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The Left Wing Immigration Plot

It appears the light bulb in the head of Bill O'Reilly, who hosts The O'Reilly Factor on FOX News Channel, has finally gone off!  Welcome Bill!  It is great to have you recognize what most of us have known for quite some time.

The progressive left, in large measure led by the Obama administration, have many avenues of attack in their effort to transform the United States of America, and an open borders policy bringing illegal aliens into this country without congressional approval and against the will of the people is chief among them.

O'Reilly has had enough:



Regrettably, the invasion of illegal immigrants has been going on for quite some time; a number of years actually. But it is within the past 18 months of so it has really gotten the attention of the nation.

O'Reilly is steamed over his proposal of Kates Law, and rightfully so.  O'Reilly became involved after the senseless murder of a beautiful young woman, Kate Steinle.  The law O'Reilly is behind is really common sense, with provisions you would think everyone could get behind.

But, not when you are speaking about the progressive left, who champion open borders as part of their dream of transforming America, even if young American citizens are murdered in cold blood on the seemingly safe streets of a cosmopolitan city like San Francisco.

Open borders are an assault on private property, and the sovereignty of our nation, as a nation without borders is not a nation.

The left views America as an oppressive nation, and feel our prosperity is ill-gotten, having taken advantage of nations across the globe and leaving them impoverished and lacking in the levels of prosperity and advancement the United States has achieved.

Not to diminish the death of Ms.Steinle, but the ramifications of the invasion of our nation by illegal immigrants are much more far reaching, and extremely dangerous.

We noted last year the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants that seemingly out of nowhere began invading our southern border.  While this was presented as a rare confluence of events that brought all these folks to converge on our southern border, it was in fact an orchestrated event with full knowledge and blessings of the Obama administration.

Beyond the events on the southern border last year, without congressional approval, for some time President Obama has been bring illegal immigrants to America.  In fact, The Independent Sentinel reports the following:

Videos and other reports have been popping up on the Internet claiming the federal government is sneaking in thousands of refugees in the dead of night and liberal activists who run fact checking organizations like snipes say it’s not true. However, we now have a sheriff’s constable swearing it is true.

UPS is bringing refugees in on their flights in the middle of the night, according to a Marcus Kohan, a PA constable. We have no idea who they are and if they have been screened. Americans’ representatives in Congress are supposed to be deciding who comes into the country and how many come in, not a dictator in the White House and the government officials he pays off with tax dollars, and if this is true, he should be impeached.

When we first saw the story from The Independent Sentinel, we filed it away and waited for some sort of confirmation.  That confirmation came in a report from FOX News, that stated "A proposal to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States has ignited a bitter debate in Washington, but more than 10 times that number of people from the embattled country have quietly come to America since 2012, according to figures obtained by FOXNews.com."

We recognized Obama sought the influx of illegal immigrants to make America as non-colonialist as possible, transferring wealth to the refugees and bloat the democratic voter rolls.  Very troubling reports of his social engineering objectives centering around the diversity of neighborhoods.  They are tied together, as former Florida congressman Allen West reports.

They need the fundamental demographic change of America in order to maintain their hold on power. This HUD rule will certainly be aimed at communities where the voting demographic does not favor the left. If they’re successful in this endeavor, then “Katy bar the door.”

As The American Legislator reports:

One of the most egregious items is the new Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rules on housing, called the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH), which will strip away local control of planning and development across the country. In brief, HUD’s new rule forces local governments to accept the federal government’s plans of how any new housing developments will incorporate low income housing regardless of location or access to public transportation. If the AFFH ruling is passed, it will take away the most fundamental role of local governments in regards to land use, zoning and urban planning.

While Obama gleefully admires himself for making good on his promise to transform the United States, I am not sure even he thought the influx of immigrants would start killing us.

They are.

Among the refugees entering our nation are embedded members of ISIS. They are here. Attacks similar to the one that occurred in San Bernardino will take place again in the future, and likely soon.

Based upon Obama continuing to release prisoners and empty our jails and taking little to no action to attack the terrorists murdering our citizens while lecturing us and threatening to circumvent the second amendment to go after our guns, it is more than reasonable to conclude he is not particularly concerned about it.

It is all part of the plan of Obama. The plan includes the rise of an Islamic and Muslim nation in the middle east with a caliphate established, and the diminishing of America on the world stage.  President Obama does not consider himself an American, rather a global citizen who happens to make his home in America.

