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Rand Paul Creating His Own Trustworthiness Issues

Rand Paul's campaign pushed the story that after meeting with the National Republican Senatorial Committee that he came away with their assurance that the NRSC would not be endorsing anyone in the upcoming Kentucky republican primary for United States Senate.  Paul's folks spun this as a positive for them and a negative for Trey Grayson.

But then Joe Gerth at the Courier Journal reported that Paul's spin wasn't sitting so well with the NRSC.

Brian Walsh, a spokesman for the committee, said in an interview that [NRSC Political Director Randy] Bumps didn’t say what Paul claimed he did.

“Randy did speak with Mr. Paul,” Walsh said. “But what Mr. Paul told you was not entirely accurate. What Randy told him was that the NRSC does not anticipate making any endorsements in the race but that we reserve the right to do so.”

That makes twice in about a week that Paul's campaign made statements which others then identified as being inaccurate.

During a recent forum in Louisville Rand Paul chided Trey Grayson after Grayson accused Paul of taking inconsistent positions on Gitmo.  Grayson pointed out that Paul's statements during the forum were at odds with those on his website.

Paul countered by telling Grayson that maybe he ought to learn how to read.  That kind of snippy remark led someone to confront Paul with a screen shot of his website seemingly proving that Grayson was right.  Not only did Paul's demeaning comment to Grayson raise some questions about his temperament, but Paul had to admit that he was wrong.

Now, with the latest question being raised about Paul's veracity regarding the conversation with the NRSC political director Randy Bumps, Paul has taken two steps backward from the front runner status he held after a recent Survey USA poll put him a few points ahead of Grayson.

Paul's momentum seemed to be building a hefty head of steam in early November, but these latest stumbles could cause some to question how solid his campaign really is.  And in a race where he is still struggling to earn the loyalty and respect of the party faithful, Paul's quest for the nomination will heavily depend on a virtually flawless campaign from here on out.

Obama Blows It On Thanksgiving

This from StopTheACLU:

President Obama delivered his prepared remarks for Thanksgiving, remarks I actually would have loved. It was eloquent, it was thoughtful, and the message definitely could resonate with the American people right now. It would be perfect, were it not for just one mistake: he totally screwed up when the first Thanksgiving was, by, oh… about 74 years.

When my family and I sit around the table tomorrow, just like millions of other families across America, we’ll take time to give our thanks for many blessings. But we’ll also remember this is a time when so many members of our American family are hurting. There’s no question this has been a tough year for America. We’re at war. Our economy is emerging from an extraordinary recession into recovery. But there’s a long way to go and a lot of work to do.

In more tranquil times, it’s easy to notice our many blessings. It’s even easier to take them for granted. But in times like these, they resonate a bit more powerfully. When President Lincoln set aside the National Day of Thanksgiving for the first time — to celebrate America’s “fruitful fields,” “healthful skies,” and the “strength and vigor” ofthe American people — it was in the midst of the Civil War, just when the future of our very union was most in doubt. So think about that. When times were darkest, President Lincoln understood that our American blessings shined brighter than ever.

The only problem is that, as Ed Morrissey points out, George Washington proclaimed November 26th as the first National Day of Thanksgiving way back in 1789. We’re celebrating our 220th Thanksgiving as a nation.

More on George Washington's proclamation here.

White House John Holdren Involved In 'Climagegate' Scandal

This from Canada Free Press:

Lift up a rock and another snake comes slithering out from the ongoing University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) scandal, now riding as   “Climategate”.

Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU’s unfolding Climategate scandal.  In fact, according to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms “a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people”.

“The files contain so much material that it is going to take some time t o put it all in context,” says Ball.  “However, enough is already known to underscore their explosive nature.  It is already clear the entire claims and positions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are based on falsified manipulated material and is therefore completely compromised.

Obama At Risk No Matter What The Secret Service Says

EDITORIAL:

When an uninvited couple crashed the White House State Dinner without having any clearance the president was at risk no matter what the Secret Service says.

At least since September 11, 2001 America should be acutely aware how those who intend to do harm can and will exploit the smallest weakness in our national security.  The devious mind is always at work trying to find ways to beat systems we put in place.

I have attended several events with a president of the United States.  Security has always been very high.  Which raises a intensely serious question about this breach.  How could this happen in what has to be one of the most secure locations in the nation, the White House?

