Michael Kinsley: "This conceit that we’re the greatest country ever may be self-immolating."

This is a crock for so many reasons, one of which is that it makes no sense: Self-immolation is a suicide by fire, often committed for political or moral reasons as a form of protest.

So this "conceit" just may, might, might possibly, perhaps make "us" (all of us???) set ourselves on fire for political or moral reasons...hey, dude: not me. You can set your own damn self on fire if you want to.

And the next sentence - "If people believe it’s true, they won’t do what’s necessary to make it true." - is such pop psycho-babble it just makes you want to puke. Who says? What about our whole history of actual, yes real, exceptionalism?

I remember this guy when he got booted from the Los Angeles Times several years ago (and he had that job because of his wife).

No wonder these leftist morons got booted out today!

U.S. is not greatest country ever

BREAKING: New Black Panther Voter Intimidation in Houston

Via InstaPundit

A videotape of a poll worker in Houston’s #202 precinct has corroborated reports received by Pajamas Media of voter intimidation today in the Texas city by the New Black Panther Party.

Roger L. Simon

Guess who said the following: "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work."

Was it Sarah Palin? Rush Limbaugh? Karl Rove?

Not even close. It was Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of FDR's closest advisers. He added, "after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. . . And an enormous debt to boot!"

Guess Who?

Thomas Sowell, right on again!

Funny thing about that, eh?

New York Times nail biter: Hey, what if the economy gets better after all these Republicans get in???

Winners Tuesday May Benefit From Economic Cycle

...the importance of any wave election isn’t only about the sheer number of seats gained and lost, but also about when the wave hits — or, more specifically, where it falls in the economic cycles of the country. And if you look at it that way, history suggests that the expected big bang of 2010 may well end up reverberating loudly through our politics for a long time to come.

That’s because, in the years ahead, the country might well experience the kind of economic recovery that the White House had hoped would take hold in time for this year’s elections. This isn’t a sure thing, by any means; some economists are still predicting a long period of Japanese-style stagnation. But most Washington observers seem to be betting on the kind of upturn that’s more evident to voters.

And it’s the politicians who catch the political wave at such fortunate economic moments — particularly governors who get themselves elected during hard times and then preside over the upswing — who tend to establish themselves as folk heroes and turnaround experts, rising to national prominence not just because of their policies but also because of their timing. Which could be very good news for some Republicans like John Kasich, who may yet become Ohio’s next governor, or for an unknown like Nikki Haley, who stands to win in South Carolina.

It isn’t just governors, of course, who can benefit from good timing...

Our founders were NOT fond of Islam, contrary to all the losers in this country

No, Professor Ahmed, the Founders Were Not So Fond of Islam...

The progressive assault on America continues, and their favorite whipping boy remains Arizona...

Progressive Determination to Undermine American Elections

Channel 2 Uncovers Proof Terrorists Crossed Mexican Border!

Retired immigration agent Michael Cuttler says the actual threat is being covered up. "Incredibly the government is attempting to keep the citizens like a bunch of mushrooms. Keep us in the dark and feed us a bunch of manure."

Pew 54, Where Are You?

American Minute for November 1st:

On NOVEMBER 1, 1800, John Adams became the first U.S. President to move into the White House. The following day he wrote a letter to his wife, Abigail, in which he composed a beautiful prayer. A portion of John Adams' prayer was inscribed on the mantlepiece in the State Dining Room by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It reads: "I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." After the White House was finished being built, the next building constructed on Lafayette Square was St. John's Episcopal Church. Because every President since James Madison worshipped there at some time, Pew 54 has been designated for the First Family. Other historic Washington, D.C. area churches include: Christ Church in Alexandria, where President Washington attended; the National Presbyterian Church, where Truman attended; the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, where Presidents Lincoln and Eisenhower attended and where Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall pastored from 1937-1949; and Holy Trinity Catholic Church, where John F. Kennedy attended.

Endnotes:
Adams, John. Nov. 1800, letter to his wife, Abigail Adams. John Adam's Prayer (Washington, D.C.: White House Collection). John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1855, 1980), p. 382. Charles Fadiman, ed., The American Treasury (NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1955), p. 317.