I suspect Obama is thrilled at the success he is having in transforming this nation, without any significant brush back from the Congress.  The plot to destroy America as we have known her from within is working with imagined success. It is truly stunning, and most dangerous.

Time To Take Your Government Back

It has been an interesting day in the political arena, which over the last decade and a half has seemingly completed a slow creep encroachment into our daily lives.

Two examples are presented for your review.

Just today, Rep. Paul Ryan, R:WI, announced he will step in and make a run at Speaker of the House, but demanded that certain conditions be met. The Blaze reports "Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) told his GOP colleagues Tuesday night that he would seek the speakership if every Republican caucus endorsed him for the job."

The establishment is falling in line, as Rep.Jason Chaffetz @jasoninthehouse (R:UT) tweeted “I am out and supporting @RepPaulRyan for Speaker. Right person at the right time.”

No, that would be Daniel Webster, R:FL, and man of principle.

Although not even on the job yet, Ryan is demanding conditions our representatives must meet.  Screw Ryan!  He failed miserably to meet the one and only condition he was tasked with when the voters placed the GOP in control of the House:  Stop Obama!

Among the items Ryan failed to stop Obama on was illegal immigration.  But, as Conservative Review’s Daniel Horowitz recently wrote, “There is nobody around in the party who is more fanatically dedicated to the cause of open borders than Paul Ryan.” In fact, the left favors his candidacy.

Ryan, who supported the Trade Promotion Authority voted to continue funding Planned Parenthood (are you kidding me?), is a ruling class progressive who would continue governments encroachment over the citizenry.

Also today, as report by The Daily Signal, "the Senate Democrats blocked legislation that would punish “sanctuary cities” in a 54-45 vote Monday afternoon. The bill, called the Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act, needed to overcome a 60-vote threshold. It would withhold certain federal funding from states or cities that refuse to comply with requests from federal immigration officials to turn over immigrants who are in the country illegally".  See how your Senator voted.

As Patrick J. Buchanan warned, "a country that cannot control its borders is no longer a country."

Illegal immigrants can continue to be harbored by cities promoting open borders, even if our citizens are getting killed. Bill O'Reilly is torqued, and so am I.


Enough.  It is time to take your government back from the ruling class elitists who think they can control your lives and make better decisions for how you should conduct your life than you can.

Salvation of the State

 

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives." --James Madison, 1822

The world is on fire; without question.  The list of items headlining media outlets of truth are mind boggling to be sure.  Among the long very long list of worrisome items for the citizenry to absorb are the following:

* The US National Debt grew more than a trillion dollars last year, and is now at approximately 18 trillion.  This is just the number released by the government, with the actual number far exceeding this amount. The debt could never be repaid without extensive monetary operations, which cannot be effectively engaged upon with the horrendous economy we currently have.  Monetizing the debt, currently underway, is only postponing the real pain.

* The economic woes in China are deepening, with the government initiating a "stealth QE" to combat a liquidity crisis.  If you think their woes would not have an affect on our economy, you are mistaken.

* The number of Americans on food stamps has eclipsed 46 million, which is approximately 15% of the total population.  There are long term issues resulting from potential workers remaining out of the workforce, on the public dole, for an extended period of time if one seeks a fully employed population.

* The unemployment rate is reported to be decreasing, signaling good economic conditions.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The administration changed the calculations on how the number is figured for starters, and have been counting part time workers within the number.  The real unemployment rate is in the low teens, and has been for several years, the longest such period of grief since The Great Depression.

* The Russian Bear is growling, with Russia flexing muscle by invading sovereign nations, causing a major disturbance in the Ukraine and creating plenty of economic concerns involving our dollar as we try to implement sanctions on them. Of course, there is no plan or policy formatted to deal with the issue, so we are forced to react to the hand Vladimir Putin deals us.  Some reset?

* A Malasyian Boeing jetliner which vanished from the sky in March remains unaccounted for, and nobody seems to care.  The media has moved on, and so have the public.

*The southern border remains wide open by design, with the Obama administration orchestrating the rush of tens of thousands of folks, inclusive of children, to enter the country through the border. An effort to share the wealth and create large numbers of citizens dependent on governmental assistance, this action was essentially an immigration reform bill which bypassed a vote in Congress.  Nice trick by the progressives without the knowledge of the majority of voters, except among those lovely children entering the US through the southern border were untold numbers of terrorists, who may have been trafficking various forms of lethal weaponry.

