By ROBERT LUTZ

I just couldn’t stand it any longer. Adults petrified at best, incompetent and apathetic at worst. Unskilled, socially inept, entitled kids in charge. A state and federal government growing by the hour, disturbing patterns and obvious correlations emerging…

What started out as a logical part-time gig (I tutored peers at 15) to support an acting/screenwriting habit has become a desperate crusade to save this country. If that sounds hyperbolic, refer to the tired cliché about our kids being the future. Granted, I’m perhaps more jaded than most, having spent ten years in the second worst district in the nation. But given the likelihood the same atrocities display themselves in and around every major city, infecting once safe neighboring suburbs; we’re raising a generation of youth widely suited for lower-rung jobs and incarceration.

If they land in the private sector, many will be forced to compete in a highly saturated labor market, where wages have been severely compromised due to our fear of being called racist. Never mind the fear of yet higher taxes and more crippling regulation stifling any economic rebound. And how much bigger can the pubic sector get? The latter has grown exponentially, such that the numerator is crushing the taxpaying denominator, scoring a burden ratio that will flatten us in “X” number of election cycles.

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By FAIRFIELD “PINPOINT” EDWARDS

Editor’s Note: Unconventional Wisdom is a new series designed to unravel the misleading “conventional wisdom” of our times.  In this edition, the Clinton Surplus Myth is examined by the numbers.

Everyone is aware of the perception that the Clinton years were a golden age of fiscal management and economic genius.  First, let it be said that there was indeed an impressive period of surplus revenues during the Clinton years, especially in light of recent American history since the Great Depression and the New Deal.  However, the entire set of numbers show a more complete picture and put the surpluses in their proper perspective.

Without further ado, here are the statistics (in millions because the numbers are so outrageously large):

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By LARRY WILKE

On February 9^th, yet another liberal IED exploded in Washington. Surprisingly, I will wager that you haven’t heard a single word about it until now. The “revenue recidivist” himself said that he is “agnostic about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.” For those who are fond of brevity, this is known as a “Kerry” or a “flip flop.” For those more historically inclined, this is an “HW.”

When an Obama claims to be “agnostic” about something, it is a good idea to be absolutely firm on the definition of what it is that he is talking about because we know that he himself isn’t. “Agnostic: a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.” This comes from the “Dictionary” in my telephone. (My how technology has changed our lives.) Let’s delve into this liberal looking glass of a word.

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By NANCY MORGAN

Joseph Romero, a 6 year-old Arizona boy, was diagnosed as transgender last October and is beginning his/her transition to becoming a female. When he/she reaches the age of 12, he will be given female hormones containing estrogen and plans to undergo surgery when she is an adult in order to become a full woman.

In the UK last September, a 12 year-old boy turned up at school as a girl. Over the summer holidays his parents changed his name to a female one and allowed him to don female garb and wear his hair in pigtails. The youngster is now preparing to undergo hormone treatment and surgery – and could become the world’s youngest sex-swap patient in the coming years. His school has graciously provided him/her a separate toilet and changing room.

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By LARRY WILKE

It would appear that Barack Obama has plans in place to begin the systematic sequestering of the necessary revenues in order to pay for his historic “hope and change.” For the Red Staters, this is translated from the liberal obfuscation to “the stealth mode targeted tax increases on the middle class are being arranged as the money is needed to reward the liberal base of unproductive siphons and limousine liberals who donated to his campaign.”

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By NANCY MORGAN

Mort Zukerman, editor-in-chief of US News and World Report, in his article, “How To Get Americans Working Again” opines that there is no snap answer as to how accelerate job growth. He is wrong.

I’m not an intellectual, nor a PhD., nor have I ever labeled myself an expert, but do have a snap answer to his seemingly perplexing question. An answer that is guaranteed to lower the unemployment rate, kick start the jobs market and get the economy on track again. In four simple steps:

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By NANCY MORGAN

The employees I originally hired to handle certain aspects of my life are out of control. Drunk with the power I have given them, they have decided that they know better than I how to arrange my life. And there’s not much I can do.

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By NANCY MORGAN

Uncle Obama has gotten a hold of your credit card. And he’s amassing charges on it that – you – not he – are liable for. You can call the fraud line, you can call the police, you can call any politician or government agency, and they will all tell you the same thing. Shut up and pay up.

Since misery loves company, you might feel better knowing that you’re not the only one being extorted. Uncle Obama and his buddies have the credit and debit cards of every man woman and child in America. And they’re charging up a bundle. So far, each of us has a $38,000 tab that we are personally liable for. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, which by the way, isn’t melting.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Our revolution changed the world.  Our Declaration of Independence proclaims self-evident truths.  That all men are created equal, they’re endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  These words shook a world held in the vise-grip of hereditary privilege inspiring people around the globe.  Our Constitution established a representative republic with a limited government of the people, by the people and for the people.

We’ve watched as our constitutionally limited government grew until today it’s leviathan running amok like Godzilla in Tokyo smashing things and scaring boy scouts.  Today the Federal government is the largest employer in America, states are the largest employers in the states and counties are among the largest employers in the counties; get the picture?  Government’s on a rampage and unless Mothra is going to fly in to save the day we’ll have to deal with Frankenstein-on-the-Potomac ourselves.

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Hippocrates, The Father of Medicine

By PAUL SCHNEE

In attempting to describe Richard Wagner’s music to a friend, Mark Twain told him it was better than it sounds! The same claim cannot be made for Obama’s grotesque attempt at health care reform. Do you suppose that buried somewhere in the 2047 pages of Obama’s health care bill (the Constitution has 17 pages by comparison) there is a provision for mandatory psychiatric help for all of the congressmen and senators who voted for this cynical power-grab and patently fraudulent legislation which will tether generations of Americans yet unborn to crippling debt, higher taxes, and rationed care?

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