I am certain that heads will roll.  If I was President Obama I would be deathly afraid.  No doubt many evil forces in the world would love to launch violence against our president.  No symbol of America stands taller, not even the world trade centers.

The federal security agencies refuse to answer questions regarding whether or not they screened guests for radiological or biological weapons.  My answer is that they do not.

A plastic vial of liquid could wipe out the president and vice president in hours.  And we all know that suicide by the perpetrators is not a deterrent. 

What happened here is much more serious than many will tell you.  It will be written off as a prank, a publicity stunt.  But someone was sending a message to Obama:  "You are not as safe as you think."

Finding who sent that message should be job number one. 

Of all the things that have happenend during the first year of Obama's administration this should be the most unsettling one of all for the rest of us.

***THE ARMED CITIZEN*** An Every Friday Feature

"I didn't know who they were, and they kept asking, 'Where's the money?'" Bradley Fugate recalls of a frightening home invasion incident. Police say the armed suspects burst into the home shortly after Fugate opened the front and back doors to let some cool air inside. One of the men pushed Fugate's niece onto a bed and began rummaging through a safe. "That was enough for me and it allowed me to get my gun from where I keep it. ... I raised up and fired," Fugate said. The shot missed and the struggle led to the kitchen. "He turned around and raised his gun up at me. That's when I shot him," Fugate explained. The suspect was killed. His accomplice fled, later committing suicide during a standoff with police. "I ain't no hero, and I'm broken up about it," Fugate said. "I did what I had to do." (Dayton Daily News, Dayton, OH, 09/02/09)

Reprinted with the encouragement of the NRA

Morning Funnies

Thank You

Thank you to all of our readers.  Our best to you and your family on this Thanksgiving Day.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

Praise God the Father who's the source;
Praise God the Son who is the course;
Praise God the Spirit who's the flow;
Praise God, our portion here below!

AMEN

Morning Funnies

New York Times Calls Rand Paul "Serious Contender"

Although they paid Rand Paul a 'left handed compliment' nevertheless Dr. Paul has been dubbed by the New York Times as a "serious contender in the race to succeed Jim Bunning."

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Stage Is Set for a 1994 Re-do

When "likely voters" are polled about the Congressional races next year, an astounding result emerges.  Independents favor the republican candidate by a staggering 24%.

Republican candidates have extended their lead over Democrats to seven points, their biggest lead since early September, in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

Voters not affiliated with either party continue to heavily favor Republicans, 44% to 20%.

Ben Chandler better be paying attention.

Is Health Care Bill Anti-Gun?

This from the Washington Examiner:

The Senate's 2,074-page health care bill doesn't mention guns, but some gun owners are worried certain provisions could eventually be used to discourage or even restrict gun ownership as part of a government effort to influence behavior as it broadens its control over the health care system.

The day before the Senate passed the $848 billion health bill on a party-line vote, the Virginia-based Gun Owners of America sent out a mass alert to its 300,000 members, warning them that the legislation "will most likely dump your gun-related health data into a government database. ... This includes any firearms-related information your doctor has gleaned or any determination of post traumatic stress disorder or something similar, that can preclude you from owning firearms."

With no specific legislative language relating to guns, it is unlikely the issue will become a major roadblock for the bill.

But at least one noted legal scholar has read the bill and concluded that the definition of a "wellness program" as set out in the bill could in fact negatively impact gun ownership.

This definition is extremely broad, and the assertion that it is not broad enough to encompass gun ownership appears to be incorrect. There is a very large body of “public health” scholarship which claims to show that gun ownership is a very large health risk to the family that has a gun in the home. I believe that much of this scholarship is of poor quality, and some of it is mere junk science. However, the existence of dozens of articles in public health and medical journals would almost certainly be enough for an anti-gun definition of “Wellness Program” by the Dept. of Health and Human Services to pass the deferential Chevron standard of review. [The Volokh Conspiracy]

You gotta watch these guys every minute.

Obama Takes My Advice

I've often said that the best president is the one who plays twice as much golf as Eisenhower.  Of course, Eisenhower was not at war.

Barack Obama has now played 25 rounds of golf, a sport he picked up about a decade ago when he was an Illinois state senator. That’s more golf than former President George W. Bush played in two terms, according to CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who tracks presidential trivia.

It’s been over 3 months since the top general in Afghanistan requested more troops.
Obama has still not made his decision on whether to support the US soldiers and marines in Afghanistan. [Gateway Pundit]

National D-Day Museum To Honor Stalin?