James Madison was quite correct.  Bureaucrats in Washington, some who are adverse to the principles which were central to the founders, are governing, and transforming, America right under the nose of those among the citizenry who Aldous Huxley noted would be drunk on a sea of irrelevance.  If in doubt, please the following segment from "The O'Reilly Factor", where correspondent Jesse Watters invites college students to enter his, or our, world.

America is in real trouble.  Remember those famous words from the inaugural address by President John F. Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?"  There is a responsibility that comes with being a citizen of this great country, and it requires more than keeping up to date with pop culture, obtaining any and every entitlement available and adopting nihilism as a philosophical doctrine.

 

As Madison accurately noted, our citizenry must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives, to help ensure the future not only for ourselves, but our children and grandchildren.  After all, as the inscription above the main entrance to Nebraska's beautiful State Capitol reads: "The Salvation of the State is Watchfulness in the Citizen."

An Avenue For Prosperity For All

America is being taken down from within.  Quickly, and by design.

One the tools being utilized by those in power to accomplish this feat is by pitting groups, classes and races of our citizenry against one another.  With the help of the ministry of propaganda, the mainstream media, the efforts have been most successful.

Race has been a particularly useful tool by the Obama administration, from the cops acting stupidly in Boston to failing to prosecute voter intimidation in Philadelphia. 

Individuals who question the policies of Obama are considered racist. Groups who offer opposition are labeled terrorists. Vice President Joe Biden called Tea Party Members terrorists, and many of the low information voters lack the necessary acumen to decipher how incorrect this is. If you think these were actions of the past, just yesterday college republicans were turned away after attempting to attend a speech by President Obama at the University of Central Missouri.  They were prevented from attending "for the presidents protection".

There are many other examples, but a shooting in Sanford, Florida provided the optimal platform for those in power to stoke the fires. Even though this event involved a Hispanic and a black, seemingly at the direction of the administration, the media, with particular help from NBC, the case morphed into a major race dividing case.

With local news boiling over in the immediate aftermath of the, I drew some conclusions based upon the information I had gathered.  As the case has settled, with George Zimmerman having been found not guilty by a jury of his peers, after hearing the evidence, I note that some of my initial thoughts were off the mark.

Evidence to suggest Zimmerman was in any way a racist was completely absent.  In fact, evidence suggests the contrary, most specifically noted by media reports that he mentored a couple of young black children.  Also, evidence says Zimmerman did attempt to go back to his vehicle after being directed by the 911 operator, but was met and subsequently attacked by Trayvon Martin. We have learned Martin was a young man traveling down the wrong path having made several recent mistakes in judgement. The state overcharged he case, and based on the evidence, the only verdict that could be reached was innocent as charged.

It is noted that both parties could have prevented the event from happening, but tragically, that did not happen.

Although the state of Florida did not bring the Stand Your Ground Law into the case, leftist progressives have seized the opportunity to rail against the law and are seeking to have it eliminated. I am sure they are unaware the Obama, while in the Illinois state Senate, co-sponsored a bill to strengthen the law in Illinois. Hypocrite?

With the usual race hustlers Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson leading the way, the case has driven a wedge in between normally sensible folks.  Rather than recognizing an individual is legally entitled to protect themselves from being mortally wounded, since Martin was black, the law seems to be readily discarded.  It seems, as Pastor Ken Hutcherson says, many blacks have put their blackness ahead of everything, including God.  This is not healthy.

President Obama, who self proclaims himself as in company with our great presidents, had a once in a lifetime opportunity to be Lincolnite and use his position to strongly enhance race relations, with malice toward none and charity to all.  No such luck.

Obama has been divisive, attacking religion and tradition and encouraging entitlements, which tramples the incentive and spirit of many a man.  In fact, a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal submit that race relations have plummeted since Obama took office.

Obama is crushing the economy through his policies, and the unemployment levels among young black men are at historical highs. Without the economic means to improve their lives, many young men in the inner cites have had their opportunities greatly diminished.  Obama also cut significantly the voucher program, virtually eliminating another important vehicle for youngsters to better their educational opportunities.

In Obama's hometown of Chicago, black on black murders of young men is at a tragic and embarrassing rate. Although the bankruptcy of Detroit had been coming at us for quite some time, many of the problems that led to the demise of the Motor City center around the problems associated in the inner city black community. The demise of the traditional family in these communities is beyond alarming, and a central factor in the problems.

