Burt’s Eye View: Mother Nature and the Left

When Barack Obama was campaigning — not that he’s ever stopped — back in 2008, he made a number of promises.  As we all know, like a cad on the make, he was only trying to get us in the sack.  Once he had his way with us, he barely remembered our name, let alone his various vows.

Some of the things he swore to included keeping lobbyists out of his administration, providing five days for the public to review pending legislation and a bi-partisan approach to problem-solving.  Instead, lobbyists, particularly those representing unions, have freer access to the Oval Office than Michelle and the kids.  Not only is the public not given time to digest major legislation, neither are the legislators.  Early on, you may recall, Congress was given less than 24 hours to vote on an 1100-page, trillion dollar, so-called stimulus bill; more recently, when it came to health care, Obama was telling the sheep on Capitol Hill to vote even before an actual bill was written!

So far, as bi-partisanship is concerned, the Republicans have been banished to Washington’s equivalent of Siberia.  These days, bi-partisanship simply means that  David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are in agreement.

There is one promise, however, that Obama has kept.  He vowed transparency, and anyone who can’t plainly see what the rock star and his left-wing groupies (Axelrod, Emanuel, Jeff Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunn) are up to is simply spending too much time watching “American Idol” and college football. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Global warming, health care, hollywood
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Burt’s Eye View: Henry Waxman Responds

A while ago, I wrote a piece titled “Blowing the Whistle on Waxman.”  In case you missed it, I explained that Henry Waxman and I had been friends beginning almost 50 years ago at UCLA.  I also said that we had seen each other infrequently over the intervening years once he went to Sacramento as a state assemblyman and later to Washington as a member of Congress. 

Over the years, I moved politically from left to right, while Henry moved from left to far left to over the edge.  Still, I had a soft spot for him and, as a result, refrained from including his name when I would list the usual suspects, those left-wingers like Pelosi, Reid, Rangel, Boxer and Murtha, who were doing their utmost to destroy America. (more…)

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Tags: ageism, Cap and Trade, Congress, henry waxman, Pelos
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 4:49 pm in Politics | 25167853 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/10/29/burts-eye-view-henry-waxman-responds/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Henry+Waxman+Responds2009-10-29+23%3A49%3A20Burt+Prelutsky

PelosiCare: Liars, Luddites and Leprechauns

Nancy Pelosi, having renamed the Public Option, the ‘Consumer Option,’ triumphantly trotted out this morning the Hose version of the Health Care Reform Bill, now called The Affordable American Health Care Bill.   (“Affordable” – what does that mean, exactly?  Affordable to whom?)   But then Steny Hoyer proclaimed the process of crafting the bill the most open, transparent process he’s seen in over thirty years in Congress. (Really??)   And finally, the President followed up on Teleprompters to announce that finally we have a bill that will cover the 36 million uninsured, not cost the taxpayers anything extra, improve the quality of our health-care system, and bring down the costs of health care.  Speaker Pelosi assured us that this bill represents the principles of  “…opportunity, choice, competition, and innovation.”

How can you tell when they’re lying?    Their lips are moving.

They think you’re stupid.   It’s understandable that they should think that, because though they may on occasion listen to you, they never really hear you.  Hence, the only frame of reference for feedback on their incredibly absurd redistributive ideas, tax-and-spend proposals and unprecedented treasury-busting health care take-over bills…comes from their own constituents, the Democrats.  Whoops and hollers, cheers and laughter, nods, smiles, enthusiastic ‘yes-we-cans!’… as they serve up yet another heaping portion of socialist slop you’ll be expected to grab your ankles and pay for.  They think you’re stupid.

