Raising the Flag 64 Yrs ago

On February 23,1945 the flag of the United States was planted on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

Will the 3 GOP Traitors be Punished?

RNC Chairman Michael Steele told Neil Cavuto that he is open to cutting GOP funding for the 3 Senate traitors who voted for the largest spending bill in US history. Steele says he will wait and see what the state GOP parties decide about the traitors. Senators Specter, Snowe and Collins voted in favor of the trillion dollar pork-bloated bill.

They need to be kicked to the curb!!

Right.org: $27,599 Anti-Bailout Video Competition

Say NO to Bailouts. Submit a video. Win $27,599.

That's the heading at Right.Org's website and it's legit. A new grassroots website is calling on Congress to stop the bailouts and has started a video contest to help with their efforts.

You are probably as upset about the bailouts as we are. Well, Washington isn't listening, so let's turn up the volume. Come up with an idea, grab a camera, and send us your best 30-second video opposing government bailouts.

Be creative. Make us laugh. Teach us. Above all, make us oppose the bailouts. The person or team that submits the "best video" will win $27,599 - one person's personal bailout burden.

The prize:
first place: $27,599
second place: $2,759
5 runners-up: $275 Apple Store gift certificates

Video length: 30 seconds

Theme: "Why you oppose the bailouts."

Competition time frame: February 23 - May 25 (3 months)

Judging criteria: a panel of judges will select the winner from among the top 20 most viewed videos (more details soon)

Submission: upload through Right.org's video upload application,
available February 23rd

Laura Ingraham Discusses Pelosi's Pope Visit

Laura Ingraham discusses with Bill O'reily the Pope's announcement this week on the Sanctity of Life during Pelosi's visit to Rome.

GOP: Elect Us in 2010, We Can Stop the Pork Bill

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) says that Republicans will cancel 60% of the Spendulus bill that extends for the next several years if the GOP is voted back into power in 2010.

Theres a RAT in the Stimulus

There's something lurking in the recently passed pork stimulus bill that hasn't got much attention yet, but it's quickly starting to..

Per DCE:

You’ve heard a lot about the astonishing spending in the $787 billion economic stimulus bill, signed into law this week by President Barack Obama. But you probably haven’t heard about a provision in the bill that threatens to politicize the way allegations of fraud and corruption are investigated — or not investigated — throughout the federal government.

The provision, which attracted virtually no attention in the debate over the 1,073-page stimulus bill, creates something called the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board — the RAT Board, as it’s known by the few insiders who are aware of it. The board would oversee the in-house watchdogs, known as inspectors general, whose job is to independently investigate allegations of wrongdoing at various federal agencies, without fear of interference by political appointees or the White House.

In the name of accountability and transparency, Congress has given the RAT Board the authority to ask “that an inspector general conduct or refrain from conducting an audit or investigation.” If the inspector general doesn’t want to follow the wishes of the RAT Board, he’ll have to write a report explaining his decision to the board, as well as to the head of his agency (from whom he is supposedly independent) and to Congress. In the end, a determined inspector general can probably get his way, but only after jumping through bureaucratic hoops that will inevitably make him hesitate to go forward.

When Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, a longtime champion of inspectors general, read the words “conduct or refrain from conducting,” alarm bells went off. The language means that the board — whose chairman will be appointed by the president — can reach deep inside a federal agency and tell an inspector general to lay off some particularly sensitive subject. Or, conversely, it can tell the inspector general to go after a tempting political target.

“This strikes at the heart of the independence of inspectors general,” Grassley told me this week, in a phone conversation between visits to town meetings in rural Iowa. “Anytime an inspector general has somebody questioning his authority, it tends to dampen the aggressiveness with which they pursue something, particularly if it’s going to make the incumbent administration look bad.”

A board of members whos chairman will be appointed by Obama, who can tell an inspector general to lay off certain sensitive subjects? This guy is unbelievable..

What happened to FREE SPEECH?

After all the talk of regulating our airwaves and internet and now this, I end up asking myself "What has happened to our country?"

Per FoxNews:

According to The Oklahoman newspaper, an officer pulled over Chip Harrison last week because he had in his car a sign that said, "Abort Obama, not the unborn."

The officer confiscated the sign and handed Harrison a slip telling him he was under investigation, even though Harrison argued that the sign only meant he wanted Obama removed from office.

The officer thought Harrison was threatening to kill the president, according to the article. But the department later explained that the officer misinterpreted the sign.

That didn't stop Harrison from getting a visit from the Secret Service. They interviewed him at his house and determined he was not a threat to the president, according to the report.

How can anyone conscrue "Abort Obama, not the unborn" into threatening? He's obviously talking about abortion and wanting Obama out of office. What has happened to our free speech in this country? I can remember several instances where people were setting pictures of George W. Bush on fire, as well as standing on and setting the flag on fire. Were'nt these threating? I mean these are just a few of many hateful things that have happened during Bush's presidency and although I dont agree with them, they do have the right to free expression thanks to our 1st Amendment. I guess things are different now and this is just more of the "change" we have been promised..