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The ad that a Delaware tv station did not want you to see--censorship in America

From Riehl World View

While a Delaware TV station is preventing Christine O'Donnell from showing her 30-minute political, don't let it prevent you from seeing it thanks to the internet...Although it concentrates on Delaware, it is reflective of what is going on in this nation when it comes to the economy.

VIDEO: CHRISTINE O'DONNELL - WE THE PEOPLE

WTF? OBAMA LIED ABOUT THE BOMB!

Anyone who thinks we're safe with this guy in office is dreaming: Obama lies about UPS bomb?, UPS denies bomb found, BBC confirms no explosive traces

Obama's eligibility to be president: 2 cases on their way to the Supreme Court

Supremes more likely to rule on substance of eligibility case - Lawyer: 'Environment is more favorable for judges to decide on the merits without fear'

November 24, 2010:

Taitz recently presented the U.S. Supreme Court with a petition for a writ of certiorari in her case, Orly Taitz v. Thomas D. MacDonald, et al. A writ of certiorari means the court agrees to review the decision of a lower court. The Supreme Court is scheduled to reply to the new filing and announce whether it will hear the case on Nov. 24...

Taitz v. MacDonald is now the second case challenging President Obama's eligibility to serve in the Oval Office up for review by the Supreme Court...Taitz v. MacDonald was originally brought on behalf of Capt. Connie Rhodes, an Army flight surgeon questioning the validity of deployment orders issued under Obama's signature. The case argues that Obama has not proven that he is a "natural-born citizen" of the United States, which Article 2 of the Constitution requires any president to be. A "natural born citizen" was considered at the time the Constitution was adopted as an individual whose parents are both American citizens. Obama's father was a British subject when Obama was born in 1961.

But Taitz vs. MacDonald goes beyond Obama's legitimacy to raise the possibility of Social Security fraud...

November 3, 2010:

Taitz v. MacDonald follows on the heels of Kerchner v. Obama, a case also arguing that Obama has failed to prove he is a "natural born citizen." The court is scheduled to announce its decision whether to hear Kerchner v. Obama on Nov. 3.

Do something

The National Republican Congressional Committee has posted an interactive map for you to find GOP candidates.

It's from a post by RedState to help us figure out What to do with one day to go.

Oh WOW!!! Hugo Chavez is my HERO!!!

I've been waiting my whole life (65 years now) for a hero that would come to the rescue of humanity: Chavez Says Venezuela's Golf Courses Should Be Seized, Put to Other Uses

Christian clergy and lay people have been kidnapped, murdered, and raped by Muslim terrorists and criminal gangs in Iraq, sparking the exodus of Christians from the country

...and Iraq's Jews, who had lived in the region since the time of Abraham and during their Babylonian Captivity, were expelled in the 1940s and 1950s following the infamous pogrom known as The Farhud.

So why do people keep falling for the fake empathy crap from the Left? They do nothing but blame all the people on the Right for what Islamic radicals really actually do every single day because they are married to a deformed and warped political ideology that is using them like the useful idiots they are.

Dorian Gray meets The Great Gatsby

Oh! what a tangled web we weave
When first we practise to deceive!
MARMION by Sir Walter Scott

Midterm elections 2010: Prepare for a new American revolution

Safest restaurant on earth

YOU BETCHA!

You have been neutered by the political elite

"The real work is just beginning."

The political elite has rewritten the rules so that all the trains, all the money and power runs through their system, and in their way. It has devalued local rights, in favor of national powers. It has devalued individual rights, in favor of government rights. At every turn it has empowered government, while disempowering the people. And it has gone mostly unchecked, because even the few ideological battles that have been fought, have rarely been over whether there should be government powers over individual rights, but rather over who should be in control of deciding what rights there still are.

All the Trains Run Through Washington D.C.

OMG: SECRET UNDERGROUND VIDEO EXPOSES JERRY BROWN!!!

California, you are SO SCREWED!!!

