America's first Muslim president?

GAFFNEY: America's first Muslim president? - Washington Times: "With Mr. Obama's unbelievably ballyhooed address in Cairo Thursday to what he calls 'the Muslim world' (hereafter known as 'the Speech'), there is mounting evidence that the president not only identifies with Muslims, but actually may still be one himself. Consider the following indicators:"

• Mr. Obama referred four times in his speech to "the Holy Koran." Non-Muslims -- even pandering ones -- generally don't use that Islamic formulation.

• Mr. Obama established his firsthand knowledge of Islam (albeit without mentioning his reported upbringing in the faith) with the statement, "I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed." Again, "revealed" is a depiction Muslims use to reflect their conviction that the Koran is the word of God, as dictated to Muhammad.

• Then the president made a statement no believing Christian -- certainly not one versed, as he professes to be, in the ways of Islam -- would ever make. In the context of what he euphemistically called the "situation between Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs," Mr. Obama said he looked forward to the day ". . . when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them) joined in prayer."

Now, the term "peace be upon them" is invoked by Muslims as a way of blessing deceased holy men. According to Islam, that is what all three were - dead prophets. Of course, for Christians, Jesus is the living and immortal Son of God.

Some Israelis Insulted By Obama Picture | World Watch - CBS News

Some Israelis Insulted By Obama Picture | World Watch - CBS News: "Israel's Channel One TV reported that Netanyahu was told Tuesday by an 'American official' in Jerusalem that, 'We are going to change the world. Please, don't interfere.' The report said Netanyahu's aides interpreted this as a 'threat.'"

Frightening arrogance ...

Venezuela Chavez says Comrade Obama more left-wing | Reuters

Reuters: "'Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right,' Chavez joked on a live television broadcast."

Let's see. We can't call The Anointed One a Leftist/Marxist/Socialist, but you can add Venezuela to the growing lists of nations that clearly see the path this once great beacon of freedom is heading ... (i.e., China, Russia, etc. ...)

ACORN's Roots ...

1. Recall, as Sarah Palin reminded us in 2008, that we have a "Community Organizer"-in-Chief. (Obama is basically a product of ACORN, and it makes the bulk of his resume.)

2. Then bear in mind, as this Glenn Beck clip points out, that the radical leftist "welfare-rights" groups of the 1960s subversive goal was not to help the needy but to destabilize the United States "to manufacture a crisis of the capitalis[t] system."

3. And finally, just observe the build up of events in recent years, culiminating in the dizzying pace of Hope & Change in the last five months ...

You have to admit, you are starting to think about reading up on those survivalist websites ...

It's all over for the GOP ... Or, is it???

FrontPage Magazine - Lonegan’s Charge: "It doesn’t help that the Garden State has been hostile territory for Republicans in recent years. The last time a Republican candidate won a statewide office in New Jersey was 1997, when Governor Christine Todd Whitman won reelection. Voter rolls offer little encouragement. While 60 percent of the state’s 4.8 million registered voters are independents, they tend to vote Democratic, and Democrats still outnumber Republicans by 1.72 million to 1.04 million.

Bleaker still are the prospects for self-styled conservatives. When the GOP fielded Jersey City mayor Bret Schundler, the tax- and toll-cutting foe of abortion and gun-control, in the 2001 race, Democrats won handily. So it’s not surprising that despite some favorable signs—polls show that more than half of New Jersey voters oppose Corzine’s reelection—Republicans still see this year’s race as an uphill struggle. “If we can win here we can win anywhere,” one veteran Republican strategist says."

Russians can see what's happening in America more clearly than Americans ...

American capitalism gone with a whimper - Pravda.Ru: "It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people."

It doesn't look like we are going to crawl out of this mess ...

