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Obama: Failure is thy Name

Sep 8th, 2010 | By Polar Coug (twitter @PolarCoug)
Obama: Failure is thy Name

Fail. The word easily glides out past our tongues. Fail. We’re hearing it every day now. We’re hearing it on talk radio. We’re reading it in our magazines, newspapers, and online. It is all over network news stories. Bloggers are sharpening their rhetorical saws and
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The Left is Scared to Death of Religion

Sep 7th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
The Left is Scared to Death of Religion

I love good political discourse and debate.  Over the past few weeks, I engaged several of my left-of-center friends in discussions on the meaning of government and religion in our daily lives.  A recurring fear became evident in all four of the discussions – religion
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Dodd-Frank: A Nightmare On So Many Levels

Aug 31st, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Dodd-Frank: A Nightmare On So Many Levels

Senators Barney Frank and Chris Dodd put together yet another progressive nightmare for our marginally free-market system. Granted the thought of those two alone in a dark corner is nausea-inducing, that’s not where I’m going. The Dodd-Frank bill, otherwise known as the “Wall Street Reform
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Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally: Images and Experiences

Aug 27th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally: Images and Experiences

*Click on Images to see larger versions* Getting Ready to head out to Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally It’s 10pm on Friday and I’m getting ready to join 300+ great Americans in a six bus convoy to Washington D.C.  The excitement has been slowly welling
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Liberty Lost – Variations on a Theme

Aug 26th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Liberty Lost – Variations on a Theme

This week, the Conservative Daily News team decided to focus on liberty.  With the 8-28 Restoring Honor rally this weekend, it seems logical that we would focus on a foundational principle of our republic – individual freedom. “A free people [claim] their rights as derived
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Glenn Beck’s 8-28 Rally: The Wager and the Controversy

Aug 21st, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Glenn Beck’s 8-28 Rally: The Wager and the Controversy

*Pictures and commentary from the rally here* On Wednesday Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck had a conversation where Bill promised to have Glenn anchor The Factor’s 8pm time slot.  The wager is based on O’Reilly’s projection that only 15 or 20 thousand people will show
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Meet Our New Radical Ambassador to El Salvador: Maria del Carmen Aponte

Aug 21st, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Meet Our New Radical Ambassador to El Salvador: Maria del Carmen Aponte

Yesterday on August 19th Obama took advantage of the Senate’s recess to push through four people for political positions by Recess Appointment. One of the four raised a few eyebrows, and for good reason. She is Maria del Carmen Aponte and she is now our
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Warning Signs of an Economic Collapse

Aug 20th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Warning Signs of an Economic Collapse

Obama has previouly stated the he has pulled the economy back from the brink. This is far from truth and quite the opposite. Obama’s economic policies are instead pushing us off the economic cliff. The 13 trillion dollar National Debt is just one of a number
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Ron Bloom Obama’s Manufacturing Czar

Aug 18th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Ron Bloom Obama’s Manufacturing Czar

Continuing our look into Obama’s radical czar’s we come to Ron Bloom. Ron Bloom is yet another Union shill within the Obama administration as well as a Maoist. First up, Official title and duties from WhiteHouse.gov: Sept 7th 2009 President Obama Names Ron Bloom Senior
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Obama, ACORN, and Voter Fraud

Aug 17th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Obama, ACORN, and Voter Fraud

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is, was and still is a very large radical Left-wing group operating throughout the country. They also have a very long history you may not realize.  You can read a detailed many page history at Discover the Networks: Here are
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From Immigrants to Democrats: The Citizenship USA Program

Aug 15th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
From Immigrants to Democrats: The Citizenship USA Program

Attempting to Naturalize as many new Americans as possible for votes is nothing new to the Democratic Party. Though it looks like the Obama Administration may conduct this goal through a blanket amnesty, the Clinton Administration tried to create more Democrats a different way, by taking 
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Rahm Emanuel: White House Chief of Staff

Aug 15th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Rahm Emanuel: White House Chief of Staff

Time to look at the White House staff to get a clearer picture of what’s behind the policies of this administration. First up, White House Chief of Staff Rahm “deadfish” Emanuel. We will get into the deadfish later. First here’s the WhiteHouse.Gov bio: Rahm Emanuel
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The Ground Zero Mosque Organization: a Twitter Interview

Aug 11th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
The Ground Zero Mosque Organization: a Twitter Interview

Today on twitter I asked the Ground Zero Mosque Organization, @Park51,  a simple question. I did not recieve a simple answer. StopObama2012: Do you condemn Hamas as a Terrorist Organization? Tweet Park51: We don’t engage foreign politics. We’re working to build moderate Muslim communities BTW
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Why Own Guns?

