Prager University: "The most important verse in the Bible"

Dennis Prager postulates on the "most important verse in the Bible" in this prescient 5 minute installment of Prager University. This is one of his best, in my opinion:

Best Unnoticed Headline of the Week

It was in the Telegraph; a U.K. publication, of course:

Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation.

The laughing stock that is the Amerikan Big Media can't cover this story or any other stories that counter their leftist template because they are too heavily invested in the big lie. The big lie of everything the leftist "progressives" stand for is ever more frequently being exposed as fraudulent by no less than citizen journalists in the blogosphere and the talkers of Big Talk Radio.

Leftist ideology and methodology is rapidly becoming a mainstream joke as is the Obama iconography that accompanies it.

UPDATE: The Cult of Global Warming vacuously marches on.

Big Gangster Govt

You gotta love Michele Bachmann! Watch this and ask yourself about that hope and change.

Happy Thanksgiving!

"O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker."

Psalm 95:1-6 (KJV)

ClimateGate--Credit where credit is due

It's still true that the MSM is largely ignoring ClimateGate, but CBS News has a very good piece with excellent links.

Check it out!

Speaking of ClimateGate

Just got this from my buddy Donald Neff; check it out!

How You Can Know a Story Really Has Merit

It hasn't always been the case, but these days there's one virtually sure way to know that a story has merit. It's simply this: when the MSM ignores stories that, in normal times, would rock this world and every thing in it, then you know there's something to the story they are conspicuously ignoring.

Here are a few blatant examples: the multiple undercover ACORN videos by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. The story is, in fact, ongoing but the MSM doesn't care a whit.

Then there are all those radical friends and associates President and Mrs. Obama have had over the years like "Rev." Wright and Bill Ayers as well as the many dubious czars that have been appointed such as Van Jones, an admitted communist, and Anita Dunn who extolled the virtues of Mao. The MSM showed no interest in these stories.

Most recently, of course, is the revelatory proof of the trumped up hoax of Global Warming. No, not a peep out of the MSM. These revelations have ramifications which are effecting our economy and every aspect of how we live our lives.

Today I emailed the News Bureau of WBAP (which carries Rush here in Dallas) and asked them why they weren't reporting on the earth shattering news that Global Warming has been proven to be fraudulent. Rick Hadley, News Director, replied, "Rush is talking about it right now. Isn't that reporting the story?"

Well, no, it isn't.

I emailed back that Rush has also talked about the Swine Flu on numerous occasions but WBAP has continued to include something about the Swine Flu in nearly every newscast for the past several months. Still no news about ClimateGate from the news bureau of the "Big BAP."

I could go on and on. Massive Tea Parties that went under-reported, the Town Hall Meetings throughout the summer, unprecedented govt spending, record unemployment, alarming debt, presidential ineptitude; all have been virtually covered up or ignored by a lapdog, propagandizing media best categorized by Rush as the "state-run media."

So keep this in mind when Talk Radio and the Internet call attention to something you know should be big news; if the MSM shows no interest in the story, you can bet there's something to it.

Greetings, Uncle Sam!

The way Michael Ramirez sees it. I see it that way, too.

American Thinker: "The Wilding of Sarah Palin"

The Wilding of Sarah Palin, written by a former leftist, is a graphic piece that explains and exposes the extreme hate leftists exhibit over Sarah Palin. Here are a few of the money paragraphs:

I finally beheld what my eyes had refused to see: that leftists are Mr. and Ms. Misogyny. Neither the males nor the females care a whit about women.

Women are continually sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. If under radical Islam women are enshrouded and stoned and beheaded, so be it.

My other epiphanies: those ponytailed guys were marching for abortion rights not because they cherished women's reproductive freedom, but to keep women available for free and easy sex.

And the eagerness for women to make good money? If women work hard, leftist men don't have to.

Then along came Sarah, and the attacks became particularly heinous. And I realized something even more chilling about the Left. Leftists not only sacrifice and disrespect women, but it's far worse: many are perpetuators.