As the entire Democratic Party has now been fully commandeered by the hard Left, I wrestle daily with the following quandary:  Are they evil?  Or merely dense?  (more…)

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Tags: abortion, Barack Obama, Congress, Global warming, health care
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 12:24 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 255142140 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/10/29/pelosicare-liars-luddites-and-leprechauns/PelosiCare%3A+Liars%2C+Luddites+and+Leprechauns2009-10-29+19%3A24%3A32Gary+Graham

Pork Flu: H1N1 Offers Harrowing Preview of ObamaCare

Long-time listener, first-time blogger…

Back in April, Vice President Biden uttered dire warnings about catching Swine Flu in subways and commercial airplanes.  Per the usual pattern, the White House quickly apologized for “Amtrak Joe’s” remarks.  But now, just a few months later, the President also has declared a national emergency.  The H1N1 is spreading, and instead of 120 million expected doses, only 11 million shipped last week. In a few weeks, the vaccine may become widely available, but it hasn’t yet.  Even the Obama children reportedly haven’t received the vaccine (although I hope they get immunized if that’s what their family decides).  

Balboa Park, The United States of America

Personally, I think the Swine Flu hysteria is a bit over-hyped.  But on the other hand, I’d rather not get sick if I can avoid it.  This year is particularly important for my family because my wife is pregnant with identical twins.  That type of pregnancy comes with risks already, and the H1N1 can be rough on expectant mothers.  So, after doing our research, we decided she would get immunized at the first opportunity, which was this past week.  In the process, we saw one possible future outcome of health care “reform” – rationing.  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, H1N1, health care, healthcare
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 10:19 am in Politics | 25435847 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bross/2009/10/29/pork-flu-h1n1-offers-harrowing-preview-of-obamacare/Pork+Flu%3A+H1N1+Offers+Harrowing+Preview+of+ObamaCare2009-10-29+17%3A19%3A41Brian+Ross

Kidman Worries About Treatment of Women While Representing the…UN?

Nicole Kidman is a fine actress. I’ve enjoyed her work over the years, and heartily congratulate her for her long and storied career. I also congratulate her for getting out of her marriage to Tom Cruise, but that’s another story.

Now Kidman, like many Hollywood stars who want to prove that they’re more than just pretty faces, is involved in A Cause. Like Meryl Streep’s concern about healthy produce and Heather Graham for ObamaCare, Kidman wants to Save Something. To that end, she is the goodwill ambassador for the UN Development Fund for Women, known as UNIFEM and in that capacity, recently testified before Congress to plead for more support for the program (read: cold, hard cash).

The big story that came out of that appearance was Kidman’s concession that the film industry might play a role in violence toward women by portraying them as weak. That may be true, but it’s a topic for another day.

 Kidman’s desire to help women in need is admirable. But she might want to consider an outlet other than the UN to do this good work. (more…)

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Tags: Congress, nicole kidman, UNIFEM, United Nations
Posted Oct 28th 2009 at 5:07 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 25141469 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pmeister/2009/10/28/kidman-worries-about-treatment-of-women-while-representing-the-un/Kidman+Worries+About+Treatment+of+Women+While+Representing+the...UN%3F2009-10-28+12%3A07%3A34Pam+Meister

The ‘Me Generation’: A Generation of Thieves

My generation – the “Me Generation” – and those like us have stolen every last penny from our parent’s savings accounts (Social Security).   We’ve used that money to make ourselves appear successful and to vote ourselves more and more things we claimed to be “entitled” to.

When that money ran out, those of us who followed the mantra we were taught in the Leftist run public schools, “If it feels good, do it,” simply stole our children’s money, mortgaging their future for our personal comforts.  We’ve borrowed so much against their account that the numbers now are written in trillions – with each child born burdened with tens of thousands of dollars in debt – money we spent on ourselves — the moment they enter the world.

Now, with no more to steal from our parents or our children, many of us are demanding that we receive deeply discounted health-care services.  It’s something, we argue that we’re entitled to (for no other reason than that we’ve graced the world with our presence. )

The problem is that, forcing insurance companies to write bad policies – to take in in premiums far less than what they’ll have to dole out for the aging Boomers’ growing medical conditions – is untenable.  In fact, it is exactly the same formula these same Leftists used to force banks to make bad loans because they felt that everyone of their generation was “entitled” to own a house.

