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CPAC Update: Coulter Comedy

Ann Coulter is the funniest woman on the planet.  I don't know why the media always paints her as the toughest man on the planet.  No one is better at putting funnies into serious stories. 

She started right in against the liberal media, telling the crowd that every host at MSNBC went to the "alternative prom" in high school.   The crowd cracked up, and the jokes and the laughter grew from there.

She had a theme about Obama being the media's new born baby, and how the doting parents are melting everytime he learns something new. There was even a joke about bed wetting (only Coulter can get away with that).

Then she took on the Obama/Jesus comparisons, noting that as leader of the 12 Apostles, Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

However she did give the Democrats and the media props for even knowing who Jesus is. "Apparently they like carpenters - it's plumbers they hate."

The other comparison the media makes is that Obama is like Lincoln, but Ann said at no time did Honest Abe ever vote "present" on a bill.  As to the the Obama/Reagan comparisons, they are made, according to Ann, because there is no great Democrat President worth comparing him with. Priceless!

There were about 3 dozen jokes I didn't write down because I was laughing too hard.

I can't wait for the YouTube video.

CPAC Update: Ron Paul Calls the Bailouts More Fascist Than Socialist!

Thank goodness someone of import has finally said it!

For months now I’ve been trying to get folks in politics, the media and the public to stop calling the bailouts “socialism” because it isn’t socialism.  It is most assuredly economic fascism.

I first wrote about the difference in the political philosophies here.

 

I wrote about my conversation on the issue with Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute here.

Ron Paul was again a tremendous speaker at CPAC and as usual he gave a speech laced with intelligent point after point.

 

Let someone else write about the rest of it.

 

To me the most important part of Congressman Paul’s speech was the recognition of President Obama’s fascist power grab.

 

From the nationalization of Citi Group to centering power in the Whitehouse by politicizing the Census to using American taxes to kill unborn babies around the world, Obama’s policies are more Mussolini than Lenin.

CPAC Update: America Is Talking About Steve Lonegan’s Race in New Jersey

If you follow new GOP chief Michael Steele lately, you can count on him bringing up New Jersey’s Gubernatorial race this year.  He wants that blue state red again.

 

From top to bottom, the GOP is talking about New Jersey.

 

Here at the Conservative Political Action Conference in D.C., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reminded the crowds that the last time New Jersey had a conservative candidate for Governor, he won with 70% of the vote (Kean, 1984).  That’s 70% - in New Jersey. 

 

After that victory it is inexplicable that New Jersey’s Republican intelligencia determined their Republican candidates would do better if they were more liberal.  That’s been proven quite wrong.

 

McConnell warned that the Republican Party risks becoming a regional party if they don’t start concentrating on places like the Northeast.

 

So how important is New Jersey’s race? Consider this: Newt Gingrich speaking here at CPAC called this year’s race in New Jersey “one of the most consequential in American history.”

 

It’s that’s important.

 

So you can imagine the interest here when New Jersey Republican candidate for Governor Steve Lonegan took the stage.  Not only was there a huge live audience but also around the sprawling conference people stopped and watched the live feed on monitors in hallways and at the Exhibit Hall.

 

Steve Lonegan is a successful businessman and an accomplished Mayor. He is a conservative and a tax slayer. He won election and reelection in a town where the Democrat registration outpaces the Republican registration by a huge margin – which is what the Republican candidate will face statewide in New Jersey.  He notes he is the only candidate in the race who has proven he can overcome that.

 

Such success doesn’t come without being a great communicator, and Lonegan proved once again here at CPAC that his skills in talking to folks is as exciting as anyone on the national scene.

 

A Lonegan speech tends to be politics infused with fascinating history and moral lessons in life. 

 

Here at CPAC, Lonegan reminded a crowd sentimental for America’s beginnings that Washington’s battle at Trenton was the changing point in the Revolutionary war, emboldening the Americans who were widely thought to have already lost the war, and disrupting British plans.

 

Lonegan’s Republican campaign is metaphorical of Washington’s Trenton battle.  George Washington’s troops were under great strain.  One third of them had no boots.  Their cause was losing and they faced a professional Hessian force that was well funded and thought to be too dominant for the Americans.

 

But as Lonegan pointed out, the Hessians would later say they knew the Americans wouldn’t lose just by the look in the eyes of Washington troops.  The underdog Americans turned into a mighty military at the fight and took the battle of Trenton.

 

Fighting on the side of the righteousness can do that to a man.

 

Lonegan notes he faces Corzine, a man who spent $120 million of his own money to practically purchase victories in his New Jersey Senate and Governor races. 

 

Lonegan also faces a man in Corzine who give millions of dollars in “gifts” to the head of New Jersey’s largest union who then endorsed him, while federal prosecutors sat back and passed no intention on that matter.  The Republican Party in New Jersey has been forced to file civil lawsuits to find out more about those “gifts.” 

 

Lonegan invited America at CPAC to join today’s “Battle of Trenton.” The crowd loved the line and in the hallways people could be heard yelling to “win the Battle of Trenton!”

 

While American Republicans are enamored with Lonegan, his biggest challenge comes from Republicans in New Jersey.  Monmouth County, a Republican stronghold, awarded the party line to another candidate by fiat, without allowing Republican Committee members to be heard.

 

It has been reported that one Republican Assemblyman in New Jersey has said that Lonegan is “too right wing.”  I wonder which Republican policy that assemblyman disagrees with?  He certainly didn’t say.

 

George Washington’s troops were down with the cause.  Will New Jersey Republicans be loyal to theirs?

Photos From CPAC Day 2

  Fred Smith makes his point with Rep. Scott Garrett (NJ) to his right at the panel discussion on the Bailouts.

Jersey Boys.  Rep Scott Garrett and I after his talk.

Newwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwt!!!!!!

The good Baldwin....Stephen signs his book.

    Ron Paul on the Big Screen speakin' TRUTH!

  Dr. Paul and I have the same taste in clothes.

CPAC Update: Newt Gives The Marching Orders

Stack 'em, pack 'em, and 'rack em.

That's how the CPAC organizers had to deal with seating conservatives who came to listen to Newt Gingrich.  When the huge ball room was filled, they set up live feeds into other ball rooms to handle the overflow.

Starting out philosophically, Newt called everyone's attention to the rights endowed by our Creator as noted in the Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Then he made sure to note it applies to everyone; not one American should be left out of it.

That set the theme for a speech dedicated to reaching out to more people, to attract them to the Republican Party.

