Get the word out about the defiance of Speaker Pelosi and the Democrat Majority to hold an “open, full and fair debate” about American energy.

“Republicans Again Take Protest to House Floor, Without Democrats”
- Associated Press, Aug. 4, 2008

It’s Day 3 of the American Energy Revolt, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is digging in her heels!
This past Sunday, on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos pointed out to Speaker Pelosi that when Democrats took the Majority in Congress, she promised “open, full and fair debate.”

Stephanopoulos: “If [Republicans] want to offer a drilling proposal, why can’t they have a vote?”

Pelosi: “They, they, they, they’ll have to use their imaginations as to how they can get a vote.”

Translation: NO VOTE TO INCREASE AMERICAN OIL

Contribute to the National Republican Congressional Committee to help them get the word out on the democrats’ failure to address this important issue.

O-Force One

The Audacity of Hope

This guy is unbelievable.

(CBS/Allison Davis O’Keefe)

Who’s paying for all this? Check out Atlas Shrugs - another campaign violation in the form of a donor from Gaza.

File here: Donation Details: Adwan, Monir | Rafah, Georgia. There ain’t no such place in the land of Georgia peaches.

It’s a Gaza refugee camp.

Palestinians in Gaza are raising money for Obama’s campaign.

You can’t get much more ridiculous than that.

May the O Force Be With You!

I have long been a proponent and supporter of the very important work that Elaine Donnelly has been doing. First, with regard to the women in combat issue, and secondly, about homosexuals in the military.

I watched the testimony of both Donnelly and a former Army Ranger Sgt. Major Jones regarding the homosexuals in the military issue which came up recently when they went at the Congressional hearing that was revisiting this issue. Members of Congress and the press clearly “demonize as morally repugnant (bigoted, homophobic, or worse) anyone who dared disagree with the Democrats’ and homosexual activists’ point of view.”

The response from the homosexuals who are trying to shove their deviant behavior into our military culture was hysterical, but it always has been, as this article at WND attests.

A Washington Post smear of Elaine Donnelly

I noticed that the IrishTimes came up with an equally inflammatory article:

Crusader’s dire warnings about gays in US military backfire on grand scale

I don’t see how as the warnings have “backfired” on a grand scale. What I see is homosexual activism that is putting our entire military at risk by trying to insert spreaders of disease into military culture calling anyone who disagrees with it ‘homophobic’. What is “homophobic” about pointing something out that activists themselves have said?

The response to the very reasoned arguments against homosexuals in the military actually proves the points that Elaine and made.

Military ‘gay’ ban supporters demonized by Congress
‘Show hearing would have made Stalin proud’

members of Congress clearly intended to “demonize as morally repugnant (bigoted, homophobic, or worse) anyone who dared disagree with the Democrats’ and homosexual activists’ point of view.”

These were Donnelly’s points. If the 1993 law is repealed:

“The new policy will be forced cohabitation with homosexuals, 24/7, in all military communities, including Army and Marine infantry battalions, Special Operations Forces, Navy SEALS, and all the ships at sea, including submarines. This would be tantamount to forcing female soldiers to cohabit with men in intimate quarters, 24/7, with no recourse but to leave or avoid the military all together.

“Taking the ‘civil rights’ argument to its logical, misguided conclusion, the military will be required to give special rights to professed (not discreet) homosexuals, and enforce a corollary policy of ‘zero tolerance’ of anyone who disagrees. The military does not do things halfway. Commanders will not be able to improve the situation, since they might be accused of ‘intolerance’ themselves.

“Current incidents of sexual misconduct involving men and women will be increased three-fold, to include male/male and female/female issues.

“To make the new policy ‘work,’ valuable training time will be diverted to ‘diversity’ training reflecting the attitudes of civilian gay activist groups. This training will attempt to overcome the normal human desire for modesty and privacy in sexual matters – a quest that is inappropriate for the military and unlikely to succeed.

“Any complaints about inappropriate passive/aggressive actions conveying a homosexual message or approach, short of physical touching and assault, will be met with career-killing presumptions about the motives of the person who complains: bigotry, homophobia, racism, or worse. As a result, untold thousands of people to leave or avoid the all-volunteer force.”

Tommy Sears, the executive director for the center, agreed.