But the Boomers have a plan! (more…)

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Tags: baby boomers, Barack Obama, bush, Congress, deficit
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‘Damn it Feels Good to Be a Victim’

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Tags: ACORN, Barack Obama, bush, Congress, Global warming
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A Modest Proposal to Reform the Congress

You know how it is when you’re watching a slow-motion train wreck – Britney, say – and just when you are absolutely convinced it can’t get any worse… it does? 

Congress has an approval rating of 21%. And when I heard that Harry Reid is actually discussing plans to sneak single-payer, National Health Care legislation not only past the will of the people, but sneak it past the lower house of Congress by attaching it as a rider to a completely unrelated bill… 

…Well, that is an act of such unremitting and bastardly sinfulness that it simply has to be addressed. 

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I take a look at the four Senators and twenty-something Representatives currently under ethics investigations of one kind or another, and present to you, the American people, my Modest Proposal to get government back in the hands of the governed. 

I’ll save the details for the video, but suffice it to say that the Whittle Plan, at $935,000,000 is not exactly cheap, but it is definitely a bargain at .0003 of the Federal Budget for 2008.  (more…)

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Tags: Chris Dodd, Congress, KKK, Robert Byrd, Senate
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ABC News: ‘Hollywood Tough Guy Teams With Animal Rights Groups for Tax Change’

ABC News:

“What a pro-active way to be able to help the economy and change the culture in this country around animals,” Robert Davi, a veteran actor (”The Goonies,” “Die Hard,” “License to Kill”) who was a main force behind the bill’s introduction, told ABCNews.com in a telephone interview. 

“This money goes back into the economy, and it encourages people to understand the social responsibilities we have toward animals,” Davi said. …

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A bill making the rounds on Capitol Hill marries two feel-good propositions — tax cuts and pet ownership — to generate a novel idea: A tax break of up to $3,500 per person for pet care expenses. (more…)

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Tags: Congress, HAPPY Act, Leo Grillo, R-Mich, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter
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Debating Leftists is Like Debating Charles Manson

Keith Olbermann’s recent hour-long commentary was quite revealing.  Like Michael Moore’s “capitalism hasn’t done anything for me” comment, the outpouring of support and sympathy for serial pedophile and admitted rapist Roman Polanski, and President Obama’s shenanigans at the U.N. and G-20, it drove home a simple, powerful point…

These people don’t know what they are talking about.

They do not know their kiesters from a hole in the ground.  They are a few fries short of a happy meal and a few cards short of a full deck.  Their phasers are permanently set on “clueless.”

Once you come to this realization, as many of us have, you are forced to approach their ideas and spokespeople from a position of reality.  Not from some sanctimonious position of civility and “debate.” (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Charles Manson, Congress, health care, michael moore
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Hopefully ObamaCare Will ‘Die Quickly’

Representative Joe Wilson shouts in the House Chamber to President Obama during a speech on Health Care Reform, “You lie,” and is forced to apologize to the President directly and compelled to apologize in the House where the incident occurred.  He chooses only to apologize to the President.  This did not make him many friends in the Democratic Caucus.  They could not bully him into a formal apology in the Chamber.  What happens next, the Democrat House votes to rebuke him in a meaningless resolution.  Of course, the vote is along party lines.

A few weeks later, Representative Alay Grayson of Florida, who also happens to be a Democrat, says while debating health hare reform on the House Floor:

“If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly. That’s right. The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.”  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, health care, healthcare, nancy pelosi
Posted Oct 11th 2009 at 5:43 pm in Politics | 24231463 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/10/11/die-quickly/Hopefully+ObamaCare+Will+%27Die+Quickly%272009-10-12+00%3A43%3A24Frank+DeMartini

Dancing with the Hammer: Tom Delay’s ‘Dancing’ Journey

“I stand resolute in my values not because I am an inherently stubborn, combative man. I stand firm because I believe conservative values are the key to American greatness…I am a Christian, a conservative and a man deeply in love with his country. This is who I am, Here is where I stand. No retreat. No surrender.”