He did his share of partisan shooting, but phrased it constructively.  He was surprised President Obama didn't take on the Democratic Congress for the 8,000 earmarks in the last spending bill.  Constructive criticism, but a reminder of the 8000 earmarks made for a good point too.

He went after Pelosi's private flying and the 65 "stand and squats" she did during Obama's address to Congress.

But the bigger part of his speech was inclusion.  He noted the need to reach Latinos.  Newt, like Reagan before him, believes Latinos at heart are a conservative people.

He noted the lack of divisiveness in Reagan's speeches, and how he never missed a chance to appeal to Democrats and Independents.  He suggested we all do the same with good, constructive ideas.

"Conservatism is bigger than the Republican Party," he said. The idea he set forth there is that if we attract people to conservatism, we will grow the party too.

He also spoke of finding people who left the party and talking to them about why, so we can bring them back.

He noted Republican faults as well, saying we have become the right wing of the party of big government, with Democrats being the left wing.

He left off with some ideas on issues.

He thinks the Obama policy of "punishing businesses who send jobs overseas" is wrong.  Instead, we should reward businesses who create jobs here.

He noted that if we dropped the capital gains tax to zero as China has, suddenly assets in America would be worth a great deal more, which would start the investment America needs right now.

He also wants to see Americans get 50% off their FICA/social security taxes, which would instantly jump start consumption and investment.

Great speech.

Time for the Conservatives to march forward with Newt's orders.

CPAC Update: Wayne LaPierre rocked the house!

Wayne LaPierre is the CEO of the National Rifle Association.  He is an absolute quote-generating machine.  The crowd of conservatives he spoke to today loved every minute of it.

Wayne showed a clip of him taking CNN to task when he uncovered a phony news piece they ran about "assault" rifles.  Watch it here.  He nearly brought the house down!

He pointed out that despite attacks on the second amendment by the left, gun sales in America are at record levels.  According to LaPierre, people prefer to protect themselves rather than waiting in their homes for the government to show up. 

Following up on the security issue, he noted, "The Second Amendment breathes life into liberty."  How?  "The founding fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules."

Wayne noted that is a controversial holding in a nation of laws, but you really can't deny the truth of it when it comes to new nations and nations in the throws of revolution.  In a continuing nation, that truth sits quietly in the background, waiting, should the time come for it to assert itself.

Making good use of video, Wayne showed clip after clip of people in the Obama administration taking the position of taking your guns.

So according to Wayne, so long as Obama is President, the fight is on.  The crowd was clearly ready to join him.

CPAC Udapte: Talking Socialism/Fascism with Fred Smith

This morning I attended a conference called " "Bailing Out Big Business: Are We All Socialists Now?"

The name was obviously in response to the Newsweek cover claiming "We are all Socialists Now." 

The panelists were Congressmen Todd Tiahrt, Jason Chaffetz and Scott Garrett, along with Fred Smith from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

My Pet Peeve right now is people calling these business bailouts Socialism, when in fact is is something much worse - economic Fascism, or if you are offended by the very use of the word Fascism, then call it "Corporatism"  (it's the same thing).

I went through the differences in a previous column called "It's Fascism, Stupid, Not Socialism."

After the panel finished I spoke with Fred Smith about it.  Fred agreed that the bailouts are more Fascist than Socialist, but then he made another good point of which I was already aware.

People are uncomfortable using the word "Fascism" because they don't think of the economic side of it (Corporatism), instead they think of racism, anti-semitism, over-the-top nationalism and images of Mussolini hanging upside down.

Fred suggested using the word Socialism to move the conversation along.

I disagree.  CPAC has the function of training the thousands  of college students who are here.  Why send them out to fight Socialists if their real enemy is Fascists?  They won't even recognize the enemy, which is how Barack Obama got elected in the first place.

Tucker Carlson Was The Most Entertaining Speaker At CPAC Day 1

When you listen to hours of speeches in a day, you really come to appreciate the guy that has a little fun.

That's what Tucker Carlson does.

Speaking to like-minded people is safe - you know your applause lines. If your speech is going a little flat, since this is conservatives you can bring 'em to their feet by praising the free market, embracing Individual rights, mentioning the name Reagan or hissing at a Clinton.

Tucker likes to have way more fun than that.

After applauding all day for speakers downing the Fairness Doctrine, Tucker walked to the microphone and announced he was for it.  The crowd rumbled and booed, but everyone sat up in the chairs to listen.

Tucker asked the crowd to imagine if it had passed.  Conservatives would have a great issue to rally around.  We could fight on a point that we would be perfectly correct about.  He asked them to imagine talk show hosts saying things like, "The can have my microphone when they pry it out of my cold dead fingers!"  He asked them to imagine how nice it would be to beat liberals over and over on a Constitutional argument as the public rallied around us to protect their free speech rights. SLowly the crowd started to cheer his idea.

Tucker was in control of the crowd and he knew it. He has that little grin when he's having that much fun.  He took them from booing to cheering on the same issue in the course of a paragraph.

It was fun.

He tried the same device again.  He told them Conservative media needs to start really digging up facts and reporting them like ... The New York Times.  The Times?!?! Conservatives' most hated of all publications?  We should find "facts" as they do?

They were booing Tucker again.

Tucker tried to bring them back by explaining that much of Conservative media comments on news, they don't dig it up themselves.  He would like to see Conservatives go out and find the news before anyone else.

As a conservative blogger I know what he means.  I don't go to hearings in Washington or read in person everything that Congress is writing.  I have to read news feeds first like everyone else.  Tucker just wants Conservatives to BE the news feeds.

I'm not sure he brought the crowd back.  If you make them think you just complimented the New York Times, they don't hear what you have to say after that. They are booing too loudly.

But it was fun!

Photos from CPAC Day 1

With Senator Bob Corker - a true Southern gentleman.

My Congressman Chris Smith -defending the unborn.

With Tucker Carlson - most entertaining speaker of Day 1.

Video game that lets you shoot critters.  Mmmmm critters!

Some Conservative ladies made a Calendar called "Pretty In Mink."  This is Miss July, Amanda Carpenter.  Obviously I'm bending my knees to make Amanda appear taller.

Chris Smith On Abortion at CPAC

I had the privilege of sitting down and listening to my own Congressman, Chris Smith of New Jersey, talk about abortion.

His topic was buried in a panel on "social issues" which ticked me off (Life should have had it's own panel), but I knew what Chris would talk about. He has been a pro-life Champion for his 28 years in congress.