FT.com /Exploding debt threatens America: "Under President Barack Obama’s budget plan, the federal debt is exploding. To be precise, it is rising – and will continue to rise – much faster than gross domestic product, a measure of America’s ability to service it. The federal debt was equivalent to 41 per cent of GDP at the end of 2008; the Congressional Budget Office projects it will increase to 82 per cent of GDP in 10 years. With no change in policy, it could hit 100 per cent of GDP in just another five years."

Obama: Top Red's dream come true

Obama: Top Red's dream come true: "The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, or AFL-CIO, sponsored a poll showing union members supported Obama by a 68-30 margin and strongly influenced their family members.

According to the survey, Obama won among white men who are union members by 18 points. Union gun-owners backed Obama by 12 points, while union veterans voted for Obama by a 25-point margin. In the general population, Obama lost these groups by significant margins.

Reacting to Webb's speech, Communist researcher Trevour London of the New Zeal blog stated, 'Now we know every major item on the Communist Party's agenda. Socialized healthcare, increased union power, massive controls on the finance sector, ending the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, a heavily regulated 'green economy', a second 'stimulus' bill, weakening of the 'racist' prison system. ... Tick the items off as the Obama administration acts on each and every one of them.'"

Newsmax.com - Glenn Beck: Bush's Compassionate Conservatism Must 'Die Violent Death'

Newsmax.com - Glenn Beck: Bush's Compassionate Conservatism Must 'Die Violent Death': "President George W. Bush was the largest social spender in history, according to a recent report by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In his first term Bush increased discretionary spending 19 percent. During Bush's second term federal spending increased 49 percent.

The Mercatus Center said Bush's spending made President Bill Clinton's administration look conservative.

The Center noted: 'Adjusted for inflation, in eight years, President Clinton increased the federal budget by 11 percent. In eight years, President Bush increased it by a whopping 104 percent.'"

New Jersey's Flat Tax Debate - WSJ.com

New Jersey's Flat Tax Debate - WSJ.com: "Both GOP candidates agree that the 103 tax increases, including income and sales tax rate hikes, under current Governor Jon Corzine and his predecessor, the disgraced Jim McGreevey, have done great harm to their state. From 2001 to 2008, New Jersey lost a net 25,000 private-sector jobs even as public employment grew by 65,000 workers. The state's finances are such a mess that in late 2007 Governor Corzine proposed the political 'Hail Mary' of mortgaging New Jersey's toll roads in return for a guaranteed revenue stream. He lost, thanks to opposition led by Mr. Lonegan."

The Obama M.O.: All Hope and Hype

Global View: Obama and the 'South Park' Gnomes - WSJ.com: "Sometimes it takes 'South Park' to explain life's deeper mysteries. Like the logic of the Obama administration's policy proposals."

Liz Cheney Utterly Destroys Norah O'Donnell on "Torture"

Look out, Newt! I think I may have a new crush ... This woman is BRILLIANT. I am officially a Liz Cheney fan.

Environmentalist Economic Strangulation

FrontPage Magazine - Environmentalist Economic Strangulation: "This green agenda is more than absurd, it is sinister. The real goal of greens is not “clean energy” but less energy. Energy is essential to economic progress, and many greens want to halt and reverse economic progress. Some radical greens have praised Fidel Castro for de-developing Cuba. Al Gore wrote in his book Earth in the Balance that U.S. policy should aim for slower economic growth. President Obama’s chief science advisor John Holdren’s top two environmental goals are to shrink the human population and to slow economic growth."

More facts get in the way of the myth of Global Warming

The Strata-Sphere » A Global Warming Skeptic’s Factbook: "It is amazing how much information is now piling up to disprove the Chicken Little claims of the liberal scientific wannabes. The ice caps are not shrinking, the oceans are not warming, and the models still spew out endless errors. Now the only question is how long will it take reality to impinge on the public’s psyche."

Overspend First, Raise Taxes Later ...

Had to just post the link, because the embedded video auto-plays no matter what the setting. (I find it annoying.)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid14599856001?bctid=23000134001