Month: October 2012

Scientific Evidence Proves Obamacare Will Harm Seniors ~ Betsy McCaughey

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From video description:

Betsy McCaughey is the Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, the former Lt. Governor of New York, and author of the book, “Obama Health Law.” On September 21st she gave a speech at Accuracy in Media’s “ObamaNation: A Day of Truth” conference proving with hard facts how the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) will inevitably harm America’s seniors.

Why Free Enterprise Is About Morals, Not Materialism

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This first video is a presentation by Arthur Brooks, author of books such as,

This is a moral argument, not a materialist one:

This is a special Serious Saturday, and I will post the videos I liked from AEI’s gallery from their contest. These are very short, maybe 2 minutes long at the most, and they must explain one of the following three ideas:

  • Free enterprise promotes earned success, which is the substance of lasting happiness.
  • Free enterprise promotes real fairness, based on merit and hard work.
  • Free enterprise does the most good for the most vulnerable by supplying both ample charity and unmatched opportunity.

Enjoy

Left v. Right

For the serious minded, here is a long debate between Arthur C. Brooks and Jim Wallace at Wheaton College:

  • On October 28, 2010, AEI president Arthur Brooks joined Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis for a conversation about the morality of free enterprise. The event was moderated by Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson and held on the campus of Wheaton College (IL) in front of an audience of 1200 students, faculty, and community members.

Faux Indian Elizabeth Warren`s [White] Family Killed Indians

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Here are 5 faux Indians listed by Reason, I add one at the end #6:

1. Chief Jay Strongbow
2. F-Troop‘s Hekawi Tribe
3. Ward Churchill
4. Chief Seattle’s Phony Speech
5. Iron Eyes Cody, a.k.a. The Crying Indian
6. Obama

Breitbart has the genealogical crime scene of Elizabeth Warren’s family line:

Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes has discovered an August 17, 1906 article from the Muskogee (Oklahama) Times Democrat which states that John H. Crawford, the great-grandfather Elizabeth Warren claims was part Cherokee, shot and probably mortally wounded an Indian who had attacked his son. 

The 1906 article, which can be seen here, clearly states that Crawford is white. As Barnes describes it:

Elizabeth Warren is the granddaughter of Hannie Crawford, daughter of John H. Crawford. Warren says the Crawfords were Cherokee.

According to the Boston Globe,

“Rosco Crawford, Hannie Crawford’s brother, told (his granddaughter) that as a young boy living in the Creek Nation of Indian Territory, the Indians were “pretty mean.” Once, when a Creek was hitting Crawford’s younger brother, their father shot and wounded the Indian, according to her biography, on file at California State University at Fullerton.”

The story Hannie’s brother, Rosco, told his granddaughter is true.

William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection elaborates: “This clipping also helps further debunk the elopement story, as Warren’s mother’s family was identified as white even in the local paper.”

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Twitterverse `Funnies` from Last Night

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Dennis Miller @DennisDMZ
The night janitor at Big Ben doesn’t clean a clock as well as Romney does.

S.E. Cupp @secupp
Romney:”I’ve got 5 boys. I’m used to people saying the same thing over and over again hoping it becomes true.”

Andy Levy:
I feel like Lehrer is about 15 minutes from turning into Michael Douglas in “Falling Down”

Dennis Miller @DennisDMZ
Obama better hope a Kicked Ass is covered under Obamacare.

David Burge @iowahawkblog (5-Tweets combined)
23 minutes to go. At this point Romney can probably get a Jimmy John’s, and feed it to Ann’s dressage horse while kicking a dog. I heard about something like this that happened between Sonny Barger and a mouthy guy from the Mongols in Oakland in ’65. Not pretty. Next debate, Romney should have Biden sub for him, then just sit in a folding chair next to the podium smoking a cig and filing his nails. In fact, Romney should walk past Obama in a bathobe & Speedo, grab a cup of coffee, walk back to a Laz-Z-boy and watch Cartoon Network. Then, Romney should shave, splash on some Old Spice, and do some benchpresses. 130, 140, nothing big. 10 to 15 reps.

Dennis Miller @DennisDMZ
Obama keeps looking down at his belt buckle teleprompter.

Dennis Miller @DennisDMZ
Obama is now looking for Ferdie Pacheco. “He’s a bleeder…He’s a bleeder!”

David Burge @iowahawkblog
“Hi, Jay-Z? Next president here. R-Money. How much for that 18 foot tower of champagne? I’ll be needing it.” Romney, on big 80’s cell phone

David Burge @iowahawkblog
If I were Romney, I would put on a top hat ‘n’ monocle, call a Swiss bank, then thwack a street urchin with my diamond tip swagger stick.

Jonah Goldberg:
Congratulations MSM, your failure to ask the president hard questions for 4 years has left him soft and unprepared. #irony

Tammy Bruce:
OMG Mittens is reminding me of Reagan!!!

Dennis Miller @DennisDMZ
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lestrade had more of a clue than Obama.

