I doubt any of the Federal Review readers are undecided at this point. But in case you want to see which candidate best fits your beliefs on the issues, go and take THIS TEST.

According to the test, I should vote for Bob Barr.

If the test says that you should vote for Obama but you are not an Obama supporter, you clearly must be a racist. ;) Ha.

Democrats are simply lying. Media has not done it's homework. And a large percentage of the american population are ignorant to this...sometimes purposefully. Yeah...deregulation caused all this.

Obama...stop lying.

No surprise, but the real ignorance of economics comes from the Obama camp. I couldn't believe my ears today when Obama and his surrogates announced that the last thing you want to do in economic troubles is decrease the capital gains tax rate.

First, this is political ignorance, because Obama has announced over and over again that he believes that only those making more than $250,000 a year should really be footing the bills for the country.

Then, the economic supidity. It's ignorance of basic economic principles because Obama's camp says that a reduced capital gains tax will only encourage the withdrawal of gains, and not their reinvestment. What we need now is free capital. As long as there is a tax on gains, that money is hindered in its ability to be moved around freely in the economy.

Not that this should be a suprise to anyone. Barack Obama has made it clear his basic economic goals, and that's to "spread the wealth around". Not to grow the economy. Not to raise the tide and lift all boats. No, it is his goal to decide, in his infinite wisdom, who deserves to have the wealth taken away from them and who deserves to have it granted to them by government fiat. It's a simple argument and an old one, but it is true that what Obama is discussing is the foundation of Marxism - from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs And Leninism, as it will be the government, the elite rulers, who decide who has the abilities and who has the needs. Right now, those decisions are made by the free markets with a certain amount of meddling (some good - antitrust law, antifraud securities rules; and many bad - using the tax code to encourage government favored behavior that the free market would never support, such as making loans to those who can't pay).

Now, Barack Obama wants to subsidize employers who hire people. Well, that's every employer. Suddenly, the U.S. government will be subsidizing wages with this $3,000 tax credit for new hires. There's a fine incentive to clear out the deadwood and hire younger folks. $3,000 a pop. And once the government has a hand in actually cutting a check for salaries, are government strings far behind? With the government's spending power, Congress has already expanded its power significantly beyond what was ever envisioned in a Constitution designed around granting only limited power to government. But clear, state decisions under the Constitution such as the regulations of alcohol, are now subject to Congressional control through its power to withhold highway funds. Congress cannot meddle in religious institutions but does so by attaching strings to student loans. What is the government now going to demand of banks, and President Obama demand sound business practices aimed as reducing costs and maximizing shareholder profit, or will President Obama demand these banks to pursue only socially laudable (in his opinion) goals? If he does the latter, then we have a command economy - the dream of those thrown on the ash heap of history in the 20th centure.

Spread the wealth. Redistribute the wealth. Why is it so hard for Mr. McCain to make this point to the American people? Maybe because he is more sympathetic to the desire to control human interaction than many Republicans (see, the First Amendment Limitations Act aka, McCain/Feingold). Socialism isn't creeping, it's on the march in the United States.

And these bad economic times really make it all the more easier to sell government control as help in the time of need. Just like the Emperor in Attack of the Clones demanding emergency powers. Just like the depression, when Hoover started moving the government beyond its Constitutional powers and FDR accelerating that movement. If (when?) Barack Obama is elected, and the democrats expand their majorities in the House and Senate - look for lots of hopeful rhetoric and lots of expansion of government control of our economy.

Labels: Barack Obama, Economy, Elections, Socialism

Go watch all of them...

http://neverfindout.org/

Labels: Election Ads

Labels: Barack Obama, Propaganda

Rochester, NY—State Police have arrested a University of Rochester instructor for possessing child pornography and have alleged that the suspect was tipped off by a University official.

According to WROC-TV, “Gilbert Kirton, 26, of Rochester was charged Friday with one count of possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child.”

Police also said Kirton's arrest comes despite being told about the investigation by a Dean at the U of R. Investigators have been looking into Kirton for four months, based on a tip from the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania police department.

The Dean has not been publicly identified. However, another local TV station, WHAM, has reported that the official was “a director of graduate studies at the university” and police referred to the tipster as a male:

Captain Scott Crosier says, "obviously he conveyed enough information to him that caused Mr. Kirton to dismantle his computer and attempt to get rid of it by placing it in six different garbage bags and in six different trash receptacles on the campus. So obviously Mr. Kirton felt that there was enough information was conveyed to him that he realized that the computer was the source of the problem."

