Mover Mike

But on Thursday, he suggested that his handling of the war in Iraq would be somewhat closer to the Democratic model than to the open-ended Bush model. And that brings him closer to the American mainstream on Iraq than he has been. (emphasis added)

Today, Peggy Noonan says the Republican party is dying. I agree. We can not try to outdemocrat the democrats. The way to win is through the Ron Paul positions.

Now California judges, have overturned the law passed by a vote of the people that banned gay marriage, saying in the 4-3 decision Thursday, "that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage in an opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George."

I think the people who passed the ban should stand up and say, "That decision is not good enough!"

UPDATE: Mike Reagan: I Am Disgusted with California:

Reacting to the decision of the California Supreme Court to ignore Proposition 22, which declares that “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," and was passed with a whopping 61 percent of the vote, an outraged Michael Reagan urged California voters to join him in refusing to vote for any ballot measures in the State of California in the 2008 November election since the courts can simply nullify their votes whenever they want to.

The conflicted Senate yesterday voted to suspend any new additions to the strategic petroleum reserve.

Both Democrats and Republicans said such shipments make no sense when oil is costing more than $120 a barrel and could better be used to add supplies to a tight market.

In the second vote, the Senate rejected a Republican energy plan that promised to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration, an option that was part of an overall package to increase domestic energy development. Our leaders think they know the proper pricing of oil and will not do anything to increase the supply.

Meantime, our president is begging the Saudis to increase oil production. I am disgusted with them all!

Bush is in Saudi Arabia, pleading for increased production. Why don't we encourage more oil production here at home and stop paying for extravaganzas like this $4.8 Million diamond covered Mercedes?

Now we have Mike Gallagher writing about the same thing in The Ultimate Conservative Nightmare?Gallagher quotes David Frum, RINO at the National Review Online who says the Republican party has changed.

He argues that a successful Republican presidential candidate will be the sort of person who demonstrates unshakable integrity, a willingness to shake off some of the previous conservative orthodoxies, and can challenge and even disagree with some of the cultural philosophies that helped define the Reagan Revolution. Frum makes the case that a successful GOP candidate will be the one who returns to fiscal conservatism, reigning in out-of-control spending, even if he or she wanders off the reservation over an issue like illegal immigration.

None of the three candidates wants the government to live within our means, secure our borders, and follow the Constitution. All theree are statists!

I say if McCain chose Clinton, he better have his will in order and call in a divorce attorney for the believers in the Reagan Revolution will never call themselves Republicans again.

That's Obama's political mentor, 1960s terrorist Bill Ayers, whom Obamba described as just an English professor whose radical days were 40 years ago. That Ayers still has contempt and hate for America is shown by his stomping on the American flag in 2001. The picture epitomizes Obamba's contempt for America and its bitter-clingy people.

Was the image photo-shopped? Who can tell me?

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"...(Democratic) party leaders face a series of grim choices between now and their Denver convention in August.

They could and, for their own good, should prevail on their uncommitted superdelegates to make their choices clear before the convention.

But if that settles the dead heat problem, it does not solve the Michigan-Florida problem."

Isn't that rich. Their party is going to disenfranchise the voters in Michigan and Florida. They are going to disenfranchise blacks in those two states and they are going to disenfranchise Hispanic voters that they have worked so hard to bring on board. And don't forget women who voted for Hillary are going to be swept back to the time before emancipation.

In the end their nominee may be selected in a smoke-filled room by old white men.

Sen. Barack Obama Sen. Hillary Clintone Kate Brown

It's worth noting that the Tuskegee study, launched under the New Deal, was symptomatic of arrogant liberal government.

Big government has not been kind to blacks. Take one example: New Orleans and Katrina. The Democrat governor refused help from Bush as storm drew near and the black Democrat mayor sat on his buses as people drowned.

Now Rev. Wright gave another speech and Sen. Obama has finally had enough and disavowed his relationship and condemned the words of the Rev. Now The Oregonian opines: "At some point, the views of Barack Obama's old friend and pastor become irrelevant."

David Reinhard writing on the same subject nails it with the reminder: "You are judged by the company you keep." "Birds of a feather flock together." "You cannot choose your family, but you can choose your friends."

Do you think it racist because it shoes a picture of Obama as a black man?
Did you know he was black before you saw this ad?
Do you care whether he is black or white?
Suppose the ad used William Ayers and quoted him saying he was sorry he didn't bomb more buildings as a Weatherman. Would that be wrong?

Rush Limbaugh, who has no love for the Republican Party's nominee, takes McCain to task for proudly presenting himself as a independent maverick, but wants the Republican party to toe the line. Rush says, "What's wrong with the rest of us being independent mavericks?" Rush challenges McCain to tell us what is racist about the ad.