This from the New York Daily News:

The National D-Day Memorial has sparked outrage by adding to its lineup of Allied leaders a bust of the Soviet dictator who helped start World War II and the Cold War.

Not only did Joseph Stalin kill more people than Adolf Hitler in his murderous reign, he didn't send a single Russian soldier to storm the beaches at Normandy in 1944.

William McIntosh, president of the memorial in Bedford, Va., insisted "the function of this sculpture is not to honor Stalin."

Stalin is included with the busts of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill because the Soviets "secured the eastern front and helped win the war," he said.

"Given McIntosh's logic, should America put up a statue of Saddam Hussein because he was an ally of the U.S. in the 1980s when we supported Iraq in a war against Iran?"

Dunderheads!

Americans Waking Up: Obama Polls At Record Low

From Rasmussen:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for President Obama.

Mmm, Mmm, Mmmmm.

Morning Funnies

White House Regulatory Czar Calls For Censorship Of Conservative News

In case you haven't heard, the White House has hired a man with some very dangerous philosophies and put him in charge of government regulations.  His name is Cass Sunstein.  He has now called for the censorship of conservatives who criticize the president.  In his latest book he argues for changing the law to make suing them easier.

Websites should be obliged to remove “false rumors” while libel laws should be altered to make it easier to sue for spreading such “rumors,” argued Cass Sunstein, Obama’s regulatory czar.

In his recently released book, “On Rumors,” Sunstein specifically cited as a primary example of “absurd” and “hateful” remarks, reports by “right-wing websites” alleging an association between President Obama and Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers.

He also singled out radio talker Sean Hannity for “attacking” Obama regarding the president’s “alleged associations.” [Gateway Pundit via FoxNation]

Here are a few more of Sunstein's quotes which should give you some idea of how dangerous he could be with the power he holds:

    *  Consider the view that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to own guns. The        view  is respectable, but it may be wrong, and prominent specialists reject it on various grounds.

 

    * “[A]lmost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine.

 

    * "We ought to ban hunting"

 

* In short, the law should impose further regulation on hunting, scientific experiments, entertainment, and (above all) farming to ensure against unnecessary animal suffering.

 

* If we understand "rights" to be legal protection against harm, then many animals already do have rights, and the idea of animal rights is not terribly controversial

 

    * “We could even grant animals a right to bring suit without insisting that animals are

      persons, or that they are not property.

 

* To the extent that they weaken the power of the general interest intermediaries and  increase people’s ability to wall themselves off from topics and opinions that they would prefer to avoid, emerging technologies, including the Internet, create serious dangers.

 

* A legislative effort to regulate broadcasting in the interest of democratic principles should not be seen as an abridgment of the free speech guarantee.

 

    * I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law.

 

    * A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not

      necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

 

* “In what sense is the money in our pockets and bank accounts fully ‘ours’? Without  taxes there would be no liberty. Without taxes there would be no property. There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

 

* Much of the time, the United States seems to have embraced a confused and pernicious  form of individualism. This approach endorses rights of private property and freedom of contract, and respects political liberty, but claims to distrust “government intervention” and insists that people must fend for themselves. This form of so-called individualism is incoherent, a tangle of confusions.

 

* No institution in the executive branch, moreover, is currently responsible for long-range research and thinking about regulatory problems. It would be highly desirable to create such an office under the President, particularly for exploring problems whose solutions  require extensive planning, Some entity within the executive branch, building on the ombudsman device, should be entrusted with the job of guarding against failure to implement regulatory programs. Such an entity would be    especially desirable in overcoming the collective action and related problems that tend to defeat enforcement. [Sunstein Quotes]

(Sorry about the formatting issues.  Copied from a .pdf file and couldn't fix it.)

Hope And Change Update: Jobless Rate Now 17.5%

His promise was to "save or create"  jobs.  He hasn't. 

The bailout was to prevent unemployment from reaching 8%.  It has more than doubled from that "scary" high figure to now being 17.5%.

Our economy was in need of an emergency fix which any fool would know requires spending cuts.  Spending is up and off the chart with debt payments looming which could bankrupt the nation. 

He was going to restore our reputation around the world, but Obama's currency isn't as strong as he had believed.

Less than a year after taking his oath what has become clear is that Obama's hopes and his promises of change have yet to materialize.