Aug 10th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Why Own Guns?

Over the past few months, I have been running into more articles where gun rights opponents are using questionable tactics to argue against gun ownership.  At first, I took the approach of discussing their points specifically and have come to realize that I was making
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The 12th Imam. Why a Nuclear Iran is Terrifying

Aug 9th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
The 12th Imam. Why a Nuclear Iran is Terrifying

The entrie transcript of this interview is available here. These are the parts I’m concerned about, which begin in the video at 36 minutes: NBC’s Ann Curry: In your speeches, you pray for God to hasten the arrival of the hidden Imam, the Muslim messiah. Would
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Liberal Attacks the Contract from America

Aug 8th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Liberal Attacks the Contract from America

A progressive author by the name of Ryan Normandin has an agenda against the Tea Party as he makes obvious by creating a post to dismantle the “Contract From America”.  It is not my self-identified post to defend the Tea Parties, they can do that
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Cass Sunstein: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

Aug 8th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Cass Sunstein: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

Cass Sunstein. I really don’t have a good (tasteful) way to describe this man other than Extreme Left Wing Socialist Liberal. He has some extremely questionable and left wing views. The position Obama appointed him to makes him very dangerous indeed. Here’s his Bio from
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Zbigniew Brzezinski, Global Governance and Barack Obama

Aug 7th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Global Governance and Barack Obama

Zbigniew Brzezinski could be called the Maurice Strong of Foreign Policy. While Strong used the UN and Global Organizations to advocate the need to redistribute wealth in the name of Global Warming/Climate Change, Brzezinski seeks to redistribute power to global organizations, or Global Governance. In all
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Progressives Cry Gun Culture Out-of-Control

Aug 6th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Progressives Cry Gun Culture Out-of-Control

They cried that the gun culture is out-of-control, and I let ‘em have it. This article at New Haven Register rants on gun ownership, doesn’t have an author’s name (at least not when I went there), had poorly-sourced statistics and what sounded like the idiocy
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Learning Economics From Chinese Students

Aug 6th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Learning Economics From Chinese Students

As shameful as it is, a Chinese student gets what we’re struggling to understand – government policies are stifling consumption, exports and therefor the economy. A Bloomberg.com post mentioned that when a professor was discussing the nation’s move to keep interest rates low, a student chimed
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Meet Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, an Obama Backer

Aug 6th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Meet Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, an Obama Backer

In this interview, Percy Sutton ( One time attorney for Malcom X) reveals that, at the request of Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, he wrote a letter of support to get Obama into Harvard as President of the Law Review. So now we must ask,
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John Holdren: Science and Technology Czar

Aug 4th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
John Holdren: Science and Technology Czar

If I had to define John Holdren, I would call him a “Green Communist.”  However, President Obama has given him much different titles: Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s
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Federal Reserve Struggling to Create Inflation

Aug 4th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Federal Reserve Struggling to Create Inflation

The specter of deflation is looming.  Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke, the President’s economic advisor Paul Volcker (remember him from the Carter years?), and Treasury’s Timmy Giehtner are all worried that the inflation they have been trying so hard to elicit isn’t coming fast enough
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Obama’s Socialist Endorsements and Support

Aug 3rd, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Obama’s Socialist Endorsements and Support

In my last post I showed that Obama was a member of  the Socialist “New Party” in the 1990′s. That membership came with privileges. During his Presidential Campaign Obama had no shortage of aid from Socialist organizations. I have their support and aid to him below, in
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Conservatives – Are We Crazy?

Aug 1st, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Conservatives – Are We Crazy?