Former Republican House Majority Leader Tom Delay wrote the text above at the conclusion of his book, “No Retreat, No Surrender: One American’s Fight,” a book that detailed how Delay stood firm for his conservative beliefs during his long political career. However, in addition to his political career, the title of Delay’s book could also easily describe his recent quest for victory on the hit ABC show “Dancing with the Stars.” During his tenure on that program, while facing an uphill battle, Delay stood firm and fought intensely to win the difficult dance competition, a fight that ended when Delay left the program last week. (more…)

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Tags: "No Retreat, Congress, Dance contest, dancing with the stars, No Surrender: One American’s Fight"
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White House Creates ACORN for the Arts

Over the last week, Big Hollywood and Big Government have been extensively covering the August 10 conference call between the National Endowment for the Arts and a group of artists – a call on which the artists were encouraged to support President Obama’s agenda, with the tacit promise that they would be handsomely rewarded with government grants.  The NEA representative on the call was then-Communications Director of the NEA Yosi Sergant.

Now we have new evidence that the White House itself has been using its sway to recruit artists – not just to support President Obama’s “volunteerism” initiatives, but to support basic planks of his political agenda, including health care.  In fact, the White House has been tapping its extragovernmental political allies to work with artists with the tacit promise that NEA funds will be in the offing for those who join the Obama Administration political program. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Barack Obama, Congress, health care, healthcare
Posted Oct 5th 2009 at 9:53 am in Art, Politics | 240798One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/10/05/white-house-creates-acorn-for-the-arts/White+House+Creates+ACORN+for+the+Arts2009-10-05+16%3A53%3A14Ben+Shapiro

Health Care Analogies

It is good that the President has ceased attempting to sell his public option health care initiative on the strength of a comparison to the United States Postal Service. Americans will not soon be convinced of the economic viability of an expansion of public healthcare when it is compared to an entity on track to lose $7 billion this year. This past summer the Government accountability office put the postal service on its high risk list because of its “increasingly shaky financial footing,” and in the spring Post Master General John Potter asked Congress for permission to cut delivery service back to 5 days per week and close 700 offices nation wide. This is not the sort of talk that inspires confidence that a government takeover of the healthcare industry is the answer to our fiscal tribulations.

It is bad that the President, demonstrating what can only be described as intellectual density, has chosen instead to compare his public option to our system of state colleges and universities. This is particularly ironic given the fact that the cost of higher education has been skyrocketing for years and has in fact outpaced that of healthcare. Even more ironic is that according to the College Board’s annual tuition survey, the rate of growth of the price of public 4 year colleges has been faster than at private 4 year colleges; a trend that has persisted for 3 decades. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, health care, healthcare, nancy pelosi
Posted Sep 28th 2009 at 1:04 pm in Politics | 23687044 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/09/28/health-care-analogies/Health+Care+Analogies2009-09-28+20%3A04%3A04Joseph+C.+Phillips

It’s the Saul Alinsky Comedy Show!

“The only way to upset the power structure in your communities is to goad them, confuse them, irritate them and, most of all, make them live by their own rules. If you make them live by their own rules, you destroy them. And never forget that ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. Comedy is our friend. Throw the kitchen sink at them!” – from Saul Alinksy’s “Rules for Radical Comedians.”

Alinsky

I never really had any insight into the pure comic genius of Saul Alinsky until I saw his new age Method followers display their considerable chops on the national stage. James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, the Master’s ostentatious and envelope-pushing Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner-like proteges, whose hilarious ACORN skits also showed brilliant flashes of the late great Allen Funt. The Mysterious Mister X, the L.A. street comic who “Alinskyed” Faris Alkhateeb’s boredom-fueled Obama Joker art into an urban poster as devilishly humorous as Hannibal Lecter, also made as big a national splash as a 300-pound chub doing a cannonball into a crowded public kiddie pool. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Andrew Brietbart, anti-war, Barack Obama, big government
Posted Sep 25th 2009 at 6:41 am in Political Humor | 22877837 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/09/25/its-the-saul-alinsky-comedy-show/It%27s+the+Saul+Alinsky+Comedy+Show%212009-09-25+13%3A41%3A50John+T.+Simpson

Cowardly ‘Onion’ Ignores Obama, Ridicules Reagan’s Alzheimers

It’s bad enough that one of the snarkiest comedy outlets around, The Onion, can’t seem to find anything funny about President Barack Obama. But the faux newspaper hit a new low this week by insulting former President Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s Disease and his economic record in one nasty twofer.

