op ed review 3/11
It wasn't pretty and it wasn't easy, but Mitt Romney has essentially locked up the GOP nomination. On Super Tuesday, the former Massachusetts governor won the most states (six out of 10), the most votes (nearly 1.4 million vs. 819,000 for his closest rival, Rick Santorum) and the most delegates (more than 210 Super Tuesday delegates vs. less than 180 for his three rivals). Romney now leads in total delegates (404 vs. 165 for Santorum, 106 for Gingrich, and 66 for Paul). He is the only GOP candidate to have won states in every region of the country.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/07/opinion/wehner-super-tuesday/index.html?hpt=hp_bn9
Santorum benefitted from crossover Democrats while Mitt Romney easily won the vote among actual Republicans, according to a Washington Times analysis.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/7/romney-drew-gop-faithful-santorum-got-crossover-he/
President Obama’s approval index is now minus nineteen. Mitt Romney leads President Obama by six points in a hypothetical 2012 matchup.
U.S. unemployment increased to 9.1% in February from 8.6% in January and 8.5% in December.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/153161/Unemployment-February.aspx
America remains mired in the longest jobs recession since the Great Depression.
http://news.investors.com/article/603791/201203090838/jobs-recession-is-longest-since-depression.htm
Gas is $5/gallon at many stations in LA.
http://www.californiagasprices.com/
President Obama says unions aren’t “special interest groups.” Never mind that organized labor is one of the all-time largest lobbying groups, spending $492 million on lobbying from 1998 to 2011.
http://times247.com/articles/obama-unions-aren-t-special-interest
Just in time for election year: With no authorization from Congress, President Obama has announced that the Federal Housing Administration will insure refinanced mortgages for 2 to 3 million borrowers without verifying their income or even if they hold a job.
The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched.
http://freebeacon.com/trashing-tricare/
In a development that could chill the dedication of every soldier in the field, the U.S. government has refused to deny reports by the government of Afghanistan that NATO has agreed to have the soldiers who burned copies of the Quran face trial. The wording suggests members of the military could be handed over to an Afghan system that imposes Shariah-related penalties.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/afghans-quran-burning-soldiers-to-face-trial/
The Los Angeles County coroner's office said it is awaiting the results of toxicology tests before releasing an official cause of death for conservative author and activist Andrew Breitbart, who died unexpectedly at age 43.
On Monday, March 5, Northwestern University School of Law was the location of an extraordinary scene for a free nation. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder presented President Barack Obama's claim that he has the authority to kill any U.S. citizen he considers a threat.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/06/obama_s_kill_doctrine
Our own media won’t report this so we have to read about it in Pravda: “Arizona sheriff finds Obama presidential qualifications forged……Arpaio asserts that his forensics investigators discovered, during a 6 month long investigation which is ongoing, not only was the "Long Form" likely a digitally created forgery, but the president’s Selective Service Card (Draft Card), allegedly filed in 1980, was also a forgery. These documents are what Barack Hussein Obama relies upon to prove his constitutional eligibility to the office of President of the United States.”
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/07-03-2012/120708-arizona_sheriff_obama-0/
“In the days ahead, it will be interesting to see if the mainstream media provides any coverage of the event's allegations. Sitting in the room we were overwhelmed by the professionalism of these sworn officers of the law. They clearly used the best experts in their investigation. Finally a legitimate law enforcement official has looked at the evidence and found, as Arpaio said, "probable cause that a felony has been committed."
http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index.ssf/2012/03/sheriff_joe_arpaio_exposes_for.html
Despite President Obama and Democrats’ insistence that the rich “pay their fair share,” three-quarters of likely voters believe the nation’s richest should pay lower, not higher, taxes, according to a poll conducted by the Hill.
http://freebeacon.com/poll-vast-majority-of-likely-voters-think-rich-already-pay-their-fair-share/
The federal government recorded its worst monthly deficit in history in February.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/8/govt-sets-record-deficit-february/
Health and Human Services Sec. Sebelius says she has “no idea” whether Obamacare adds to the deficit.
