By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Where does our federal government get the right to put the chains of hopeless debt on our grandchildren to buy a better hammock for those who won’t work?  The 10^th Amendment says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”  If we never delegated the power to create a National Debt, how did the government get it?  The power to encumber is the power to destroy.   This habit of charging the Visa to the MasterCard is selling us out to the rising red star in the East, and if we don’t pull the brake we’re heading for a cliff.

East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet passed for wisdom in the days when information took more than a nanosecond passing between continents.  Today they not only meet; they compete, and the Red Emperors of the East exploit the red ink of the West.  Today our Progressive leaders embrace the suffocating sameness of socialist conformity and collectivist confiscation while communist mandarins release the long pent up energies of their people.

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By DAVID JOHN EDEN

What could be more fun than playing a game better than all of the boring, provincial, traditional, failed games of the past?  Nothing if you’re leading the March to Madness.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

As the economy constricted from the latest bubble, what have we done?  On an individual basis, unless we have an economic death, wish we cut back spending, increase saving and pray we don’t get downsized, rightsized or thrown under the bus to free up capital for someone else’s bonus.   As a business owner we follow the same pattern.  People wonder why banks aren’t loaning money to small businesses.  Don’t mistake a symptom for the disease.  Banks aren’t loaning because businesses aren’t borrowing.

Businesses aren’t expanding; they’re trying to survive.  With the re-making of America still an enigma wrapped in a riddle on the horizon, no one knows how to make an educated guess as to what the future holds.  Without a clear vision of what will be required tomorrow, it’s impossible to plan today.  From Main Street to Wall Street people are keeping their heads down hoping if we click our heels enough times we’ll end up back in the America we know and love hoping we won’t have to admit this transparent collectivist shell game is the New Normal.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

In the recent Massachusetts election Republican Scott Brown confounded the purveyors of conventional wisdom and caused a magnitude 10 earthquake in the political world by liberating the Kennedy Senate Fiefdom from the grip of the Democrat machine.  To the 24 hour talking-heads this changes everything since the Democrats can no longer cut-off debate in the Senate though they can still stifle debate in the House and hold the Executive Department in their iron fist.  But did the Party of Power really experience anything besides a bump in the road?

In President Obama’s estimation, “we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people.”  In reality Mr. Obama has made 52 addresses or statements specifically on his health care proposals, holding 42 news conferences, participating in 158 interviews, hosting 23 town hall meetings, making 46 out-of-town trips to 58 cities and towns in 30 states.  If he hasn’t been speaking directly to the American people what has he been doing?  He’s on TV more than Vinny from Sham Wow.  Considering that after the seismic electoral event in Massachusetts Mr. Obama’s political Svengali David Axelrod said, “We’ll have to think through this next year from the standpoint of tactics but in substance the mission can’t change.”  It isn’t that the President hasn’t talked enough the problem is he isn’t listening.  Communication is a two-way exchange and what we have here is a failure to communicate.

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By LARRY WILKE

The continual compost that has been coming from Obama and his cadre of communists in Washington has the nation in need of at least hip waders. Always on the alert to slither between the cracks and as predicted in “Making Government Run” (NLTZ 10/23/09) the liberals want to surreptitiously raise their debt ceiling to $1.8 TRILLION. The goal is to make the whole deficit talk disappear as they attempt to once again hoodwink the American public, this time in 2010. It should be our goal then to talk continually of Obama’s deficit.

This leftist three card Monte was called “bold but risky” in Politico’s “Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash.” You will note that this chicanery wasn’t called “brilliant and effective.” What is the reasoning for the sleight of hand? They want it raised “before New Year’s rather than have to face the issue again prior to the 2010 elections.” It should have been called “transparent” as it exposes the liberals’ concern for holding office alone, not curing the problem that the Demokrats themselves have manufactured.

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By DALE

As Obama tours the Pacific Rim, good ole Joe is left to hold down the fort.  But not to worry, he and “man of the people” skills are up to the challenge as he tours the Asian-American population.

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By FAIRFIELD “PINPOINT” EDWARDS

Imagine a man whose claim to fame, launching him into politics, was organizing a community that, judging by the videotaped violence, is still utterly without an iota of organization.  Imagine a man who was a run-of-the-mill, dime-a-dozen state senator who then found himself running for higher office against a man who dropped out after his “private life” dirty laundry began blowing in the breeze of political discourse.  Imagine a man who then gave a single speech, read from screen, that launched him into national notoriety.

Imagine a man who ran for President after having been in major office for a year.  Imagine a man who wrote his own autobiography before any major accomplishment.  Imagine a man whose Presidential primary opponent chose to emphasize experience, of which she had not so much, in a year when the party’s die-hard core wanted “change.”  Imagine a man whose opponent in the general election was ahead in the polls until a financial crisis, along with a few bad sound bites, made his candidacy obsolete.  And finally, imagine a man for all intents and purposes winning a Nobel Peace Prize after less than two weeks on the job.

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By LARRY WILKE

The group who once used to scream and holler about “keep your laws off my body” haven’t the least comprehension of what “keep your laws out of my bank account” means. As the fascists flog their dead health scare horse ad infinitum, the media cheerleaders continue to use such phrases as “Obama moves to seize momentum” and that the liberals need to “reclaim the initiative.” It’s good to see that someone finally recognizes that the liberals have “lost” this one.

Obama, whose id, ego and super-ego are about as immense as his ears, was in Minnesota while tens of thousands gathered in Washington to protest his continued collectivism. In “Obama Vows to Fight Health-Care Overhaul Opponents” (Bloomberg.com) he said, “I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan than to improve it.” Using my communist decoder ring, what that means to the rest of us is: “waste time” means that there is no debating or disagreement allowed with the liberals. This is not “better politics,” it is better logic and better economics when it comes to aborting (great liberal action word) this plan. The “calculation” of the Obama oligarchs who, like each and every liberal, is driven by politics and nothing more, is as faulty and fictitious as an Obama cabinet member’s tax returns.

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By LARRY WILKE

Barack Obama decided to stop by the C-SPAN station to tell the world what we already knew. “We are out of money.” He forgot to mention that he and his dream of making the Washington of today look more like St. Petersburg of 1917 is the overwhelming reason why. More on that particular topic a little later on.

C-Span’s Steve Scully decided to ask the logical questions of Obama that very few others have had the decency to ask.

Primer for understanding liberalism: Starting with a question about the “no men allowed” seat on the Supreme Court, Obama said, “I thought empathy wasn’t important and I continue to believe that.” Nearly 600 pandering puffy words later, he finally shut down. Scully then said, “And that’s what empathy is?” Obama then began sputtering again and finished up with, “It’s very important.” Words have no meaning to the liberals. They try to use as many of them as possible in order to dodge and deflect. Their goal is to keep you on a lexical Lazy Susan.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Even if every word about global warming were the immutable gospel truth and even if we never cut down another tree the trail America is leaving behind is conspicuously a brilliant red.

Is green mania hypocrisy, hyperbole or just political correctness gone wild? Perhaps it is none of the above but only a failure to prioritize what is and is not so very important.

Whether global warming proponents like it or not; everyone is not buying the global warming hype including some of the most qualified scientist in the world. The computer models used by the United Nations IPCC (Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change) after the global warming conference in Japan are holding every citizen in the world responsible for the problem. In essence these questionable models have become judge, jury and according to green doomsayers our very executioner.

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