When Sarah Palin, during the post Iowa media spin feast, warned GOP leaders to not “marginalize” the Ron Paul supporters, she was looking ahead to the greatest challenge faced by whoever captures the nomination.

The Republican leaders in DC loathe Ron Paul, and they loathe the thousands of mostly young activists he is bringing into the GOP. Like similar waves of activists in the past the insiders’ goal is to see their tide of enthusiasm break and dissipate like foam on a beach.

The insiders that actually run the GOP look nothing like the membership of the GOP. Walk the halls of the Republican National Committee in DC and you will find preppy ladder climbers that shift political philosophy to accommodate whichever boss will bid to pay the most.

These are the shock troops of the K Street lobby crowd more interested in Thursday night’s cocktail circuit than a jobless Iowa worker or a small businessman struggling in Nashua, New Hampshire. And the thought of Washington’s budget being cut by one trillion dollars as Ron Paul has envisioned chills them to the core.

If government contractors aren’t scoring fat contracts, then who will they lobby for, they fret. And if whole agencies are shuttered, how will they get a posting as a schedule C government employee with those awesome health, vacation and pension benefits.

Read More at Western Journalism By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Western Journalism

Headlines announcing record purchases of guns during the Christmas gift giving season must have infuriated a lot of liberals. It’s a sign that another one of their tired old arguments is not resonating and they are losing on this crucial issue.

The very anti Second Amendment Barack Obama and his Party have some impressive and unambiguous numbers to argue against in their attempts to portray private ownership of guns as too dangerous to even consider.

In spite of what the media and their Democrat masters say, a twenty seven year study of accidental deaths conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) places handguns toward the bottom of their list. An accompanying chart shows that with the exception of four years and not since 1993 it has been more dangerous to ride in a car than to be around a privately owned handgun.

Measured against all types of accidental deaths those caused by mishandled guns were substantially below deaths from vehicular accidents, fires falls poisoning and miscellaneous fatal occurrences. Just half of one percent of accidental deaths in the last 27 years can be traced to mishandled guns.

Americans are apparently not only safe around guns, but their guns seem to be making it dangerous for criminals to operate in our midst.

 Read More at Coach Is Right By Kevin “Coach” Collins, Coach Is Right

President Obama may have gone too far even for the tastes of the Beltway one-party system, when he made a “recess” appointment while there was no Congressional recess. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the appointment of Richard Cordray to serve as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and three pro-union members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) lands Obama in “uncertain legal territory.” Speaker of the House John Boehner called it “illegitimate.” But will they do anything about it?

“This recess appointment represents a sharp departure from a long-standing precedent that has limited the President to recess appointments only when the Senate is in a recess of 10 days or longer,” McConnell said. “Breaking from this precedent lands this appointee in uncertain legal territory, threatens the confirmation process and fundamentally endangers the Congress’s role in providing a check on the excesses of the executive branch.”

Speaker Boehner agreed, “I expect the courts will find the appointment to be illegitimate.”

Not everyone is offended. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she is “glad that the president took the lead, went out there. It was bold.”

Bold? Indeed it was, in the same sense as robbing a liquor store in broad daylight.

Read More at Floyd Reports By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch

The mainstream media have finally caught on to the president’s agenda, more than a year after this author exposed it in these pages. On New Year’s Day, the Los Angeles Times carried a story detailing Barack Obama’s strategy for 2012: bypass Congress and rule by executive order. The Times quoted Obama adviser Josh Earnest’s curt euphemism that, “In terms of the president’s relationship with Congress in 2012…the president is no longer tied to Washington, D.C.” The newspaper then outlined the president’s agenda:

As the year unfolds, Obama will use executive authority to roll out more initiatives designed to boost the economy and assist struggling families, the White House aide said. Obama has already unveiled 20 such measures under the White House’s new slogan, “We can’t wait.”

Earnest said that the White House’s goal was to contrast the image of a “gridlocked, dysfunctional Congress” with “a president who’s leaving no stone unturned to try to find solutions to the difficult financial challenges and economic challenges facing this country.”

Earnest — who must have been chosen for his surname — concluded working with Congress is “no longer a requirement.”

Well, Los Angeles Times, it’s about time. This author exposed that strategy in fall 2010, before the election. We have commented on it numerous times since. Yet more than 15 months later, the prestige media treat Earnest’s earnestness as a revelation.

 Read More at Western Journalism By Ben Johnson, Western Journalism

The Command Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army’s Drill Sergeant School (DSS) has been suspended from duty, and the Army is working overtime to smother the story.

An investigative report by militarycorruption.com (MCC) has uncovered the story Army brass would love to keep secret. According to MCC, which specializing in exposing stories about our military the mainstream media and official channels won’t talk about, the Command Sergeant Major of the Army’s Drill Sergeant’s School (DSS) Teresa King has been charged with a variety of violations of Army regulations.

Sergeant Major Teresa King is an African-American who will be 50 years old this year. She is divorced, has no children, and has been in the Army for 31 years. Upon taking command of the DSS on September 22, 2009, King became the first female ever to hold that position.

On paper, Sergeant Major King sounds like an ideal soldier and well qualified to be in such an important slot in the Army’s training structure. Nevertheless, once the “paper” is turned over, questions about why she was selected abound.

Reports from MCC’s on the ground correspondents say King’s suspension from duty was prompted by her heavy drinking, sexual relationship with a lower ranking enlisted soldier, and the fact that at least one of the college degree she listed on her resume is from a schools deemed to be diploma mill.

Read More at Western Journalism by Kevin “Coach” Collins