The Democrats in Congress just blocked two of Congressman Smith's Amendments from even seeing the floor for debate - one to reverse the Obama policy of allowing American tax dollars to pay for foreign abortions, the other to make sure no American tax dollars are used for FORCED abortions and FORCED Sterilizations.

The Democrats would not allow those to be appended to the spending bill. They did however allow another congressman's amendment to spend your tax dollars on trying to get pigs to smell better.

Priorities.

One statistic offered by Congressman Smith really hit me in the gut.  China has a policy preference for boys over girls.  Since the dawn of ultrasound to tell what sex a baby has, here is how many Chinese have been killed in the womb for no other reason than being a girl:

100 million.

Holocaust. 

I Couldn't Stop Joe the Plumber

Joe the Plumber was moving down the hallway on the way to making a speech, surrounded by 5 people walking with him (plumbers' apprentices?)

I tried to stop him to get a picture for my blog, but he kept on cruising.

I guess there was a broken toilet emergency at the other side of the hotel.

Flubbed My First Fox News Report

Wow! I got a taste of being a reporter instead of a pundit today.  I discovered the talent is making it look easy, which I didn't do. New respect for reporters.  Tough job they have!

I'm sitting in the Hotel Lobby blogging, when I get an email from Fox's Strategy Room producer Mike Straka telling me to come over in a few minutes, and to be ready to talk about what Ambassador John Bolton was speaking about at that moment. 

Problem was -  I wasn't at the speech.

So I rushed over to listen to Bolton to report on what he was saying. My apologies to the 5 or 8 people I knocked down running to the room where Bolton was speaking.

I got some time in.  I wanted to pick up some interesting bits to be able to report to the Strat Room viewers.  Bolton came through with some material. So no excuses - I should have been ready.

Next thing I know Straka sticks a speaker in my ear and hands me a mic. 

So I'm listening to Bolton in my right ear and Fox's Kimberly Guilfoyle in my left ear.  Straka's pointing to a spot he wants me to stand in.  People are applauding Bolton. The guy next to me is having a coughing fit. The earpiece has static. Everything is LOUD! 

Am I really supposed to be able to form thoughts and say them in this mayhem?  Reporters who can do this are focused!

The experience reminded me of the stories of Tiger's Woods' father hitting him in the leg with a stick while Tiger putted to strengthen his concentration.

I heard Kimberly call out to me and I was on air.  

I felt like Ralph Kramden when he was on TV selling his "Chef of the Future" kitchen tool:  Hum-a-na Hum-a-na Hum-a-na.

I'm thinking to myself, "Is Straka kidding me?"   I couldn't think of my name with all that Chaos going on.

I stuttered through it like Rod Blago on the View.

MIke is a great guy who threw me a softball and  I missed!

I think I'll stick to lawyering where I get two years to prepare my opening statements instead of two minutes.

I never realized reporters went through that. Hug a reporter the next time you see one! 

How Do YOU define "Conservatism?"

I'm taking a one question poll here at the Conservative Political Action Conference in D.C., and here is the question presented:

"Being as brief as you can be, and as understandable as possible, offer a defeinition of: "Conservatism."

Leave your own definition below and I will publish an analysis of the results after the Conference.

First Post From CPAC 2009!

I'm here at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C. to live-blog the Conservative Political Action Conference - the annual 3 day pow-wow of Conservatives from across America to kick around ideas on how to by-pass liberal media and bring the Conservative message to the people.

We will see Conservative and Republican (not the same thing) stars from Newt to Limbaugh and Huckabee to Coulter plus many more.

As I was walking toward the door carrying equipment Joe Scarborough walked past me.  Some ambitious young aid quickly inserted himself between Joe and me as if he were Rihanna and I had Chris Brown intentions or something.

Joe will be part of a meeting later today about the Fairness Doctrine, which Obama says he doesn't want, but Democrats in Congress say the do.

Keep checking back for more posts - I'll be live-blogging all day.

Government Phony Report on Health Costs to Scare You to Socialized Medicine

According to the Associated Press, the government issued a report today claiming that the average health care costs in America this year will be $8,000.00 per person.

Phony stats like this is how they are going to scare you into socialized medicine.

I tried an experiment with my own family.  Two years of health insurance payments for my family of 6 cost us $28,000.00 ($1,200.00 monthly).  Welcome to the world of the small business owner.

Do you know what our actual doctor and prescription costs were for those two years?  About $2,000.00.

Good thing I paid that $28,000.00 so I wouldn't have to pay $2,000.00.  Smart guy I am.

Insurance is a bet.  When you buy it, you bet you will get sick or hurt.  The insurance company bets you won't get sick or hurt (which is why they try to deny so many claims).

The problem is the odds are stacked way in their favor.  Chances are you won't get sick or hurt.  Most of your money is going to pay for other people and for insurance companies to invest in real estate.

Socialized medicine?  We already have it.  That's what insurance companies have given us.

Will Be Live-Blogging CPAC 2009 From D.C. This Week!

This Thursday through Saturday is the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC.

It's the biggest gathering of grass roots conservative from around America.

The guests as always are renowned conservative champs like Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ann Coulter, Mike Huckabee, John Bolton and many others. 

I'm going to be there live-blogging the event and issuing reports, photos and videos that will appear both here and over at The Fox Forum at www.FoxNews.com.

Hope you can get down there and if you can't, check in here at www.JustifiedRight.com for updates!

Will Be on FoxNews.Com's "The Strategy Room" Monday 10 AM

I'll be on with host Heather Nauert:  

Go to www.FoxNews.Com and click on the link just below the first few headlines.

You can pick "Download Viewer" or "Watch in your browser."  The second choice is easier.

No Surprise Here Mr. Gore...

Due to a glitch in a satellite, the size of the arctic ice cap was underestimated.  Global warming guys are trying to claim the mistake was insignificant to their religion of climate change.

If by insignificant they mean the satellite missed a chunk of ice the size of...CALIFORNIA...then yea you can call it insignificant.

Bloomberg has the story:  http://tinyurl.com/b9evrx

The measuring tools used by the religion of Gore has always been a subject that interests me.  The whole global temperature rose in all of the 20th Century by about 1 degree Fahrenheit (everybody panic!).  But how trustworthy and calibrated were the thermometers?  Good luck even trying to find the data.  They could have been instruments that fell off the back of a truck for all we know.

Manbearpig. 

