The Final Linkage

So it's packed...

• Four common sense alternatives to DemCare
• Federal spending by the numbers (outstanding video here)
  
• Obama appointee advocated human cloning for research purposes
  
• Is Obama biting off more than he can politically chew by flipping off the military?
• Video proof of census boondoggle
• Show me the offers!
• 58% think anchor baby policy should be ended
• If feminists want to become relevant again, they desperately need to welcome into their ranks...***GASP***...Sarah Palin
• Illegal Immigration corner

Yet another reconquista photo album you'll never see in the MSM

Mexico opens office in California...to provide ID to illegals!

Dems stop efforts to beef up border security (naturally)

• Is Hungary the second domino to fall in Europe?
• Debunking the Obamanomics jobs numbers
• Peekabo! I see you...acting unconstitutionally!
• Obama admonishes students not to follow in his footsteps
• VP Biden: Brussels is the freedom capital of the world!
• Funny...you never hear accusations of 'birthers' when liberals are the ones demanding to see birth certificates...
• Whoa! Hollywood is turning on unions?!
• A very interesting take on Don't Ask Don't Tell
• The Taliban is apparently redefining chemical warfare...
• Stigall: racism lives in the liberal Left
• Religion of Peace executes 7-year old for being a spy
• Lead, follow, or get out of the way!
• This is no time to go wobbly: follow the new Iron Ladies into battle!
• How very Presidential: Obama wants to know whose ass at BP he can kick for the oil spill
• FEAR NOT, AMERICA: It's Captain Kick-Ass!!!

Linkage

Our rights come from God
Tragedy: Rifqa Bary dealing with homicidal religious parents...and cancer
More evidence suggesting a double dip recession is on the way
Exposing the grand jihad (in the Oval Office)
Slouching toward irrelevance
Judge prevents the execution of a serial rapist and murderer who himself wants to die on the basis of the fact that his sexual sadism was a 'mitigating factor'...and Obama wants him on a federal appeals court
The Obama administration chews the fat
What is Barack Obama thinking?
House bill would give $2.5 billion to expand welfare rolls
Todd Palin for border czar!
The truth about the dire domestic threat from Obama and ACORN...from a former ACORN insider
Did the stimulus create or save jobs?  Again, no.
Down, down, down goes his credibility...
Taliban using chemical weapons against U.S. soldiers

Linkage

It ain't over till the illegal alien wins.
Is Congress finally waking up to the need for the missile defense systems that Obama has killed?  Let's hope so...
Obama's Commie pals are now stalking bank CEOs' private residences.    That's right, it's 500 union thugs vs. 1 innocent teenager.  Ah, community organizing...the lifeblood of the liberal Democrat party.  And, coincidentally, the only thing Barack Obama had any experience doing before becoming President.
Irony: after denouncing the Arizona illegal immigration law they didn't read, it turns out that the Obama administration's own official policy actually agrees with it!
Double outrage: not just one, but two mosques are now being planned for Ground Zero in New York!
No, it's really not an equivalent thing: Birfers vs. Troofers
Is this more of that we're-in-a-recovery talk?  Because a new record high in mortgage delinquencies doesn't really strike me that way.
The iron-fisted control of the Obama White House is complete; they even shut down the Twitter account of the guest chef for a state dinner.
Tiny bank gets big bailout...why?  (probably because they practice Obama's brand of social engineering)
Obama's hope-n-change rejected in...Obama's hometown
America's decline is not inevitable
Um, there are no sea level rises, Mr. President...