– Video-Statement of Elaine Donnelly

– Video-Statement of Sgt. Maj. Brian Jones, US Army, (Ret.)

Induction forms used to have the question “are you homosexual?” on the form. This is about eligibility.

The law is there to promote order and discipline.

Obama’s Plans Spell Economic Doom

Unfortunately the average American voter doesn’t understand basic economics. Why do you think I read articles and books written by people who specialize in economics, anyway? So that I can understand better the basic principles of capitalism that set us apart from all nations-which leftists don’t seem to understand and are always putting down.

Obama is not simply raising taxes on the rich, he’s crippling their ability to generate jobs, make investments and produce wealth. (For example: “When Obama says he’ll only tax the rich, he’s saying he will only tax the engine room, not the rest of the ship.”)

The public must learn what the impact of doubling the tax on capital gains would be — how it would drive investment out of the country and cost us one to two points a year in economic growth for the rest of the decade.

Voters must hear how Obama can’t possibly finance his programs — particularly his health-insurance schemes — with the tax hikes he’s advocating. They need to ponder the impact of these tax hikes on an already slowing economy, it’s legitimate to fear a new depression, not just a recession.

Most people alive today didn’t have to go through the Great Depression; they don’t know what it’s like to have REALLY HARD economic times. They don’t know what it’s like to ‘do without’.

But under Obama, you can bet we’ll be doing without - we may never recover from an Obama presidency.

Obama’s Global Poverty Act

The Global Poverty Act (S.2433) would require the United States to spend $845 billion ($845,000,000,000.00) on welfare to third-world countries. This amounts to a tax of over $2,000 on each man, woman and child in the United States. The foreign aid budget now stands at $300 billion; the Act would add the additional expenditure to the already huge amount allocated to assist the world.

From there it would grow, like all government programs.

Those are staggering numbers. And if you think about the ramifications of doubling the capital gains tax in addition to stealing the modest profits from the oil companies in order to give ‘rebates’ to people, you have a good idea of his thoughts on redistribution of wealth.

Where is it all going to come from? I resent all of his pie-in-the-sky rhetoric when he’s out there talking about how he’s going to inflate taxes and then spend that money. He’s up there on stage talking about literally mugging the American public, and they’re loving it.

There’s something terribly wrong with that.

Although Solzhenitsyn was ejected from Soviet Union for his writing; he still managed, as Wolf Pangloss points out, a Marxist analysis of humanism and free markets.

Solzhenitsyn’s claims that corporations are at fault for Western failings such as excessive legalism, the welfare state, and the war against the soul are obvious nonsense. How exactly can corporations be responsible for legalism, the welfare state, or the government and legal repression of public religion? All three are expressions of state power.

He was correct about some things, though - things that we here in America should find instructive.

Solzhenitsyn turned his formidable skills as a prophet of doom first upon the Soviet Gulag terror system, and then when invited to Harvard to address the graduating class of 1978, on the American society of “despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness,” “TV stupor,” and “intolerable music.” In a post-9/11 world his criticisms of the loss of courage of Western elites, of the incorrigible mendacity and self-loathing of the Western press, and of the Soviet-style legalistic crusade against religion appear newly relevant. But his assignment of blame to the free market and humanism itself for these failings strikes a wrong note for (at least) two reasons.

Read the 1978 Harvard graduation speech and commentary, here.

Solzhenitsyn lived a long life, and for his contribution to revealing the truth about the Soviet gulags - I appreciate him. He he just died at the age of 89.

Hundreds Pay Their Respects to Solzhenitsyn

Rurik (at the Talon) - A Giant Passes

I can’t believe the lengths that they’re going to - in order to harrass this guy. Larry is alive and well and I talk with him every few days.

One of the things I don’t like about Larry’s new site is I can’t link to any of his articles. to show people where I got the information.

This is as close as I can get.

In the early morning yesterday, when I was driving into work, I passed the usual wetlands scene with the birds. I got out of my car to take some pictures, hoping to get some good shots - and I witnessed a tern swooping and diving in the air, fishing on the water. At one point, it just skimmed the surface of the water, without leaving the air. It was dramatic. What was more dramatic was as I was standing there, a cloud front quickly closed in; a storm was coming.

The storms came last night, too, and knocked out our electricity for most of the night.