Obama has done nothing to assist the situation.  In fact, in attacking the churches, many of which operate schools, vehicles of escape such as education outside the public school system and spiritual opportunities in the inner cities, have been greatly diminished.

Bill O'Reilly has had enough, and blasted all those in charge in a tremendous "Talking Points".



The problems in the inner cities, particularly in the black community, are seemingly out of control.  Race relations are weakening among many, with Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder encouraging the negative discourse.  Obama has wasted a golden opportunity, and unlike Lincoln, finds malice with many and exhibits charity toward elites only.

I do not have the answers to these problems. I think economic enterprise zones as championed by the late Jack Kemp could be helpful given crime can be controlled.  Those in these communities could learn plenty and set solid foundations by embracing faith, reading the writings of Frederick Douglass and implementing the non-violent leadership by example, with respect of the law exhibiting class and dignity of someone they all claim to admire; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If America could get this corrected and headed in the right directions, imagine the prosperity for all.

The Discrediting of America: Individual Opponents

While President Obama is the face of the Progressive advancement running roughshod over America, there is a well funded massive machine of operatives implementing widespread attacks on those, organizations, corporations and individuals, who stand against their policies. With a basis found in the pages of Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals, aiming to demonize, ridicule and discredit all in opposition, there are no lines that cannot be crossed as the ends justify the means. The tentacles of these ongoing operations extend beyond your wildest imagination. Therefore, BAHL Revere will engage a series of posts alerting our readership of instances in this regard titled The Discrediting of America.

CPAC 2013 was quite exciting, with a host of speakers giving excellent speeches, quite cognizant of an America in decline.with most zeroed in the parties responsible.

Among the speakers who minced no words in assessing blame for the transformation of wealth overwhelming America with those orchestrating the destruction failing to practice the austerity measures they advise us to take, was Rep. Michele Bachmann, (R:MN).

Bachmann torched Obama for living a lavish lifestyle as President while most of us are struggling for friction in an Obama led economy wrecked by crony capitalism, destructive FED policies, absence of the rule of law, rewards for irresponsible behavior and an advancing nanny state robbing people of their identity.

See a portion of the speech by Bachmann below:

Although Bachmann did embellish some points, for example, the walking of the dog, the premise of the comments cannot be legitimately challenged.  Do I have a reader who honestly does not think Obama is exceeding common guidelines with respect to living in excess as President?  In addition, do any not see the hypocrisy of him sparing no expense vacationing and golfing while most of us are struggling mightily in the dismal economy he is presiding over?

In my career, I have noticed great leaders provide an example for those they command or lead by establishing a code of behavior and work ethic.  For crying out loud, the president and first lady take separate planes on vacation, something we previously found obscene.  A respected leader would not close tours of The White House to gain political points while his family vacations touring the world.

Meet President Obama.

Bachmann has been hit hard in the aftermath of these comments, by both sides.  CNN correspondent Dana Bash ambushed Bachmann in a parking lot.  Mind you, Bash, who would not know a Fulton county commission meeting if it was held in the CNN parking lot, cannot find time to chase the Obama administration down on anything, but was in high speed pursuit of Bachmann.

From the supposed right, Bill O'Reilly led the way, hammering Bachmann on is FOX program "The O'Reilly Factor.  Please take a listen to O'Reilly below:

O'Reilly is off the mark, which is unfortunately more common than you may think.  I was not the only one who noticed, as The Great One Mark Levin let O'Reilly have it on his nationally syndicated radio show.  Listen to Levin HERE.

On Monday, we learned Bachmann is now the center on an ethics investigation for the misuse of campaign funds.  The Blaze reports that Federal investigators are now interviewing former Bachmann campaign staffers nationwide about alleged intentional campaign-finance violations.  Would these be the same disgruntled former staff members fired for poorly leading her 2012 presidential campaign?

But this is not the point, as everyone who remains sane recognizes that President Obama gives no consideration to the money he spends as President, or as Commander in Chief in running up the national debt, and that an upstart investigation focusing on former staff members has the earmark of a witch hunt.

Most on the left think Bachmann is a dingbat, so why all the long knives?  We have hit this topic previously, and make no mistake about it; Bachmann is being targeted for her having been an outspoken opponent of our coziness with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Once Bachmann publicly questioned our policy toward the Muslim Brotherhood, she has been in the cross hairs.  From John McCain to Bill O'Reilly on the right, to the entire roster of lefties, Bachmann must be taken down and discredited publicly before someone takes her seriously.  You see, she is being hit with propaganda portraying her as discredited.  Restated with an Orwellian flare, just like two plus two equals five, what you see presented about her are the opposite of the facts.