http://freebeacon.com/sebelius-has-no-idea-if-obamacare-adds-to-the-deficit/
Despite receiving more than $885 million in federal economic stimulus funds since 2009, the Washington D.C. government cannot say how many jobs it actually created for those who live in the District.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/7/dc-has-no-count-of-jobs-from-stimulus/
More than half of Obama’s 47 biggest fundraisers, those who collected at least $500,000 for his campaign, have been given administration jobs. Nine more have been appointed to presidential boards and committees.
Obama likens himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela
“Below is footage of Barack Obama praising and hugging Professor Derrick Bell. It was spliced and diced by the media to avoid showing just how close Obama was to Bell. More than that, a close associate of the Obama campaign, Harvard Law School’s Professor Charles Ogletree, admitted on our exclusive tape, “We hid this throughout the 2008 campaign. I don’t care if they find it now.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/07/buzzefeed-selectively-edits-obama-tape
There’s far more coming on Derrick Bell. This is just the beginning. And this video is a smoking gun showing that Barack Obama not only associated with radicals, he was their advocate.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/07/buzzefeed-selectively-edits-obama-tape
Kraft Foods has decided to pull advertising for its popular Philadelphia Cream Cheese from the controversial ABC television show “Good Christian B******”, which critics say attacks Christianity. The Chicago-based cream cheese titan says it made the decision after customer complaints began to pile up.
Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA) announced he'll retire at the end of the year after 18 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Chanting "USA, USA, USA,” at a basketball game is now considered a racial insult?
In response to the media firestorm surrounding Rush Limbaugh's insulting comments about Democratic activist Sandra Fluke (comments for which Limbaugh apologized), Kirsten Powers writes about the liberal men who have used misogynistic rhetoric without facing the same outrage. Powers notes that "the grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher—who also happens to be a favorite of liberals—who has personally given $1 million to President Obama’s super PAC."
Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke is being represented by a former Obama adviser’s PR firm….suggesting that the young woman was indirectly planted at the center of the contraception controversy by the Obama administration.
“Rush Limbaugh got in trouble last week when he said a Georgetown activist dressed like a “slutty flight attendant” and said that during a ballgame, her 14-year-old daughter “was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.” Oh wait. That was what David Letterman said of Sarah Palin in June 2009.”
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/52542
Sculptor E. Spencer Schubert is preparing to add two busts to the Hall of Famous Missourians in the State Capitol: Dred Scott and Rush Limbaugh. The hall includes Mark Twain, Walt Disney, Harry Truman, Scott Joplin, Charlie Parker and Sacajawea. “This ought to go over well…..Liberals of course will show their open-mindedness, tolerance and multi-cultural diversity.”
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/52500
Dutch mobile euthanasia units to make house calls….new scheme called 'Life End' will respond to sick people whose own doctors have refused to help them end their lives at home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/01/dutch-mobile-euthanasia-units
The New Hampshire state Senate passed a bill requiring residents to show identification before voting after a well-publicized video showed how easy it is to obtain a ballot in the name of a dead person in the state. Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe produced the bombshell video earlier this year.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/08/nh-senate-passes-voter-id-bill-after-o%e2%80%99keefe-video/
In just one hour, The New York Post was able to buy a phony green card, Social Security card and New York state driver’s license from a stranger on a corner — all of which could serve as a gateway to obtain legitimate IDs.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/capital_of_phony_theft_75NPS8XVvQuyzhR1bznG5H
“THE passage of a Republican budget out of the Washington State Senate with a majority of Democrats amounts to a political earthquake not seen in 25 years. Events like this do not happen without cause and cannot be talked into going away.”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2017667609_edit05senate.html?cmpid=2628
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Mark Alexander 3/9/12
Democrats should be on the defensive over the ObamaCare contraception mandate but have instead made the entire issue a circus. They're employing their best smoke and mirrors to distract from the fundamental issue at stake -- whether Barack Obama has the constitutional authority to override religious liberty to achieve his desired insurance coverage -- but they won't get away with it.
As we noted last week, one Sandra Fluke testified before Congress on the need to have free birth control provided for all women at Georgetown University. Fluke is no typical college student, however. She's a 30-year-old self-professed "reproductive rights activist" who is pursuing her law degree, though she chose the Jesuit school for the express purpose of changing its policy on insuring contraception. Birth control is contrary to the religious doctrine of the Catholic Church, of which Jesuits are a part.
Simply put, Fluke wants them to abandon their principles in order to accommodate her and her fellow female students' recreational choices. The Left then cloaks this in the language of "rights" when no one on the Right is talking about taking rights away from anyone.
So how did Fluke gain a hearing before Congress? Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called a hearing on the constitutionality of the Obama mandate. Democrats first wanted Americans United for Separation of Church and State executive director Barry Lynn to testify. Lynn is a typical anti-religious leftist, but at least he has some measure of "expertise" on the matter of Obama's interference with the church.
However, in a last-minute effort to misdirect the issue to "women's health," Democrats asked that Fluke appear. The committee had not vetted her, and Issa denied the request. Undeterred, Democrats held a subcommittee hearing, called their media accomplices for ample coverage, and allowed Fluke to testify about the plight of young women at Georgetown who supposedly can't afford their own birth control (despite its availability at the local pharmacy for $9 a month) and demand that the university buy it for them. She has no expertise on the subject of Obama's mandate, and her testimony was completely irrelevant hearsay.
Then, while discussing the topic last week, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh called Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" and elaborated on what that meant in terms not fit for a family show. Clearly, he crossed the line with his language, and he issued two apologies -- apologies that also happened to serve to rehash his (quite valid) argument. Fluke dismissed those apologies, and we won't belabor the point; enough has been said on the subject and Limbaugh is perfectly capable of defending himself.
Naturally, the Left went into overdrive to misdirect the issue again, this time to Limbaugh's comments instead of Obama's tyranny. They even hung Limbaugh's comments around the necks of Republicans -- as if they are responsible for him when no such similar standard ever exists for leftist talkingheads -- big mouths like Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz and Keith Olbermann, whose own vulgar comments about women have heretofore been given a free pass. Predictably, Obama piled on with a politically opportunistic call to Fluke to "see if she was all right," and to further denounce Limbaugh and his fellow defenders of liberty.
It's critical to remember that the real issue is Obama's determination to deny religious liberty in the name of "women's health." Democrats realize that if the issue is framed properly, they lose. Their only hope is to distract and deceive by making the issue about women's access to birth control, or whether Rush is a misogynist or whatever other sideshow they can contrive.
Democrats claim that they want reproductive choices left between a woman and her doctor, but it is they who demand government control over health care in general, and, more specifically, authority to force employers and others to pay for certain "health" benefits regardless of the cost. Democrats claim that they love individual rights and liberties, but it is they who deny them for the sake of their pet causes. ObamaCare is designed to destroy liberty, and we mustn't let the Left's Big Top Circus distract from the mission to repeal it
http://patriotpost.us/edition/2012/03/09/digest/
“Sandra Fluke is now the official, media-designated victim of woman-hating Republicans, with an assist from Rush Limbaugh. Where have we seen this soap opera before? That's an important question, because this is the Big Play of the scapegoating left. It's pure, standard Alinsky, and they do it over and over again. That's why it is important for normal, decent Americans to learn how it works. Conservatives who can't predict the radical left are losers. As in football, we have to study the playbook of the opposition….”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/obama-alinsky-love-song
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
"So why are the Left and the media still pushing and publicizing a campaign for advertisers to dump the [Rush] Limbaugh show and end his career? ... Liberals want this government-mandate controversy to be not about religious liberty, which is devastating, but about contraceptives, which works in their favor. That is intellectually dishonest. They want to position conservatives as 'anti-women.' ... The Left honors their own pundits as 'brilliant' for verbally assaulting women, then circulates petitions calling for advertisers to drop the Limbaugh show because his 'anti-woman tirades are appalling.' To the Left, this is simply an opportunity to put their attacks on religious liberty in a feminist frame, and an opportunity to try and shut down Limbaugh."