Week after week The Onion bends over backward not to satirize The One. That’s keeping in line with most of today’s cowardly comics, from David Letterman to Bill Maher.

Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” has shown some interest in pursuing the president’s comic potential, but it comes in fits and starts. But The Onion’s latest attempt at humor is both vicious and wrongheaded. (more…)

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Tags: Congress, Obama, President Obama, ronald reagan, satire
Posted Sep 24th 2009 at 6:44 pm in Media Criticism, Politics | 230266192 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2009/09/24/cowardly-onion-ignores-obama-ridicules-reagans-alzheimers/Cowardly+%27Onion%27+Ignores+Obama%2C+Ridicules+Reagan%27s+Alzheimers2009-09-25+01%3A44%3A07Christian+Toto

Burt’s Eye View: Telling the Truth About Lies

I wasn’t surprised that Rep. Joe Wilson felt compelled to apologize to President Obama for calling him a liar.  I also wasn’t surprised to hear that within 24 hours, thousands of liberals had sent in over $200,000 in contributions to Wilson’s opponent in next year’s election even though they knew nothing about him except that he was running against Wilson.  Frankly, I wouldn’t have been surprised if the other 434 members of the House had censured, expelled or ridden Rep. Wilson out of Washington, D.C., on a rail.  I mean, where the heck does this guy get off speaking the truth in the hallowed halls of Congress? 

Speaking of Congress, although the research isn’t yet complete, the early indicators are that, rumors to the contrary, you can not get swine flu from exposure to Henry Waxman. 

Scientists at London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine confirmed that 50 years of research found that, aside from price, there was no difference between conventionally-grown foodstuffs and the ugly, under-sized items you find in the organic section at the supermarket.  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, healthcare, Obama, ObamaCare
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At Least 6 Federal Laws and Regulations Violated By the NEA Conference Call

Yesterday, I posted about the NEA conference call’s clear and obvious violations of the Anti-Lobbying Act (19 U.S. Code §1913), which explicitly provides: “No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall, in the absence of express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or written matter, or other device, intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress, a jurisdiction, or an official of any government, to favor, adopt, or oppose by vote or otherwise, any legislation, law, ratification, policy, or appropriation, whether before or after the introduction of any bill, measure or resolution proposing such legislation, law, ratification, policy or appropriation …”  The Anti-Lobbying Act, according to government handbooks, prevents government employees from engaging in “substantial ‘grass roots’ lobbying campaigns … expressly urging individuals to contact government officials in support of or opposition to legislation …. Provid[ing] administrative support for lobbing activities of private organizations …”  

Violation of this law, in turn, violates 31 U.S. Code §1352, which, if read broadly, bans the use of federal funds for lobbying by the recipients: “funds appropriated by any Act [may not be] expended by the recipient of a Federal contract, grant, loan, or cooperative agreement to pay any person for influencing or attempting to influence an officer or employee of any agency, a Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a Member of Congress in connection with any Federal action …”   (more…)

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Tags: 501(c)(4), Americans for the Arts, Congress, Hatch Act, nea
Posted Sep 22nd 2009 at 12:24 pm in Art, Law, Politics | 23205491 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/09/22/at-least-6-federal-laws-and-regulations-violated-by-the-nea-conference-call/At+Least+6+Federal+Laws+and+Regulations+Violated+By+the+NEA+Conference+Call2009-09-22+19%3A24%3A01Ben+Shapiro

‘HELP!’

