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Anyone who says that Abortion is NOT murder, has got a severe mental problem.
Then again, we are talking about Liberals. đ
For the record, it is the opinion of this Libertarian Conservative writer that Abortion IS murder; however, I do NOT believe this moral issue should corrected by legislation. Like I do not believe ANY moral issue should be corrected by legislation.
The U.S. dollar, tied to gold, was to become the worldâs reserve currency. The pound, the franc and other currencies were to be tied to the dollar at fixed rates of exchange. An International Monetary Fund was established to lend to nations with balance of payments problems. An International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) was created to provide loans for rebuilding war-torn Europe.
America provided most of the financing for the new institutions and assumed the lionâs share of control. Though the most famous economist of the age, J.M. Keynes, led the British delegation, his ideas â for a new world central bank and new world currency â were brushed aside by Harry White and the Americans.
The Bretton Woods system endured until Richard Nixon. With his country hemorrhaging gold in 1971, Nixon slammed the gold window shut, cut the dollar loose and let it float against other currencies.
Nixonâs was an act of necessity. The Europeans, with more dollars than they needed or wanted, were coming to cash them in and clean out Fort Knox.
To suggest that Europeans possess anything like the hegemonic power of America in 1944 is delusion.
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I now officially pronounce the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party as dead as its namesake, the late Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, who assumed room temperature nearly 30 years ago.
This is a good thing â a very hopeful, even promising, eventuality for a potential rebirth of the Republican Party as a party of ideas.
It had to happen. As the first Republican president told us, “A house divided cannot stand.” Neither can a party â at least not when it is divided the way the Rockefeller Republicans divided the GOP.
But, why do I proclaim the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party dead?
Because, John McCain was the personification of that wing â at least in the last 10 years.
He got the nomination. He did it his way, as Frank Sinatra would say. And he got beat by a guy three years out of the Illinois Legislature, a radical with tempestuous associations, no executive experience, little experience with elective office of any kind and little professional experience of any kind.
McCain got his butt kicked. He not only lost his bid for the White House, but he also lost many Republican seats once thought safe in Congress.
McCain may still be the titular head of his party as the presidential nominee, but his influence on its future will be considerably diminished as a result of his utter failure. McCain is not considered even a remote possibility for another bid at the big prize.
He’s done, finished, over, completed.
If the G.O.P. passes this man up, it will be the BIGGEST mistake that they will have ever made!
Via TownHall.com:
Promising this would be “the first of a series of conversations” with bloggers, former Maryland LG Michael Steele held a blogger conference call today regarding his bid for RNC Chairman.
Regarding bloggers, Steele said, “we have under-utilized a tremendously valuable resource.” He also added that he’s usually up at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning, online.
Steele promised a full-fledged communications operation that includes many forms of contact, including mail, the internet, and text-messaging. He promised a “full-blown internet strategy which will raise money but also raise interest.” He also noted: “That’s going to mean tackling some of the old taboos in politics…what we saw with the Obama campaign was a phenomenal operation.”
In response to one of my questions, Steele also promised to sign-on to RebuildtheParty.com.
On his reason for running, Steele said he opposed the GOP becoming Democratic Lite:Â “If I wanted to be a Democrat — having grown up in Washington, DC…then I would have joined the Democratic Party.”
He also went out of his way to stress his pro-Life credentials. He also said he wanted to attract new members to join the Republican Party, and that he believes in a “government that is efficient.”
Steele also warned that Republicans shouldn’t “soft-pedal” our attacks on Barack Obama, “just because the President of the United States happens to be a Black man.” This, of course, presents the argument that Steele — an African-American — could be a more effective critic of Obama than could his white Republican colleagues.
Regarding a follow-up question I asked him, Steele responded that “the Obama campaign played the race card beautifully.” He said it hurt Bill Clinton and that it also hurt John McCain because he wouldn’t mention Reverend Wright. Steele argued that in taking Rev. Wright off the table, McCain surrendered the one issue that might have helped him win.
