Western Journalism

Obama’s New Military: Navy Lets Female Captain Retire After Choking A Subordinate

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The erosion of merit and fairness in the military took another big hit last Friday with the Navy’s “kid gloves” decision to allow Captain Holly Graf to retire in rank rather than be punished for striking a subordinate.

Physical attacks by any person in our military are never to be tolerated, especially when a Commanding Officer is the perpetrator.

Last month Captain Graf, (whose sexual orientation is regularly questioned in military news websites), was brought before a Board of inquiry to face serious charges.

She was called to explain why, as Commanding Officer of the USS Cowpens she ordered her crew to engage in a “drag race” with another Naval vessel putting the personnel on both ships in danger. She also had to explain why she threw objects at several of her male subordinates, placed an enlisted man in a “time out” directing him to stand alone in an empty room and worse still trying to choke another officer serving with her on the Cowpens.

Graf’s career was a classic military foray into political correctness gone totally wrong. She was a loaded P.R. bomb waiting to explode and embarrass the Navy, and she has done exactly that.

Read More at Western Journalism By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Will Republicans Commit Romney-cide?

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Since 1976, every time the GOP has run a RINO for president, the party has suffered an ignominious defeat – against a peanut farmer in ’76, a serial lecher in ’92 and a Marxist in 2008.

But Mitt Romney isn’t taking any chances. Should he secure the nomination, his primary campaign will ensure his defeat in November – 9% unemployment, a national debt hurtling toward the abyss, socialism and surrender notwithstanding.

Last week, Romney was beaming over what he called his “historic victory” in the Iowa caucuses. Out of 60,000 votes cast for Romney and former Senator Rick Santorum, Romney beat the Pennsylvanian (who didn’t even register on the Richter scale last year) by a whopping 8 votes, or .00001 percent. Mitt was actually down 6 votes from his 2008 total (30,021 to 30,015), despite a record turnout this year.

The victory was even more stupendous in light of the fact that Romney – who’s been campaigning in the Hawkeye state for 5 years – spent $133.30 for each of his votes, compared to the $13.33 Santorum spent per vote.

In New Hampshire, Mitt’s most impressive move was trotting out Geritol John McCain to endorse him, and to tell the rest of the Republican field to step aside and let the coronation of Willard Mitt Romney proceed. It’s hard to say which was goofier, McCain’s crotchety performance or Romney’s conviction that he’d be helped by the endorsement of a man who called him a liar in 2008, and went on to lose to the most unqualified presidential candidate in history.

Read More at Western Journalism By Don Feder, Western Journalism

Gingrich Seeks to Stall Romney Momentum With Abortion Attack Ads

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After criticizing Mitt Romney in New Hampshire for his investment practices, one of the first attack ads aimed at the Republican front-runner by his presidential primary rivals in South Carolina highlights his changed position from supporting abortion rights to opposing them.
The shift reflects the contest’s change in location. In 2008, 60 percent of Republican primary voters in South Carolina said they considered themselves “born again,” or evangelical Christians, exit polling showed.

The commercial is one of several anti-Romney messages now filling the Palmetto State’s airwaves. The good news for the former Massachusetts governor: He and his allies have the resources to match them and hit back before the Jan. 21 primary that may winnow the field.

Television ads promoting Romney, the winner of yesterday’s New Hampshire primary, are airing about as frequently as spots attacking him, according to an analysis by New York-based Kantar Media’s CMAG of South Carolina television markets since Dec. 27.

Ads that mention former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Romney’s most aggressive rival on the airwaves, are overwhelmingly negative in tone, the report concluded.

Read More at Newsmax

Obama czar proposed government should ‘infiltrate’ social network sites, chat rooms, message boards.

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Just prior to his appointment as President Obama’s so-called regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein wrote a lengthy academic paper suggesting the government should “infiltrate” social network websites, chat rooms and message boards.

Such “cognitive infiltration,” Sunstein argued, should be used to enforce a U.S. government ban on “conspiracy theorizing.”

Among the beliefs Sunstein classified as a “conspiracy theory” is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.

The find comes as a government document reportedly relates the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report.

Reuters reported that a “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS last November confirms that since at least June 2010, the department’s national operations center has been operating a “Social Networking/Media Capability” which involves regular monitoring of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.”

Read More at Klein Online By Aaron Klein, Klein Online

Child cruelty charge after baby found alone in Occupy camp

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An infant’s cries rang through the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square Wednesday morning, and when a group went to investigate they found only a baby girl alone in a tent, wearing a onesie and mittens.

Soon after, authorities said, a man had been arrested and the girl — who was unharmed — was in the city’s care.

The campers notified authorities and then cared for the girl until help arrived, according to Kelly Canavan, 36, a retired Prince George’s County school teacher who has been living at the camp.

D.C. Fire/EMS workers checked on the girl around 10:30 a.m. She was fine, according to Sgt. David Schlosser, a U.S. Park Police spokesman, and is now with the District’s child protective services department.

About 30 minutes later, Schlosser said, a man returned to the encampment and identified himself as the baby’s father. Police arrested the man, charging him with attempted second-degree cruelty to children.

Read More at The Washington Post By Theola Labbe-DeBose and Annie Gowen, The Washington Post

No Endorsement From DeMint, But He Likes What He’s Hearing from Ron Paul

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(CNSNews.com) – Although aides to Sen. Jim DeMint have endorsed Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, the South Carolina Republican has not done so himself.

In an interview with Fox & Friends on Thursday morning, the conservative DeMint said he likes much of what he’s hearing from Ron Paul: “If Republicans don’t understand the important aspects of what Ron Paul is saying, then I don’t think we’ll continue to exist as a party — certainly not as a majority party.”

DeMint said he doesn’t go along with some of Paul’s foreign policy — “but the fact is, if we don’t listen to other aspects, like getting our budget under control, we’re not going to have the money to be a foreign power.

“The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives — that’s what our party needs to be about,” DeMint continued. “There’s no longer room for moderates and liberals, because we don’t have any money to spend.” He said he doesn’t want to be debating with someone who wants to grow government.

DeMint also praised Ron Paul’s campaign issues: “The unaccountable and out of control Federal Reverse, individual liberty, constitutional limited government — those are the concepts that Ron Paul is bringing forward, and all of our country needs to listen to that, because those are the things that made this country so great.”

Read More at CNS News By Susan Jones, cnsnews.com

Video: Herman Cain Smoking Man Ad

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Here’s Herman Cain’s chief of staff’s “smoking man” endorsement.

Our apologies for taking the below clip from David Letterman, but apparently the Cain campaign has disabled the ability to share the original ad: