Lifted directly from Moonbattery, this graphic says it all – spend more on education, get nothing in return. This unconstitutional entity, the Department Of Education, needs to be relegated to the scrap heap of history.

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Gov. Chris Christie is awesome! This guy is a leader. I’d vote for him for President in a heartbeat.

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Arthur Laffer’s column in the Wall St. Journal last week spelled it out. The Obama Administration’s inaction on pushing Congress to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, is having, and will yet have, an immensely negative impact on the economy. The other shoe is about to drop and he explains why in very clear language. Read about it here. Laffer says that a failure to make the Bush tax cuts permanent will ultimately lead to an “economic collapse” in 2011. He went on to say:

The result will be a crash in tax receipts once the surge is past. If you thought deficits and unemployment have been bad lately, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Laffer is right on the money, and you should look out for yours.
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With as many times as I’ve ranted about the 17th Amendment and the damage it has done to our Republic on this and other blogs, I was beginning to think that there was some conspiratorial omission of this subject from the national dialogue. I’ve heard George Will discuss it once recently, but not in the context of the fact that it is the root cause of the broken Republic with which we are now saddled. From out of left field the rodeo clown of all people puts it nearly (but not quite) into perspective, and I’ve got to give him credit. He’s got it mostly right…read!
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A mosque at the site where nearly 3,000 innocent people were murdered on 11 September, 2001. I have been thinking about this ever since I first heard about it last week. How do I feel about this? At first I was outraged. Really angry. What I didn’t expect was that as the day wore on and I thought more and more about the religious freedoms we hold so dear, I began to soften. I began thinking they have every right to have a mosque. They have every right to open their mosque right there where so many perished at the hands of that very religion. Yes, I thought; they have a right. THEN I READ THIS ARTICLE. This is NOTHING but a sign of conquest to the zealots who praise the deeds carried out that fateful day. This is not about religious freedom, but about the twisted notion of religious domination. I am pissed again. I hope the idea of designating it a historic landmark works and stops the opening of this place of hateship.

This guy is so refreshing. Teacher’s Unions are the number one lobbying group in terms of dollars in most States. This is about power, not kids. Check it out!

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This guy is a leader. He’s actually far nicer to this parasite than I would have been, but he tells how it is: If you don’t like the pay, find another line of work. It’s about time somebody stood up to the entitled mentality that these teachers have about their worth, relative to the private sector. The mantra of ‘Teachers are so underpaid!’ does not cut it with me. 9 months of work per year and a pension, vested in many cases in less the 10 years. Guess what, there are very few areas of the private sector that offer pensions anymore. In fact, I can’t think of one that does it as a matter of course. Then I hear how they have to grade papers at night – well, I work late, I work from home, and I work weekends and guess what, I don’t get 3 months off a year! There are a lot of great teachers out there, and a lot of terrible teachers that shouldn’t be anywhere near a classroom and we’ve got the high school graduation rates to prove it. Public education in this country is a joke and the first step in fixing it is to abolish the Department of Education and ALL state teacher’s unions.
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Just so you all know; posting by PJ will be slow for the next few weeks or so. Last week a trip to Arizona (the Land of Enlightenment)put me out of touch. In the coming weeks I will be in my busy season with work. Not much free time. By the end of June I should be back to a normal schedule. Keep checking back though, or get the FEED for new posts as OMB may be able to put some things together, though I know work has him busy right now as well…I will write whenever possible or circumstances demand it! ~pj

Well this will be the video of the day I am sure. Republican Congressman Tom McClintock of California responded to the President of Mexico who yesterday lectured our congress on how to un-enforce OUR laws. Congressman McClintock speaks the truth and shames the left in their ovation of a totally inappropriate speech by a foreign dignitary.
Good for you Tom McClintock! We need more like you!

So we have now found out that Attorney General Eric Holder has not read the new Arizona law. Well, well how typical. Right after the bill was signed late last month Holder was all about how it was going to be challenged in the courts and there were a number of options under consideration.
Here he is, THE Attorney General of the United States. He has not read the bill, but has offered his opinion on it freelysee here and here.
I am not the Attorney General of the United States, but I have read the new Arizona Law. I read it as soon as I could find it because it was important.
I would like to know one thing: DOES ANYONE IN WASHINGTON DC KNOW HOW TO READ???

…you’re the emblem of the land I LOVE!  The home of the free and the brave!…” 

You’ve got to love that line!  But I am diverted.

A Bloomberg story this morning reports the sale of a Jasper Johns painting of the American flag for $28.6 million at auction!
The painting came from the estate of the late Michael Chrichton who originally obtained the painting directly from his long time freind artist Jasper Johns.

Wow. Where do you hang that?

