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Conservative Party more popular than GOP, GOP bows down

This is incredible news coming out of New York:

Republican state Assemblywoman Dierdre Scozzafava has suspended her campaign for upstate New York's 23rd Congressional seat, giving a possible boost to Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman against Democrat Bill Owens, Fox News has confirmed. 

The move comes on the heels of a new poll that showed Scozzafava had fallen behind her two competitors in a race too close.

The special election is Tuesday and political analysts believe upstate New York is a preview of the races in 2010 and 2012 as Republican leaders struggle to rebuild, redefine and regain control of Washington.

The Siena College poll has Owens picking up 36 percent of the vote, while Hoffman has 35 percent. Scozzafava has 20 percent, with nine percent of voters undecided.

It's a turnaround from the first Siena poll on the race in September, which had Scozzafava leading, followed by Owens and Hoffman.

Scozzafava's team pulled the plug on the campaign after viewing the Siena poll, sources told Fox News, adding that there was no pressure from the National Republican Congressional Committee or the Republican National Committee.

Ken Spain, a spokesman for the NRCC, said Scozzafava will now release her supporters to vote for Hoffman.

The Democrat's opt-out myth

Ann Coulter explains that the Demcorat's health care opt-out is not really an opt-out:

The Democrats' all-new "opt out" idea for health-care reform is the latest fig leaf for a total government takeover of the health-care system.

Democrats tell us they've been trying to nationalize health care for 65 years, but the first anyone heard of the "opt out" provision was about a week ago. They keep changing the language so people can't figure out what's going on.

The most important fact about the "opt out" scheme allegedly allowing states to decline government health insurance is that a state can't "opt out" of paying for it. All 50 states will pay for it. A state legislature can only opt out of allowing its own citizens to receive the benefits of a federal program they're paying for.

It's like a movie theater offering a "money back guarantee" and then explaining, you don't get your money back, but you don't have to stay and watch the movie if you don't like it. That's not what most people are thinking when they hear the words "opt out." The term more likely to come to mind is "scam."

While congressional Democrats act indignant that Republicans would intransigently oppose a national health care plan that now magnanimously allows states to "opt out," other liberals are being cockily honest about the "opt out" scheme.

On the Huffington Post, the first sentence of the article on the opt-out plan is: "The public option lives."

Andrew Sullivan gloats on his blog, "Imagine Republicans in state legislatures having to argue and posture against an affordable health insurance plan for the folks, as O'Reilly calls them, while evil liberals provide it elsewhere."

But the only reason government health insurance will be more "affordable" than private health insurance is that taxpayers will be footing the bill. That's something that can't be opted out of under the "opt out" plan.

Government dependency, irresponsible behavior, violence, and then a totalitarian state

The Progressive Movement's rejection of Natural Law (that includes free-market capitalism) and replacing it with a welfare state (socialism and Marxist redistribution) sends down a path the ends up with a totalitarian state. Government dependency causes individuals to not be responsible for themselves. When most in a society have that mindset, then chaos and violence escalate to a point that causes government to step in with force. Such is the case on Indian reservations today:

$400 million dollars will help tribal communities reduce violence on their reservations. That announcement comes from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday.

The cash is coming from the Department of Justice. The grants come after the completion of a two-day listening session in St. Paul, where Department of Justice officials met with over 300 tribal leaders.

The Obama administration sparked the effort wanting to address what Holder says are unacceptably high crime rates on American Indian reservations.

H1N1 really is "swine flu"

And here are the pigs to prove it:

Final tests confirm that six pigs from the Minnesota State Fair have contracted H1N1.

That's three more than researchers had originally thought.

These tests confirm the first cases of pigs contracting the virus in the country.

Officials believe the pigs caught the virus from some of the nearly 1.8 million people who visited the fair.

The U.S.D.A. still stressing tonight that Swine Flu can't be contracted by eating pork products.

Beware of Facebook email virus

FYI:

There's a new computer virus making the rounds online. It uses the Facebook brand to trick unsuspecting users into downloading potentially vicious malware.

The virus arrives as an attachment to an e-mail claiming to be from Facebook. The subject line reads "Facebook Password Reset Confirmation" and purports to be from "The Facebook Team," according to Belgium-based security research firm MX Lab.

The message itself reads: "Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed. You can find your new password in attached document." But the attachment actually contains a nasty virus called the Bredolab Trojan, which security analysts have been tracking for a while.

Once downloaded, the virus gives the sender complete control of the target computer, allowing cyber criminals to potentially spy on users of the computer or use it to steal personal information or distribute more spam.

Far-left diversity nuts provoking violence?