The Left's behavior towards Palin is not politics as usual. By their laser-focus on her body and her sexuality, leftists are defiling her.

They are wilding her. And they do this with the full knowledge and complicity of the White House.

Be sure to read the rest of this article. It's an important piece.

It's getting easier to distinguish between left and right and right and wrong. The bad guys used to be more subtle. Sadly, we're at a place where blatant wrong doing is just right out there for all to see. What's so surprising is that there are still so many blindly deceived people out there who don't get it.

Inhofe calls for Investigation of ClimateGate

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R. Ok) is a freaking breath of fresh air! It's way past due that a senator in good standing, on the right side of the isle and member of U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is willing to stand up and say, (figuratively speaking)" wait just a minute, here...this whole global warming fiasco is nothing more than a hoax. We need an investigation!"

Now that's a politician I can and will embrace.

The biggest news of the weekend was this: climate change debunked by leaked emails from UK's Mail Online. (If you're an astute observer of world events, you'll know that news from abroad has been much more reliable than from the "state controlled media" as Rush rightly refers to the MSM, who has virtually ignored this most important of stories.)

If you're not listening to Big Talk Radio or watching DRUDGE then you probably didn't even hear the huge news linked herein that the Global Warming Myth is just that; a myth...a giant hoax perpetrated by leftists and the fawning propaganda media.

And what do they do when they are uncovered and exposed? They zoom even further to the left; see The Weekly Standard for an explanation of the NYTimes' article on this subject.

Go ahead and say it out loud; Global Warming is dead...long live Global Warming! Think, Al Gore...what more do you need to know that Global Warming was a farcical way to separate you from your hard earned money in order to redistribute your wealth to 3d and 4th world dictatorships who feed off our wealth.

If the thought of Al Gore doesn't do it for you, think about the goons at the United Nations who salivate at every thought of separating you from your ever devaluing American dollar. Thanks, UN, and President Obama for your 3d world concern but, how about we export some capitalism to your dictator thug friends instead of our diminishing wealth.

Three Presidents

Thanks, once again to Lucianne.com.

Taking Advantage of Every Opportunity for Obeisance

In the immortal words of Ed Grimley, "we're as doomed as doomed can be."

Hat tip to the good folks at Lucianne.com for this defining photo-shop!

"Jesus the Capitalist"

This one gets my vote for best weekend read. It's not something you would normally find on Drudge, and in fact, I didn't. It's from the hard working news junkies and reconnoiter artists at Pajamasmedia and the piece is titled, Jesus the Capitalist.

Many on the left often "scripture shop" to argue their opinion that Christ and the first Christians practiced socialism. Nay, nay collectivist breath! They did pool their assets in order to prolong their time together after the first Pentecost, but after a time, they returned to their communities. They didn't become collectivists, nor did anyone force anybody to sell personal property for the sake of others. If they did give, it was always a free-will offering.

If you have any curiosity whatsoever as to the real socio-economic recommendations set forth throughout the Bible, give this succinct article a few minutes of your attention. This guy obviously reads the Book and backs it up with footnotes.

Here are a couple of paragraphs:

A farmer had some crops that needed to be harvested and he hired day laborers, agreeing to pay them $100 for working a 12-hour shift. The farmer was in a hurry to get his crops harvested, so he went out again two hours into the shift and hired more workers. He continued to look for laborers throughout the day, bringing in more laborers every hour. Finally, at seven o’clock, one hour before sunset, he brought in a dozen more workers to help finish the job.

He then lined the workers up to give them their pay and he paid first the workers who had only worked an hour. Those who stood, sweat dripping from their bodies from a 12-hour shift, smiled when they saw the one-hour hires get $100. They figured that meant they’d get paid extra. But to their horror, the farmer also paid them only $100.

They confronted the capitalist with the charges of favoritism and unjust discrimination. Rather than offering arbitration, the farmer responded, “I’m not doing you any wrong. Didn’t you agree to work for $100? Take your money and leave. I’ll pay the people who worked an hour the same as I paid you. Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want with my own money?”

Who is this capitalist exploiter of workers who thinks he can pay people whatever he wants?