Monday Morning Catch-Up

Once again, there's a whole bunch of stuff going on in the world. Sink your mental teeth into all of this red meat:

• Can the GOP win 100 seats in the House? Perhaps so...
• Airline service is about to tank (yes, it is possible to get even worse...)
• High school official won't send championship basketball team to Arizona for tournament, but she will send them to GLSEN classes about fisting, pi$$ing on sex partners, child rape, anonymous sex in public places, and other really solid educational things.
• A quote for the ages: "Technically, it's not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts." Liberalism at its finest!
• Bailing out schools...again!
• Birther controversy rears its head again...is it legit this time?
• Barack Obama angrily points fingers at finger-pointers over his failures in the Gulf oil spill
• Racism and radical Islam: the most transparently irresponsible administration in American history
• Speaking of which, while Obama warmly extends the hand of friendship, Islam warmly invites us to explode and die
• Life and the will to live: a horrific example of how the Left has gone wrong
• Illegal immigrants shoot police with AK-47...can we call them dangerous now?
• This is a great new site: Barack Obama vs. the Constitution
• Obama's latest poll numbers are suck-tastic
• Tim 'Tax Cheat' Geithner will have access to your bank records
• Jan Brewer zings Obama, the Comic-in-Chief...twice
  

Chin up! Try to still have a great Monday...

There's my two cents.

Linkage

Great Britain outlaws Christianity
5 reasons the UK general election matters to the U.S. (results and analysis here)
News not fit to print (because it makes Israel look good...heroic even)
Pelosi on the economy: I'm either a gigantic idiot or an egregious liar
Treasury Department participates in GM's fraud on American taxpayers
Shutting down free speech
Keep the lights on
Finally...!  GOP calls for investigation of why Obama sucked up the oil spill (not that it'll do any good, since the Dems running things won't let it proceed)
What Barack Obama thinks of anyone who doesn't bow down to him (aka The Politics of Contempt)
Amen!  Third Navy SEAL found not guilty!!!
Liberalism run amok: school suspends blood drive over anti-gay discrimination accusation (never mind the empirically provable increased safety risks, like the fact that gay/bisexual men are 44 times more likely to contract HIV...yeah, that's really an irrelevant concern)
Sliding toward the cliff edge
School choice: What parents want

Linkage

Surprise: Obama's losing young voters!  Unfortunately for him, that's the only demographic that he's got left...at the moment, that is.
Speaking of stupid immigration insanity...did you know that driver's license exams in Alabama are given in 12 foreign languages?  Of course, that's kind of a bad idea when there's also been a sharp increase in traffic accident fatalities by non-English-speaking (or reading) drivers.
More Urf Day links:
    The Naked Communism of Earth Day
    Earth Day is an assault on mankind
    Obama and Biden celebrate Earth Day by flying two huge aircraft to the same location and forcing loads of other huge aircraft to circle while waiting for them
Grassroots Awaken to Threat of Internet Regulation
Dems pledge to campaign in 2010 on their record of accomplishment (and the GOP rejoices!)
Puerto Rican statehood and rigged elections
One nation: turning students into criminals
Memo to deficit commission: spending is the problem!
Yet another radical judicial activist has been nominated by Obama for high federal court
Barack Obama: Provocateur-In-Chief (h/t Melekiop)
Obama's Katrina: the government knew about the massive oil spill causing major environmental damage, but Obama didn't even visit the site for almost two weeks...!  (and they excoriated Bush for not visiting Katrina the very same day...)

Linkage

The Obama budget plan: taxes and rationing
Missouri attempts the impossible: downsizing government!  Sounds too good to be true...
Take the painkiller and go home
The Obama education agenda takes shape (hint: it involves redistribution of wealth and a whole lot less parental involvement)
Democrats at the edge of a cliff
Billy Graham's son is too Christian for Barack Obama's army
Liberals and the violence card
Iran's diplomatic rope-a-dope strategy
Sick-n-wrong: Dems turn another funeral -- this one for a coal miner -- into an Obama rally (right before introducing legislation to destroy the coal industry)
Republicans, citing past Democratic promises, question Democrats' credibility on Wall Street reform (it's about damned time!)
Is a primary challenge to Obama unthinkable? (hint: it's a very long shot...but no, it's not)
Sweet: 2nd SEAL found not guilty!
Now it's really, really official, and even left-leaning economists agree: Obama's stimulus did zilch