Among Democrats, 47 percent say Obama should be challenged for the 2012 nomination

Poll: Dems split over handing Obama '12 nomination

So, that would mean Hillary, right?

That could mean Hillary runs against Sarah, right?

As Stanley Kurtz reminds us:

The government sector is so large now that the fundamental character of the American system is at stake. We will either move incrementally over the line toward European-style socialism, or pull substantially back. The battle will be fought out over the next two years, with the coming presidential election determining the winner. A Republican victory next week does not decide the question. It only sets up the larger battle Obama has been planning all along. We don’t yet know who will win.

Liar-in-Chief

Editor-at-large (National Review Online) Kathryn Jean Lopez' interview with Stanley Kurtz, author of Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism.

EXCERPTS FROM RADICAL IN THE WHITE HOUSE:

[What is Obama's strategy?]

I argue in the book that Obama isn’t in quite as hopeless a position as he may seem to be right now. Obama has adopted a high-risk strategy. His long-term goal is to polarize the parties along class lines, thereby driving the country substantially to the left. He’s taking big chances to get there, but there is a plausible long-term scenario for success. I go into this in some detail in the final chapter...

[What is the Midwest Academy?]

I would call Obama, a “Midwest Academy socialist,” and one way to read the book is as a long explanation of exactly what Midwest Academy socialism is.

LOPEZ: What does the Midwest Academy have to do with the milestone health-care legislation the president signed this March?

KURTZ: The Midwest Academy virtually invented the “public option” idea, although in those days they wanted a public energy corporation to “compete” with private oil and gas companies (in the unspoken hope of driving them out of business). I believe that Obama’s support for a public option and his willingness to trade it away were both based on the Midwest Academy’s strategies of gradualism and “non-reformist reforms.” Even without the public option, the health-care bill as written is designed to drive the system toward single-payer over time. The president’s way of selling health-care reform, chiefly as a pragmatic fix rather than a matter of principle, also goes back to Alinskyite techniques as filtered through the Midwest Academy.

[Who is Heather Booth?]

Midwest Academy founder Heather Booth began as a socialist feminist with an intense interest in abortion. Yet she ultimately downplayed that issue in an effort to assemble a populist anti-business coalition that united culturally conservative blue-collar workers with the descendants of the Sixties left. Midwest Academy strategy is to downplay cultural issues and foreign policy in order to avoid dividing a broad-based, economically focused, populist coalition of the Left. I think Obama follows this program. He’s a leftist on cultural issues, but he doesn’t want to emphasize it any more than he absolutely has to, because that will split his coalition on economic issues, which is what he really cares about.

[The final chapter...]

The final chapter of the book shows how deeply Obama’s past still influences his present. More broadly, electing and reelecting a president is, in substantial measure, a matter of trust. Obama has misrepresented who he was and is, both during the 2008 election and since. In that sense, he has broken trust with the public. Only if the American people know the truth about their president’s political beliefs can they make an informed decision about his reelection. That is how democracy works. The mind of the president means a great deal. The health-care and financial-reform bills are largely unfinished projects. What they will become depends on how the massive regulatory apparatus of each is shaped by the administration. A number of Obama’s supporters still believe his claims of post-partisan pragmatism. Showing that this is not the true picture could have a very significant effect on whether the country decides to throw in its lot with Obama or his Republican opponent two years from now.

[Liar-in-Chief]

LOPEZ: If there’s one thing you could drive home to Americans about the president, what would it be?

KURTZ: He hasn’t been telling us the truth about his political convictions.

LOPEZ: What does it mean for American history that we have a socialist as president right now?

KURTZ: The liberalizing changes of the Sixties have borne fruit in a new generation, yet they have been incomplete. The Democrats have moved left, but resistance to those changes has driven Republicans to the right. The government sector is so large now that the fundamental character of the American system is at stake. We will either move incrementally over the line toward European-style socialism, or pull substantially back. The battle will be fought out over the next two years, with the coming presidential election determining the winner. A Republican victory next week does not decide the question. It only sets up the larger battle Obama has been planning all along. We don’t yet know who will win.