Bachmann was correct in the facts regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and their infiltration of our government by many who advocate for them in the shadows.  Recently, we have confirmed John Brennan to head the CIA and Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, who are sympathetic at best to these opponents of Israel. John Kerry, our new Secretary of State, has supporters on both sides of the aisle, even though he is a fierce opponent of our military having protested against them on many an occasion.

The Muslim Brotherhood has taken over in Egypt, and is positioning themselves in Syria. Benghazi, who is not a WalMart greeter but rather the location where Ambassador Stevens and three other patriots were left hanging to be murdered by the Obama administration, is presumed to have been the location for gun running negotiations where guns were being run through Turkey to the Syrian rebels, who are really the Muslim Brotherhood.  For more on the gun running, see the following Gateway Pundit article.

Don't we usually demand a full investigation, especially under the most transparent administration ever, when our Ambassador get killed?  Then why are we silencing witnesses?

As we have noted, Bachmann is correct on this and we encourage you to support her in any way possible.   Don't be distracted by all the noise surrounding and ridicule of Bachmann, just know that the reason she is being targeted is because she is asking questions the administration does not want to answer.  Efforts to discredit Bachmann have failed thus far, so the progressives are stepping up their game.

Bachmann indeed must be on to something.

Signals of Stupidity

They are very entertaining, and extremely alarming, segments on many a talk radio and news oriented television programs. Sean Hannity has his segment called "Man On The Street", Glenn Beck has "Moron Trivia", calling convenience store clerks from Monday Night Football cities to predict the winner and Bill O'Reilly has "Waters World", with Jesse Waters interviewing citizens on the issues of the day. The King of All Media, Howard Stern, recently made news interviewing Obama supporters.

Without question, idiots are at large. On The Glenn Beck Radio Program this morning, Glenn, Pat & Stu listen to a supposed caller to a Fargo, North Dakota radio station, who may in fact be the biggest idiot on the planet. You decide:



Nobody could be this stupid, so Glenn must have been pulling our leg. Maybe the left has finally caught Glenn misrepresenting the facts; who knows?

At any rate, there is no doubt there are millions of absolute idiots hitting the voting booth, and Obama is working very hard to secure the vote of each and every one of them. These are many of the same people who are the beneficiaries of the slew of entitlements delivered by our government.

In NASCAR terms, we are in the lead with the laps are winding down, and we need to hit our points and bring the car home.

A Romney victory is there for the taking, but we must retain our intensity. We cannot allow the ill informed village idiots to stand in our way.  All we do now, is win, and win we must.

The Ghost Factor

Bill O'Reilly must have seen a ghost. In fact, a slew of Americans are seeing ghosts.

O'Reilly, beyond fashionably late to the damage being caused by the Obama regime, unloaded on Obama in his Talking Points Memo last night on The O'Reilly factor on the FOX News Channel.

Gateway Pundit has analysis on the must see segment, presented below:



Although Obama holds himself in the highest of regard, the economic statistics of the Obama tenure, across the board, paint a grotesque picture of failure. The Keynesian economic model has failed again, although it can be strongly argued Obama is intentionally crashing the system in an effort to create a socialist utopia of governmental control of the corporations and individuals.

This is far from the Reagan mandate of free market capitalism and entrepreneurship, creating an incentivized work force adhering to morality, hard work and competition. Reagan operated with four pillars of of a strong economy; sound money, tax cuts, job creation and limited government regulation, taxes and spending. During the Reagan administration, over 20 million jobs were created.

If Obama wanted to get America back to work, he would follow the blueprint for success provided by Reagan. Instead, Obama happily presides over an America in economic decline. In many ways, we are seeing the ghost of 1980. Certainly, Mitt Romney is no Ronaldus Magnus, but has a measurable amount of previous business success. Obama has proven economically inept, and given his record operates with communistic processes.

America should hear loudly the words presented by Ronald Reagan in his inaugural address in 1980, which are quite relevant today.
 

It is a time for choosing America. A society based on entitlements which rob individuals of their identity and hope crushing the entrepreneurial spirit, or restricting punitive tax and regulatory burdens, unleashing competition providing a platform from which Americans have the economic freedom to pursue the grandest of dreams.

Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. Government is not the solution to our problems, but is in fact the problem.