I remember three images from September 11, 2001:

1)  People jumping from burning buildings.
2)  Congress standing outside, humbly bowing their heads, and praying.
This was a shocking sight.
3)  The pews of my church completely full of people…and for several months after.

It’s human nature to remember God when we’re in big trouble.  Even agnostics offered up a prayer that day.  We needed super human help from a higher power to defeat the Enemy Without.

God answered our prayers, and along with the excellent leadership of Bush, Cheney, our fantastic military, and superb FBI and CIA, we have been safe for eight years.  Thank you.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Congress, Farrah Fawcett, founding fathers, Obama
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 6:52 am in Politics, Religion | 22813471 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/21/help/%27HELP%21%272009-09-21+13%3A52%3A57Victoria+Jackson

9/12 Tea Party: Talking With the ‘Turf’

On September 12, 2009, I grabbed my MiniDV camera and moseyed on over to the Tea Party protest in West Los Angeles to chat with some super-charged “Astroturf.”  I spoke with numerous varieties from a vast spectrum of turfdom including the ever-vivacious, Evan Sayet polypropylene turf with advanced Anti-Intellectual Dishonesty Guard™, and the high-performance, all-weather Sonja Schmidt turf. 

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Tags: 9/12, AstroTurf, communism, Congress, conservative
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Ideology of a Liberal

Since the health care debate has wound down a little as a result of President Obama’s speech on Wednesday which, by the way, was pure rhetoric and seen by the general public and pundits as a failure because of its lack of new ideas and detail, I have decided to tackle a subject other than health care reform in this article.  What makes a liberal tick?  Why are there such major differences between the two parties in this country? 

The other day I was playing on Facebook and saw a number of posts from my liberal friends regarding health care.  The comments posted were all similar.  No one should go without health care in this country and no one should go broke because they got sick.  Why only liberals would post this amazes me, because there are not too many people in the world that disagree.  However, it is just not that simple.  (more…)

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Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, bush, Congress, healthcare
Posted Sep 20th 2009 at 6:54 am in Featured Story, Politics | 225042131 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/09/20/ideology-of-a-liberal/Ideology+of+a+Liberal2009-09-20+13%3A54%3A07Frank+DeMartini

Honoring September 11th: We Will Prevail

I recall vividly the profound sadness, anger and horror I felt the moment the first tower collapsed. 

I was glued to the television that fateful American morning when Matt interrupted Tom & Katie to report: “We just saw a live picture of what seemed to be a portion of the building falling away from the World Trade Center.”

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After the initial shock then realization that our nation had been attacked, suffered thousands of innocent civilians murdered at the hands of barbarians, and that America had been thrust into war — My mind hurtled back to an earlier reading of Tom Clancy’s gripping novel Executive Orders Debt of Honor. 

In it, the author describes how a deranged commercial jet pilot — bent on revenge against America for WWII — crashes his 747 Jumbo jet into a joint session of Congress, thereby slaughtering nearly the entire American political leadership, save of course Mr. Clancy’s heroic protagonist, Jack Ryan.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, bush, Congress
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 3:08 pm in Culture, Featured Story, Military, Politics | 22313064 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abaldwin/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-we-will-prevail/Honoring+September+11th%3A+We+Will+Prevail2009-09-11+22%3A08%3A52Adam+Baldwin

Why Can’t Conservatives Sign On to ObamaCare?

It is now the dog days of summer and Congress is about to go back to work.  The Groundswell by the Democrats during the month of August was a complete failure.  President Obama’s approval numbers are on a steady downward slide.  And yet, the Democrats insist on passing this Obamanation that is more commonly known as HR 3200. 

The President has just announced that he will try a more formal sell to Congress on September 9th.  Will this work more than the last press conference in which he appeared to have no idea what he was trying to sell?  Will it be more successful than his appeal to religious leaders last week?  Or, will this be the final death knell in the partisan attempt at Health Care Reform?  Only time will tell. 

However, the tide has definitely turned against the Democrats.  More than 50% of the country on the whole and in some parts of the electorate, way more than 50% are against the current bill and its companion bills both in the House and Senate.  Why?  Because Republicans and even moderate Democrats cannot stomach what is contained in them. 