Wednesday, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., in an interview with Bill Moyers, said his words were twisted taken out of context. If you are wondering, check out this piece by Brian Ross at ABC News on March 13, 2008. I think if my minister speaks like this, I am tacitly or explicitly agreeing with him, if I continue to sit in his church. It certainly seemed to rub off on Mrs. Obama when she finally was proud of America referring to her husband running for president. How can it not have rubbed off on Sen. Obama? What is the difference with this hate speech and the hate speech that goes on in the Muslim mosques around the world?

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Robert Frank looks at the lives and culture of the wealthy.

It’s posted daily in the Wall Street Journal. So much is made lately in politics about class envy and class warfare, soak the rich, penalize the rich, the rich are not paying their fare share etc. that it’s interesting to read recent PNC Wealth Management survey of 1,500 Americans with $500,000 or more in investible assets. It “found that 69% of respondents made most of their fortune through work, business ownership or investments. Only 6% made their wealth by inheriting it, while 25% made it through a combination of inheritence and earnings.”

Think of the businesses that were started like Google (GOOG) or Microsoft (MSFT) or Exxon (XOM), where the owners are fabulously rich and see how many are employed in the businesses: GOOG has 16,805 employees, MSFT has 79,000 and XOM 107,100.

In Another Reason the Middle Class Resent the Rich The Wealth Report reports on a Pew Research survey of the middle class and found conflicting views of the rich:

* They are split on how the rich got there. Fully 47% of those surveyed say the wealth of the wealthy is mainly the result of having good connections or being born into wealth, while 42% say it’s mainly the result of hard work, ambition and education.

* Those in the upper classes (56%) are more inclined to cite hard work, ambition and education as reasons behind their wealth than are those in the middle (42%) or lower (32%) classes.

* Asked if success in life is determined by forces outside one’s control, the upper class disagreed (69%) more than the middle (62%) or lower (51%) classes.

Clearly, the class warfare that is practiced in this country is detrimental to our economic health because it spreads disinformation about the way to wealth and the impact of new business on the employment needed for our growing and changing population.

PS, I feel so strongly about this issue of class warfare that I'm co-posting it at my blog, The Landfair Retail Focus, at Home Accents Today.

Do you see that the highest 20% and the second highest 20% paid more in taxes aftwer the tax cuts than before. Now why would any of us in the lower income levels want to roll back the tax cuts and allow the rich to pay a smaller percentage?

The WSJ has a column that leads to another question. Why would anyone vote for Obama if they are concerned about taxes and government spending. Obama wants to raise the capital gains tax (CGT) back to 28% (Clinton would like it back to 20% from the current 15%). The WSJ points out as did Charlie Gibson, by the way, that every time we lower the CGT we increase tax revenues. Both Obama and Clinton want to penalize the rich for being successful and promise not to raise taxes on those earning less than $250,000. According to the IRS and the WSJ

Both candidates would have voters believe that taxes on investment income only affect the rich. But that's not what Internal Revenue Service returns show. The reality is that the Clinton and Obama rate increases would hit millions of Americans who make well under $200,000. In 2005, 47% of all tax returns reporting capital gains were from households with incomes below $50,000, and 79% came from households with incomes below $100,000.

One more thing, if your issue is the war in Iraq, only the Democrats have called for bringing back the draft. Ostensibly, to energize the peace movement. But it still would mean a loss of freedom for your children.

I am “clinging to religion” because it guides my moral compass and helps me make the right choices. I am clinging to my gun to protect my home and family because I live too close to Detroit. I cling to view on immigration because my country is being invaded and over run with slave laborers who are driving down wages and bankrupting our social services.

I think he has tapped into something. There is an anger out there. An anger about the ever increasing spending by our government, but some things don't get any better. Our highways are falling apart, our kids don't all get a good education even though we keep spending more money on the schools. Our country is overrun by aliens and our government can't secure the borders. The drug war has been lost a long time ago and we've lost how many generations to drugs.

We spend a trillion dollars on a war, yet we have some 40 million people without health care. Compared to Japan, Taiwan, Germany, the Nordic countries and tiny Switzerland who insure that all citizens have universal health care, we in the U.S. are facing ever higher health insurance premiums and 16% of our GDP is spent on health care. We have the most expensive system and the fewest covered. It is unheard of for a family to declare bankruptcy over health cost in the aformentioned countries. Here 700,000 people declare bankruptcy every year because of medical costs. But the government keeps promising they will fix the problem if we spend more money on the solution.

Damn right the middle class is fed up with politicians.

Another thing that makes me outraged is the YouTube video on Mish's site about lawyers training corporations and HR departments on how "to game the immigration system."

"[O]ur goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker," says Lawrence Lebowitz, director of marketing for the Pittsburgh law firm Cohen & Grigsby, before an audience of employers at the firm's conference.

The trick, according to Cohen & Grigsby attorneys, is to only go through the motions of hiring Americans without ever intending to.

It makes me sick to see Americans teaching others how to screw fellow Americans. Shame on them!