Most theologians will tell you this landowner represents none other than Christ himself. The names, currencies, and exact quotes have been changed, but the essence of the story Christ told in Matthew 20 hasn’t. It’s a helpful story to remember when Michael Moore is out telling us that capitalism is anti-Jesus.

There are many other fine points the author points out in the Old and New Testaments which encourage capitalism and the free market.

Read the entire piece, it's just a couple of pages in length. Then, you might as well dust off the family Bible and start reading it...a few chapters a day and you can easily knock it out in 6 months or so. Do it! You'll be glad you did.

What's He Thinking?

Is this just a lack of protocol; a lack of experience or an in your face display of anti-American arrogance? We could ask, what's going on with this president and his administration, but it's all too obvious, isn't it?

Photo taken from Lucianne.com.

Alexis de Tocqueville Quote of the Day

Alexis de Tocqueville knew people and politics. He greatly admired what America represented and he knew what would happen to this once great nation when we strayed from the values that made us great. One quote can never capture all of his great wisdom but one quote can spur thought.

Behold de Tocqueville's quote and think:

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Kind of makes you ponder what's going on right here and now, doesn't it?

14 Murders, Not 13

This sad fact has been mostly unreported but there was a 14th victim at the Ft. Hood terrorist attact; it was an unborn child. Will Hasan be prosecuted for that murder as well as the 13 others under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act?

Political Correctness: The Unindicted Co-conspirator

From the observant wit of Michael Ramirez.

The American Spectator: "The Man Who Despises America"

Today's must read: a very powerful piece from The American Spectator: The Man Who Despises America. Here are a few of the money paragraphs:

In May, Obama immediately issued a statement that he was "shocked and outraged by the murder" of a Kansas doctor specializing in partial-birth abortions. He called it a "heinous act of violence." Attorney-General Holder mobilized U.S. Marshals nationwide to provide protection to abortion clinics.

But Obama remained silent the very next day when two U.S. soldiers were gunned down by a Muslim extremist outside a Little Rock recruiting station. After repeated prodding for a presidential comment, the White House faxed an after-hours statement to select media outlets two days later offering a tepid remark that Obama was "saddened" without even mentioning the soldiers were murdered.

Five months later, another Muslim fanatic gunned down nearly four dozen Americans, killing 13, at the Ft. Hood army base. It was an act that demanded the most serious demeanor of the military's Commander-in-Chief. Yet, Obama referenced the massacre in the most insincere fashion just seconds after a jocular shout-out to an audience member during a public speaking engagement. It was the equivalent of attending a funeral in swimwear while en route to the beach.

How's that hope and change working for you so far?

"Our Favorite Surviving Veteran" revisited

Our family tribute to Veterans on this their day is a tribute to my father-in-law, William A. Norrod which I posted 2 years ago. It's a good story; check it out: Our Favorite Surviving Veteran.

Classrooms Then and Now!

Prescient Abe Lincoln Quote of the Day

President Abraham Lincoln said this and Mark Levin recorded it on page 93 of his book, Liberty and Tyranny:

Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

What is going on in Washington DC right now is completely antithetical to what Lincoln believed and more importantly, what the Constitution stands for.

What's going on in Washington is contra-constitutional and counter revolutionary to everything on which this once great country was founded.

20 Years Ago Today

Unless you listen to Big Talk Radio or watch FoxNews, you didn't see or hear the great Ronald Reagan's demand to Gorbachov to take down "the wall." See it right hear. They're not making presidents like this anymore. In fact the leftists in the media and in Washington can't even bring themselves to mention this historical moment. Think about that!

Sad Truths about our President

Long neck clink to Mike over at Let's Think About That for this:



It kills me that we are at the place where our president is more amiable toward our enemies than to our own allies. He apologizes for America wherever he goes and kisses up to Islamofascists and 3d world thugocracies and shuns our allies.

America is in a very dangerous place because we have a president who is not looking out for our best interests...quite the opposite is the case!