-Brent Bozell
“Endorsements are a holdover from a happier day before endless strings of primaries upset the time-tested process of selection of the party nominees. The backrooms, smoke and all, produced the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, FDR and Harry S. Truman. The primaries have produced such giants as Michael Dukakis, George McGovern and John Kerry. An endorsement by a congressman, a blogger, a pundit or a guitar-plucker long past his sell-by date are mere ego trips, fitting only for the new age. But if a wannabe priest, a moonstruck gasbag and a nutty sawbones can be taken seriously as presidential candidates, well, why not? Is this a great country, or what?”
-Wes Pruden
"As David Brooks recently wrote in the New York Times, 'the U.S. does not have a significantly smaller welfare state than the European nations. We're just better at hiding it.' Whereas European countries 'provide welfare provisions through direct government payments,' the U.S. does it 'through the back door via tax breaks.' For instance, 'European governments offer public childcare. In the U.S., we have child tax credits.' European governments openly 'subsidize favored industries.' We provide 'special tax deductions and exemptions' for Washington's favored industries. This back-door approach allows Americans to indulge in the fantasy of their self-reliance and rugged individualism without actually being self-reliant or rugged. ... When you include both direct and back-door social spending, our welfare state is bigger than Italy's. It is 'far above average' when compared to other industrialized nations. Unless we intend to leave our children and grandchildren with an unconscionable debt burden, that must change."
-Chuck Colson
"We have become a nation where far too many people believe we can set the parameters of good and evil as we go along, and that we must all worship at the altar of non-judgmentalism. Yet the concept of non-judgmentalism is yet another progressive manipulation of the language: those who refuse to ascribe value to anything are not non-judgmental. They are amoral. Furthermore, a society with substantial numbers of amoral people is easily manipulable. But don't take my word for it. There are more than a few people still alive with tattooed numbers on their arms who can attest to the depths that easily manipulated, 'reasonable' people can sink. Fanaticism rarely occurs in a vacuum. It proceeds from that which is initially perceived to be reasonable to utter depravity. From abortion to infanticide. From a classless society to the ninety-nine percent versus the one percent. From the so-called one percent to the ovens of Auschwitz and Dachau. One incrementally amoral step after another."
-Arnold Ahlert
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BOOKS
“During my stretch in the Soviet Union (1986–1991), there was a popular joke making the rounds among the Russians. It seems there were two subsistence farmers, Ivan and Mikhail, both equally poor. Then one day, Ivan somehow acquires a cow. His life immediately improves. Instead of the wife, the cow pulls the plow; the cow gives milk; it produces calves for meat and the market. Quickly, Ivan far outpaces Mikhail. One night, starving and miserable, Mikhail drops to his knees and prays. “Oh, God,” he implores, “Ivan and I were always equal. And now look at him — rich, like boyar. So God, please, make us equal once more.” There’s a sudden thunderclap and suddenly Mikhail hears the Voice of God. “Your prayers will be answered,” says the Lord. “You shall once more be equal again.” Mikhail practically screams with joy. “Great!” he exclaims. “You’re going to kill Ivan’s cow!” And that, in a nutshell, is the monstrous “equality” myth currently going by the name of “socialism,” but which has been with us in one dystopic form or another since Plato’s The Republic: Utopianism — or, as Mark Levin phrases it in his brilliant new book, “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”, “deception disguised as hope . . . abstraction disguised as progress” — that most potent and dangerous antithesis of individual liberty.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/292671/iameritopiai-and-death-ivans-cow-michael-walsh