Enlightenment Fusing

Last week, Glenn Beck announced he would be leaving his weekday show on the FOX News Channel. Although news reports indicate many advertisers had withdrawn support, his ratings were historic for his 5PM EST time slot and he will be sorely missed. Beck spoke with FOX News Judge Andrew Napolitano regarding his announcement.

Beck will continue to do his weekday radio show, and his emerging internet news platform The Blaze is literally on fire. But beyond that, Beck was mum on his plans, asking his fans to trust him on what lies ahead. As one of his loyal fans, I can say Beck has earned that trust.

Beck has been almost alone in leading the way on several major negative developments, including ACORN, Van Jones and the Czars, the transformation of America and perhaps most importantly, the crashing of the American economic system by capitalist opponents.

Decisions made these days by our government makes little sense, but if you are informed about the Cloward and Piven strategy, something Beck introduced most of America to, you would recognize the coordinated effort to crash our current economic system into a European socialist structure. Beck has been on it for years, as have I.

Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, wrote a great column regarding Beck leaving his show. But O'Reilly, who has been resistant to sign on to the concept that enemies inside the gate are plotting the crashing of our economic system, has seen the light and has arrived to the party. Although most of the beer is gone, O'Reilly is welcomed.

Hopefully, with O'Reilly on board, more Americans will come to realize the evil being perpetrated on America under the progressive left who place zero value on American exceptionalism. If so, we can all thank Glenn Beck, the George Whitfield of our time, for leading the way.

To Tell The Truth

During the course of my daily media viewing, from FOX News to CNBC, I hear political and economic analysts routinely create controversy by out and out lying to the viewers. Certainly, items of discussion like a prediction of the price of a particular stock price in three months has a varinace of opinion. Good luck with that. Those guys are smarter than I am as I don't even know what I am having for lunch tomorrow.

Unfortunately, the rapidly increasing lies go much deeper that what Coca Cola trades at come St. Patricks Day. Take the "established" rhetoric that the Obama administration has created or "saved" some 3 million jobs. Are you trying to kid me? No, you are lying to me. Brent Bozell, founder of The Media Research Center, has had enough:



I have had enough as well. I try to call many of the culprits out here on the blog, but time constraints prohibit me from even scratching the surface. During political season, and we are squarely in the thick of that as we approach the most important election of my lifetime on November 2, a real "Time of Choosing", I want to express to my readers how important it is to know your sources.

From Common Cents Blog comes a blog piece I have been aiming to present on my own for some time, highlighting perhaps your best economic and political source for credible information. It can be found on the pages of Investors Business Daily.

Common Cents Blog says: "The absolute best editorial page you will read is Investor's Business Daily. IBD prints easy-to-read, concise and hard hitting editorials that tout the benefits of free enterprise." A subscriber since 1994, I am in complete agreement with this assertion. Common Cents Blog lists the editorial pieces from Tuesday, October 26, 2010. I added a few they left off, and added commentary on each piece.

EDITORIALS

ObamaCare: Finding things we don't like in the Democrats' overhaul legislation is becoming an almost daily event. Add to the list the possibility that a provision in the bill could be almost six times more costly than the initial estimate. We need to pass the bill to find out what is in the bill. This is completely lacking in common sense, is insulting and a unfathomable display of arrogance. Did I mention we are broke?

WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction): Iraq War documents released by WikiLeaks show that U.S. forces frequently encountered weapons of mass destruction facilities and specialists. A former president is owed an apology. I find WikiLeaks and its founder disgusting. However, I have and had no doubt Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that Iran is and continues to be the head of the snake. Thank You President Bush!

Fiscal Responsibility: Facing historic electoral losses, big-spending Democrats have stooped to lying about Rep. Paul Ryan's innovative plan to save Social Security — aided and abetted by the establishment media. While Obama thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, economically, Ryan is. Come November 2, Uncle Same can finally utilize his talents to help us to perhaps regain prosperity again.

Election 2010: Nine days before Americans go to the polls, CBS' "60 Minutes" tells the true story of just how many of them are in the unemployment line. Brother, can you spare a vote? The housing crisis is one created in large measure by government interference and is far from being over. It has so decimated the economy that a extremely serious unemployment situation must now be dealt with prior to any meaningful repair in the housing market.