Or in Texas terms, he is all hat and no cattle.

"Climate-gate"

With new calls for a Congressional investigation into what has now been clearly exposed as a huge fraud on the public, the "Global Warming" nuts might ultimately get their due.

If Bernie Madoff defrauded willing investors out of billions, how much money has been poured into this hoax?  Is there any reason frauds like Al Gore should escape justice for urging and then winning the support of entire nations for the lie of "AGW" (Anthropogenic Global Warming)?

While the entire story has yet to be broken what we do see very clearly is the tip of the iceberg.  I say dive in.

Morning Funnies

Hacked Emails May Show Global Warming Is A Total Fraud

Someone broke into a bunch of computers and stole a ton of emails.  Criminals they are and should be punished.  BUT, what they discovered, according to reports, may be the most alarming evidence of conspiracy and fraud ever unmasked in the scientific community.  "Global warming" may just have been exposed as a total fraud.

Controversy has exploded onto the Internet after a major global-warming advocacy center in the UK had its e-mail system hacked and the data published on line.  The director of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit confirmed that the e-mails are genuine — and Australian publication Investigate and the Australian Herald-Sun report that those e-mails expose a conspiracy to hide detrimental information from the public that argues against global warming

Full story at HotAir.

Guilty Terrorists Only Want Show Trials

Are Barack Obama and Eric Holder really this dumb, or are they willing participants in setting up "show trials" in New York merely to provide a platform for admitted terrorists to bash America and spread Jihad?

This from Michelle Malkin via the AP:

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said.

Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said Sunday the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."

Better tighten up the security on these guys Eric.  Wouldn't want 40 years of conspiracy theories to grow out of some "Jack Ruby" moment after news of their real intentions gets out.

Email Campaign Takes Trey Grayson To Task

Trey Grayson started out the summer as the presumptive republican nominee for the U.S. Senate.  Then Rand Paul emerged just as the "TEA party" movement and the "anti-incumbent" sentiment in America began catching fire.  Now Grayson is behind in the polls and Paul is raising money at a surprising pace.

Last week Grayson shot back, accusing Paul of taking inconsistent positions on closing Guantanamo prison.  Up until that point Paul had been able to turn most of Grayson's criticisms back on Trey without breaking a sweat.  But this criticism took hold and was reported around the Commonwealth forcing Paul to get off of his regular message and respond, repeatedly.  Now his supporters are firing back.

An email and blog campaign has been circulated in an effort to make the case that Grayson is a liberal in disguise, pointing to Grayson's background, and his recent listing as a speaker at a Global Climate Change Seminar at Eastern Kentucky University.  Here is the email:

Now that Charles Merwin Grayson III (aka Trey) is behind in the polls, his rhetoric is "moving towards the right." But is Trey really a conservative...or is he a RINO (Republican In Name Only) Kentucky conservatives would do well to keep these UNDENIABLE FACTS in mind.

1. Grayson graduated from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (where free enterprise is laughed at but socialism is praised).

2. Grayson voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, then opportunistically switched parties after the anti-Clinton backlash and GOP landslide of 1994. Allegations that Grayson was actually a delegate for Clinton have yet to be confimed nor denied.

3. Grayson's rich banker daddy was a long time donor to liberal Democrat candidates. Daddy Grayson's bank was also a recipient of TARP bailout money.

4. Greyson teamed up with ultra liberal Democrat State Treasurer, and now Democrat State Chairman, Jonathan Miller to co-found Kentucky's "Cradle-to-College" commission. Cradle-to-College is a socialist scheme that sets up college funds for newborns at birth, and then would require them to perform community service when they grow up. This is exactly the type of statism that Clinton and Obama favor!!!

5. Grayson is affiliated with the George Soros/Rockefeller funded, ultra left wing, pro-Globalist, Aspen Instutute. He completed an Aspen-Rodel fellowship program. Aspen was founded as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Aspen recruits young ambitious politicians with "bipartsian" leanings, and then grooms them for higher office. (Notice how rapidly Grayson's career has risen???) Aspen's CEO is the notorious left wing media mogul, Walter Isaacson (former CEO of CNN and managing editor of TIME)Why does Grayson boast his Aspen affiliation on his own website? No true conservative would have anything to do with Aspen - an organization that welcomes radicals like the self admitted communist Van Jones.