Bank bill stalled by GOP...for now (but it's clear that at least one Senator has been bought outright)

More Great Linkage

The new currency is OBEDIENCE
Obama's generosity isn't quite as generous as the eeeeevil Bushitler's was...
...but Biden's is even worse (almost non-existent, actually)
Inviting war against America
The latest human 'right': tourism!  Are we really surprised?  I mean, if we stop relying on the actual rights granted and defined in the Constitution, and their origin (the Creator), then where does it stop?  I doubt tourism will be the last 'right' we see in the coming months and years.
Unemployment charts: a perspective
Has the mainstream media finally awakened to how Obama abuses them?  Ha!  No, I think it's more a matter of jilted lover's syndrome.  Still, it's funny to watch the convulsions.
You can't make this stuff up: high-profile Democrat demands a government intervention on a problem caused by government interventions
Tea Parties are dangerous? Let's compare the Tea Party arrest records to Leftist protest arrest records, shall we?
Dems fall into (and violate) their own PAYGO trap
The shortest (and most brilliant, if you ask me) column ever on Wall Street regulations:

If you screw up, we don't bail you out. Then you go bankrupt. Next, smaller more efficient entities suck up the customers who still need your services. Congratulations… you've been regulated.

The Illinois spiral, and how taxes actually work in real life
Completely unshocking, but potentially devastating to Dems in November: only 1 in 5 Americans trusts Washington
Arizona passes tough illegal immigration bill
Barack Obama unilaterally dictates to all hospitals who gets to visit their patients
Bordering on fraud
The economy is Obama's biggest task (and failure, I'd add)
The Two Obamas

Great Linkage

This one got pretty long since I've been holding onto it for a number of days (due to having lots of red meat posts that took precedence). Tons of good stuff, though, so dig in!

Gallup: Democrats hit new all-time low in favorability
Obama bans college internships...but only in free market enterprise
Out of control
Obama's list
Democrats plot two-pronged attack on Internet freedom
Obama administration releases orders to the mind-numbed masses
Unbelievable: Planned Parenthood puts out brochure encouraging HIV-infected teens to 'express and enjoy' sex, hide HIV status from partners
DeMint on the government's massive land-grab
The answer to socialism
The end game is near
My country right or left
An American armada
Pathetic: Obama bows to another world leader (again)
Did you know that Obama is historically fixing our democracy (excuse me while my eyes roll out of my head)
Al Gore runs from a reporter actually asking tough questions
Hilarity ensues: Obamessiah now polling just as bad as the eeeeevil Bushitler...and wacko Ron Paul!
How the Dems won Colorado (and why Reps should care)
Hm: Obama's nuclear summit logo looks an awful lot like an Islamic crescent
Shocker: jobless claims rose again...unexpectedly
Awesomeness in Arizona: 'Attrition through enforcement'

From the pending Arizona immigration bill: "the intent of this act is to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona." One down, 49 to go.

Linkage

Whoa: GOP now favored over Dems on economy
These are the words of a man who should be President
More awesomely smart foreign policy: Obama is driving Afghanistan government closer to the Taliban
Word to the Weary
When Obama is asked if now is the best time to increase taxes, he rambles on for 17 minutes to try to scrape up an intelligent answer.  He fails, and Charles Krauthammer has fun with it.
The double standard on reporting Congressional sexcapades
Government Motors slaps Toyota with unprecedented fine
America's quiet anger
Good news: Appeals court strikes down Obama's FCC attempt to launch Net Neutrality
Americans more interested in energy than environment
The truth about homosexual sex
A sign of things to come?
China is not the leader in clean energy
Post-Toyota technology transfer
START is a non-starter in which Obama abandons U.S. power