David Burge @iowahawkblog
Breaking: Choom Gang revokes Obama’s membership

Dennis Miller Show @DennisDMZ
Remember when Obama said keep your tires inflated? NOTE TO OBAMA CAMP, KEEP OBAMA INFLATED!

DanRiehl @DanRiehl
Oof. Mr. President, you’re entitled to your own airplane and house but not your own facts

Ramesh Ponnuru @RameshPonnuru
Now Obama’s butchering his own campaign’s out-of-context attacks on Romney. (The borrow-from-parents bit.)

GregGutfeld @greggutfeld
Jimmy Carter is watching this, going, “man, he’s like Jimmy Carter!”

Dennis Miller Show @DennisDMZ
Obama is being owned, refinanced and owned again!

GregGutfeld @greggutfeld
Obama cant look at Romney. Shame. He might learn something.

David Burge @iowahawkblog
Somewhere, a 2nd-tier Midwestern cow college is missing an Assistant Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion.

GregGutfeld @greggutfeld
does someone have Dr. Drew’s number? Somewhere Ben Afflect and Matt Damon are crumbling.

GregGutfeld @greggutfeld
Obama, spoiled by those fearful of hurting his feelings, have left him in the desert.

Dennis Miller Show @DennisDMZ
Shows over, folks, nothing to see here, shows over.

Bill Maher @billmaher
Obama made a lot of great points tonight. Unfortunately, most of them were for Romney

Tammy Bruce @HeyTammyBruce
Obama’s closing statement sounds like its taken from a mix of those magnetic words on the fridge.

Dennis Miller Show @DennisDMZ
Obama says “and, and, and” just like Dustin Hoffman coming down the stairs at the end of “Tootsie”. He’s making it up and it’s not working.

David Burge @iowahawkblog
It was a racist coin. MT @normas @iowahawkblog Obama even lost the damn coin toss.

Mark Hemingway @Heminator
That wasn’t a debate so much as Mitt Romney just took Obama for a cross country drive strapped to the roof of his car.

David Burge @iowahawkblog
Poor guy, couldn’t get it up on his anniversary.

Dennis Miller Show @DennisDMZ
Imagine having Joe Biden as a firewall.

Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt
Somebody get @davidaxelrod some smelling salts.

David Burge @iowahawkblog
Remember when they found out about Milli Vanilli? Yeaahhp. Pretty much that.

GregGutfeld @greggutfeld
watching MSNBC discuss the debate is like watching the Titanic discuss the iceberg.

Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter
Obama may look constipated, but after that hollowing out, Obama isn’t never going to have a problem with being constipated again.

Erick Erickson @EWErickson
Note that Stephanie Cutter is on TV now using, word for word, talking points she sent out at 9AM!!!

RJ Moeller @rjmoeller
Tonight was so bad for the president, we’re getting word he just inked a deal to write two books about it #DebatePrepFromMyFather

Chelsea Grunwald @chelseagrunwald
President Obama just had the 2008 Detroit Lions of debate performances

toddstarnes @toddstarnes
Lehrer — that’s what happens when you hire a government employee to moderate a debate. PBS

Erick Erickson @EWErickson
Who knew Romney’s October surprise would be mopping the floor in Denver with the President.

Sister Toldjah @sistertoldjah
Wow Obama did a great job lowering expectations for the second debate

Film Ladd @FilmLadd
Narcissistic personalities never do well when confronted by opposing viewpoints.

S.E. Cupp @secupp
Obama’s performance was so bad, I’m starting to think it must be some kind of strategy.

Tammy Bruce @HeyTammyBruce
Bwahaha!! RT @SemperBanU: I think Obama should bow to Mitt.

David Burge @iowahawkblog
In my specially selected focus group, 100% of swing voters said, “holy crap, that guy is the president of United States?”

Ron Futrell @RonFutrell
An empty chair would’ve done a better job tonight.

Michael MooreVerified @MMFlint
This is what happens when u pick John Kerry as your debate coach.

Soozy @Soozy
LMAO #debates AP just reported Obama was rushed to the hospital after debate where surgeons are working desperately to reattach his #ego.

Jon Gabriel @ExJon
Expected spin: “Obama didn’t lose this debate to Romney, he just lead from behind.”

Derek Hunter @derekahunter
Not sure who thought John Kerry would be good at debate prep for Obama. He’s not like Romney at all. Romney made his money, Kerry married it

Bette Midler @BetteMidler
Oy!

Luke Gunderson @LukeGundy
Obama was almost as unprepared for that debate as he was to be President.

David Burge @iowahawkblog
“Good thing the next debate is on foreign policy! Oh.” – Obama HQ

Erick Erickson @EWErickson
Democrats tonight understand what Republicans have been saying all year about the polling.

John Hayward @Doc_0
Biden retires to his favorite imaginary restaurant to prepare for his debate with Ryan.

Conservative Quotes @ConservativeQuo
@noltenc Romney not only destroyed Obama, he destroyed the MSM’s caricature of him. Much more important.