By the way Kentucky's Democrat Party Chairman Miller - the same Miller who teamed up with Grayson on the "Cradle-To-College" sceme....was a classmate of Grayson's at Aspen. It pays to join Aspen!

6. Grayson believes in the hoax of Global Warming and even gave a keynote speech on the subject at Eastern Kentucky University.

Harvard elitist - Kennedy School - "Cradle-to-Grave advocate" - Wealthy Democrat banking family - Clinton backer - "Bi-Partisan" dealmaker - Globalist Aspen Institute - ally of Jonathan Miller - -Global Warming hoaxer.

Lord Grayson III expected to be annointed by the DC Establishment. But now that his coronation is in doubt, he's talking like a conservative. But Kentucky conservatives and common folk shouldn't buy what this elitist liberal RINO is selling.

For many Kentucky republicans Grayson's conservative credentials are not in doubt.  He has worked very hard for republicans and the party since he switched from being a democrat and ran for office. 

His problem now seems to be that his continued affiliations with liberal leaning groups, ideologies and issues may raise some doubts about his core principles.  And in this political climate where distrust of politicians is becoming pandemic, this could be a much more troubling problem for Grayson which this new email campaign is obviously designed to exploit.

Morning Funnies

Get Ready Northern Kentucky!

Get Ready Northern Kentucky, a fresh new installment of the ICN6 television program "GRIDLOCK" is being taped today.

The program is hosted by Patrick Crowley and features former KDP vice-chairman and democratic strategist/fundraiser Nathan Smith along with yours truly doing my level best to defend the conservative position and tell it like it really is.

You won't want to miss this one.  It is going to be hot, hot, hot.  Should start airing in the next day or so.

Keep your eyes open!

Ron Paul's "Extraordinary Victory" Audit The Fed Bill Passes

This from POLITICO:

The House Financial Services Committee has approved Rep. Ron Paul’s measure to drastically expand the government’s power to audit the Federal Reserve.

The measure, based on a Paul proposal that has attracted more than 300 co-sponsors, passed, 43-26, as an amendment to a financial reform bill. Florida Democrat and fellow Fed critic Alan Grayson co-sponsored the amendment with Paul and played a leading role drumming up support for it among committee members. The adoption of this amendment is an extraordinary victory for Paul, whose libertarian, anti-Fed leanings have often been dismissed by the political establishment.

I can hear the Beach Boys in the background now:

You gotta catch a wave and you're sittin' on top of the world
Not just a fad cause it's been going on so long
All the surfers going strong
They said it wouldn't last too long
They'll eat their words with a fork and spoon
And watch 'em they'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon
And when they catch a wave they'll be sittin' on top of the world
Catch a wave and your sittin' on top of the world
So take a lesson from a top-notch surfer boy
Every Saturday boy
But don't treat it like a toy
Just get away from the shady turf
And baby go catch some rays on the sunny surf
And when you catch a wave you'll be sittin on top of the world

Harry Reid's Plan Should Be Called The Abortion Bill

Much of the news coverage regarding the Senate version of the "Healthcare Bill" has begun to focus on the way in which it deals with abortion. 

The AP is reporting that the White House is on a dangerous collision course with Bishops which could derail the whole program.  The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said Reid's bill is the "worst he's ever seen".[AP] 

John Boehner has said on his blog that the bill requires a monthly abortion fee.

Just like the original 2,032-page, government-run health care plan from Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) massive, 2,074-page bill would levy a new “abortion premium” fee on Americans in the government-run plan. [GOP Leader Blog]

If half of what is being written is true, then perhaps they should stop calling it a "health care" bill and start calling it "The Abortion Bill."  Let's see how many goofy dems would line up in support of THAT.

***THE ARMED CITIZEN*** An Every Friday Feature

Dressed in black hooded jackets and black masks, two men entered a Columbus, Ga., area home around 2 a.m. through a lower-level door. Upon hearing noises, the 47-year-old resident (who has been burglarized twice before) went to investigate. When he saw the burglars, the resident called out and the intruders reacted by charging toward him. The resident pulled a .357 Mag. pistol and fired at the men, possibly injuring one before they fled the home via a sliding-glass door. When police arrived, they were able to follow a trail of blood off the property, but the trail was lost in some nearby woods. No arrests were made. (The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Columbus, GA, 09/10/09)

Reprinted with the encouragement of the NRA

Morning Funnies

Rand Paul Campaign Inexperience Shows Just As Grayson Grows A Pair

The Courier Journal is reporting that Rand Paul and Trey Grayson locked horns a bit today.  Trey Grayson has been relatively quiet thus far in the campaign while Rand Paul has been attracting a lot of attention.  But today Grayson finally fired a shot at Paul who made a rookie mistake that could cost him.