I tripped across a Los Angeles Times article by David Klinghoffer, entitled “From neocons to crazy-cons” that provoked some serious thought on my part.  Are we Conservatives out-of-our-minds? The most thought-provoking statement in his article was, “Conservatism wasn’t just a policy agenda, a set of
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Barack Obama & The Socialist “New Party”

Jul 31st, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Barack Obama & The Socialist “New Party”

Barack Obama not only has ties to Socialist Organizations, apparently he signed a contract with one as well. First lets identify one of these Socialist Organizations, the “New Party” From Discover The Networks: Co-founded in 1992 by Daniel Cantor (a former staffer for Jesse Jackson‘s
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Was the Communist Party USA behind Obama?

Jul 30th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Was the Communist Party USA behind Obama?

In order to answer this question, I simply visited their website and did a keyword search for Barack Obama. Lets look at some of the results here in chronological order. February 22, 2008 Newsletter: Labor Upfront “Buffenbarger election speech could strip gears of labor unity” By
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The War on Tax Cuts

Jul 29th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
The War on Tax Cuts

In their current battle to tax-and-spend us into economic collapse, the left has dug up or created every statistic they can to somehow justify taking more money away from Americans and letting the government spend it. This is not a new battle or a new
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Are we on the verge of an Economic Collapse?

Jul 27th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Are we on the verge of an Economic Collapse?

Are we on the verge of an Economic Collapse? In my opinion yes, and it is intentional, but I’ll let the CBO give you a heads up before I give my opinion. Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis July 27, 2010 Economic
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Redistribution of Wealth Through Taxation

Jul 27th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Redistribution of Wealth Through Taxation

Blame the rich, they’re responsible for everything wrong anyway right. That’s the media’s message. Meanwhile the politician’s sing, “Make them pay.” Here’s a few examples Those evil rich people just have too much money, we need to tax them more and more. Nevermind that the
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Texas Ranch Takeover – After the Hoax

Jul 26th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell

On the night of July 24th, all hell broke lose on the internet about some ranches in Texas supposedly going through hell.  Well, there was no hell in Texas, we gave the hoaxers hell, and my guest in this follow-up interview just said hell no.
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Blame Capitalism?

Jul 26th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Blame Capitalism?

You may have noticed a new theme within the mainstream media. Sometimes its subtle, somtiemes its blunt, but its there. “Blame the Rich”, blame the wealthy, blame capitalism, blame .. “God Damn America” as Rev. Wright would say. It has emerged as the left’s rallying cry
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What’s Happening With Los Zetas in Laredo

Jul 24th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
What’s Happening With Los Zetas in Laredo

It’s been a busy afternoon.  There are numerous conflicting reports about the U.S. incursion by one of Mexico’s most-violent drug gangs, Los Zetas.  I started out concerned, then confused, and finally .. well.. still kinda confused. I was born and raised in Texas and still
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Obama’s Mentor: Frank Marshall Davis

Jul 24th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Obama’s Mentor: Frank Marshall Davis

Frank Marshall Davis was a writer, poet, journalist, and Communist Party member. He was also a mentor for the young Barack Obama while he was in Hawaii. Obama writes of Mr. Davis in his book “Dreams From My Father” and refers to him only as
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What Does the President See in Rashid Khalidi?

Jul 23rd, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
What Does the President See in Rashid Khalidi?

On May 31, 2010 a so called “Peace Flotilla”  attempted to break through the legal Israeli  blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Flotilla was asked to cease their attempt to illegally  dock at the Gaza Strip and dock at the Israeli port of Ashdod instead, they refused to
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Many Private-Sector Employees May Be Independent Contractors Soon

Jul 22nd, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Many Private-Sector Employees May Be Independent Contractors Soon

The last eighteen months have been the most traumatic to America’s businesses community ever.  The Obama administration started out by bashing those who run companies and those who invest in them: CEOs and Bankers.  Oddly enough, now those two demographics are a little punch drunk
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Cap & Trade, Crime Inc, and Maurice Strong

Jul 19th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Cap & Trade, Crime Inc, and Maurice Strong

Harry Reid is once again working on a Climate Change/Cap & Trade/ Energy/Pollution Bill and Obama just wanted to remind you what to expect: That’s right, “Prices will necessarily skyrocket.” And that’s just the minimum you can expect from this oh so wonderous 20 lbs. of
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Welcome to Obama’s Nanny State

Jul 18th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Welcome to Obama’s Nanny State

In a post for Conservative Refocus I wrote about the Obama Administration and control. There are many more examples that must be brought to the attention of the American Public. Here’s a video on some of the more spectacular medical suprises that were within the
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Recent Legislation Allows Congress to Track You