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LEFTIST WATCH
Documents published online this month show that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an organization known for its uncompromising animal-rights positions, killed more than 95 percent of the pets in its care in 2011
Breitbart.com has received exclusive tape of an Occupy Strategy Session at New York University, billed as a group talk on “The Abolition of Capitalism.” One of the headline speakers at this session was Stephen Lerner, former leader and International Board Member of the SEIU and frequent Obama White House visitor. Lerner argued in favor of people not paying their mortgages and “occupying” their homes; he spoke in favor of invading annual shareholders meetings to shut them down.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/SEIU-lerner-Occupy
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FILM
Act of Valor opened last weekend to an enthusiastic response from movie-goers–it topped all films with a $24.5 million gross–but a less enthusiastic reaction from liberal critics and pundits. A common theme was that Act of Valor is propaganda. Thus, the Washington Post headlined: “‘Act of Valor’ with real-life SEALs: new breed of war movie or propaganda?”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/liberals-decide-they-dont-like-propaganda.php
Game Change, the new HBO movie about Sarah Palin: “Game Change is mostly liberal catnip, but it does have a wider value. Every politician from now until doomsday should view it as a cautionary tale about choosing your aides wisely.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/back-stab_633411.html
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GLOBALONEY
Days after General Motors announced it was temporarily suspending production of the Chevy Volt, the electric car was named European Car of the Year.
Everything proves global warming to the true believers. If it floods, that proves global warming. If it doesn’t rain, that proves global warming. If it is warm, that proves global warming. If it is cold, that proves global warming. And if everything proves it — nothing does really.
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/52170
CONSUMER REPORTS tries to test a $100K plug-in hybrid; breaks down during check-in process...
http://autos.yahoo.com/news/bad-karma--our-fisker-karma-plug-in-hybrid-breaks-down.html
Barack Obama is now achieving a vision that environmentalist ideologues could only dream about in the 1970s: He is driving Americans out of their cars
http://cnsnews.com/blog/terence-p-jeffrey/obamas-driving-americans-out-cars
The U.S. government last year announced a $10 million award, dubbed the “L Prize,” for any manufacturer that could create a “green” but affordable light bulb. Now the winning bulb is on the market. The price is $50.
Energy Secretary Stephen Chu told the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power that he does not own a car. But The Daily Caller has learned that Chu’s wife does — a big gas guzzling BMW.
http://times247.com/articles/chu-s-wife-drives-gas-guzzling-bmw
Remember the spotted owl? “To save the imperiled spotted owl, the Obama administration is moving forward with a controversial plan to shoot barred owls, a rival bird that has shoved its smaller cousin aside.”
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ISLAM
The Muslim world should not accept an apology issued by U.S. President Barack Obama over the burning of Korans in an American base in Afghanistan, a top Iranian military commander said on Saturday, adding that nothing short of "burning the White House can relieve the wound”.