It seems that Grayson scolded Paul for a position he took on his website which was contrary to a position he openly asserted at a forum in Louisville.  Paul then told Grayson maybe he better learn to read, insisting that the website contained no such language.  However, when he was confronted with a "screenshot" from his website confirming Grayson's claim that Paul had taken inconsistent positions, Paul retreated.

The Paul campaign has been sending out numerous press releases and other information on a daily basis.  Both old media and new media sites were getting very little from the Grayson camp.  The net result was that Paul got all the attention.  Some wondered when Grayson would finally strike a blow which would "leave a mark".  Today he may just have done that.

Granted, Paul's explanation is that someone else put the material on his site and that he has never held the position that the web site seemed to suggest.  In fact he said that somebody was going to be in big trouble.

What this little dust up reveals is a serious weakness in Paul's admittedly novice campaign.  No doubt his success to date is the result of a unique combination of timing and skill.  But now that he is leading in the polls and headed into a battle which will be orchestrated by the much more experienced Mitch McConnell, Paul needs to plug up holes, shore up his weaknesses and get ready for a bloody fight on a much more difficult battlefield than the easy ride he has had to date might have lulled him into thinking he might never have to face.

Millions In Stimulus Money Routed To "Fake" Congressional Districts

This from the Oklahoma NewsOK:

Millions in stimulus dollars are apparently flowing to nonexistent congressional districts in Oklahoma because of data entry problems with the federal government’s Web site.

The tally includes $11.6 million to Oklahoma’s 25th Congressional District and $10 million to its 51st District. The state has just five congressional districts.

Rep. Mary Fallin, R-Oklahoma City, said she had little confidence in the stimulus data released so far. Fallin, who is running for governor, voted against the stimulus bill.

"I’ve been very disappointed to learn there is fraudulent information on the Web site as far as how many jobs have been created, and certainly with fake congressional district numbers that don’t match up to the five congressional seats Oklahoma has,” Fallin said.

The errors go beyond simple data entry mistakes, she said. They also don’t inspire much confidence in the government as debate over health care reform continues in Washington.

Anti-Abortion Funding Language Absent From Harry Reid Version Of Health Care Bill

This from Life News:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has released the text of his new government-run health care bill to members of the Democratic Party. The new measure reportedly does not contain the Stupak amendment found in the House version that bans virtually all abortion funding.

One Capital Hill source tells LifeNews.com that the reid bill reportedly contains the phony Capps amendment, a fake amendment opposed by all pro-life groups and the Catholic bishops that still leaves massive abortion funding in place.

Even SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle Blogger Says Newsweek Photo Of Sarah Palin Wrong

This from a blogger at the San Francisco Chronicle:

FCC To Improve Broadband Access

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FCC has taken the initiative to improve broadband Internet access across America.

The Federal Communications Commission began to lay the groundwork for a bigger federal role in the broadband business Wednesday, outlining the hurdles the U.S. needs to overcome to improve the availability of high-speed Internet access.

The FCC identified a number of issues the government should address, including the high cost of laying new broadband lines in rural areas, a lack of airwaves for wireless Web access and ill-informed consumers.

"This focus on broadband is a reflection of a recognition that the U.S. is lagging behind," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Wednesday at the agency's monthly meeting.

While this move is certainly good news for those of us living way out in the "country" in this day and time, with this administration, we will have to keep a close watch on the details, you know, camel's nose under the tent and all that.

Harry Reid's Plans For The "Twilight" Of America

EDITORIAL:

This morning I read these words at Politico.com:

“Tonight begins the last leg of this journey” to bring health reform to the nation, [Harry] Reid said in announcing the [Senate Health Care] bill.

And thus begins the twilight of America should it pass.  Twelve generations of men and women fighting to first gain, and then to keep and later to share our unique vision of liberty as a beacon to the world, will fade into the dark world of socialism if he succeeds.