Islamofascism: O'Reilly, Whoopi and Joy are all wrong. The 9/11 terrorists weren't "Muslim extremists" or just plain "Muslims." A liberal newspaper reporter says they were model Muslims. More precisely, they were "perfect soldiers" for Allah, says Los Angeles Times national correspondent Terry McDermott. I have no idea why anyone would give a rats ass what Whoopi and lack of Joy Behar care about anything. However, watching "The View", which I do not, although I am a Disney (DIS:NYSE) shareholder, gives you a window on what a cancer the progressive mindset is to the founding principles of our nation.

War: With WikiLeaks exposing new U.S. secrets, the worst revelation is that the U.S. is vulnerable. As President Obama obsesses about exiting Iraq and Afghanistan, the leaks show that Iran is taking advantage. The globalist in chief is dangerously naive in global affairs. This is very troubling, and the un-American mindset of Obama is rapidly weakening America. Reagan thought peace through strength was the best course, and I quite agree.

Election '10: Megalomania and chutzpah has been redefined with the Senate majority leader's assertion that without him we'd be in worldwide depression. Unfortunately, he couldn't save his home state of Nevada. Reid thinks that without him, we would be in a worldwide depression. This may well be the most arrogant statement ever. He could not run a lemonade stand, but he thinks he is the Vince Lombardi of creating economic expansion.

On The Left: The Tea Party has no leader. It has no address, no phone and no Washington headquarters. It is everywhere and nowhere. For Barack Obama, the Tea Party is the quintessential asymmetrical enemy, much like the Taliban in Afghanistan. The president stands a chance of losing on both fronts. Leftist moonbat and Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen can't determine who the enemies of Obama are. Cohen and The Post have searched the Tea Party high and low to figure out how one could oppose the brilliance of the anointed one. No need to phone Columbo, Obama's enemies are free market capitalists, and given his statements to a Latino audience yesterday, those who oppose his policies, which is well over half the country.

On The Right: Classic songs from years past are sometimes referred to as "golden oldies." There are political fallacies that have been around for a long time as well. These might be called brass oldies. It certainly takes a lot of brass to keep repeating fallacies that were refuted long ago. Dr. Sowell, a fellow at The Hoover Institute at Stanford, is brilliant and someone who you should become acquainted with. Sowell is dead on in this piece, as we are retracing the steps that put us in The Great Depression. For a more detailed overview, read Amity Shlaes book "The Forgotten Man"

To "Read What Is Really Going On", choose IBD as a trusted source in this arena where many media outlets are sorely lacking in credibility. Then, you will be blinded by the light no more.

HT/COMMON CENTS BLOG

Exposing of ACORN Exposes Media

Thankfully, behind Glenn Beck, Andrew Breibart and the new Woodward and Bernstein, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, ACORN has blown up. I have previously blasted ACORN on this blog on numerous occasions, labeling them as the criminal enterprise portal they are.

It seems hard to believe anyone with a lick of common sense could have not recognized the significant problems with ACORN, but leave it to our media. It is far time to call them out, and Bill O'Reilly does just that.



What on earth is ABC News pointman Charlie Gibson thinking? Remember, Gibson hammered Sarah Palin about being not well read, and he has not a clue about ACORN? In his own words! Oh good heavens! I had occasion to meet Mr. Gibson at GMA, and he could not have been kinder. But, he should retire to sailing and leave the journalism part to people who take the responsibility seriously. And, if Sarah Palin has failed to be up to speed on current events, and she has not, what would we be left to conclude for someone charged to be engaged in the news of the day to be so uninformed? Media bias?

Glenn Beck finally broke down and called the media complicit in using the news divisions as arms of the current administration. Beck, as usual, is correct. I always thought the news media, or essentially the network news divisons and the major daily newspapers, had a repsonsibility to the citizenry to provide checks and balances of our elected government. Just the facts.

If those days ever existed, they are gone. Hannah and James for the next Pulitzer!

The Inconvenience of Truth

Astonishingly, with our President leading the charge, the Congress is set to attempt to push through a very expensive cap and trade energy bill which is primarily based on the acceptance of man made global warming, or climate change, or whatever politically expedient label they now place on it.

Former Vice President Al Gore, who has made millions of dollars spreading this propaganda, has declared the debate over and even degrades those with a differing opinion. But, that fact is, the debate is far from over.



There are well qualified spokesman on both sides. Recently, Bill O'Reilly had an interview with someone in the field I respect, and that is AccuWeather's Joe Bastrdi from Penn State University.



It seems obvious to me, no doubt far from the meteor logical expert Mr. Gore is, that very limited funding, if any, from our bankrupt government should be expended on budgetary items based on 50% probabilities. This is not prudent, but then again, the history of our government shows they have no problem spending the taxpayers money on all sorts of unnecessary avenues.