Eric Holder Thinks Our Civil War Dead Were Cowards

Take a listen to your Attorney General call your nation one of cowards:

Here is America's real and glorious history of fighting against slavery:

http://tinyurl.com/6yhg8q

After you read it, make sure you do this:

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Bad Economy Cutting Your Partying?

According to Reuters, the bad economy is leaving us with less fun money.  Festivals large and small are being cancelled.

Don't let them take that from us.

After work today find a local happy hour and stimulate your economy.

Serving Wench!  Bring me Grog!

Fairness Doctrine? Bring It On!

Let the government insist that when I speak a liberal gets to speak next to me.  Oh how I relish the idea of having my conservative views lined up side by side next to dopey liberal views.  Let the world see how much better conservatism is.

I understand the constitutional concerns of my brethren conservatives, but the Supreme Court already ruled in 1969 that due to the public airwaves being a limited resource, this regulation of speech content doesn’t violate First Amendment Free Speech rights (because the rights of the listeners trump the rights of the broadcasters). I’m not saying I dig the logic, but it’s res judicata (its been decided).  The decision was 8-0.

Look, if conservatives really want to challenge the Fairness Doctrine, I suggest using a different (but no less important) section of the 1^st Amendment – Freedom of Association.  The Court didn’t address that in 1969, and that section has grown in importance over the years, keeping the Boy Scouts and the Hibernians from having to rub against Gays against their will.

We can make the argument that we shouldn’t have to associate with the likes of Al Franken and Bill Ayers against our will.

But on the other hand, why miss the opportunity this can bring us to go mano a mano with Dummycrats every chance we can get?

Some people see their opinions as fragile bubbles being gently blown by children in the breeze, and they act like children should someone pop their bubble.  As for me, I see opinions like birds in a cockfight.  Send mine out there to do battle to the death – if I have the better bird in the fight, I’ll win.  That’s how opinions should be measured – in battle.  Bring on the libs!

We Conservatives have always complained that the vast majority of media is left leaning.  If that’s true and we weren’t just blowing smoke, then we should be able to use the Fairness Doctrine to our great advantage.

Extend it to television and Internet.  Imagine – multitudes of conservatives like avenging angels swarming the castles of liberalism – HuffPo, CBS, ABC, NBC or Olbermann (who never has a guest disagree with him).  We can petition the Bankruptcy Court for time on Air America.  I’ll personally move Matt Lauer’s skinny rear-end out of his chair when I catch him hiding left-wing shenanigans behind a façade of centrism. 

We can use the opportunity to finally wipe out straw-man fake conservatives that liberal shows employ as useful idiots – like Andrew Sullivan.

Fairness Doctrine?  Bring it on!!!

Stimulus Package Insulting to Italian-Americans

Of all the bad things the stimulus package contains, one being overlooked is the insult to Italians.  Thanks to the stereotype Italians receive from pop culture, it’s not surprising the insult goes unnoticed.

 

Tucked in the 1,100-page Stimulus bill President Obama will sign today is Senator Harry Reid’s plan to funnel $50 million of your tax dollars to construct what is billed as a “Mob Museum” in his home state of Nevada.

 

This won’t be an historic learning experience.  It will be a Las Vegas show for kitschy tourists glorifying violence with false images of Italian Americans as the lone perpetrators of mayhem, not by real examples, but using fictional characters of Hollywood.

 

For years Hollywood has projected the worst images of killing, thievery and unholy greed onto Italians through “Mob” movies.  That’s a pretty bad rap against people who brought us telescopes, electric batteries and radio communication.

 

These fictional movies are why the Italian aesthetic in the public consciousness has gone from real people like Da Vinci and Botticelli to fake people like Corleone and Soprano.

 

It started with the movie The Godfather.  Before that, real-life organized crime had many ethnicities: Dutch Shultz, Bugsy Segal and Meyer Lansky were Jews. Dion O’Bannion and Bugs Moran were Irish. Of the Midwest Crime wave including John Dillanger, “Pretty Boy” Floyd, “Baby Face” Nelson, “Ma” Barker, Bonnie & Clyde and “Machine Gun” Kelly, none were Italian. Yet because the Godfather was so acclaimed, since then more than 400 feature films have been made showing mobsters as JUST Italian, despite the historical inaccuracy.

 

Add to that video games for kids, television shows about Italian mobsters and an endless stream of commercials with caricatures of Italians in bad suits mangling the English language and Italian becomes synonymous with crime instead of creativity.

 

The problem for Italians is this stereotype is “OK” in pop culture. Other stereotypes exist, but no other ethnicity suffers theirs being politically correct. Imagine an HBO series today about a fictional Step ‘n Fetchit Black family, a drunken Irish family, cheap Jews or dumb Poles. Those wrong stereotypes haven’t been wiped out, but they are universally reviled and controlled by making a pariah of anyone who uses them. See as examples Don Imus, Mel Gibson, Isaiah Washington and Michael Richards.

 

Yet portraying Italians as murderous, awful, immoral criminals will get you showered with Emmy awards.  James Gandolfini is the Step n Fetchit of the 21^st Century.

 

Why is the US Government paying to continue a stereotype? One would think a Democrat like Harry Reid whose party claims diversity and multiculturalism would renounce racism, not give it $50 million of tax money to flourish. 

 

This “Mob Museum” will be complete with opportunities to view Tony Soprano’s tee- shits and have your picture taken with paper cutouts of him and Vito Corleone.  I wonder how Senator Reid would feel about spending tax dollars on a museum where one can pose, thumbs up and smiling, next to paper cutouts of Sambo.

 

Worse yet, the Mob Museum is already admitting they are going to fabricate stories.  Michael Green, a history professor at the College of Southern Nevada is researching exhibits for the museum. In admitting the museum will tout fake stories as real, he said, “…you have to do a lot of reconstructing, inferring and implying. There's a lot of winking we're going to have to do."

 

A history professor making up history.  Scratch College of Southern Nevada off my list of schools to send my kids.

 

Glorifying a character like Soprano indoctrinates young Italians into the idea that a life of crime is sexy, causing them to embrace the stereotype. Italians who perpetuate this lie for romanticism don’t realize they hurt the rest of us.

 

The worst of it is when people claim, “I knew guys just like Tony Soprano back in the old neighborhood.”  No you didn’t.  That’s a lie.  You don’t know anyone who kills once a week, including his cousin and nephew.  People claiming fiction as fact is how stereotypes are born and grow.

