First came a copy of Open Veins of Latin America by Galeano . Now, Hugo Chavez has decided to give his new best friend the jr. admin. from IL a book. Not just any book to be given from socialist to socialist but one by Vladimir Lenin. The story comes from ITAR TASS:
Lenin– What Is [...]

They have also identified what they are convinced are mass graves from the 1995-98 famine that the UN estimates killed up to two million people.

No Value Added Tax, Please say No!
Quick note before I jump astride my trusty mower for a session this a.m.
I know Huckabee promoted the Fair Tax and people who support it will give you 9 thousand reasons why it’s good. Juan Williams is for the VAT tax, is that enough reason to say NO? The [...]

 
Commerce Department’s upgraded report shows the economy contracted less than thought, but still at a critical pace. All forecaster on the government’s side see the numbers easing by year’s end. We can hope they are right.
Economy sinks at a 5.7 percent pace in 1Q
Economy contracts at a 5.7 pct pace in 1st quarter; analysts believe [...]

Investors now fear that triple A rated securities backed by commercial mortgages could end up seeing a cascade of rating downgrades, in an echo of the experience of securities backed by subprime residential mortgages.

Fiat believes the demands by the German government to be unreasonable and the terms would expose the company to “unnecessary risk.” Hummm….
Fiat wants to buy Chrysler, well actually they want a stake in the auto maker for free. Germany has pledged support to Opel after the sale and wants a say in the process. How [...]

Laying the groundwork for GM. Is that planning a funeral? Or maybe looking for a large site to ship all the gas guzzlers for burial? Do you think they compacted Rick Waggoner into one of them? He seems to have disappeared from the scene. Maybe the UAW bosses (mafia) introduced [...]

Techno Whiplash or how I am trying way to hard to be hip, cool, or whatever it is these days.
In the past few weeks such things as Twitter, Seesmic Desktop, FaceBook, and Blackberry have entered my vocabulary. Prior to that, I was cruising along outside of the mainstream of hipsville.
When my youngest Son told [...]

es, that sounds alarmist, but I lived it. For me that would be hardly a life worth living. And for many in this region, they too might feel the same. That does not bode well for the future of our Republic. Defense of our Union

The Soviets blockaded Berlin for nearly a year starting in 1948, in defiance of what was then the world’s sole nuclear power:

The Patrick Henry Caucus website, thanks to christinajade from Twitter. As with most things I put up, you have to do the research, I just offer options.  We need to rally.  We need to stand up.  We need action.  Sounds good to me.
The Patrick Henry Caucus
WHO WE ARE & WHY WE’RE HERE
The Patrick Henry [...]

Making Money North Korea Style
Every time the DPRK successfully launches a missile or sets off a nuclear device their income goes up. From what I hear, it takes a lot of money to run a dictatorship. Which may be why the jr. admin. from IL is struggling with his new communist dictatorship.
We know [...]

Judge Sonya
What does it say about a person who disregards the Constitution and the structure of the Republic to re-write law based on personal opinion? Would one be considered a judge or a legislator? In my opinion, that person would not be fit for any judicial position. Yet, we are going to [...]

People keep calling them liberals, myself included. Let’s get serious about this and put the correct label on the people who deserve it. They are socialists. From lindajhutchinso on Twitter this link to Pelosi’s Marxist Connections.
There is increasing concern about whether she can be trusted with national security secrets.
Speaker Pelosi’s Controversial Marxist [...]

The War on Talk Radio will be won but it’s more damaging than just radio. An interesting thing about being in Europe during the Cold War was the number of signals beamed into Soviet Union and Bloc Countries. The U.S. bombarded citizens with alternative views of reality for those held captive by the [...]