No where in history has our Constitution permitted the government to force you to buy a product as this bill forces you to buy health insurance.  No where in history has our government declared war on such a large segment of our economy as this bill does against the health care industry.  No where in history has our government so deceptively engaged in monopolizing unto itself the business of determining what health care we citizens will be allowed and which of us will not be given treatment.

There is no doubt that Harry Reid and his cronies in the Congress of the United States are planning the demise of liberty, hoping to have it re-born (fundamentally transformed) into the blood sucking world of darkness and socialism from which they make plans to prey upon the rest of us.

The plan of Reid, Pelosi and Obama is to enslave America in turn making them our masters.

Resisting the temptation of their seduction will be hard for some, and they know that.  But for the rest of us our duty is clear.

We must expose them to the light of day.  We must hold up the symbol of our nation in their faces and hope it will back them down.  And if none of that destroys their evil plan, we must, next year, vote out each and every incumbent of both parties and drive a stake through the heart of socialism once and for all.

With the words spoken by Harry Reid "Tonight begins the last leg of this journey"  we should all be feeling the hot breath of his evil intentions upon our necks.

The time to turn around and do something to stop him is NOW.

Morning Funnies

Uh-Oh! Cathy Bailey Calls Grayson "Establishment's MODERATE Choice..Slipping"

Joe Arnold is reporting that McConnell favorite and wealthy GOP fund raiser Cathy Bailey is thinking harder now about entering the race for the United States Senate.  Her comments about Grayson, though understated, are searing nonetheless:

Asked by WHAS11's Joe Arnold if she is now considering entering the U.S. Senate race, the former Ambassador to Latvia under President George W. Bush said she and other conservatives are "watching it closely."

"Obviously, this race is wide open,"  Bailey said in a statement, "The establishment's moderate choice has slipped and hasn't lived up to the hype."  [WHAS11]

Bailey went on to call Rand Paul's accomplishments "impressive" despite what she called some of his "extreme positions".

When asked about the possibility of Cathy Bailey entering the race Trey Grayson said he had "zero concern that Senator McConnell or anyone else that's been a big backer of mine or big supporter ...is going to jump ship"

McConnell has not publicly endorsed Grayson although he is hosting a second fund raiser for him in New York on December 7th.  Grayson's comments pretty clearly remove any doubt about McConnell's role in Grayson's candidacy.

Grayson also went on to slam Rand Paul in the WHAS report saying that talk about him losing support in the media is due to what he called "this little phenomenon, where you guys have this crush on this doctor from Bowling Green who has some crazy ideas."

Based on Bailey's comments her role may not be so easy to identify as at first blush might appear.  Her connections with McConnell suggest that she is gearing up in the wings for a possible run if Trey more than stumbles, but her role may also be to add fuel to the fire Grayson lit by trying to paint Rand Paul as "crazy".

That sentiment seemed to be echoed by Bailey who called Paul "extreme".  In any event, Joe's report is a pretty clear indication of the strategy lurking around in McConnell's head.  Like his father before him it looks like the "mainstream" moderates will try to paint Rand Paul and his supporters with the "tin-foil" hat image they assigned to his father in 2008.  And unless Paul can win some of the party loyalists to his cause, that image might just stick.

2/3 Of Americans Disagree With Obama Admin Decision On Khalid Sheik Mohammed

A new CNN poll shows that two-thirds of Americans disagree with the Obama administration decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian court.  This overwhelming surge of opposition should cause Eric Holder to re-think his decision.

The poll asked if KSM should be tried in a military court or a civilian court and 64% favored a military court. Of those questioned, 60% wanted that trial to take place on US soil rather than abroad.

I'd like to see a poll asking how many would like to see his execution after conviction carried out in public.  It would be interesting to see just how many Americans want to see the results of the justice they demand.

A Pill That Raises Women's Desire For Sex Discovered

A new medicine which was originally tested as a treatment for mild depression didn't seem to work well in that regard.  But, according to a new report, the study found that the women testing it reported an increased libido.

Women who took the drug flibanserin when it was being tested as an anti-depressant said it didn't help them beat the glums, but did give them "an increase in libido that they liked," John Thorp, one of the investigators analyzing data from three clinical trials of the drug, told AFP.

Lack of desire is the most common sexual problem in women aged 30 to 60, just as erectile dysfunction, for which Viagra is one of a choice of treatments, is the most common sexual disorder among men in the same age bracket, Thorp said.

"Men remain interested but can't act or perform properly and women lose interest," said Thorp.