 

The City of Chicago rejected such a museum a few years back.  They knew it would insult Italian Americans. Dorothy Coyle, director of the Chicago Office of Tourism said, “Anything that glorifies violence we are not interested in"

 

The harm caused by saturation of false images isn’t going to affect Italian-American stars like Scalia, Giuliani or Cuomo, nor the Italian American community as a whole. I worry about the individual.

 

Twenty years ago when I was in law school, three students were in the next booth at a campus restaurant. One said, “In criminal law we’re studying a case were all the defendants had these long Italian names…they were sooooo guilty!” See the math?  Italian name = guilty, not Mayor, Governor or Supreme Court Justice. I often wonder where that law student is today – a judge? A prosecutor maybe? Worse yet – a juror?

 

Wouldn’t America be better served with a museum highlighting Italians such as Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone, the only enlisted marine in World War II to win the Medal of Honor, The Navy Cross and a Purple Heart for holding off 3000 Japanese troops at Guadalcanal after all but 3 of his unit was wiped out?  He was killed at Iwo Jima.

 

I’d rather support a museum about Enrico Fermi, Galileo, John Cabot and Amerigo Vespucci.  Our country was named after that last fellow.

 

What support will I give Harry Reid’s Mob Museum should it open in 2010?  “Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing.”

 

Where Is Lonegan's Urban Policy for New Jersey?

 Last week I wrote about Chris Christie’s lack of an Urban Policy in his campaign and how that could ruin Republican chances of electing a Governor in November.

While I hate the Fairness Doctrine, I am a fan of equal time for candidates.  So today let’s talk about Steve Lonegan and Urban Policy.

 

Last night I saw both men speak at the Monmouth County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner. Both speeches were great.  So much so I can say I’m REALLY excited about this election.  That wasn’t the case in the last couple of gubernatorial elections.  Our candidates didn’t move me – Christie and Lonegan do.

 

Now, I’ll admit that a Monmouth County Republican dinner is not the best place to flout your Urban Policy.  It should be, because Republican failures to have an Urban policy cost us the Freeholder Board and it will cost us this election too if we don’t get busy in the cities.

 

However, the hot topic right now in Monmouth is bashing COAH housing requirements, which is suburban policy.  Both Christie and Lonegan received their loudest applause lines by beating up COAH.  The crowd wasn’t hungry for a talk about vertical housing in our Cities.  Well, maybe Neptune, Long Branch and Asbury Park folks wanted to hear it, but not others.

 

Whoever wants to be Governor had better be able to announce a policy that excites both the suburbs and the cities.  There is no worse feeling on a close election night than when the numbers start coming in from the other guy's favored districts and you say to yourself, "Right now I wish I had done something there to minimize the margin."

 

So did Lonegan talk Urban policy last night?  No, he didn’t.  There was a quick mention of school vouchers, which is Urban Policy, but those words came not from Lonegan but Hank Butehorn while he was introducing Lonegan.

 

Christie got big applause for saying he would handle COAH, and so did Lonegan when he went further and said he would eliminate COAH.

 

I don’t have any problem with that.  I’m a free market guy too.

 

But I have to ask you Steve Lonegan, are you going to eliminate zoning laws like 10-acre minimum lots for housing too?  Are you going to ban all open space spending?

 

Those things are contrary to the free market ideal too.  They just protect a different set of people.

 

I have a problem with suburbs looking to the Cities and saying, “Why do you guys need government help?  Why can’t you just deal in the free market and let it take its course?”  and then in the same breath using hundreds of millions of tax dollars to take land off the market with open space legislation and using government to close down the Free Market with 10 acre zoning lots for houses.  It’s hypocritical.

 

Understand I don’t propose getting rid of 10-acre minimum lots in the suburbs, nor am I suggesting that either candidate's platform should at this time claim they will stop buying open spaces.

 

I am saying that if we are going to have those anti-market government interferences that protect the suburbs, we have to pay some attention to the Urban housing in the Cities.  Otherwise, New Jersey will become as segregated as the antebellum South (we're getting there).

 

Maybe the better choice is to do nothing for each side.  That would be the ultimate Free Market statement.  Not even the most committed conservative-free market candidate would have the fortitude to suggest that.  Since even conservatives are going to regulate the economy, we have to regulate it even-handedly.

 

I like Christie and I like Lonegan. 

 

Both are dreamers if they think they can get elected with no Urban policy. 

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Monmouth Republicans To Hold Lincoln Dinner Somewhere Way The Hell Up North Tonight

Once again the Monmouth Republicans will have the biggest party of the year some place I have to drive a half hour to find.

That puts a damper on my drinking plans.

If only there were someone warning them that by continually ignoring the southern part of the County, the Urban districts might pull so far ahead that Democrats could one day take control of the Freeholder board.

Good grief.

Call me should you guys every wish to cross Colts Neck and spend some time in southern Monmouth.

I'll send you a map so you don't get lost.

A Madoff Suicide

A British soldier who lost his life savings to Bernie Madoff saw no way out and killed himself.

Wall Street and Congress better realize how important it is to deal with others. There are lives at stake.

Read the sad story here.

Not An Easy Read (Reid)

Check out Representative Tom Price trying to read the 1073 page law about to be passed that will spend a trillion or so of your tax dollars. 

It comes complete with handwritten cross outs (whose writing?) that porks-up the bill with an extra $50 million here, more there, etc.

Like it isn't even real money.   

The bill was made available to Congressmen at 11:00 pm last night. I hope the Congressman is a speed reader.  He has to vote on it TODAY!!!!!

Darwin Day Is For Dummies

February 12 this year marks the 200^th birthday of Charles Darwin, author of Origin of Species, which brought together various tenets of Evolution.

 

His science is important, but his legacy has been seized by the anti-religious who wrongly think Darwin’s ideas are contrary to God.  Groups who despise religion come together every February 12 commemorating Darwin’s birthday as a holy day of obligation, deifying the scientist. They turn Evolution, a scientific concept, into “Darwinism,” a religious concept. “Evolution” and “Darwinism” are not the same.

 

There is simply nothing contrary to God in Evolution and vice versa.  The Catholic Church for instance has never denied the scientific concepts.

 

The “Darwinists” point to the Genesis creation story and note that in it birds came before land animals, but the fossil record (as we currently know it – it’s always changing) shows the opposite.  Here is what they don’t know:  Churches accept various “senses of scripture.”  The church allows those with a literal interpretation of Genesis to pray next to those with an allegoric sense of scripture and those with an anagogic sense of scripture.