Read it here:

http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf

Section 1 says it all :  Intent

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

2 Section 1.

Intent3 The legislature finds that there is a compelling interest in the

4 cooperative enforcement of federal immigration laws throughout all of

5 Arizona. The legislature declares that the intent of this act is to make

6 attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state and local

7 government agencies in Arizona. The provisions of this act are intended to

8 work together to discourage and deter the unlawful entry and presence of

9 aliens and economic activity by persons unlawfully present in the United

10 States.

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I don’t see the problem.

In the wake of the recent Cinqo De Mayo controversies, I have to question whether I’m living in America, or some bizarro parallel universe version thereof. I’m not going to go on about how this isn’t really even a holiday in Mexico, or the ridiculous notion that it should be celebrated in the U.S.. However, with the ‘flag shirt’ high schoolers and other incidents surrounding this so-called, media and corporate contrived tripe of a holiday worthy of nationwide celebration, it brings to light an issue of much larger significance. Namely, the notion that hyphenated citizenry has any place in our beloved Republic.
America has been built, in large part, by immigrants. Legal immigrants, people who abandoned all foreign allegiance for the privilege to call themselves Americans- not Irish-Americans, German-Americans, or African-Americans, just Americans. They left their native cultures and customs so they could be individuals, and live freely to the fullest extent of their abilities. To be an American is not to be any part of a group other than a group of free people exercising their God given rights of self-determination, as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
Although I don’t subscribe to the wearing of the American Flag as clothing, other than as a part of a military or civil servant uniform, the notion that the American Flag in and of itself is somehow an abhorrent display to some percentage of the population on any day of the year leads me to one question. Who the hell are these people and what are they doing here?
My take is that anyone who identifies themselves as a fill-in-the-blank-American, is not an American at all. You cannot be an American if you place your allegiance first with another country. The media perpetuates this nonsense constantly. By calling Chairman Obeyme the first African-American President(oh, I’m sorry was that Bill Clinton?), they debase him from America. America cannot have an African-American President or any other hyphenated variety, we either have an African President, which is illegal according to the Constitution, or an American President. Not both.
This may seem like a semantic word play, but take a look at Europe right now. The European Union, an unrealistic product of wishful thinking on the part of the ruling elite, is coming apart at the seems. But why? It made so much sense. Join the countries of Europe together in an economic and eventual political alliance to counter balance the United States. So why isn’t it working?
Let’s see, no common language, a history of warring on one another for centuries, and distinctly different values from country to country. What could go wrong? Contrast this with America’s formation, thirteen colonies (basically separate nation states as exist in Europe), a common language, a common disdain for the aristocracies of Europe, and a common belief in God and the God given rights of man.
What about slavery( a system established by Europeans in the colonies for their economic gain) you say? America’s penance for slavery was paid in full, in the blood of it’s sons and daughters during The Civil War. The Founders knew this issue would have to be resolved and it was, at great cost.
So, there are no hyphenated Americans, you are either an American or you may classify yourself as other than American – and if you opt for the latter, leave after your visit.
I truly believe that their are Americans all over the world that have never stepped foot into this country but yearn for the individual freedom and economic and religious liberty that we are SUPPOSED to value. I welcome these people into our country – legally, come here, prosper, and be my neighbor.
Americanism is a belief and state of mind more so than a birth right- and within it there is no room for hyphens.

I saw this at Moonbattery. It is worth the 5 minutes it takes for him to explain the so-called “complex issue” of illegal aliens.

A message to every country in the world”…overcome us with numbers and our pandering politicians will see you as future voters to cement their power base…” etc. Exactly.

Can someone explain to me by what logic we could classify ourselves as anything other than modern day serfs, or sharecroppers on the Big Gubmint Plantation? Are we not stripped of the fruits of our labors in the same manner as a serf or sharecropper? Can we actually keep the land that we supposedly own without paying a Nobleman for the ‘right’ to do so? Is not the Federal Income Tax exactly analagous to the sharecropper paying the landlord a share of the crop he grew as rent on the land? It’s as if we rent our jobs from the government via the taxes we pay. This is a disgusting system that would have made the Founders of the country ill to see how compliant and tolerant we are of this oppression.
To them, it wasn’t the amount, it was the principle. Just because our so called greatest generation forfeited the principle argument long ago, does that mean that we have to abide by that? At what level of taxation will we stand up and be heard if we are not willing to act now, 100%? I doubt it. How about when the money is worth nothing? Hyper-inflation is nothing but another form of tax instituted by governments with no fiscal discipline and it is in our future. They are already introducing legislation that will allow the Federal government to effectively seize your 401k’s and IRA’s. Don’t believe it? Read about it here.

Wake up!