The police allege that the images seized from Kirton’s computer were "some of the most sexually graphic images depicting the physical and sexual abuse of children secured by the state police in Western New York."

At this point, there is no indication that the University official who tipped off Kirton will be charged, WROC reported. According to WHEC-TV, the official learned of the investigation, and tipped Kirton off, after police contacted him to verify Kirton’s employment information.

Kirton was arraigned in Monroe County Court and was remanded to the Monroe County Jail in lieu of $5,000 cash bail or $15,000 bond. If convicted in federal court, he faces ten to fifteen years in prison.

Gary Becker, James Buchanan, Robert Mundell, Edward Prescott, and Vernon Smith are in agreement with hundreds of other economists in opposing Obama's economic plan. You'll find them here w/ links to the others.

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2008/10/hundres-of-econ.html

Anyone with any sense of economics knows what happens when you "tax corporations". Do you honestly think that corporations aren't going to attempt to offset their costs and maintain profit margins? Guess how that will happen. Goods/services prices will increase...or simply move offshore or to another country to avoid higher taxation. Just the opposite of what Obama thinks will happen...oh but he'll punish those that leave. Kinda like a communist dictatorship where the people fenced in are corporations instead.

Now we see why the Nobel board most likely selected staunch anti-Bush economist Paul Krugman to a Nobel prize on economics. Gotta balance everything out.

Labels: Nobel economists Obama

"The Republican National Committee, growing nervous over the prospect of Democrats’ winning a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, is considering tapping into a $5 million line of credit this week to aid an increasing number of vulnerable incumbents, top Republicans say.

With party strategists fearing a bloodbath at the polls, GOP officials are shifting to triage mode, determining who can be saved and where to best spend their money."

This is a clear indication that the GOP thinks that McCain is going to lose, and lose badly.

If McCain was likely to win any of the battleground states that have vulnerable Republican incumbents, they wouldn't need to reassign money from the top of the ticket to down ballot races.

The GOP is effectively admitting that the presidential race is over and that their sole purpose now is to prevent a filibuster proof majority for the Democrats in the Senate.

Three weeks ago, McCain could have won this and the GOP could have limited losses in the Senate, and potentially gained seats in the House.

McCain's campaign suspension stunt, followed by inaction on the bailout, followed by even worse action, that is to say voting to socialize the US economy, has trashed his campaign and pulled down Republican incumbents who were likely to hold on to their seats, if only just barely.

Oh well...time to start campaigning for 2010's midterms.

Actually, Obama just got sick and tired of saying "hope" and "change we can believe in," 'cause he doesn't believe in the crap that he's spewing either.

As you can tell by the crowds reaction, it really doesn't matter what kind of nonsense comes out of Obama's mouth - his lackeys will lap it up regardless.

Obama campaigned heavily for his cousin Raila Odinga's presidential bid while on an official Senatorial visit back in 2006, so much so that the Kenyan government complained that Obama was meddling in Kenya's political affairs.

After Obama's cousin, Odinga, narrowly lost the presidential election Dec 27th 2007, he (Odinga) waged a campaign of terror against Christians belonging to the majority Kikuyu tribe living in muslim dominated towns of Obama's ancestral Luo tribe .

Odinga's campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing left hundreds of churches burned to the ground, over 1,000 dead, and 350,000 displaced.

Just prior to the New Hampshire primary debate, Obama was busy fielding calls to his cousin Odinga and lobbying for Odinga's inclusion in a power sharing agreement with Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki.

Odinga's reign of terror ended only after he was made President Kibaki's Prime Minister.

While he considers himself to be a practicing muslim, Odinga is reaaly about as muslim as Nancy Pelosi is Catholic, which is to say that his faith is expedient more than heartfelt.

Odinga's political philosophy is actually Marxist/communist, yet he knows he can't win election as such, unless he has the support of a major religious denomination, hence the need to cozy up to the wahaabists.

Some of the conditions that Odinga accepted in return for the support of Kenya's imams:

* "Popularize Islam, the only true religion... by ordering every primary school in Kenya in the regions to conduct daily Madrassa classes."

* "Impose a total ban on open-air gospel crusades by worshippers of the cross..."

* "Outlaw gospel programs... on KBC, the National Broadcaster."