This man is exactly what the G.O.P. needs right now, like yesterday! He would be able to steer that party in the proper direction and also be able to counter much of what Obama has thrown at the G.O.P.
I think that this would be a MAJOR step in the right direction. (no pun intended…)
Update: Irk! Judging from some of the comments, I guess some within the G.O.P. don’t like this guy… It figures. đ
Possibly says Campaign for Liberty press guy and Ron Paul grandson-in-law Jesse Benton.
Via Reason Magazine:
Last week, Campaign for Liberty press guy and Ron Paul grandson-in-law Jesse Benton was driving to a constituent event with his boss and the subject of 2012 came up.
“He hasnât closed out the idea of another run,” said Benton today. “We have some time to decide whether he runs again, or whether he gets behind somebody else. But we donât have tons of time. By the middle of 2009, the decision needs to be made.”
Benton isn’t pushing Paul one way or the other. “I could get behind either decision, but it needs to be made in the next six months or so,” he said. “One thing we learned is that those voters in New Hampshire and Iowa expect, to see their candidates early and often.” Paul entered the 2008 primaries in January 2007, about 11 months and two weeks before the Iowa caucuses.
I asked about the rumor that former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson might jump into the race (unclear in which party yet). “If he were to decide that he wanted to do that, heâd be a great guy to take the reins. But I donât think that what Dr. Paul captured was 100 percent transferable to anyone else. I think the Bob Barr campaign assumed that and it didn’t pan out.”
Would Paul run as a Republican again or as a Libertarian? “We try not to ever deal in absolutes in politics,” Benton said carefully. “But he would be very likely to be running as a Republican again.” It’s not just that “working within the system” gets more exposure for a candidate. It’s that several Republican primary states include the caveat that candidates cannot run in their primaries and go third party if they lose. “To be frank, I got tired of the ‘third party’ question getting asked time after time, and I know that Ron did too.”
Paul is almost exactly a year older than John McCain, and turned 73 in August.
Now personally, I would like to see Ron Paul or someone of his kind to run in 2012. Because I personally believe that by 2012, the American people are going to be quite disgusted by the tax and spend polices of Obama. This will be fueled by all of the broken promises of the Obama administration. Quite possibly by then the Economy will be in a full-tilt state of ruin and Obama just will not be able to fix it; this will open the door for a Ron Paul type of Conservatism, which will allow that person to come in, get rid of the Federal Reserve and get America back on the gold standard.
Of course, that person will have a uphill battle, he would have to battle the establishment Republican AND Democrats who want to keep America on the collision course that it is on now. It will not be an easy battle. But it is one that can be fought and won with the right kind of campaign staff and message.
I do believe that politics just entered a another level of nutty crazy. 
Michelle Malkin is defending, supporting, agreeing with, of all people, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Senator Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the UFO chaser! 
Quote:
Believe it or not, I am going to say something nice about Democrat Rep. Dennis Kucinich. He voted against the bailout every time. In a ready-for-YouTube exchange, he snorted when Kashkari said, (paraphrasing here) âtaxpayer money shouldnât be poured into businesses that are going to fail.â Kucinich retorted that Kashkari would be hearing that line played back to him for the rest of his career.
Now I agree with what Michelle said, but Michelle Malkin saying nice stuff about Dennis Kucinich?!?! DENNIS FREAKIN’ KUCINICH?!?!?! 
Hey Jesse! Could you kindly check Michelle’s Coffee mug please? I think she might have gotten slipped a mickey! đ
….Come to think of it, I might just check my coffee mug…. đ
Finally, another young Conservative has awakened and smelled the coffee brewing.
Quote:
Mr. DÂ â As a ‘young intellectual conservative’ mulling over factions in the coming Big Conservative Brouhaha, I’m thinking of jumping the USS GOP in favor of the Libertarian party. 3 quick reasons
- It’s ideologically coherent. Or, at least, built on a strong foundation of promoting individual liberty and, y’know, actually deferring to the Constitution.