Hence, the march on Washington yesterday.

Voight Drops Car Bomb

It was just a few weeks ago that Jon Voight's character on the stellar FOX series 24, Jonas Hodges, met his demise via a car bomb. Voight verbally dropped one of his own this week, on President Barack Obama. And boy, does he deserve it! Take a listen as Bill O'Reilly interviews Voight:



Voight is right on target and if America ever wakes up to the policies this administration is forcing down our throat, the Obama experiment will be a painful memory.

BAHL's Babes: Kylie Minogue

On The O'Reilly Factor Pinhead and Patriots segment, Bill O'Reilly labeled Australian singer Kylie Minogue a patriot for her charitable work with The Wiggles, a kids group, in an effort to help raise money for children.

I had the occasion to meet Kylie as she was a scheduled performer on Good Morning America when I was there one morning. She was friendly, humorous and quite tiny, not to mention stunning. The performance of her top single "Come Into My World" was also outstanding. See the photo and youtube of performance below:



Kylie is an award winning singer and actress, and a breast Cancer survivor. She has written a book for kids and has her own perfume line. I did not have her on the original list of BAHL's Babes, but if you find time to help out kids, are a Cancer survivor and are hot, that works for me.

A Raucous Radio Factor

Last week, while Bill O'Reilly was absent from "The Radio Factor", FOX News ladies Lis Wiehl and E.D. Hill sat in and held a discussion on the uproar surrounding the unsourced reports about the academic prowess and readiness for higher office of GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin. As followers of the blog recognize, I am a fan of Sarah Palin and was before and after John McCain named her his running mate.

E. D. Hill, former co-host of Fox and Friends, supported Palin, accurately recognizing that Palin raises a family and faces issues most
normal American citizens face. Hill notes that Palin is anti-establishment, uses a barometer of common sense and does not subscribe to the normal politicking we see in the high levels of government. Palin is a graduate of The University of Idaho, not Harvard or Amherst. An intelligent, normal person. Sign me up!

Lis Wiehl, who although no doubt intelligent as she is a quite accomplished attorney and I am sure a very nice individual, is perhaps the most naive radio and television personality I can think of. Wiehl represents elitism in my view. Lis stated felt she could have tea with Palin, although I am quite sure Palin does not meet elitist for tea. She commented that due to Palin being an outsider not possessing the Ivy League degree she could not intelligently handle the extreme decision making that accompanies the office of the president, all the while discounting the lack of experience Obama has since he is the chosen one. Wiehl has no clue about fly over America.

The interaction was just incredible, and it was quite easy to pick your side in this discussion. Give me E. D. Hill and Sarah Palin any day over naive chicks like Wiehl.

Unfortunately, I may be in the minority as TV Newser reports that E. D. Hill will not be retained by Fox News at the conclusion of her contract. She recently made what some considered to be a distasteful remark about the fist pumping by Barack and Michelle Obama. Hill calling it like she sees it is one of the things I appreciate about her most.

I think FOX dropped the wrong contributor in this case. Keep those elbows flying E.D. and good luck!

NBC News Facing Challenges

The surprising and sudden death of NBC's Tim Russert is very sad indeed. By all accounts, Russert was a towering figure in the political machine but more importantly, a fair and kind gentleman who had great appreciation for his friends and family.



For his family at NBC News, the death of Russert is particularly challenging. Of late, NBC News has been moving into an area where political commentary and "news" were one in the same, and the bias toward the left is overwhelming. Keith Olbermann, a left leaning political commentator who hammers conservatives nightly in a disrespectful way on his program, sits in anchoring primary election coverage with Russert and Chris Matthews. There is a place for folks like Olbermann, but it is not when "political news" is taking place unless the debate is balanced. For example, FOX does not include Bill O'Reilly in their primary election coverage. Who, what, where and when.

Russert appreciated politics and respected differing opinions. He would not be leading the way in this convergence and reportedly objected to it. Outside of Meet The Press, ratings indicate few viewers are watching these NBC political folks anyhow. Although CNBC excels, with Russert gone, expect the viewership to continue to fade for NBC News and MSNBC.

The unfortunate irony of Russert, who wrote a best selling book about his father, checking out on Fathers Day weekend, is just wrong. Without Russert, we were Meet The Depressed this morning. I did tilt a cold brew in Russert's honor. He will be missed.