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"Filibuster Reform" Is Power Grab By Nevada Nose-Picker
by Brian Darling
townhall.com
November 12, 2012
The Washington Times reports, “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will try to push through a change to Senate rules that would limit the GOP’s ability to filibuster bills.” Reid argued at his post-election press conference that he is intent on changing the rules to prevent the minority party from slowing passage of legislation and nominations.
Reid showed his true motivations when argued that he will continue to prevent votes on “same-sex marriage and abortion” because “I mean, the American people aren’t interested in that.” This is further evidence that reforming the Senate’s rules is merely a means to stop difficult votes for the majority party on revenue-neutral tax reform, gun rights, entitlement reform and traditional family values.
Over the past few years, this is a Majority Leader who has acted tyrannically to restrict the rights of all senators to debate and offer amendments. He has used a parliamentary tactic called “filling the amendment tree” to block a free-flowing amendment process and used a procedure to eliminate amendments after the conclusion of debate. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) appropriately referred to the “charade and farce” of debate in [....]
http://townhall.com/columnists/briandarling/2012/11/12/filibuster_reform_is_power_grab_by_harry_reid/page/full/
Before We Give Up Can We Try Selling Our Ideas?
by David Limbaugh,
creators.com
November 13, 2012
We conservatives may never reach a consensus among ourselves as to the main factors that caused our election defeat, but surely we can agree that we must do a better job of selling
our ideas. Never mind, you say. The electorate has irreversibly become a taker class, and conservative ideas of self-reliance, personal responsibility and individual liberties will never appeal to a majority again, especially with demographics working against the GOP.We must reject that, or we are as good as surrendering. To accept it, we are confessing our skepticism of the power of ideas, which itself is contrary to the conservative spirit.
Conservatives begin at a considerable disadvantage, with a liberal media and academia
telling people they are victims who aren't responsible for their own actions and demonizing the American system as originally conceived, including capitalism, producers, business, energy producers and the wealthy. Of course, conservatives are handicapped from the outset when these institutions evince hostility toward limited government, American greatness and a cohesive American culture. It's amazing we even have a fighting chance when Democratic elected officials use government money and power to buy votes with no regard for the destruction this causes these individuals and society as a whole.Republicans could be [....]
http://www.creators.com/opinion/david-limbaugh/before-we-give-up-could-we-at-least-try-selling-our-ideas.html
At The Fiscal Cliff I Cry: "Jump.... Jump.... Jump!"
by John Ransom
townhall.com
November 13, 2012
The most expensive tax in the history of the world has been proposed by the Obama administration and to hear them tell the story, you’d think the rest of us should be grateful.
“We want to create a global minimum tax,” said vice president Joe Biden, “because American taxpayers shouldn’t be providing a larger subsidy for investing abroad than investing at home.”
A global minimum tax is a tax on all profits made by nominally US companies that operate overseas. They operate overseas for various reasons, but one big reason is because corporate taxes are higher in the US than overseas. And to fix high corporate taxes in the US, the Obama administration proposes even HIGHER TAXES on corporations.
Yes: Obama thinks (?) [....]
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2012/11/13/at_the_fiscal_cliff_i_cry_jump_jump_jump/page/full/
The Six "Cs" That Should Be In Every Business Plan
by Cliff Ennico,
townhall.com
November 13, 2012
There are at least 1,000 books in print telling people how to write a business plan. The problem with most of them is that they're wrong. Or they're not practical for the vast majority of business startups. Unless you are a high technology startup looking for venture capital, you do not need a 50-page book with dividers and index tabs to start a business. You do, however, need a business plan. As a frequent judge in business plan competitions around the country, and as an advisor to "angels" and other professional investors, I review hundreds of business plans a year. Most are terrible. So how do you catch the attention of someone like me when writing a business plan? There are six things I look for in a business plan, each of which conveniently begins with the letter "C".
Concept: You must be able to communicate your business idea in a [...]
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/cliffennico/2012/11/13/the_six_cs_that_should_be_in_every_business_plan/page/full/
Resistance With Respect
by Ken Blackwell,
townhall.com
November 12, 2012
Editor’s Note: This column was co-authored by Bob Morrison.
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to his fourth term, Kansas editor William Allen White, a staunch Republican, wrote: "We who hate your gaudy guts salute you." President Obama: We have never hated your gaudy guts. And we acknowledge that a majority of our fellow citizens of this Great Republic have saluted you and conferred upon you for the second time the office of President of the United States. We thank God that more than 120 million Americans voted in a peaceful and orderly election. That alone is a wonder of the world. (You will pardon us, Sir, if we also thank Heaven for the Twenty-second Amendment, another legacy from FDR.)
Our favorite portrait of you is the inaugural cover of The New Yorker.] Over the past four years, we have written more than 600 columns singly and together about your administration’s policies. Throughout those years, we have kept the high promise of that Inaugural Portrait in mind. We have endeavored always to remember that you hold the office held by Washington and Lincoln. We believe that office deserves respect.
We also recall the amazing spectacle of millions of Americans attending your first Inauguration. We feel deeply what your taking the presidential oath must mean, especially to our fellow citizens whose ancestors survived the horrors of the Middle Passage. Those forebears [....]
http://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2012/11/12/resistance_with_respect/page/full/
27+ States Petition Federal Government To Secede
by Mythos Holt,
theblaze.com
November 12, 2012
Update: We’ve uncovered comments from conservative Justice Scalia talking about the idea of secession. You can read his thoughts on the issue here.
Liberals often like to compare President Barack Obama to former President Abraham Lincoln. The comparison is usually dismissed as laughably hagiographical, but judging by one unexpected bit of fallout from Tuesday’s election, it could well end up being accurate in just one respect: Like Lincoln, Obama is facing requests by the citizens of numerous states to secede from the union.