My last article was about the need for bipartisanship and debate in Congress.  I still feel that way but I do not see it happening.  In fact, both sides are digging their heels in and getting ready for the tug of war.  At this point, it is not about whose solution is better, it seems to be about which side will win.  (more…)

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Tags: abortion, Barack Obama, Congress, healthcare, nancy pelosi
Posted Sep 6th 2009 at 6:42 am in Featured Story, Politics | 217102102 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/09/06/why-can%e2%80%99t-conservative-sign-onto-the-democrat%e2%80%99s-plan/Why+Can%E2%80%99t+Conservatives+Sign+On+to+ObamaCare%3F2009-09-06+13%3A42%3A40Frank+DeMartini

Daily Gut: The Real Opposition Party

So President Obama is addressing a joint session of Congress next Wednesday, and you know it`s going to be important stuff!

Oh wait – it`s health care.

For a moment I thought maybe we`d hear something about the economy (in shambles), the war on terror (remember that?), the progress in Iraq (still there?), the challenges in Afghanistan (nothing from MoveOn.org on that one).

But no – it`s health care. And that`s because, with that single issue, President Obama stepped in it big time. And the White House isn`t sure who to blame. But they`re still blaming, anyway.

So, just for fun, let`s review the folks currently on the bad side of the White House: (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, healthcare, nancy pelosi, Obama
Posted Sep 3rd 2009 at 12:29 pm in Daily Gut, Featured Story | 217602161 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/03/daily-gut-the-real-opposition-party/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Real+Opposition+Party2009-09-03+19%3A29%3A25Greg+Gutfeld

CIA Watch Your Back

Among my former associates at the FBI, New York Times bestselling novelist Vince Flynn is a favorite. His protagonist Mitch Rapp, a counter-terrorism specialist for the CIA, is the talk whenever Flynn releases a new political thriller. Possibly the highest compliment any FBI agent ever paid me was when he called me “the old, ugly, domestic version of Mitch Rapp.” I wear the accolade with pride. What makes Flynn’s novels so captivating is the authenticity of his writing. In fact, at least one novel came under scrutiny when it hit a little too close to home detailing our nation’s nuclear security efforts.

His latest novel “Extreme Measures” was released last fall but once again Flynn may end up just a little too real. I won’t give away the plot but Mitch Rapp finds himself in front of a Congressional committee explaining why he needed to employ “extreme measures” to protect this nation. Sound familiar? Attorney General Eric Holder named a federal prosecutor this week to examine the abuse of prisoners during interrogations by the CIA. I wonder if Mitch will be called as a witness.  (more…)

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Tags: "contingency operation", "Extreme Measures", "man-made disasters", "The Last Undercover", Abdul Wali
Posted Aug 28th 2009 at 9:53 am in Politics | 21244260 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bhamer/2009/08/28/cia-watch-your-back/CIA+Watch+Your+Back2009-08-28+16%3A53%3A49Bob+Hamer

A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To a Town Hall Meeting

Imagine the glee I felt when I heard that my wonderfully approachable (yeah, right) Congressman, Henry Waxman, was making a rare visit on August 21st to the district he represents.  He wants to hear from us, his loyal constituents, at a town hall style discussion at UCLA focusing on the Cap and Trade legislation.

As a citizen, candidate, and voter in Mr. Waxman’s district, I thought that this would be a plum of a chance for Rep. Waxman to hear what’s on my mind.

That is when it got weird.