 

Christianity is not a “dead scroll” religion. The “living word” of God is paramount; the Bible assists one’s understanding of it. The Bible contains many poems and songs, so much is intentionally metaphorical; it is not promoted by the Church as a history or science text (although archeology has provided proof of Biblical events).

 

Darwinists lump all religions as “anti-Evolution” without telling us what in our religions are contrary to Evolution. Religions are no such thing.  Read Francis Collins’ book “The Language of God.” Collins headed the Human Genome Project and knows more about genetic Evolution than anyone.  He is also a devout Christian and finds them compatible.

 

Evolution as a science has some problems. While adaptation in creatures has scientific proof so I accept it (it’s how I build up immunities to the flu), the idea that one Genus of beings will morph into another Genus is without proof. So why would I scientifically accept it?

 

In fact the proof (actually lack of it) of Genus morphing in the fossil record shows it doesn’t happen. Most notably, Darwin spends two whole chapters in Origins of Species trying to explain why fossils of animals in transition from one type to another are never found, but he doesn’t do a very good job of it.

 

Some scientist today grab at anything to claim a fossil is a transitional being, but a cursory review of their claims proves them wrong.  They hold up an ancient giraffe with a short neck. But it’s still a giraffe.  Or they hold up a bird with teeth, and since birds don’t have teeth but dinosaurs do, they claim birds came from dinosaurs.  But scientists have teeth and they aren’t dinosaurs.  There are no transitional beings.

 

Since evolution requires the smallest possible changes over huge amounts of time, transitional beings should outnumber all other fossils by the hundreds of thousands. That the fossil record has scientists straining to find any transitionals is empirical proof that Darwin’s idea of Genus-to-Genus changes is a faith and not science. 

Darwinists try to pit Religion against Science when history shows the opposite is true.

 

Consider Galileo.  Our schools teach children that he was persecuted by the Church for claiming the earth revolved around the sun, even though he was right.  Here is what our schools leave out:  It was Copernicus – a Catholic Cleric, who developed the theory that the earth moves around the sun.  Galileo was supporting the Cleric’s theories. 

 

Two scientists – Aristotle and Ptolemy, had developed the wrong idea that the Sun moves around the earth.  By persecuting Galileo, the Church was supporting what science said, even though we know today the scientists were wrong and Copernicus, the Catholic Cleric, was right.

 

One area of science where the Darwinists get it wrong is Creation itself.  They get emotional when it is pointed out that Science has proved Supernatural Creation:

 

The Big Bang Theory was developed by a Catholic priest: Georges Lemaître.  He proposed the Universe began in a small “primordial egg” (today scientists call it “The Singularity”). It expanded suddenly and with great energy - the “Big Bang."

Scientist first rejected the Big Bang because the Universe would have a “beginning.”  A beginning requires a Creator.  Since those scintists hated religion, they developed an alternate “Steady State” theory which proposed no beginning to the Universe.  They did this not for sceintific reasons, but to be anti-religion – not a very scientific postulation.   

 

Even Einstein signed on to the "Steady State” theory.  He later renounced that, calling it his “greatest blunder” and accepted the Big Bang.  We know today by using Hubble’s work on Universe expansion and the discovery of the radiologic background “noise” of the Big Bang that the Priest was right (again) about science.

 

At the moment before the Big Bang, science concedes time and all our natural laws didn’t exist. That means the singularity was outside of nature – scientifically that is termed “super-natural.”  That really irks Darwinists, but they can’t deny it.

 

If you get the chance to argue these points with Darwinists, Secular Humanists or Ayn Rand styled haters of religion, challenge them on the science of creation – The Big Bang.  It drives them crazy when science confirms religion.

Shepard Fairey Counter-punches Associated Press

This is a fun story. 

The famous cartoon-ized Obie Hope picture at left, was lifted by Artist Shepard Fairey from the Associated Press photo, far left.

The Associated Press decided recently they want compensation because it's their photo.

Fairly claims it is fair use based upon his making the photo all artsy and stuff.

So after the AP threatened action, Fairley went ahead and filed suit against them first!  Counter-punch!

Read the AP version of events here.

Fairley was arrested yesterday for being a graffiti artist.  How'd the AP lawyers pull that off? :-)

Anyway, maybe I should take those photos down before they both sue me.

Laying Las Vegas Odds on Stimulus Success

Step right up here and place your bets, ladies and gentlemen. Bet on the success or failure of the Stimulus package adopted by the Senate today, which is $19 Billion more than the House bill.

 

 I’ll take all comers on all bets and I’ll even give you the following odds:

 

One Million to 1 that we don’t make it out of the recession.  That’s right; you bet $1 and I’ll pay you $1,000,000 if America doesn’t make it out of the recession.  Why such huge odds?  Because America’s never failed to make it out of a recession.  No matter how much government interfered in the process.

 

10,000 to 1 odds on the Senate-House Conference Committee not sending a bill to the President to sign. Why such big odds?  See below.

 

10,000 to 1 odds on the Committee not proposing more spending.  Senator Chuck Schumer laid the groundwork on the Senate Floor today, claiming the American people don’t care how much pork is in the bill. 

 

No really.  I’m not making that up.  He actually said that.

 

1000 to 1 on Obama not crediting this bill if we recover from recession in 1 year.   I expect no one will bet me here, because everyone knows Democrats don’t know the difference between causation and correlation.  Of course Obama will credit spending as an economic solution, even if it didn’t help.  Then he’ll get to spend even more!

 

1000 to 1 on Obama not blaming Bush if we aren’t out of recession in 1 year.  Why do you think he’s making all those hand-wringing speeches about how bad things are?  Obama the hedge-better. 

 

So why all the betting by me? Well, I don’t own a bank, an abortion clinic, work for ACORN or have a business that’s “too big too fail.”  I should still be allowed to make something off all this spending of my money, right?

Obama Suspends Constitution – Becomes Caesar the Census-Taker

 

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.  Luke 2:1.

Your Highness Obama, I pray the commoners have lost their copy of the United States Constitution. Perhaps they’ll not take notice as you move from President to Emperor.

I have reviewed Your Majesty’s decree that our Census takers will now have direct communication with (as in fall under the enchanted influence of) Your Royal White House, which is under the jurisdiction of Prince Rahm Emanuel, viceroy of partisan jousting.

I may risk impertinence, my liege, but I must alert you that the peskiest of burdens, the American Constitution (which ruled us before your coming), is sounding from its January 20^th banishment:

Article 1, which deals with the Congress, has a Section 2, which puts Census taking in the bailiwick of the legislature alone.  This bodes not well for your Royal aspirations.