Jul 17th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Recent Legislation Allows Congress to Track You

The new paradigm in Congress: Pass legislation first, then figure out what’s in it.  We have certainly learned much about the worthless health care reform bill and now a real head scratcher.  Section 9006 of Obamacare amends section 6041 of the IRS code so that
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Obama is Not a Socialist – He’s Something Worse

Jul 16th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Obama is Not a Socialist – He’s Something Worse

A Democracy Corps (left-leaning group started by James Carville) poll found that 55% of Americans polled believe that “Socialist” accurately describes the President.  That seems low and if the question had been changed to, “Does Capitalist describe our President?” I believe the number would have
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Bill Ayers and Obama – Why It’s Important

Jul 15th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Bill Ayers and Obama – Why It’s Important

William (Bill) Ayers is more than a controversial figure – he is an unrepentant violent radical terrorist and probably a rapist as well.  During the 1960′s he co-founded a violent left wing organization called the “Weather Underground” Which conducted riots and bombing campaigns including the
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Obama: Keynesian Economics or Cloward-Piven Strategy

Jul 12th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Obama: Keynesian Economics or Cloward-Piven Strategy

The Main Stream Media and Liberal defense of Obama’s Economic Policy has been that he is using “Keynesian Economics” to stabilize our economy and to give him time. Well it’s time to look at Keynesian Economics and see if it matches. According to BusinessDictionary.com Keynesian
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Obama’s Idea of Immigration Enforcement: Whack-a-Mole

Jul 10th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Obama’s Idea of Immigration Enforcement: Whack-a-Mole

Other than suing any state willing to go after illegal immigrants, the White House has done precious little to secure our borders.  Lately, the Obama administration has turned to that age old arcade favorite, “whack-a-mole” for guidance. The New York Times reports that the current
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America’s New Rulers

Jun 29th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
America’s New Rulers

As we approach another Independence Day, I reflect on what has made this nation great and fret over the actions being taken that threaten its greatness.  What cold irony it is that we celebrate our independence from one tyrannical ruler only to find ourselves struggling
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Truth Unimportant, Left Will Do Anything to Destroy Tea Party

Jun 17th, 2010 | By John Smith (twitter: @StopObama2012)
Truth Unimportant, Left Will Do Anything to Destroy Tea Party

*updated* from orginal post on 6/13/10. When The Tea Parties began, the Liberal Media’s first instinct was to ignore and ridicule it to hopefully make it go away. With that strategy failing, the left is pulling out all the stops. Fox News picked up the
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Progressives Take-Up “Town-Halling” Against Obamacare

Jun 8th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Progressives Take-Up “Town-Halling” Against Obamacare

During the times of tall sailing ships and pirates, a punishment was used that basically drug the offender under the length of the ship.  This practice was known as keel-hauling and I believe that Democrats may prefer this to what they are experiencing today –
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Unintended Consequences: Outline of a Presidency

Jun 5th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Unintended Consequences: Outline of a Presidency

President Obama is clearly a victim of his own lack of experience.  Experience breeds wisdom, which can help leaders and thinkers understand what the consequences of their actions or inactions will be.  This President has education, a gift for eloquence, but his lack of experience
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The U.S. Economic News You May Not Have Seen

May 30th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell

Much of the last few weeks has concentrated on the difficulties that the over-entitled European economies are now facing.  News reports, like this one at TheHill.com have been careful to also point to Tim Geithner’s comments that, “The U.S. will not be harmed economically by
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Incompetent or Uncaring: President Absent From Leadership Position

May 29th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell
Incompetent or Uncaring: President Absent From Leadership Position

I normally do my best to keep me out of my stories, but this one has me so discombobulated that I chose a first-person perspective.  Why not?  I’m pissed-off! While watching the news, it’s obvious that the few and short appearances that Obama is making
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Obama’s Choice for Deficit Reduction Panel Left Huge Deficits at SEIU

Apr 24th, 2010 | By Rich Mitchell

As I reported last month, Obama has nominated Andy Stern, the leader of the Service Employee’s International Union (SEIU).  Now the concerns are mounting over the quality of this choice and Obama’s true motives for his fiscal policy group. The Washington Times reported that Mr.
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