However, unlike with Lincoln, [....]
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/27-states-petition-federal-government-to-secede-after-election/
Fiscal Cliff: Tax The Rich
by John Ransom,
townhall.com
November 10, 2012
Barack Obama wants you to know that the rich are out of control.
And I partially agree. It’s a matter of fairness. After thinking about it for a few years, he has finally figured out that our economic problems have a very simple explanation: There are too many rich people. I know of at least one too many. The one occupying the White House? Way too rich.
Too many rich people are causing a jobless “recovery.” Having too many rich people caused gas prices to go up, the stock market to go down and the housing bubble to burst. Too many rich people meant that a peaceful demonstration against America in Benghazi turned into terrorism.
The rich, Obama would have you believe, [....]
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2012/11/10/fiscal_cliff_tax_the_rich/page/full/
A Word From the President
by Scott Rupert,
exposeobama.com
November 10, 2012
My fellow Americans,
It’s been a few days since my resounding reelection victory, and Michelle reminded me to thank those who helped me receive another four years serving the American people from the Oval Office. The list is quite long, so I will attempt to hit the high points.
First and foremost, I owe a deep debt of gratitude to George W. Bush for providing me with political cover for virtually every situation as well as our fiscal crisis which, according to Bill Clinton “not even he could have fixed in 4 years”. I shall continue to seek places to promote the work of the Bush administration whenever the need arises.
Next, I need to acknowledge two men who proved invaluable to me over the course of the last four years. First, my hat goes off to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. His marvelous work with TARP, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (stimulus), as well as Quantitative Easing I, II, and III allowed me to spend as much money as I thought necessary to get our economy roaring back at 2%. Thanks to him, [....]
http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/11/10/a-word-from-the-president/
How Little These Obama Voters Know About Our Gov’t
Video Report,
exposeobama.com
November 9, 2012
A three block line weaved through a quaint neighborhood in South End of Boston,each person waiting to cast their vote at the polling place inside the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology. This is an austere,historic and heavily liberal section of Boston (generously assuming there are some non-liberal parts of Boston). Signs for Elizabeth Warren and buttons proudly proclaiming “Students for Obama” were in abundance. [....]
http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/11/09/video-you-wont-believe-how-little-these-obama-voters-know-about-our-govt/
The Communist Takeover Of America--45 Declared Goals
by Greg Swank,
rense.com
December 4, 2002
You are about to read a list of 45 goals that found their way down the halls of our great Capitol back in 1963. As you read this, 39 years later, you should be shocked by the events that have played themselves out. I first ran across this list 3 years ago but was unable to attain a copy and it has bothered me ever since. Recently, Jeff Rense posted it on his site and I would like to thank him for doing so. http://www.rense.com
obama's Hostile and Evasive Presser
by David Limbaugh,
creators.com
November 1, 2012
Obama's first post-election press conference, if you could call it that, tells us a great deal about his attitude and the approach he intends to pursue in his second term, which is the same failed policy mix on steroids.
Obama's re-election, of course, gives him the right to pursue these policies, but it doesn't deny elected Republicans the right or relieve them of the duty to oppose them.
If Obama can glean any intelligible mandate from his victory, it is that relentless negative campaigning, demagoguery, divisive identity politics, deceit and superior political strategists targeting essential voters and voting districts work. So it should be no surprise that Obama is taking that lesson to heart and is already applying the same strategies going forward.
In short, Obama will continue to do what he does best: community organizing and campaigning. He is a perpetual campaign machine who pretends to aspire to bipartisanship while being the most partisan president we've had in decades.
In fairness, though Obama never did present an agenda beyond generalized brochure-worthy talking points in the last two weeks of the campaign, the American people witnessed in his first term what he stands for, and a majority didn't reject it. Granted, he completely distorted the causes of our ongoing economic problems and continued to blame George W. Bush for his own failures, but in the end, he still won. But so did congressional Republicans, whose mandate to oppose Obama's policies cannot be in serious doubt.
Obama's words and body language indicate he intends to [....]
http://www.creators.com/opinion/david-limbaugh/obama-s-hostile-and-evasive-presser.html
U.S. Foreign Policy: Room To Regroup
by George Friedman,
STRATfor.com
November 13, 2012
President Barack Obama has won re-election.
However, in addition to all of the constraints on him that I discussed last week, he won the election with almost half the people voting against him. His win in the Electoral College was substantial -- and that's the win that really matters -- but the popular vote determines how he governs, and he will govern with one more constraint added to the others. The question is whether this weakens him or provides an opportunity. That is not determined by his policies but by the strategic situation, which, in my view, gives the United States some much-needed breathing room.
The Structure of the International System
At the moment, the international system is built on three pillars: the United States, Europe and China. Europe, if it were united, would be very roughly the same size as the United States in terms of economy, population and potential military power. China is about a third the size of the other two economically, but it has been [....]
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/us-foreign-policy-room-regroup?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20121113&utm_term=gweekly&utm_content=readmore&elq=ca4ba3901ba749e181b1d5395070e81d
What's Behind obama's Military Purge?
by Bob Livingston,
Personal Liberty Digest
November 16, 2012
Is something deep and dark afoot in the upper regions of military command?
Since the Sept. 11 Benghazi, Libya, massacre, President Barack Obama has sacked his CIA director and two of his top military commanders, demoted one and found another caught up in the scandal involving the CIA director. This many top commanders being relieved at one time is unprecedented in U.S. history.
So, are sexual misconduct and corruption that rife in the military command? Or is Obama making [....]
http://personalliberty.com/2012/11/16/whats-behind-obamas-military-purge/
Part 2 may follow....
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