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ANDREW BREITBART
Editors and reporters hand-picked by new media pioneer Andrew Breitbart have descended upon Los Angeles to attend his funeral service. Breitbart, 43, died unexpectedly of natural causes last Thursday morning.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/03/06/breitbart-team-gathers-to-honor-andrew
“Last night the spirit of Breitbart lived on with the release of a video showing Harvard law student Barack Obama celebrating the radical “critical race theorist” Derrick Bell. Bell can’t be written off as “some guy in my neighborhood” as Obama did with William Ayers, or sloughed off like Rev. Jeremiah Wright with the “I-didn’t-really-listen-to-his-sermons” excuse. Obama used to assign Bell in his class on “race and the law” at the University of Chicago. Now we know Obama has an affinity for Bell. Let’s see if the mainstream media asks about this the way.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/03/obama-and-the-bell-curve.php
He died March 1, but we haven’t heard the last from Andrew Breitbart, because the conservative rabble-rouser is set to star in two documentary movies, both of which are in post-production and will no doubt get some measure of theatrical distribution. He’ll also make his acting debut in the second episode of Courage: New Hampshire, a show that streams online where he plays a pre-Revolutionary War sheriff.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/andrew-breitbart-dead-movies-297316
Breitbart's Legacy: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders
“Andrew Breitbart changed my life. I don't think I am alone. When I was a 19-year-old kid touring the country in a beat-up old van alongside my band mates, the last place on earth I thought I'd be a mere four years later was at the Conservative Political Action Conference….”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/breitbart_and_me.html
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THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE
With all the creepy preaching from Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney’s disastrous attempts at relating to earthlings who don’t own a couple of Cadillacs or hobnob with owners of NASCAR teams, it is understandable Republicans might be a wee bit depressed these days. But, if you step wa-a-a-a-a-ay back and look at the much larger picture, Republicans just might have some reason to be optimistic once this whole agonizing primary is over. Remember, in the months leading up to Ronald Reagan’s landslide annihilation of Jimmy Carter, the polls almost exclusively showed the Gipper in a dogfight too close to call
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/28/hurt-big-picture-looks-good-for-gop/
A new poll shows that the combative and heavily scrutinized primary season so far has damaged the republican party and its candidates. Four in 10 of all adults say the GOP nominating process has given them a less favorable impression of the Republican Party, versus just slightly more than one in 10 with a more favorable opinion.
“In a speech that the Gingrich campaign has begun broadcasting around the country, and which is posted at Newt.org, Gingrich presents a unique new vision for a booming American economy. I think you will find it pathbreaking. It is so compelling that it drew Obama into a transcontinental debate with the former Speaker, the first exchange that Obama has decisively lost since he appeared on the national stage.”
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/29/obama-loses-his-first-debate
It's as slick as any commercial Hollywood production. And it's about as much a "documentary" as a campaign speech by Joe Biden. President Barack Obama's re-election machine on Thursday released a two-minute trailer for what they have billed as a 17-minute documentary that makes the case that he deserves a second term. From the giant American flag fluttering over a cheering crowd in the opening scene to the dramatic recounting of the Navy SEAL raid that took out Osama bin Laden to Tom Hanks' narration, "The Road We've Traveled" is undeniably a state-of-the-art pitch for the president.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/tom-hanks-stars-obama-campaign-documentary-161040381.html
Everyone expects much of Hollywood to do what it can to get Barack Obama reelected this November. As Bloomberg reported Saturday, Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim - he of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" infamy - has been hired by the current White House resident to make another campaign film about him: Obama’s re-election staff in Chicago spent $162,834 on the film last month.
Mike Huckabee says Romney's momentum in Ohio shows the growing sense of GOP consolidation behind him:
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer endorses Mitt Romney.
Romney also won the Michigan and Arizona primaries.
Several unions that back President Obama’s reelection bid are spending big in an effort to damage Mitt Romney in key GOP primary states.
“Their fight with President Obama over contraceptive coverage is becoming a losing battle for Republicans, a significant chunk of whom reject GOP leaders’ stance that it’s a fight about religious liberty, according to the latest Washington Times/JZ Analytics poll. While a majority of Republicans side with their party’s leaders, a striking 30 percent agree with Mr. Obama’s stance that his contraception mandate is about women’s health. Regarding young voters, the poll has even worse news for the GOP. 
“Drop this baby right now. Drop it. This is not a winner,” John Zogby, the pollster who conducted the survey, said by way of advising the GOP. “I don’t know if the White House was smart enough to box Republicans into a corner on this — I don’t know if it was by plan — but I think it worked out that way.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/5/gop-on-losing-side-of-birth-control/
Lowry: The downbeat musings on the right are driven by the dreary primary season and the belief that the party’s nominee will be weak. But so is the president, who leads likely nominee Mitt Romney only narrowly even after his season of self-inflicted wounds. For Republicans, the general election is still winnable, and there is no substitute for victory.
