Conservative Read

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• Ditka regrets not challenging Obama
• General in charge of nuclear missiles is fired over Missing Nuclear Warheads
• Truckers Ride For The Constitution Live Video I-95
• Who really runs things in America?
• End the foreign policy shutdown
• GOP: Stay the Course
• Michelle Malkin: One Man’s Obamawreck Nightmare
• Don’t Blame The GOP For This Mess
• U.S. major general overseeing nuclear missiles to be fired: official
• Poll: 60 percent say fire every member of Congress
• Is War With Iran Next on Obama’s Schedule?
• CBS News Slams “Disastrous” Obamacare, Watch the Video

Ditka regrets not challenging Obama Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:01 PM PDT President Mike Ditka? That would be an interesting alternate timeline to visit. Ditka, the former Chicago Bears coach, was speaking at an oil company event last week in Watford City, N.D., when he... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

General in charge of nuclear missiles is fired over Missing Nuclear Warheads Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:53 PM PDT The Air Force fired the general in charge of its nuclear missiles on Friday, just two days after a Navy admiral with top nuclear weapons responsibilities was sacked. Both men are caught up in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Truckers Ride For The Constitution Live Video I-95 Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:46 PM PDT The American people are sick and tired of the corruption that is destroying America! We therefore declare a GENERAL STRIKE on the weekend of October 11-13, 2013! Truck drivers will not haul freight!... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Who really runs things in America? Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:25 PM PDT The infamous Trilateral Commission still exists. Many people think the TC, created in 1973 by David Rockefeller, is a relic of an older time. Think again. Patrick Wood, author of Trilaterals Over... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

End the foreign policy shutdown Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:20 PM PDT By Ian Bremmer  Ever since the government shutdown began, various federal departments have been forced to furlough nonessential personnel. The specter of the United States’ first default... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

GOP: Stay the Course Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:08 PM PDT I respect — but disagree with — those who believe that the Republican Party is on a suicide mission by refusing to agree to either a continuing resolution or a lifting of the debt ceiling... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Michelle Malkin: One Man’s Obamawreck Nightmare Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:05 PM PDT 1-800-T-O-T-A-L-F-A-I-L Behold the Hollywood bubble. This week, actress Olivia Wilde starred in an Obamacare propaganda video targeting young people. “You can sign up for health care online in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Don’t Blame The GOP For This Mess Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:01 PM PDT If the federal government fails to pay its bills and the interest on its borrowing by the middle of the month, it is the overwhelming verdict of the nation’s smartest economists that financial... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

U.S. major general overseeing nuclear missiles to be fired: official Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:28 AM PDT The Air Force said Friday it fired the two-star general from command of its nuclear missiles in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior. It was the second sacking this week of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Poll: 60 percent say fire every member of Congress Posted: 10 Oct 2013 07:02 PM PDT Throw the bums out. That’s the message 60 percent of Americans are sending to Washington in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, saying if they had the chance to vote to defeat and replace... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Is War With Iran Next on Obama’s Schedule? Posted: 10 Oct 2013 06:59 PM PDT by Tony Elliott The claim by the Obama Administration that Iran could have a nuclear weapon in six months is an old story that so far is based more on political posturing than real facts, a claim... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

CBS News Slams “Disastrous” Obamacare, Watch the Video Posted: 10 Oct 2013 06:54 PM PDT Guy Benson A follow-up to this morning’s post chronicling Obamacare’s myriad failures; CBS News surveys the wreckage and renders an unavoidable verdict (via Hot Air):   “The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

MICHIGAN NEWSPAPER - - Wow !!l

"What has happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave?" Sorry folks, but it is gone  - -  never to return.  A small Michigan newspaper has the testicular fortitude to print an editorial such as this, whereas those in large cities would send it to the recycle bin for fear of retaliation. Let's see if WE can get it circulated around the country to ALL citizens through the web!   This is getting nationwide attention. Where is Tawas City , MI ?? Actually, it  is on Lake Huron and has a population of just over 2,000! Go figure, A Small MICHIGAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL.....Short and to the point.. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.                             Listen..Learn..Labor..Love..Laugh

We Are Not Coming Back

 

Please take a moment to digest this provocative article by a Jewish Rabbi from Teaneck , N.J. 

It is far and away the most succinct and thoughtful explanation of how our nation is changing. The article appeared in The Israel National News, and is directed to Jewish readership. 70% of American Jews vote as Democrats. The Rabbi has some interesting comments in that regard.

     This is a case where the truth hurts more than anything else.  My heart aches for my children and grandchildren.  -----ken joines

Rabbi Steven Pruzansky is the spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey

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"The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo - for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility. And fewer people voted.

But as we awake from the nightmare, it is important to eschew the facile explanations for the Romney defeat that will prevail among the chattering classes. Romney did not lose because of the effects of Hurricane Sandy that devastated this area, nor did he lose because he ran a poor campaign, nor did he lose because the Republicans could have chosen better candidates, nor did he lose because Obama benefited from a slight uptick in the economy due to the business cycle.

Romney lost because he didn't get enough votes to win.

That might seem obvious, but not for the obvious reasons. Romney lost because the conservative virtues - the traditional American virtues – of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness - no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate.

The simplest reason why Romney lost was because it is impossible to compete against free stuff.