There is Constitutionally but two purposes for the Census: To determine how many congresspersons each state will have and to apportion direct taxes among the states. 

Having long ago been a dutiful body, the legislature of antiquity passed Title 13, Section 141, commanding that the drawing of Congressional Districts using the Census “shall be developed in a nonpartisan manner.”

Therefore Prince Rahm, being no longer in the Congress and born genetically deprived of non-partisan DNA, is doubly disqualified from the Census process. 

In the year 1902 AB (ante-Barack) Congress placed the Census-taking responsibility in the halls of the Department of Commerce.  Your Highness has knighted to rule there the apostate of New Hampshire, Judd Gregg, but I see treachery for him in the offing:

Section 9 of the aforementioned law makes it unlawful for Knight Gregg to share Census Data with anyone outside his bureau, including Prince Rahm.  Should Knight Gregg share Census data with Prince Rahm, he could face charges under the old system of laws, including 5 years in a Federal Dungeon and a fine of 250,000.00 corporate bailout certificates.

Your Majesty’s interest in controlling the Census is understandable.  Having the power to draw the lines of Congressional Districts ensures your Democrat Bloodline will rule the fruited plains through the coming Age of Aquarius, fulfilling ye olde hippie prophesies.  Our former Constitutional Republic tried to avoid anyone from having such power for two centuries.  Silly knaves!!!

The power of the Census Data is immeasurable.  No longer is the Census merely a head count, rather today the questions probe deeply, from the profound (mental health status, investment income) to the mundane (do you bathe or shower?).  What powers of persuasion you’ll wield holding the personal information of everyone!

Fortunately for your Kingdom, the commoners are compelled by law to take part in the Census, lest they face the wrath of Title 13, Chapter 7:  Failure to properly fill out the Census can cost your subjects $1,000.00 and a year in a Federal Torture Chamber.

Long live King Obama.

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Christie's Bad Strategy May Crush NJ Republican Hopes For Governor

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I'm not saying Republican Chris Christie can't turn it around, but he just started off on the wrong path.

 

That bothers me because, although I've not endorsed anyone yet, I like the guy and think he can win.

 

According to PolitickerNJ.com, Christie won't be concentrating much on New Jersey's Urban areas, opting instead for the suburbs.

 

Atta boy, Chris.  Waste your money preaching to the choir.

 

Max Pizzaro reports the following from around the Christie camp:

 

Sources close to the GOP candidate say it would be a political miscalculation for his campaign to attempt to compete against the organizational army of the Democratic Party in its urban strongholds, particularly given the relatively short time frame before Nov. 4th.  

In conversation, they concede the GOP can’t stand up in a year an organization to counter a party stigmatized by Nixon’s Southern strategy, Reagan’s campaign kickoff in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the “haves and have more base” of George W. Bush, and the block-by-block party organization on the other side that finally catapulted Barack Obama out of Democratic Party ward politics in Chicago to the presidency.

 

So Chris - what backward looking jackass said that?  Does he work for you? Take a tip from Michael Steele, who today asked for the resignation of almost the whole 100 person staff at the RNC.

 

You need some new advisers.

 

Do you think there is a New Jersey  voter today who has "Nixon's Southern Strategy" or "Reagan in Mississippi"   on his mind?  Good Grief!

 

Even worse is the statement that the 9 months we have before the election is a "relatively short time" to change voters opinions.

 

Holy crap! Short time?  Why not just quit now, Chris? 

 

News is on a 24 hour cycle. The right public relations can change opinion of you in 9 days. You have people on your team in February who think it's already "too late" to go after any single voter in the state?

 

Where'd you get these strategists, Giuliani's campaign?

 

Here in Monmouth County I've been advocating for quite some time to have our Freeholders pay more attention to the Urban Centers.  They didn't listen.  Now the Democrats are in control in Monmouth for the 1st time in 23 years.

 

How did Monmouth go Democrat?  Three Urban towns, Asbury Park, Neptune and Long Branch wiped out Republican victories in Wall, Howell, Colts Neck and Middletown, EVEN THOUGH THE URBANS HAVE HALF THE POPULATION!

 

Note this well, Chris Christie - the secret to political wins is not population per town or how many towns you can win.  The secret is the margin of victory per town.  If you win 20 towns by 100 votes each and lose one City by 2001 votes, you lost the election.  The electoral map will look nice and red, but who gives a damn if Corzine is still Governor?

 

You HAVE TO battle with Corzine where he is strongest to limit his margins of victory. HAVE TO. 

 

Howard Dean's 50 state strategy.  Obama going for the small white caucus states.  How much more recent political knowledge do you need slapping you in the face before you realize you'd better be everywhere?

 

Let's talk morality. You want to be a good governor to the Urban dwellers too, don't you?  Then create a good Urban platform.  That DOES NOT MEAN ignoring the suburbs.  The two actually want the same thing - to maintain their own aesthetic.  So help them BOTH.

 

I gave this advice to Michael Steele, too. I hope you both take it.

 

Obama Losing His Cool: "This isn't a game! Whaaaa!"

Look at those eyes.

President B.O. is upset. 

His inexperience is showing.

President Obama gave a speech to Dummycrats at a "Retreat" in Williamsburg, Va yesterday.

Why do folks who have been at work less than a month already need a "retreat?"  I digress.

One of the main talking points of the love struck media is how "cool" Obama is.  "He never loses his cool."  That 'famous cool of his."

Anyone can be cool when they aren't being challenged.  Now that House and Senate Republicans are simply negotiating with him over the "Generational Theft Act," Obama has lost his cool.

It actually started at the beginning of this process when he responded to negotiating Republicans with the retort, "I won."  He uttered those words to Republicans on January 23, and made the "I won" point again February 4. Well Barry, the Republicans you were speaking to won as well.

Turns out that it wasn't just Obama's usual arrogance speaking.  It was frustration.  He isn't getting his way, and that may not ever have happened to Barry before this.

Yesterday that frustration boiled over.

"This isn't a game!"  he yelled.  Among other juvenile playground protestations. 

Time to call the whaaaaaaaaambulance!

 

SHORTEST...HONEYMOON...EVER!!!

  Snort & chuckle :-)

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Senator Coburn, Obama's "Generational Theft" Stimulus and Fight Club

       

            Senator Coburn                                              Tyler Durden

Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma calls the Stimulus Package the Senate is debating the "Generational Theft Act" for transferring yet to be created money, which should belong to future generations, over to ourselves.