Great Linkage

Barack Obama: A Constitutional Professor In Alinsky Ideology
Green Meanies
Choice for the powerful, but not for the people (school choice, that is)
Americans high on nuclear, low on global warming (too bad Obama is the opposite)
Obama to force lenders to eliminate monthly mortgage payments for unemployed (right, because every other taxpayer who is struggling to pay their bills really needs to pony up for the chronically unemployed Obots)
PBS now offers helpful DemCare indoctrination curriculum for school teachers
How the Left fakes the hate: a primer
A START towards undermining our nuclear security
Survival first, lawfare second
60% say keep Gitmo open
Restoring the Constitution, one case at a time
Obama 2005: Recess appointees are "damaged goods;" Obama 2010: Recess appointments are "critical" need
The Tan Tax and Government Power
Chicago Law Prof on Obama: "The Professors Hated Him because he was Lazy, Unqualified & Never Attended any of the Faculty Meetings"

Daily Must-Reads

Obama is working hard to add as many people to welfare as possible.  Literally.

Obama tacitly acknowledges that he is a pariah and that Dems are screwed in 2010.

Once a cut-and-runner, always a cut-and-runner: Dems begin to waive the flag of surrender in Afghanistan.

Yet another global warming bombshell: NASA and the mainstream media knew the truth about Climategate three years ago!

Obama: The time for talk is over...except when I'm talking.

Dems flee as Obama arrives in Missouri.

Daily Must-Reads

Obama's budget numbers keep getting uglier and uglier.

Whoa: 51% of Americans think we're less respected in the world now than when Bush was in office!

Zonation has a great rant on liberalism's failures.

Guess who will pay Tim Geithner's bank tax?  Hint: abcdefghijklmnopqrstUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUvwxyz.

TIWO (transparency in word only) Alert!!!  Do you know where your Senator stands?

In case you're interested in some interesting voter enthusiasm trends, check this out.

Let's play a matching game:
     1. What percentage of Americans believe our government has their consent to do what they're doing?
     2. What percentage of Americans believe in alien abductions?
Your choices:
     A. 32%
     B. 21%
Answers here.

Learning from Sweden's economic morphing.

Another day, another Trillion or 5. You're on the hook for Fannie/Freddy, too!  The Democrat modus operandi these days seems to be:
1. determine what fails
2. do that over and over, with even more money

Daily Must-Reads

How we got to the point where the EPA can dictate energy policy without Congressional approval, and what will happen if they do it.

Obama invents Bush's idea.

Hold the champagne on military commissions...it's a head fake.

Why the Palestinians don't want their own state.

Our $76.4 Trillion Fiscal Gap

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: "It's a good day. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs."  Yes, that's an actual quote.  Mr. Reid is rocketing toward a premature retirement for a reason.  Hopefully the Democrat majority will follow him because he was merely stupid enough to say what they were all thinking, anyway. ***UPDATE*** After realizing this was one of the most monumentally stupid statements of all time, Reid attempted to re-write history, instead calling the news of 36,000 new jobless Americans 'devastating'.  Yeah, that's sincere compassion for ya'.

SNL wakes up and realizes DemCare is really, really unpopular.

Iran to begin mass production of cruise missiles.  Yippee.  Thank you, President Incompet...no, I mean, President Dangerou...no, wait, that should be President Stern Finger-Shaking.  You really are doing a wonderful job.

The end of the road for Barack Obama?

Celebrities photographed in secure White House Situation Room...!  This should understood for what it is: proof of the Obama administration's view on national security.  Not only do they give tours through this top-secret room, but they allow photos to be taken there!  Inexcusable.

Iraq holds another election, experiences huge turnout.  But the war was lost, and Bush was wrong, you see.

Daily Must-Reads

The DOJ lawyers who voluntarily defended terrorists have now been outed.

The real jobs comparison between Bush and Obama:

Move over, Carnivore...it's time for Obama's flavor of domestic spying: Welcome, Einstein!

The Obama theme song: do as I say, not as I do.

Why trains in the 21st century are a ridiculously stupid idea.

How many government officials does it take to replace all your light bulbs? 37,221. No, seriously, that's how many.

Daily Must-Reads

Is the game just about over for unions?

No more Earmarxists!