Firstly, I found out that one had to RSVP to the event to reserve a space. OK, I thought, Henry Waxman’s personal popularity has never been higher and people really want to be around him so his magic can rub off on them. Maybe they expect quite a throng and thus must have crowd control in place to make sure that the event runs smoothly. (more…)

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Tags: Ari David, Cap and Trade, Congress, health care, henry waxman
Posted Aug 20th 2009 at 10:07 am in Politics | 20841875 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/adavid/2009/08/20/a-funny-thing-happened-on-my-way-to-a-town-hall-meeting/A+Funny+Thing+Happened+On+My+Way+To+a+Town+Hall+Meeting2009-08-20+17%3A07%3A30Ari+David

Health Reform and the Tenth Amendment

HR 3200, the so-called health reform bill, in my opinion, is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever to be considered by Congress.  It, not only, would lead us down the path of socialism but, in the process, would bankrupt the entire country.  I am very happy to see that citizens are showing up at town hall meetings throughout the country and voicing their complaints about the bill and health care reform in general.  It is actually quite funny watching Congressmen squirm when the tough questions are asked.  And, it is even more interesting when they cannot respond to the tough questions because they have not read the bill or are even familiar with its contents. 

I suggest you continue going to the town hall meetings and voice your concerns.  And, do not be afraid to get angry.  The Democrat and Republican Congressmen must know they will not be reelected if HR 3200 passes as it is currently written.  But, please, do not get violent.  Violence at these meetings will do nothing except make the opposition look weak and dumb, and hurt the path of democracy.  Violence at these meetings is similar to me being called a racist this week because I stated on a public forum that HR 3200 should not pay for medical services for illegal immigrants.  Remember the protest ways of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. (more…)

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Tags: 'Health Care Reform, Congress, constitution, health care, HR 3200
Posted Aug 17th 2009 at 8:49 am in Politics | 20541472 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/08/17/health-reform-and-the-tenth-amendment/Health+Reform+and+the+Tenth+Amendment2009-08-17+15%3A49%3A53Frank+DeMartini

Time to Fight the Power

Our political leaders need a quick block of instruction in the concept of the chain of command. It goes like this, in descending order of rank:

#1: Us Citizens.

#2: You elected officials.

I really prefer writing long pieces on why Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin and Johnny Rotten rule. It’s more fun to talk about how everything in popular culture that everyone else likes actually sucks, and I’m even going to provide some inspirational music selections below. But duty calls. Right now, a bunch of people whose salaries you and I pay and who work for us are telling us to shut up and do as we’re told.

That’s just not gonna happen. (more…)

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Tags: Ballad of the Green Berets, Congress, constitution, Elmer Bernstein, first amendment
Posted Aug 17th 2009 at 5:15 am in Entertainment, Politics | 20289472 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/08/17/time-to-fight-the-power/Time+to+Fight+the+Power2009-08-17+12%3A15%3A40Kurt+Schlichter

The Monster That Nearly Ate Cambridge

For those of you who don’t know, I’m from Cambridge. Born and raised there. I grew up in the Jefferson Park housing projects a stone’s throw from Harvard. Never a Dull Moment in JP I can tell you! Even today. Knew lots of CPD cops like Officer Crowley too, but never in a good way. Like when a fellow punk projects friend of mine drove a stolen car through a fence and into the deep end of the local MDC kiddie pool. They wanted us real bad that night! I was guilty as sin, too. All wet, in fact. Rode shotgun the whole way. Front row seat. Yee-ha! Island Kingdom, eat your heart out.

My whole childhood was like that. A lot of crazy stuff, a lot of running from police. Was a local sport, like train-hopping. But that’s all just the gritty side of Cambridge. And even though I’m a rank Righty today, I still love Harvard University all the way, the Square especially. It’s the Crossroads of the World. I was a total Harvard Square rat growing up. Harvard is the Bright Light of Olde Cantabrigia. Harvard was also very active in the community back then, and most likely still is today. Harvard hosted field trips to the campus from schools all over Cambridge. The Agassiz Museum was my favorite. Lots of dead bugs and dinosaur bones. That was Heaven to me. Still is. (more…)

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Tags: ACLU, Al Sharpton, AMPAS, Barack Obama, BET
Posted Aug 4th 2009 at 5:37 pm in News, Politics | 19636689 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/08/04/the-monster-that-nearly-ate-cambridge/The+Monster+That+Nearly+Ate+Cambridge2009-08-05+00%3A37%3A12John+T.+Simpson