Saturday, June 04, 2011

TH Daily - June 04 - Bill O'Reilly, Doug Giles, John C. Goodman, Larry Kudlow, John Ransom and More

Poverty and the President

This time next year, we should have a Republican in place to challenge President Obama for the title of 'World's Most Powerful Man." The campaign, of course, is the ultimate reality show, and it could get nasty. ... more

Urban Beach Week Destroys South Beach … Again
Doug Giles:

Well, I’m going to be called a racist for this one, but here it goes: What the heck is up with the hip hop crowd trashing South Beach year after year on Memorial Day? Is this how your crew celebrates the hard-won freedoms our nation’s heroes gave their lives for—by annually ransacking South Florida and shooting at cops? ... more

What Seniors Have to Fear From ObamaCare
John C. Goodman:

So what does ObamaCare mean for senior citizens who rely on Medicare? No one knows for sure. But it almost certainly means they will get less health care. ... more

Obama's Job Recession
Larry Kudlow:

Perhaps the most telling weakness in the jobs report comes from the household survey, which is made up of self-employed workers. ... more

Tea Partiers Unite! Nothing to Lose but Election, Savings, Job...
John Ransom:

Thirty years ago there were only a few people in every city who determined what stories made the evening news. Thirty years ago the media could determine winners and losers in the marketplace of ideas. Thirty years ago they didn’t have to reckon with you. ... more

Bailouts for Big Business, Bankruptcies for the Middle Class
Rachel Alexander:

While the Obama administration has been busy bailing out irresponsible financial institutions and big business, individual homeowners have been left with little relief, with many forced to file for bankruptcy. ... more

Awful Bad Jobs
Mike Shedlock:

This month things are awful at first glance and simply bad beneath the surface. ... more

Socialism Comes Home to Roost in Markets
Gil Morales and Chris Kacher:

The wrong-headed socialist policies of the Obama administration will come home to roost. Socialism never works, yet politicians continue to practice it because it appeal to the masses wins votes ... more

Please Santorum, Don’t Hurt ’em
Kathryn Lopez:

“If we allow gay marriage next thing u know people will be marrying gold fish,” Miley Cyrus tweeted. She was protesting news that the president of Urban Outfitters has contributed to former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, and taking some liberty with arguments Santorum’s made about the importance of protecting traditional marriage. ... more

NAACP Fights To Keep Kids Trapped in Failing Schools
Kyle Olson:

Many civil rights groups around the nation have strongly supported school choice initiatives, mainly out of concern for inner-city children who have traditionally been stuck in sub-par schools. So why isn’t the NAACP on board? ... more

Obama Bowing Down to Taliban - and Setting Them Up To Rule Afghanistan
Tara Servatius:

Most Americans don’t realize how far President Obama has bowed down to the Taliban – and that he is potentially setting them up to rule Afghanistan. ... more

Think Twice, UN!
Ken Blackwell:

President Obama deserved high praise for bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. Or, more accurately, for ordering Navy SEALs bring justice to him. But, the president threw away all the international stature he could rightly claim when he delivered his disastrous May 19th speech at the State Department. ... more

The Real Egyptian Revolution
Caroline Glick:

The coverage of recent events in Egypt is further proof that Western elites cannot see the forest for the trees. Over the past week, leading newspapers have devoted relatively in-depth coverage to the Egyptian military authorities’ repressive actions in subduing protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo, particularly during their large protest last Friday. ... more

Romney: Like Father—Like Son?
David Stokes:

Mitt Romney has inherited much from his late father, most notably a mind for business and a flare for politics. Now in the race for the GOP Presidential nomination, he is by most accounts the front-runner. But that was also his dad’s position at just about this point in the run up to the historic election of 1968. ... more

Don't Root for Failure
Rich Galen:

Whatever Americans believe is going on in the economy in August of the election year is what voters will take to the polls with them in November when they vote for President. ... more

Republicans Hold Better Cards in Debt Limit Contest
Donald Lambro:

This week's House vote against raising the debt limit was a long-overdue, fist-shaking declaration of public outrage at the runaway spending that endangers America's economic security. ... more

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Lewis also gave $12.5 million to MoveOn.org http://moveon.org and American Coming Together, two key propaganda arms of the socialist left. His funding for these groups was conditional on matching contributions from George Soros, the America-hating socialist who is the chief financier of the Obama political machine. Lewis made a fortune as a result of capitalism, but now finances a progressive movement that threatens to destroy the American free enterprise system.

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LINK: Annual Westminster Memorial Day Parade Steeped in Tradition

Date: Friday, June 3, 2011, 6:47 AM EDT, 6:47 AM EDT from Steven R. Berryman

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Annual Westminster Memorial Day Parade Steeped in Tradition

By Kevin Dayhoff
[FROM WestminsterPatch.com]
The annual Carroll Post 31 American Legion Westminster Memorial Day Parade steps off at 10 a.m. today. The parade will begin at the west end of town at Monroe Street and continue down Pennsylvania Avenue; it will go east on Main Street to Church Street, then to the Westminster Cemetery for the memorial service at 11 a.m.
The tradition of the parade and ceremony in Westminster began in 1868, when Mary Bostwick Shellman followed General John A. Logan’s May 5th, 1868 General Order No. 11 to adorn the graves of Union soldiers with flowers.
She gathered a group of schoolchildren for the task and they walked from an old schoolhouse on Center Street to Westminster Cemetery.
In 1868, the cemetery's focal point was the Union Meeting House of Westminster. Since the summer of 1891, the Memorial Day services have been held at a large urn, located on the knoll immediately in view as one enters the cemetery from Church Street.
As much as the urn has become one of the many visual icons of our community—such as the clock tower on the old fire hall on Main Street in Westminster, or the historic courthouse on Court Street—most folks are not aware of what the urn represents.
As the early settlers first came together as a community in 1764, one of the first focal points of our community was the Union Meeting House of Westminster.
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40 Years In The Desert: A Really Bad Day at the Office

A Really Bad Day at the Office

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 04:43 AM PDT

Stephen Trimble found this video of an Iranian Il-76 MD AWACS crash.