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ARTICLES
Good article: “Having to pay for your own contraceptives has suddenly become a national crisis. In one way it is beyond belief and in another it is totally predictable. Sandra Fluke, a third-year law student at Georgetown law school, in testimony before a congressional committee argued that she and forty percent of her fellow students are "struggling financially" because they have to pay for their own contraceptives. The Democrat-media complex, rather than laughing in her face, is making Ms. Fluke a hero. She even got a phone call from President Obama urging her on……How did we get to this point?.......President Obama cannot run on his record. His reelection team knows that. "We don't want to talk about the economy, Obamacare, or gasoline prices. Let's talk about contraceptives or Rush Limbaugh…”
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/07/wag-the-coed
The excitement on the left over 30 advertisers dropping Rush Limbaugh has reached idiotic heights. Many are openly predicting the end of the Rush Limbaugh show - as if simply saying it out loud would make it true. This isn't going to happen. As Howard Kurtz points out, Rush may be losing some advertisers, but he hasn't lost any listeners. And that's the bottom line for radio stations carrying his show.
You know the story by now, right? Republicans run the he-man women haters club. As the media has it the story goes like this: poor, unassuming, innocent Georgetown coed, accidentally ends up in front of Congress pleading for “reproductive rights.” Evil mean conservatives led by scalawag Rush Limbaugh unfairly call her a slut and announce a war on women to end their “access to contraception.” Of course, that’s the left-wing media’s narrative. The real tale is that this is as manufactured a story as you can find, one created for the purpose of assisting Obama….
http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2012/03/04/slutgate-obamas-manufactured-media-tactic/
Although most conservatives understand the important of defeating Obama, the next Congress has to be almost coequal in importance. ObamaCare, for example, cannot be repealed without control of the House of Representatives and not only control of the Senate, but enough senators to forestall a filibuster. Appointments to the federal bench, especially the Supreme Court, require Senate approval. Many of the reforms which conservatives see as vital to economic growth -- reform of the tax code, deregulation of environmental extremism, and changes to the entitlements systems -- will require congressional concurrence.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/will_2012_be_a_republican_year.html
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
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Many in our country, particularly those in elected leadership, have strayed from the principles of individual liberty and limited government that the Constitution upholds. That’s why Hillsdale College has launched one of its most ambitious undertakings yet . . . For the first time ever, Hillsdale College is offering a no-cost 10 week online Constitution course based on the course Hillsdale College students must complete, in order to graduate.
http://constitution.hillsdale.edu/
Andrew Breitbart tshirts:
http://anthemstudios.net/index.php?cPath=6
All tshirt money goes ti the Breitbart family.
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=122670
New website where visitors can sign a petition denouncing "attempts by radical left-wing organizations and the media to censor Rush and his commonsense conservative message."
http://www.tellthetruth2012.org/splash.html
Americans for Prosperity just launched a redesigned website- complete with a People's Brief to the Supreme Court. Americans for Prosperity believes that the individual mandate is unconstitutional and that the President's entire health care law must be struck down with it.
http://americansforprosperity.org/handsoff/?tr=y&auid=10364182
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HUMOR
The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University."
-Fred Thompson
"In a speech on Wall Street the other day, President Obama compared himself to Gandhi. Well, that makes sense. He's created a lot of jobs in India."
-Jay Leno
"A U.S. Marine rescued a boy who fell into the lion cage at the National Zoo. He jumped over the fence, punched the lion, and snatched away the boy. The next day the Washington Post reported that a Marine attacked an African immigrant and stole his lunch."
-Argus Hamilton
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WISE WORDS
"Listen carefully when you hear screeching accusations about fairness. Just below the surface, you'll hear an appeal to greed and envy totally inconsistent with the American spirit."
-Ronald Reagan
"If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check."
-Thomas Jefferson
"We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together."
-John Hancock
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