* "Impose a total ban on the public consumption of alcoholic beverages..."

* "Impose an immediate ban on women's public dressing styles that are considered immoral and offensive to the Muslim faith..."


Change we can believe in?


Holy Shi'ite!


On the bright side, I guess Obama actually does have some foreign policy experience after all, but it sure as hell isn't the kind of experience we want in the White House.

Apparently, Democrats can only wave with one finger at a time.

'More than 30,000 Florida felons who by law should have been stripped of their right to vote remain registered to cast ballots in this presidential battleground state, a Sun Sentinel investigation has found.

Many are faithful voters, with at least 4,900 turning out in past elections.

Another 5,600 are not likely to vote Nov. 4 — they're still in prison.

Of the felons who registered with a party, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one.'


Does that last sentence surprise anyone?

As many as 108,000 additional felons may be on the state's voter rolls, too many for Florida's Secretary of State to verify before November's presidential election.

'Several felon voters interviewed by the Sun Sentinel expressed confusion over automatic clemency and said they thought their voting rights had been restored. Some said they merely signed registration forms that were filled out by volunteers (read ACORN).

"If I wasn't able to vote, they wouldn't have given me my [voter registration] card," said John A. Henderson, 55, a Hallandale Beach Democrat. "I voted the last time and the times before that."

Ignorance of the law is one thing, but check this out:

'Broward elections officials were unaware of Henderson's criminal record and did not check it when he registered, said county elections spokeswoman Mary Cooney. Nonetheless, she said he will remain on the rolls "until we are directed otherwise to remove him."

What is it with Democrats and their unwillingness to enforce the law?

This interview was taken in 1998, three years after Obama launched his political career in the Ayers' living room.

It's clear from the interview that Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn were not "rehabilitated" as Barack Obama claimed this past Friday to Ben Smith at the Politico.


For those moonbats that may not be convinced by a Bill O'Reilly airing of a Connie Chung interview (you know how dastardly Fox News can be), here's another interview from CNN's Anerson Cooper.




The only thing that CNN got wrong is that State Senator Alice Palmer (D-Gangland) didn't gather her supporters for Obama's coming out party at Ayers' home.

She did introduce him at the party, but the attendees were invited by Obama and Ayers themselves.

"That's why you have never heard me make any comment," he (Farrakhan) explained. "I love that brother, and I want to see that brother successful. I don't want to say anything that would hurt that brother, and I don't want them to use me or the Nation of Islam."

Here's a questioin for the Obamabots:

Why is it that all of Barack Obama's longtime associates seem to have been issued a gag order: Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and even his wife Michelle?

Oh, one more thing. Before you Obamanistas jump my ass for calling Barack Hussein Obama a muslim, let me remind you that it's Farrakhan calling the Obamessiah a muslim, not I.

Yeah, that's right, the same ACORN that is continually in trouble for voter fraud, the same ACORN that has pushed the subprime mortgage crisis that has destabilized our economy, is, in the words of Barack Obama, going to shape our national agenda.

If you'd like to use this on your website, feel free to use the following code under the Creative Commons Attribution License:  img src="http://www.federalreview.com/images/reds.jpg" between less than and greater than signs.

Labels: Barack Obama, Propaganda

We all know that Obama's mesmerizing speeches are written by David Axelrod, but was his breakout memoir written by Bill Ayers? Jack Cashill at American Thinker believes that it is quite possible.

"1990 New York Times profile on Obama's election as Harvard's first black president caught the eye of agent Jane Dystel. She persuaded Poseidon, a small imprint of Simon & Schuster, to authorize a roughly $125,000 advance for Obama's proposed memoir.


With advance in hand, Obama repaired to Chicago where he dithered. At one point, in order to finish without interruption, he and wife Michelle decamped to Bali. Obama was supposed to have finished the book within a year. Bali or not, advance or no, he could not. He was surely in way over his head.


According to a surprisingly harsh 2006 article by liberal publisher Peter Osnos, which detailed the "ruthlessness" of Obama's literary ascent, Simon & Schuster canceled the contract. Dystel did not give up. She solicited Times Book, the division of Random House at which Osnos was publisher. He met with Obama, took his word that he could finish the book, and authorized a new advance of $40,000.


Then suddenly, somehow, the muse descended on Obama and transformed him from a struggling, unschooled amateur, with no paper trail beyond an unremarkable legal note and a poem about fig-stomping apes, into a literary superstar.