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COMMENTARY by Steve Berryman in the Frederick News-Post

COMMENTARY by Steve Berryman in the Frederick News-Post: Exceptionalism is alive

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_columnist.htm?StoryID=121975

The concept of “American exceptionalism” is alive but struggling now. Fresh from our past Memorial Day weekend, the uptick in patriotic fervor was welcome, but I know that this will dissipate with the summer heat, as America wrestles with economic despair.

Alexis de Tocqueville is generally credited with the above phrase that he used to describe our uniquely born nation. Americans are different from our counterparts on the other continents. Our spirit and ideology can be construed as a sort of global arrogance, but we were founded with liberty and rugged individualism as our best markers.

Originally, with vast lands for farming, mineral richness, and the natural protection of the Atlantic and Pacific, we were born to win as a nation, become strong, and eventually out-compete all other nations on Earth economically…… http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_columnist.htm?StoryID=121975

COMMENTARY by Steve Berryman in the Frederick News-Post

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2011/06/commentary-by-steve-berryman-in.html

[20110603 FNP Berryman Exceptionalism]

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Senator Nancy Jacobs: Help Stop an Increase in Tolls on the Hatem Bridge: We Need Your Help

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Senator Nancy Jacobs: Help Stop an Increase in Tolls on the Hatem Bridge: We Need Your Help

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God bless Senator Jacobs for rallying folks to speak-out about the massive Maryland Transportation Authority (MTA) toll increases. However, in her heart she must know that citizen feedback will fall on deaf ears...

Please, I pray I'm wrong...

However it is my view that it will not do any good what-so-ever to give the Maryland Transportation Board any feedback. The MTA has already made up its mind. This huge out-of-touch behemoth bureaucracy absolutely does not care what citizens have to say.

It is going to go forward with all its fare and toll increases and is just going through the motions so that they may say they made time available for public feedback.

Some time ago when the MTA decided to charge a maintenance fee on the EZ Pass, our family provided feedback. The response was almost satire - or - Orwellian double-speak at its best. After it imposed the maintenance fee, all of my family and most of my friends and colleagues all joined the avalanche of folks who returned the MD EZ Pass and went to another state for the EZ Pass.

I'm just saying...

Senator Nancy Jacobs, Senate Minority Leader, District 34, Harford and Cecil Counties, NancyJacobs.com

VISIT THE HATEM BRIDGE INFO CENTER

HELP STOP AN INCREASE IN TOLLS

FROM THE OFFICE OF: SENATOR NANCY JACOBS
MINORITY LEADER, (R-Harford/Cecil)

The Maryland Transportation Authority Board has just voted unanimously to support a proposal to raise tolls around the state. I want all my constituents to know the details of that proposal locally, and how we plan to fight it. Here is information on the Hatem Bridge tolls they'd like to approve. The increases go into effect in two phases, starting this fall and again in 2013. The board has just suggested a new discount program specifically for users of the Hatem Bridge through EZ-PASS, but they plan to eliminate the current decal program.

CLICK HERE NOW TO GET THE FACTS NOW AND FIND OUT WHAT YOU CAN DO BY ATTENDING THE HEARINGS ON JUNE 16 AND JUNE 27.

Senator Nancy Jacobs
Senate Minority Leader
District 34-- Harford and Cecil County

Web sites:
nancyjacobs.com
mdsenategop.com

www.facebook.com/Senator.Nancy.Camp.Jacobs

My constituents are currently paying 10 dollars a year for a decal for unlimited passage. If they are forced to get this EZ Pass, initially they would have to pay 100 dollars and 54 dollars in 2012. Then in 2013 with the yearly price for the Hatem program would rise to 90 dollars a year. If people have more than one car and need more transponders, multiply that cost.

GET THE FACTS TODAY

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2011/06/senator-nancy-jacobs-help-stop-increase.html

Red Maryland: Its So EZ To Hit Up Taxpayers

Red Maryland: Its So EZ To Hit Up Taxpayers

Because they care so much for “working families” the O’Malley administration is set to impose fees on EZ Pass users making their commutes to work more expensive.

The Maryland Department of Transportation is set to slap a $1.50 monthly fee on EZ pass tag holders and start charging $21.00 for the EZ pass transponder. Maryland has 530,000 EZ Pass users.
In addition to those new fees MDTA will also increase fees on vehicles on with three or more axles. ...

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Red Maryland: Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

Red Maryland: Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

The comments on this post on Red Maryland are quite informative for folks who have a Maryland EZ Pass...

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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Red Maryland: Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

Red Maryland: Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

My wife called this to my attention the other day and we are less than pleased…

Ya know – this is nuts. Maryland should be encouraging the use of EZ Pass as it saves the state a great deal of money in personnel expenses and other assorted overhead with efficiency fueled by technology.

Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

Despite the tough economic times, I knew Governor Martin O'Malley could never resist the urge to raise some form of tax/fee.

Read the rest of Red Maryland’s post here: Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

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