Ft. Hood Tribute

Our thoughts and prayers go out for those who were involved in the terrorist attack on unarmed soldiers and various other personnel at Ft. Hood last week. Here's one of many tributes that have been put together:

Mark Levin Quote of the Day

Hat tip to CNSNews.com for capturing this quote from Mark Levin:

Congressmen who want to force Americans to buy health insurance--as both House and Senate versions of the health care plan would do--are saying 'the hell with the Constitution.'

You can see Levin's speech on the Capitol steps right here:

Stop Taxpayer Funding of Abortion!

God Bless America

I think I've posted this outstanding song before; it certainly deserves being posted again. In any case, enjoy it. It's the best rendition I've ever heard. Please, God, listen up!

CSPAN: What Happened on the Capitol Steps Today

Watch it here. You won't see it anywhere else in its entirety.

Watch it!

Kill The Bill!!!

Planned Parenthood Attempting to Silence Ex-Director

Abby Johnson was an abortion center director for Planned Parenthood for a number of years in Bryan, TX and recently resigned from her position after viewing an ultrasound of an abortion procedure. She said she could no longer work there after what she witnessed. Now, Planned Parenthood is attempting to silence her for fear she will make public that which they don't want to be made public:

Bryan, TX (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood is attempting to silence a former abortion center director who quit working for the abortion business after seeing an ultrasound of an abortion procedure. Officials with the group are pushing a request for a restraining order on Abby Johnson and a pro-life group that helped her conversion.

Johnson had been the director of the Planned Parenthood center in this southeast Texas city that is home to Texas A&M University.

She turned in her resignation on October 6 after years of a local pro-life group helping her see the problem with abortion. After the ultrasound, she decided to leave.
"I just thought I can't do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that's it," she said.

Now, Planned Parenthood officials have hit both Johnson and the Coalition for Life with restraining orders requiring them not to disclose information about the abortions done at its facility.

They don't want Johnson to release any records or confidential information from her eight-year stint at the Planned Parenthood abortion business, even though she has already told media outlets she will not do so.

District Judge J.D. Langley signed the request for a temporary injunction on Friday and a followup hearing is scheduled for November 10. The injunction prevents Johnson from releasing any information she obtained from Planned Parenthood -- at least until the hearing.

Coalition Director Shawn Carney called Planned Parenthood's actions unnecessary and an overreaction and said there is no effort to release confidential records.

But Planned Parenthood attorneys claim Johnson was seen copying confidential files and records shortly before her resignation and the former director told The Eagle newspaper that she hasn't given any documents to the pro-life group.

"I didn't provide any because I don't have any," she said.

Johnson told The Eagle that Planned Parenthood is likely worried about how she could expose the profit motive behind the abortion industry.

"Definitely the most lucrative part of their business was abortions," she said. "One of the things that kept coming up was how family planning services were really dragging down the budget, and family planning services include education about contraceptives. It was a drain on the budget, but abortion services were really running up the budget and that was keeping the center afloat."

But Planned Parenthood claims a nurse practitioner at the abortion center says Johnson gave the pro-life group a document with her name and phone number on it.

Johnson has also said she was told to bring in more women for abortions -- something that contradicted her Episcopalian upbringing.

"I feel so pure in heart (since leaving). I don't have this guilt, I don't have this burden on me anymore that's how I know this conversion was a spiritual conversion," she said.

Johnson said she will now work with the Coalition For Life and has been meeting with Carney and been seen outside the Planned Parenthood helping women find alternatives.

Revealing New Video of Obama’s Pastor

Hat tip to the folks at AIM for these. Rush played them today and posted them at his site as well.

Keep in mind that Obama sat in Pastor Wright's pews for 20 years, but claimed he never knew that he believed such things. Rush emphasized today repeatedly in his own inimitable way:

"Reverand Wright Praises Marxism (And Obama IS Reverand Wright"

Here are the 3 parts beginning with Part I:







You can't blame Obama for throwing this guy under the bus but it was just for show; his administration is chock full of others who share the same radicalism.

Change indeed!

Sarah Palin: "Quit Making Things Up, DNC!"