Bill Maher @billmaher
that president Obama sure is smart, but i’m not sure if i’m gonna take his class next semester

John Nolte @NolteNC
Like he did for his book, Obama should have Bill Ayers stand in for him with this next debate.

mike murphy @murphymike
Here in liberal Santa Monica. Liberals here so mad they may take to the streets and try to set a Prius on fire…

David Burge @iowahawkblog
“Romney was too vague. He needed to give more details, like the President’s two point Hope-Change program.”

John Groves @jfgroves
@jtLOL @secupp Watching Matthews reaction sent a tingle up *my* leg

Chuck Woolery @chuckwoolery
News flash, Biden has just entered the witness protection program.

Deetz @tahDeetz
RT @Smalltalkwitht: RT @Jmason12: BREAKING: Barack #Obama signs Executive Order canceling next two presidential debates.

@ebhimmel:
Perhaps Obama would’ve won the debate if he ended it walking thru crowd with a bucket of birth control pills

 

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Post-Debate MSNBC Meltdown

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Liberal on Liberal Violence, MSNBC’s Fineman Equates Lehrer’s Debate Moderation to ‘Criminal Negligence’

Howard Fineman lamnets how the president was on defense during the first presidential debate and called its moderator, Jim Lehrer, “useless” and criminally negligent for not following up on questions that would have benefited Obama

Upset NBC Reporters Whine: Why Didn’t Obama Bring Up 47 Percent? (Is “rope-a-dope” a dog whistle?)

On NBC News’ live October 3, 2012 presidential debate coverage a clearly upset David Gregory was shocked that Barack Obama didn’t hit Romney with the liberal media’s favorite talking point as he whined: “He didn’t bring up the 47 percent!” Obama not mentioning the hidden camera video of Romney talking about the 47 percent also stunned NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams who asked Savannah Guthrie: “Were you surprised we didn’t hear the number 47?”

Dem Debate Meltdown: Obama Surrogate Refers To ‘President Romney’

How utter was Mitt Romney’s rout of Barack Obama tonight? In the post-debate spin room, a hopelessly muddled Martin O’Malley, Dem guv from Maryland and supposedly an Obama surrogate, wound up referring to “President Romney”!

Brokaw: If Romney Performed Like Obama Did Last Night Campaign Would Be Over

Dr. Leonard Peikoff, intellectual heir and Ayn Rand Institute founder, will vote Republican in November

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Libertarian Republican points out how the GOP is home to a large portion of libertarians as of late… thanks Mr. Obama!

Ayn Rand’s intellectual heir and Ayn Rand Institute founder Dr. Leonard Peikoff recently weighed in on the upcoming November election. He brilliantly outlines the trade off voters will face contrasting Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. As far as Dr. Peikoff is concerned, Obama is in essence a destroyer for the sake of destruction, a nihilist, the first such to become President. The object to be destroyed is America.

If he wins a second term, like Dr. Peikoff points out, Barack Obama is probably going to come fully out of the closet and finish the job of destroying the United States. The crippling taxes not only from the Democrat’s health care plan but also the possibility of his refusal to approve the Bush tax cuts along with an anti-energy policy are a few of the things we can expect from a second term. Dr. Peikoff’s biggest fear, however, is the Obama’s usage of Executive Orders. Instead of working through or with the Congress (as required by the Constitution), the President opts to rule like a monarch by decreeing things to be so such as his recent declaration on so-called Green energy industries despite the failure of companies like Solyndra and First Solar.

Dr. Peikoff’s assessment of Mitt Romney is:

Romney by contrast is not moved by passion, of any kind, good or evil. He seems to hold no political convictions, to be a textbook example of a “moderate” Republican—pragmatic, appeasing, directionless, and therefore following along in the wake of the Establishment consensus. So he too would move the country in the direction of ever-increasing statism, as Republican administrations have always done. (While I approve of the selection of Ryan, I do not believe that an isolated subordinate can change the nature or results of an administration.)

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In his post, Dr Peikoff explicitly states:

I intend to vote for whatever Republicans are in my district running for the House and the Senate. Republican control of at least one of these bodies, however weakened they have become, is still some restraint on Obama if he wins.

Check out my web blog: freelibertarian.blogspot

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As I pointed out in a previous discussion with some young people on Face Book, the GOP’s platform is the most Libertarian influenced in years!

I agree 100% with you when you say “while that shouldn’t be the focus of the election at all. it should be the current economic status of [A]merica…” I agree, and Romney/Ryan have a deep understanding of our fiscal problems, more than “shutting down the Fed” could solve. The Republican platform calls for an audit of the Fed, which would be the first, ever, if this happens — as well as leaning heavily on Jack Kemp’s understanding of returning to the gold standard (http://tinyurl.com/965tbzn). Which is why this has been called one of the most libertarian platforms (for the Republicans) in decades, and why many Libertarians are switching their status to GOP. One example is the former Vice Presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party in 2008, Wayne Allen Root.

I continue with the person who was very concerned with the Federal Reserve:

Scrubbing the Fed is too conspiratorial… a viewpoint I use to wholeheartedly endorse years ago. But having a party in power with young libertarian minded conservative who have the best chance at really auditing the fed, and having Ron Paul’s son head up the venture is a chance you may not get again (at least 4-years more).