- It’s ‘cool’. Libertarians are generally viewed as either uncompromising personal freedoms/open market zealots, or in the case of those just looking for a political party that justifies their bad behavior, party animals. Both are preferable to the ‘sexually repressed bigoted fundamentalist freakshow’ image the Republican party now engenders, thanks largely to the media and, well, Republicans in general lately.
- Compassionate conservatism sucks. I don’t want a holy-roller welfare state any more than I want a degenerate welfare state.
I’m not under the illusion that we’re somehow going to see the end of the two-party system, and of course I take pause with some of the nuttier Libertarian policies, but what on earth is nuttier than Republicans nationalizing swaths of the economy hither and thither?
Right now, the Republican brand is in shambles, mainly having ignored its own principles. The party that most unabashedly protects those principles I hold paramount â individual liberties, respect for the Constitution, and free markets â is the Libertarian party. Either way, I suspect conservatives will be out in the wilderness for a while, and if you’re going to be a bear, you might as well be a grizzly.
Of course, I disagree with some of Derbyshire’s responses, but I think it is a very positive thing to see, that finally some of the young people within the Republican Party are waking up to the fact that G.O.P. No longer represents them any longer. That, in itself, it is a step in the right direction.
I’m a bit late to the press here on this one. My apologies.
But it appears that little miss cackle-a-lot might be our next secretary of state. So, says the Washington Post:
There’s increasing chatter in political circles that the Obama camp is not overly happy with the usual suspects for secretary of state these days and that the field might be expanding somewhat beyond Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.), Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and maybe former Democratic senator Sam Nunn of Georgia.
There’s talk, indeed, that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) may now be under consideration for the post. Her office referred any questions to the Obama transition; Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to comment.
The pick of the former presidential contender and Senate Armed Services Committee member would go a long way toward healing any remaining divisions within the Democratic Party after the divisive primaries. Also, Clinton has long been known for her work on international women’s issues and human rights. The former first lady could also enhance Obama’s efforts to restore U.S. standing amongst allies worldwide.
And Obama could put her in his speed-dial for a 3 a.m. phone call every morning.
So much for all that talk of Hope and Change eh? Instead we’re getting left overs from the last Democratic Administration; Wonderful. đ
I guess Obama did not defeat the Clinton political machine after all.
The Children that parished at the Waco compound siege were unavailable for comment. đĄ
Remember that little piece written by P.J. O’Rourke that I blogged about here recently?
Well, it appears that some of my fellow Paleo-Con’s are having none of it, at all; and BOY have the swords come out! đŽ
Red Philips over at the Conservative Heritage Times writes:
P.J. OâRourkeâs lasted screed was referenced below. He does make some good points re. spending, fiscal responsibility and lost opportunities, but the good points are lost among his anti-Southern, anti-traditionalist, anti-Christian bigoted spit-flecked rants.
In the article he supports open borders (nothing could be more inherently unconservative), abortion, gay marriage, unconstitutional Civil Rights laws, and wars to spread democracy. What, prey tell, is he supposedly trying to conserve?
OâRourke is a âlibertarian leaning conservative,â my a**. He is an elitist, centrist, establishment shill.
Ouch!
Not to be outdone, John Zmirak over a Taki’s Magazine writes:
P.J. OâRourke is now officially senile. Pour a stiff glass of bourbon before wading into this farrago of parrot-sh*t. The problem with conservatism, for P.J. as for Frumbag, is conservatives. They should learn to put up with forced desegregation and worthless public schools, gay marriage, abortion, colonization by hostile, nationalistic foreigners, and the use of the U.S. military to fight other countryâs wars. In return they might, just might get⌠drumroll please: fiscal responsibility. Yeah, weâve never spent a dime on all that federal equality micromanagement and foreign conquest, or all those uninsured unskilled laborers. Thatâs funded by pennies from heaven.
Good Godfrey, I thought I was an grumpy old so and so! I can see their point. Of course, I tend to believe that this being directed at this man, because he’s a Neo-Con more than anything else. But still, Senile? Ouch!