I bought Bill Ayers' 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, for reasons unrelated to this project. As I discovered, he writes surprisingly well and very much like "Obama." In fact, my first thought was that the two may have shared the same ghostwriter. Unlike Dreams, however, where the high style is intermittent, Fugitive Days is infused with the authorial voice in every sentence. What is more, when Ayers speaks, even off the cuff, he uses a cadence and vocabulary consistent with his memoir. One does not hear any of Dreams in Obama's casual speech.


Obama's memoir was published in June 1995. Earlier that year, Ayers helped Obama, then a junior lawyer at a minor law firm, get appointed chairman of the multi-million dollar Chicago Annenberg Challenge grant. In the fall of that same year, 1995, Ayers and his wife, Weatherwoman Bernardine Dohrn, helped blaze Obama's path to political power with a fundraiser in their Chicago home.


In short, Ayers had the means, the motive, the time, the place and the literary ability to jumpstart Obama's career. And, as Ayers had to know, a lovely memoir under Obama's belt made for a much better resume than an unfulfilled contract over his head."


Read the entire article by Cashill. It is very compelling.

There's no good news for McCain. Well, if you think it's cool that Indiana looks like it's off the table, then maybe that is good for McCain. But North Carolina a Blue State? Shocking. If North Carolina is Blue, then for the first time in 50 years, there will be no Bush and no Dole in government.

There are 2 ways this race can go. Toward the inevitable and a landslide for Obama, where he wins in the high 300s, maybe over 400 electoral votes. Or a close election. I'm hoping for the latter, and the only hope for the latter is the national margin is only around 6 points. That does not indicate an electoral landslide of 400 vote proportions.

Nevertheless, as of now, the dream of Eugene Debs looks to finally be coming true. Oh, how I long for a Hillary presidency right now.

Yeah. I said it!

McCain	Tossup	Obama
169	11	358

Labels: 2008 Composite Poll, 2008 Electoral Vote, Electoral Vote Projection

An oldie but a goodie.

A brilliant explanation of our tax system using actual percentages, the impact of a tax cut, and the public reaction that even Obama should be
> able to understand.

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers,' he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. 'Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes, so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could
they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man
would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay. And so -

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 ( 22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

'I only got a dollar out of the $20,'declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,' but he got $10!'

'Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!'

'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!'

'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, or will not, understand, no explanation is possible.

Now, try to consider how Barack Obama plans to cut taxes for 95% of all Americans. To actually give something in the tax code to such a high percentage (we'll assume 90% for our example), Mr. Obama is going to have to structure it so that first nine men get some benefit. To do so, that means the first five men will be paid by the government to drink beer. And the tenth man will pay more.

This doesn't, of course, account for Mr. Obama's increase in the capital gains taxes. So, I'm guessing that means that the fourth man through the tenth man will also have their bar tab increased for capital gains. Of course, we can't put any numbers on any of this, because Obama hasn't explained it to that detail.

Labels: Barack Obama, Economy

Every question addresses a Fundamental Issue, to Obama, and he promises to "help" this group or that. But never talks about how. And we may when the election promising answers but offering none.

Democracy as farce.

Labels: Obama McCain debate

They both worked with and were buddies with people who bombed the pentagon.


ZING!

Labels: Obama Osama let's call the whole thing off

All too easy.



It's an animated gif and should work in most browsers.

Labels: Obama, Propaganda

This is where John McCain can seperate himself from Obama. Don't focus on the past justices. We're in the now. Keep the question focused on the now. Out of the 9 justices, which justice would Obama choose to nominate most similar to (I apologize for the constant ending in prepositions). This is a question reporters don't hesitate to ask conservative or republican candidates in order to drive a litmus wedge for people to choose. Most of the time over abortion. But why do we not hear this wedge driven to liberals. For instance...would Obama nominate in the mold of Ruth Vader...I mean Bader-Ginsburg who sided on the WRONG side of the imminent domain case. Or maybe the DC gun-ban case.

Both 5-4 decisions...and I'm even lawyer enough to figure that one out.

This is where John McCain can take JUDICIAL NOMINEES (say that with boastful loud voice) and speak to America in terms of Main St....not Washington speak. Make it a campaign banner. Lobby your NRA to create ads. Here's the headliner. *clears throat*

"Obama might say he won't take away your guns...but his judicial nominees damned sure will."

Labels: Obama, Obama McCain debate, Supreme Court