Anti-Americanism in Russia is reaching Cold War levels, with plenty of encouragement from the government.  Obama's strategy of weakness and stern finger-shaking is going to become more and more dangerous as Russia's power and influence rises.

The smartest guys in the room?  "Watching the left grapple with the awful truth that conservatives were right about Obama can be amusing."

Corruptocrat Rangel finally resigns his leadership position.  Then again, maybe not.  At least not without being kicked out.

Daily Must-Reads

This update includes some stories from the end of last week.

While we were all paying attention to the DemCare dog-and-pony show, the Democrats attacked the CIA, introducing a bill that would create a new criminal class that could only be filled by CIA agents.  Fortunately, the GOP shamed them into pulling the provision out.

John Stossel: We don't need the FDA.

Even Dems are calling for Rangel's resignation.  Can we say 1994, anyone...?

Could this be the next President...?

Irony: Britain holds its first Tea Party.  Cool!  Welcome to the ideological club, friends!

Obama kills 23,000 Florida jobs by killing space travel.

Ah, that explains it: Obama endorses the U.S. Olympic hockey team, thus dooming them to failure.  The good news: Obama to travel to Missouri to campaign for Claire McCaskill.  (No, really, just ask Harry Reid how an Obama visit works out...)

Pelosi unconcerned with corruption in the 'most ethical Congress' in history.

Guess who's running for New York Governor?  The Manhattan Madam of Eliot Spitzer fame.  Lots of humor in this one, but my favorite quote of the story has to be:  "At least she has a business background. That will be important since the state is bankrupt."  I love it!!!

Daily Must-Reads

Another Obama miracle: Lending Drops at 'Epic Pace', Past Due Loans at Record High, 30% of Mortgages at Risk

Dem leader Rangel found guilty of ethics violations.
Genuine shocker: Obama fulfills campaign promise of lowering the oceans!!!  (just not for any reason he likes...)

A no-cost stimulus that can create real jobs.

Obama's 'safe school czar' gets $400 million to brainwash schoolchildren into deviant sexual behavior.

Another Obama foreign policy failure: sorry, allies, we're not going to back you up.

Guess who a bunch of Obama Justice Department lawyers have defended?  You guessed it: terrorists!

Daily Must-Reads

Jeffrey Lord writes a very interesting column at The American Spectator about the GOP and abortion, including the assertion that some people are pro-life for reasons other than religion by examining how slavery was treated by Lincoln and the Supreme Court at the time.  Along the way, Lord provides a terrific explanation of the problem of a too-strong federal government that is very similar to my opposition to smoking bans while being a non-smoker.  Check it out.

American Thinker is one of the best sites on the Internet for reasoned conservative political commentary.  The biggest problem I have with them is that everything they put out is excellent, and really should be read widely.  I just can't keep up!  Here are a few of the recent good ones that are all worth checking out:
     - Al Gore is lying low -- for good reason
     - What do you expect with Obama?
     - What do Muslim nations think about terrorism?
     - How to cut the budget
     - The Incontestable Tenets of the Green Church
     - What Americans don't understand about DemCare
     - How the Left reveals itself
     - President Incompetent
     - Planning to fail

Is our government really broken?

Obama whines, "I'm not a socialist!"  Uh...prove it.

Just one failure of a year in, and he's already planning his re-election campaign.

John Yoo: I did this for you, too.

Daily Must-Reads

Dobson leaves Focus on the Family; is this a signal that FotF will become much more PC?

Could Al Gore and other Green Priests go to prison for their global warming fraud?

The federal government is wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on advertising for the 2010 census.

White House 'Muslim envoy' is a terrorist supporter...and got busted lying about that support!  But good news: the Obama administration still has confidence in him.

You know how Democrats are the party that is supposedly on the side of minorities?  And how Democrats are the party that wants to provide better lives for the poor and oppressed?  Never mind all that, because Democrats are deliberately and systematically dismantling a scholarship program for poor and oppressed minorities in Washington DC.

Celebrate diversity unto death.