Sarah Palin posted this today at FaceBook.

Spontaneous Musical Interlude with Diana Krall

More often than not, you just have to break away from the world's madness and envelope one's self in good tunes. Diana Krall envelopes me like few others...musically speaking, of course. Enjoy!

Republican Scozzafava Endorses Democrat After Exiting N.Y.

Well, isn't this special! The extremely liberal republican Dede Scozzafava has dropped out of the race and endorsed the democrat instead of the conservative, Doug Hoffman, who has been endorse by Sarah Palin and most of Big Talk Radio:

Republican Dede Scozzafava endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday in the race for an upstate New York congressional seat, shaking up the contest for the second day in a row after exiting the race Saturday.

Scozzafava dropped out after Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman experienced a late-in-the-game surge. The move was expected to consolidate GOP voters behind Hoffman on Tuesday.

But on Sunday, Scozzafava issued a written statement in which she backed Democrat Bill Owens.

Newt Gingrich, among others in the republican party, endorsed the liberal Scozzafava over the conservative Hoffman. Who will Gingrich and the liberal republicans endorse now...the democrat who Scozzafava has thrown her support to, or the conservative. This will be a very interesting race.

Stay tuned!

Obfuscation of the Day?

I don't get to say this nearly as often as I'd like, but this is really rich:

From Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller
Taking what officials call an "unprecedented" step in transparency, the White House released visitor logs today showing some popular names: William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, R. Kelly, and Malik Shabazz visiting the White House.

But, no – those are not who you think they are, official say; these famous people never really visited the White House – these are other people with the same name.

"There’s an important lesson here as well," Norm Eisen, special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform writes in a blog posting on the White House website, "This unprecedented level of transparency can sometimes be confusing rather than providing clear information. A lot of people visit the White House, up to 100,000 each month, with many of those folks coming to tour the buildings. Given this large amount of data, the records we are publishing today include a few "false positives" – names that make you think of a well-known person, but are actually someone else."

I'm surprised the Clintons didn't use this reasoning when they were having to explain their questionable visitors when they resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Weekly Standard headline of the day: Annual Medicare Fraud: $60 Billion; Annual Profits of Top Ten Insurance Companies: $8 billion

Kudos to The Weekly Standard for making this important contrast. Big Govt has always been fraught with unmeasurable fraud, if for no other reason, because of its immensity, yet it demands to be even larger.

Ironically (it's not really ironic) the largest 10 Big Insurance companies posted profits which are a fraction of the Medicare fraud; and that's just one Big Govt bureaucracy. What about fraud in every other burgeoning bureaucracy?

The above linked piece is short and is reposted here in its entirety:

As 60 Minutes reported last week, Medicare fraud is rampant and has now replaced the cocaine (ahem) business as the major criminal activity in South Florida. Both 60 Minutes and the Washington Post report that Medicare fraud now costs American taxpayers roughly $60 billion a year. That may sound like a lot of money, but surely it pales next to the extraordinary profits of private insurance companies, right?

Well, let's see.... Last year, the profits of the ten largest insurance companies in America were just over $8 billion -- combined. No single insurance company made even five percent of what Medicare reportedly loses in fraud.

While we're making comparisons, in its real first ten years (2014-23), the Senate Finance Committee bill would cost $1.7 trillion. At the rate of last year's profits, the combined ten-year profits of America's ten largest insurance companies would be $83 billion -- five percent of the costs of the Senate Finance Committee bill. Eighty-three billion dollars may not buy you much in comparison with BaucusCare, but -- on the bright side -- that ten-year tally is somewhat more than what Medicare loses each year in fraud.

So, the next time someone alleges that government-run health care is cheaper because of "lower administrative costs" -- a truly preposterous claim on its surface -- these numbers would be good ones to have at the ready: $60 billion in annual Medicare fraud, $8 billion in combined annual profits for America's ten largest insurance companies.

Obama has said he would go after the Medicare fraud when his health care bill passed, which begs the question, why not do that right away?

(photo from EverythingHealth Blog)