Lose an election and start the circular firing squad. Egad, if I have to suffer through blogging about this for the next four to possibly eight years; I don’t know what I am going to do. đ
Just sayin’!
Our damn economy is swirling the toilet, bailouts are going every damn where and best this pea-brained penis nibbler can do, is blog about flippin‘ far away planets and old cars.
Dude, if you wanna Blog about science, start a damned science blog, if you wanna blog about old rusted 1970’s cars, start a damn blog for it. But if you want to Blog about politics, which is why I signed up on your damned RSS feed in the first place, do it on the blog that you are supposed to be blogging politics on sir.
Can someone remind me again, just why the hell everyone fawns over Glenn Reynolds like he is some sort of fucking Blog God for, again, Please?
Just sayin’…..
(This comes via Reason Hit and Run)
As reported by the NYT:
SACRAMENTO â The artistic director of the California Musical Theater, a major nonprofit producing company here in the stateâs capital, resigned on Wednesday in the face of growing outrage over his support for a ballot measure this month that outlawed same-sex marriage in California.
The artistic director, Scott Eckern, came under fire recently after it became known that he contributed $1,000 to support Proposition 8, which amended the state Constitution to recognize only male-female marriages. The measure was approved by 52 percent of California voters on Election Day. (Same-sex marriages had been performed in California since June.)
In a statement issued on Wednesday morning, Mr. Eckern said that his donation stemmed from his religious beliefs â he is a Mormon â and that he was âdeeply saddened that my personal beliefs and convictions have offended others.â
His donation was brought to light by online activists angry about the measureâs success at the polls.
âI understand that my choice of supporting Proposition 8 has been the cause of many hurt feelings, maybe even betrayal,â Mr. Eckern said. âIt was not my intent. I honestly had no idea that this would be the reaction.â
Of course for some, his resignation is not enough:
But the swift resignation was not met with cheers by those on either side.
Marc Shaiman, the Tony Award-winning composer (âHairsprayâ), called Mr. Eckern last week and said that he would not let his work be performed in the theater. âI was uncomfortable with money made off my work being used to put discrimination in the Constitution,â Mr. Shaiman said. He added, however, that the entire episode left him âdeeply troubledâ because of the potential for backlash against gays who protested Mr. Eckernâs donation.
âIt will not help our cause because we will be branded exactly as what we were trying to fight,â said Mr. Shaiman, who is gay. âBut I do believe there comes a time when you cannot sit back and accept what I think is the most dangerous form of bigotry.â
Supporters of the marriage ban said that critics of Mr. Eckern were attacking freedom of expression, and they chastised the theaterâs board for subjecting Mr. Eckern to a political litmus test.
âNo matter your opinion on Prop. 8, we should all agree that it is wrong to intimidate or harass anyone for exercising their constitutional rights,â said a letter to the theaterâs board president on Tuesday by Frank Schubert, campaign manager for Protect Marriage, the leading group behind the ballot measure.
For its part, the theater disavowed Mr. Eckernâs donation and issued only a brief statement on Wednesday accepting his resignation, while emphasizing that it would not âimpinge on the rights of its employees to engage in political activities.â A longtime employee, Mr. Eckern had been artistic director since 2002.
The outrage over Mr. Eckern and the subsequent dismay voiced by Mr. Shaiman are the most recent evidence of the tension running through the entertainment industry since Election Day, particularly in California.
This is why I am against the idea of Church meddling the affairs of the Government. I will say, at least it is on a state level and not at the federal level. One cannot legislate morality. If the Governor of California wants to save his skin, he’d better strike this law from the books. But because he is a Republican, he will not.
While I do personally believe that Homosexuality, from a Christian viewpoint is immoral, I think it would be and is a tragic mistake to attempt to use the Government, of any sort; as a means to try and legislate morality. It is a tragic mistake and will cost our Nation and divide it’s people in the long run.