While I was watching the John Adams final hour on HBO last night, it occurred to me the fight between statists and those loving personal liberty was going on, hot and heavy back then just as now. The Hamiltonian branch pushed Adams for a standing army and a national bank similar to the FED. Jefferson, who understood Hamilton, and Adams argued about these topics for years:

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" Thomas Jefferson*

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, (i.e., the "business cycle") the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States 1801-1809

Then there's Sen. Barack H Obama and his comments about the little guy and bitterness. Here's one comment posted at PoliPundit:

I am “clinging to religion” because it guides my moral compass and helps me make the right choices. I am clinging to my gun to protect my home and family because I live too close to Detroit. I cling to view on immigration because my country is being invaded and over run with slave laborers who are driving down wages and bankrupting our social services.

This Elitist snob is so out of toch it’s scarry.

The NY Times has an eye-opening article about Massachusetts' experience with a new law requiring residents to have health insurance. There may not be enough doctors!

“It’s a recipe for disaster,” Dr. (Patricia A.) Sereno, (state president of the American Academy of Family Physicians) said. “It’s great that people have access to health care, but now we’ve got to find a way to give them access to preventive services. The point of this legislation was not to get people episodic care.”

With its population aging, the country will need 40 percent more primary care doctors by 2020.

Studies show that the number of medical school graduates in the United States entering family medicine training programs, or residencies, has dropped by 50 percent since 1997. A decade long decline gave way this year to a slight increase in numbers, perhaps because demand is driving up salaries.

There have been slight increases in the number of doctors training in internal medicine, which focuses on the nonsurgical treatment of adults. But the share of those residents who then establish a general practice has plummeted, to 24 percent in 2006 from 54 percent in 1998, according to the American College of Physicians.

Matthew Schottland of New York University asked if I would publish a link to a survey that is not funded by any political candidate or any interest group - rather, funding comes from a National Science Foundation grant for social psychological research.

Here is the link to the survey: http://www.psychsurveys.org/brietruesdell/2008primaries

Have fun!

In its general sense, fascism (small "f") means state control over the individual and the economy using regimentation and regulation. While similar to state socialism in its authoritarianism, fascism prefers state control over ostensibly private property rather than nationalization.

In The Oregonian, first Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason magazine, wrote a column entitled The myth of a maverick. In the article, Welch writes, "...in both legislation and rhetoric, Mr. McCain has consistently sought to restrict the very freedoms he once exercised, in the common national enterprise of “serving a cause greater than self-interest.”

“We are fast becoming a nation of alienating individualists, unwilling to put the unifying values of patriotism ahead of our narrow self-interests,” Mr. McCain warned in a speech during his 2000 presidential campaign.

I have railed against the FED often, writing that since 1913 when the FED was created, financial crises have not been avoided, one of the reasons the FED was created, instead we've had a depression, inflation, resulting in a 95% fall in the currency, and skyrocketing debt. Now we want to give the FED sweeping new powers to deal with the mortgage crisis which is a result of the FED's policies.

The sweeping new powers include:

• fix "regulatory gaps and redundancies"


• "market stability regulator" - GATA has argued for some time that the Plunge Protection Team (PPT) and the Working Group for Financial Markets interfere in our financial markets capping the price of Gold and preventing market corrections.


• broad authority to require information from all participants in financial markets and a right to collaborate with other regulators in writing the rules that companies and institutions must follow. - This would mean that the FED could raid any finacial institution, hedge fund or private investment group for priviledged information


• it should have some authority over the investment banks - not since the 1930s has this area been regulated.


• an optional federal charter for insurance companies.

  The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, last week said Congress should seriously consider giving a federal agency the power to monitor all risk in the financial system and act when necessary, regardless of its corporate form.

  George Ure writes at UrbanSurvival.com the FED (a cartel of banks) seized control of the currency in 1913. "It's about to seize Wall Street."

  Oh, and in dabbling their toes in owning (as securities pledge against loans) CMO's and such, the Fed may also have tipped its hat that it's getting into real estate ownership.

  Ure argues that 'market stability' is really price fixing!

  The convergence I see is the sweeping FED powers combined with a malignant form of "patriotism" giving us a totalitarian country far removed from the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

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  3. Germany To Sell Gold. Right!
  4. The Road Taken To Serfdom

At the center of the new ring is Kristin "Billie" Davis, a busty bottle blonde who hails from a (r)ough-and-tumble California trailer park. She has a reputation for hard-partying, shameless self-promotion and a rumored 10,000-name-long client list

I love this caption to the photo: "Davis' lawyer said his client is a former hedge-fund worker."

First Hillary says hedge fund workers aren't doing real work, even though Chelsea Clinton works for a hedge fund, and now this. You can tell former hedge fund worker Davis is pure evil. Look at the upside down cross!

She does have beautiful blue eyes.

Kristin Davis Ex-Gov Spitzer Mover Mike

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