"So where Viagra and other erectile dysfunction medications work in the blood supply,  flibanserin works in the brain, " he said.

Flibanserin is currently an investigational drug and is only available to women taking part in clinical trials. [Breitbart]

Merry Christmas fellas.

Another Obama Promise Broken

Candidate and new president Barack Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay Prison by January 2010.  He won't.

In an interview with Major Garrett at FoxNews the POTUS said that his decision to close Gitmo was a good one, but "technically hard".  He said it won't close by the deadline he set.

Yeah, like being president is "technically hard" making up your mind about troops in Afghanistan is "technically hard", supporting the Congressional health care bill despite that it will raise taxes and cut Medicare is "technically hard".

World Net Daily has compiled a list of Obama's many broken promises. 

For Barack Obama it seems that keepin his word is "technically hard".

Beshear Fired Mine Permit Official Who Refused To Issue 'Illegal" Permits To The "Politically Connected"

Okay Jack Conway, here is your chance.

John Cheves is reporting that Steve Beshear fired Ron Mills as head of the mine permit division after Mills refused to issue permits to politically connected companies in what Mills says were "illegal" situations.

According to Cheves, Mills found no support in the law for issuing the permits and tried to block them.  The result?  The governor fired him.

Wouldn't you say this is the kind of scandalous allegations which deserve the full blown investigation we all know former Attorneys General have been quick to launch?

Let's see what Jack Conway does, or doesn't do.  That should tell us a lot.

Mongiardo Conway Battle For The Gutter

EDITORIAL:

Lieutenant Governor Daniel Mongiardo made a very public cry that his opponent for the democratic nomination to run for the US Senate, Attorney General Jack Conway, failed to list a stock investment on his public financial disclosure form.  In return Conway pointed out that Mongiardo was guilty of failing to disclose his investment in a Frankfort apartment complex.

These "old school" democrats just can't help themselves.  They treat the tactic of tearing down a candidate's reputation as skillful political gamesmanship.  To most of us it is evidence that they are stuck playing politics as usual.

There are very serious issues facing this nation and ordinary moms and dads are worried about our future.  We worry about the economy, we worry about the socialization of our nation.  We worry about the kind of world we are going to leave to our children and grandchildren.  Why the democrats continue to fight each other to see which one can go lower in the gutter is beyond reason.

One thing does appear certain however, the kind of campaigns being run by both of these men fairly clearly demonstrates that neither is worthy of our trust.

Morning Funnies

Grayson To Raise Money In New York With McConnell's Help

Chris Cillizza is reporting that Trey Grayson will head out of state for a fund raising event in New York on December 7th which will be hosted by Mitch McConnell.  The event is intended to help former New Hampshire attorney general Kelly Ayotte and Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson.  Both have contested primaries and, according to Cillizza, this event means that McConnell has made his choice.

Both Ayotte and Grayson have been identified as "the establishment candidates". But in Ayotte's case, former New Hampshire governor and now the state's GOP chairman, John Sununu, has made it clear that the people of New Hampshire don't really appreciate the outside influence of the national republicans when it comes to picking their candidates.

"I hope the NRSC understands that New Hampshire doesn't really respond well to having candidates designated from outside the state," Sununu told the [Nashua Telegraph].[TalkingPointsMemo]

McConnell's influence in Kentucky republican politics is less of a problem for Grayson.  While the battle for the the early polls continues between Grayson and Rand Paul the battle for republican votes in May still may be influenced in Grayson's favor my McConnell's 'unspoken' endorsement.

Paul's current lead is on a bubble.  There is an expanding sphere of fresh air beneath his campaign but when republicans head to the polls in May those numbers may tell a different story.

In the 2007 primary race between then governor Ernie Fletcher and Anne Northup the republican turnout was about 20% of its registration, or about 203,000 voters total statewide.  That means the winner only needed around 102,000 votes to win.  The party machinery in 120 counties only needed to turn out an average of 850 votes each to capture the nomination.

Paul's popularity continues to increase statewide.  But his successful capture of the GOP nomination will require a significant effort designed to meet and/or exceed what the party machinery can and is expected to deliver for Grayson.

Paul's populist appeal is perfectly suited for the November general election but he must first win the primary in order to compete next summer. 

McConnell's continued support for Grayson remains a significant obstacle which Paul cannot remove alone.  He will need the help of party leaders to gain the necessary leverage.