Every businessman knows this; that is why the "loss leader" or the giveaway is such a powerful marketing tool. Obama's America is one in which free stuff is given away: the adults among the 47,000,000 on food stamps clearly recognized for whom they should vote, and so they did, by the tens of millions; those who - courtesy of Obama - receive two full years of unemployment benefits (which, of course, both disincentivizes looking for work and also motivates people to work off the books while collecting their windfall) surely know for whom to vote. The lure of free stuff is irresistible.

The defining moment of the whole campaign was the revelation of the secretly-recorded video in which Romney acknowledged the difficulty of winning an election in which "47% of the people" start off against him because they pay no taxes and just receive money - "free stuff" - from the government.

Almost half of the population has no skin in the game - they don't care about high taxes, promoting business, or creating jobs, nor do they care that the money for their free stuff is being borrowed from their children and from the Chinese.

They just want the free stuff that comes their way at someone else's expense. In the end, that 47% leaves very little margin for error for any Republican, and does not bode well for the future.

It is impossible to imagine a conservative candidate winning against such overwhelming odds. People do vote their pocketbooks. In essence, the people vote for a Congress who will not raise their taxes, and for a President who will give them free stuff, never mind who has to pay for it.

That engenders the second reason why Romney lost: the inescapable conclusion that the electorate is ignorant anduninformed. Indeed, it does not pay to be an informed voter, because most other voters - the clear majority – are unintelligent and easily swayed by emotion and raw populism. That is the indelicate way of saying that too many people vote with their hearts and not their heads. That is why Obama did not have to produce a second term agenda, or even defend his first-term record. He needed only to portray Mitt Romney as a rapacious capitalist who throws elderly women over a cliff, when he is not just snatching away their cancer medication, while starving the poor and cutting taxes for the rich.

During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai Stevenson: "Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!" Stevenson called back: "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!"

Truer words were never spoken.

Obama could get away with saying that "Romney wants the rich to play by a different set of rules" - without ever defining what those different rules were; with saying that the "rich should pay their fair share" - without ever defining what a "fair share" is; with saying that Romney wants the poor, elderly and sick to "fend for themselves" - without even acknowledging that all these government programs are going bankrupt, their current insolvency only papered over by deficit spending.

Similarly, Obama (or his surrogates) could hint to blacks that a Romney victory would lead them back into chains and proclaim to women that their abortions and birth control would be taken away. He could appeal to Hispanics that Romney would have them all arrested and shipped to Mexico and unabashedly state that he will not enforce the current immigration laws. He could espouse the furtherance of the incestuous relationship between governments and unions - in which politicians ply the unions with public money, in exchange for which the unions provide the politicians with votes, in exchange for which the politicians provide more money and the unions provide more votes, etc., even though the money is gone.

Obama also knows that the electorate has changed - that whites will soon be a minority in America (they're already a minority in California) and that the new immigrants to the US are primarily from the Third World and do not share the traditional American values that attracted immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is a different world, and a different America . Obama is part of that different America , knows it, and knows how to tap into it. That is why he won.

Obama also proved again that negative advertising works, invective sells, and harsh personal attacks succeed. That Romney never engaged in such diatribes points to his essential goodness as a person; his "negative ads" were simple facts, never personal abuse - facts about high unemployment, lower take-home pay, a loss of American power and prestige abroad, a lack of leadership, etc. As a politician, though, Romney failed because he did not embrace the devil's bargain of making unsustainable promises.

It turned out that it was not possible for Romney and Ryan - people of substance, depth and ideas - to compete with the shallow populism and platitudes of their opponents. Obama mastered the politics of envy – of class warfare - never reaching out to Americans as such but to individual groups, and cobbling together a winning majority from these minority groups. If an Obama could not be defeated - with his record and his vision of America , in which free stuff seduces voters - it is hard to envision any change in the future.

The road to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to a European-socialist economy - those very economies that are collapsing today in Europe - is paved.

For Jews, mostly assimilated anyway and staunch Democrats, the results demonstrate again that liberalism is their Torah. Almost 70% voted for a

president widely perceived by Israelis and most committed Jews as hostile to Israel . They voted to secure Obama's future at America 's expense and at Israel 's expense - in effect, preferring Obama to Netanyahu by a wide margin.

A dangerous time is ahead. Under present circumstances, it is inconceivable that the US will take any aggressive action against Iran and will more likely thwart any Israeli initiative. The US will preach the importance of negotiations up until the production of the first Iranian nuclear weapon - and then state that the world must learn to live with this new reality.

But this election should be a wake-up call to Jews. There is no permanent empire, nor is there an enduring haven for Jews anywhere in the exile. The American empire began to decline in 2007, and the deterioration has been exacerbated in the last five years. This election only hastens that decline.

Society is permeated with sloth, greed, envy and materialistic excess. It has lost its moorings and its moral foundations.. The takers outnumber the givers, and that will only increase in years to come.

The "Occupy" riots across this country in the last two years were mere dress rehearsals for what lies ahead - years of unrest sparked by the increasing discontent of the unsuccessful who want to seize the fruits and the bounty of the successful, and do not appreciate the slow pace of redistribution.

If this election proves one thing, it is that the Old America is gone. And, sad for the world, it is not coming back."

The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.

 

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