I must confess I first read the phrase "Generational Theft Act" over at Michelle Malkin's website. Neither Coburn nor Malkin credits the other and I don't know who thought of it first or if they developed the phrase independently, but who cares - I like it.

Coburn has a plan to fix the bill, and you can read it at his website here.

This sentence of Coburn's stood out for me: "This bill is about spending money we don’t have on things we don’t need." It reminded me of a line from one of my favorite movies - Fight Club.

There is a scene when Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is talking to his generation, the average working guy, the "middle children of history." He tells them: "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs that we hate so we can buy shit we don't need."

Coburn's quote and Tyler Durden's quote are very similar.

The correlation between President Obama's "Generational Theft Act" Stimulus Package and the movie Fight Club goes deeper.

Fight Club is really about a generation wishing for anarchy. They are neglected. They feel cheated. The movie eventually deals with the following: (SPOILER ALERT!!! STOP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE!!!):

Tyler Durden's group of working-class guys blow up all the credit card companies, so their debt record is wiped out.

Wow. You have to wonder if our generation, by constantly laying debt onto future generations, isn't sowing the seeds of a Tyler Durden uprising in our children's generation.

According to the website that keeps the Nation Debt Clock every American child born today owes $35,000.00 in money generations before him spent and then handed him the bill.

If that number gets too high, is it unreasonable to think that a future generation would resent the America that came before him so much that he might turn to anarchy and dump it all?

Can we expect to instill in future-born Americans a love of country when we spend their money and indenture them into paying it back?  That is taxation without representation, and I do recall a group of patriots at one time rejecting that premise entirely.

It's as if we are birthing a new generation of Americans with a secular original sin on their record (debt) but offering no baptismal ceremony to wipe it all away. 

I see the future - it's Tyler Durden:

Tyler Durden rocks.

What Happends When a Democrat Congressman Can't Get Free Bruce Tickets

  A Justice Department investigation, that's what.

Obama Punks the Unions

 Buy American European.

Read it here.

On the Broad Shoulders of Michael Steele I Rest This New Republican Agenda

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth.  Tame the dragon and the gift is yours. Noela Evans.

 

Excitement awaits RNC Chairman Michael Steele.  His opportunity is not just to steer through another’s plotted course; rather he assumes leadership at a time when new routes are expected of him. 

 

Both the Republican and Democrat parties have morphed over the years. A Republican from one generation might have trouble recognizing a Republican from another.

 

Michael Steele must study Republican high times and note well what worked so positively. He will be drawn to Republican beginnings when the party held its broadest appeal from 1860 to 1933, when 12 of 16 President were Republican.  People from all races and classes voted Republican.

 

What was the appeal?  “Pro-people.”  The Republican Party was founded by 3 civil rights groups opposed to slavery.  The party was literally Pro-people from the start.

 

The Republican “Pro-people” policy of “liberty FOR the individual” naturally developed toward the policy “responsibility OF the individual.” This American spirit of “Rugged Individualism” was forged by early Frontiersmen, and understood well by Republicans from Presidents Hoover to Reagan.  Rugged Individualism seems to be lost on 21^st Century Republicans involved in corporate bailout frenzies and Keynesian government spending.  

 

Steele need not create Republicans anew, rather change us back to being Pro-People.  Our policies simply need modernity. We must re-ask today’s burning questions in a manner where they can be answered positively, instead of leading to dead ends.

 

Our agenda in its simplest form, for Michael Steele to rally, is as follows:

 

Urban Strategy:  Republicans have no urban policies or political structure on the ground.  With the census showing more people living in urban areas than not, it’s morally wrong to ignore those people.  Politically, Republicans are paying a price for it.

 

As a microcosm I present Monmouth County, New Jersey, a Republican stronghold turned over to Democrats for the first time in 23 years this past election.  Monmouth’s 3 urban areas gave Democrats such a large margin of victory they cancelled out the votes of the county’s 5 biggest Republican towns, despite having half the population of those Republican towns.  Republicans had little presence in the urban areas.

 

Rather than choosing sides between Urban and Suburban areas Republicans must realize both sides actually want the same thing – to maintain their respective identities and aesthetics. So service them both.

 

If state Republicans support open space legislation and 10 acre minimum zoning lots of homes to keep suburbs suburban, then we must equally involve ourselves in dense and vertical housing in our Cities.  Without that balance, our suburban policies become exclusionary and segregationist.

 

Better to serve all than half of all.

 

Fiscal Conservatism: – Hamilton’s Federalist Paper #23 envisioned these things as necessary for the federal government to govern:  the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.

 

Reaffirm our founding principle of limited federal government. Government meddling in lives beyond our common needs leads to wasting money.  Review also Madison’s Federalist Paper # 10 on factions, but relate it to spending.

 

Then join with Blue Dog Democrats on sound fiscal policy.

 

Immigration:  To be succinct, we are "Pro Immigration, anti-illegal immigration.” Present our policy in that order. Our first priority is orderly entrance and path to citizenship of those who choose Americanism as we do.  The political capital we pick up, particularly with Latinos, can be used to combat with vigor illegal immigration and blanket amnesty.

 

Conservation:  Sell me on conserving energy to save resources and I’ll do it.  Sell me on conserving energy to save money and I’ll do it.  Sell me on conserving energy by lying to me about climate change and I won’t do it. Republican policy is to keep conservation issues separate from the climate change debate.  We will conserve energy for the benefits it gives, but marginalize the hysterics of false global warming claimants.

 

African Americans.  Even before President Obama, African Americans were voting 90% Democrat. No other group of Americans votes so monolithically for one party – not even Christian Conservatives. Republicans must attract this group of voters where Democrat policies have failed them – school choice, respect for religion, opposing abortion and segregationist policies such as New Jerseys’ Abbott School funding.

 

Social Conservatism: Again, a return to our Pro-people origins is in order. We must always insist humans win.

 

Hypothetical: If we were to find America’s founding documents were contrary to current Republican ideas of social conservatism, which would we choose to revise – America’s founding documents or Republican ideas?  We need a conversation on the meaning of the Declaration of Independence beautiful words on our equal creation.  That same language should protect unborn humans and so too Gay and Lesbian humans. There’s a coalition to be made between those two groups for equality.

 

Fundraising: Internet Internet Internet. The only way to compete with President Obama’s 3/4ths of a billion dollars is to employ our tech-savvy young Republicans to digitize our fundraising.

 

Economic Globalism: Technology will force us to play.  We have one option: Win!!!