The above headline is shaped from the kind of BS Obama and the Progressive left says about those who cling to their guns and religion. Now lets see how the shoe fits on the left's foot:

CNN and talk radio host Lou Dobbs, a strong proponent of U.S. border enforcement, told his radio audience a gunshot was fired into his home after a series of threatening phone calls.

"Three weeks ago this morning a shot was fired into my house, my wife was standing there," he said on his nationally syndicated radio show Monday. "This follows weeks and weeks of threatening phone calls."

"This shot was fired with my wife not 15 feet away."

Dobbs said advocacy groups that support illegal aliens and have pressed for him to be fired "have created an atmosphere and have been unrelenting in their propaganda."

Outspoken opponents of Dobbs include the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti Defamation League, the National Council of La Raza, Internet media watchdog Media Matters and Geraldo Rivera of Fox News.

Last week, in a speech to Hispanics sponsored by New York City's largest Spanish-language daily newspaper, El Diario La Prensa, Rivera singled out Dobbs for what he called "the defamatory tone of the immigration debate" which has "slandered an entire race of people."

"Lou Dobbs is almost single-handedly responsible for creating, for being the architect of the young-Latino-as-scapegoat for everything that ails this country," Rivera said.

Rivera also told the audience his boss at Fox News assured him Dobbs won't be coming to the network.

"I can tell you proudly, when this man was widely rumored to be coming to my network, I called my boss a couple of weeks ago, and he said it's absolutely untrue," Rivera said. "Lou Dobbs is not coming to Fox News. He belongs at CNN. If they can justify his presence there that's their problem."

Feminist ruined Porkulus

Phyllis Schlafly has an interesting point regarding the economics:

In the current recession, the majority of workers laid off have been men (especially from construction and manufacturing). Jobs where women predominate have not been much affected.

Even so, the feminists demanded that the Obama administration give half the stimulus jobs to women rather than to the shovel-ready work that was the reason for passing the stimulus funds. Whatever the feminists demand from the Democrats they get, and the stimulus money was directed to jobs in education, health care and social services.

So what are the feminists complaining about? They want the taxpayers to provide high-quality day care and paid family leave, to pass laws to prohibit employers from ordering women to work overtime (as men are often required to do) and probably to force men to assume half the household and baby-care duties.

The feminists are still crying about President Richard Nixon vetoing a federal program to make day care a middle-class entitlement. But Nixon's action was popular then and still is because the majority of Americans don't want their tax dollars to pay for babysitters for other people's children.

No doubt this will come as a shock to the feminists, but Time magazine reports that "a majority of both men and women still say it is best for children to have a father working and a mother at home."

More anti-gun tactics at a government school

Think we are living in a free country? Think again:

A Des Moines, Iowa, girl who brought an empty shotgun shell to school to show her science teacher was suspended for violating the school's weapons policy.

Authorities say 12-year-old Jazmine Martin brought the shell to school last week. It was a souvenir from a summer vacation to South Dakota. It was empty and had the word "blank" written on the front.

Jazmine said that during fourth period, she was pulled out of class and questioned about her souvenir.

Brody Middle School Principal Randy Gordon said Jazmine actually brought a bag of shell casings and shared them with other kids.

Gordon said that even though they were empty, the casings are considered ammunition, which violates the school's weapon policy.

Sell California to China?

I am not sure about this Jerome Corsi idea:

With China increasingly wanting equity for debt in buying U.S. Treasuries to finance the $1.4 trillion 2009 Obama administration debt, maybe the United States ought to sell California to China.

With unemployment at nearly 10 percent nationally, California is nearly bankrupt, and the federal government is in no position to finance California's state budget deficit.

There is precedent for selling California to China: the 1803 Louisiana Purchase in which the United States paid France to acquire the Louisiana Territory, and the 1867 acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire, then known as "Seward's Folly" after then-Secretary of State William Henry Seward.

This was the suggestion I made, only partly tongue-in-cheek, to the Constitution Party national meeting I addressed last Saturday in Phoenix. Ariz. A video of my speech is available at the Constitution Party of Arizona website

America in danger

Thomas Sowell has just concern for America:

Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to "change the United States of America," the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.

Jeremiah Wright said it with words: "God damn America!" Bill Ayers said it with bombs that he planted. Community activist goons have said it with their contempt for the rights of other people.

Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao, who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans, to a captive audience of children.

Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn't know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?

Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government – people who reject American values, resent Americans in general and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting America's influence in the world.

Any miscalculation on his part would be in not thinking that others would discover what these stealth appointees were like. Had it not been for the Fox News Channel, these stealth appointees might have remained unexposed for what they are. Fox News is now high on the administration's enemies list.

Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year – each bill more than a thousand pages long – too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question – and the biggest question for this generation.