Be John Galt

Iran is making a lot of noise about possible attacks in the west. Hopefully Attorney General Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Napolatino have warned airport security against profiling sespicious looking Muslims and instructed the FBI that its first priority is to read  terrorists their “Miranda rights” in the event of a “man-made disaster.” We certainly would want to offend anyone and most certainly don’t want any terrorists to be deprived the rights Americans enjoy.

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a “punch” that will stun world powers during this week’s 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

“The Iranian nation, with its unity and God’s grace,will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned,” Khamenei, who is also Iran’s commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel.

His comments came as Iran said it would begin to produce higher enriched uranium from Tuesday, in defiance of Western powers trying to ensure the country’s nuclear drive is peaceful.

This year’s anniversary is expected to become a flashpoint between security forcesand supporters of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi,who charge that the June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was rigged.

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Hat tip: Breitbart

With these two in charge, what could possibly go wrong?

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Another 20 inches of "global warming" on it's way to the Nation's Capitol?

Hat tip: washingtontonexaminer.com, The Wall Street Journal and National Weather Service via Drudge Report.

My sympathies to his family

The left-wing “lamestream media” continues to fall (both in print and with cable news channels).

While overall newsstand sales of magazines dropped by 9.1, Time and Newsweek led the  way in lost sales

Time newstand sales declined by a staggering 34.9% and Newsweek by an astonishing 41.3% as far-left nut-jobs like Joe Kline and Evan Thomas (of Obama is like a God fame) are left to run wild without adult supervision.

Newsstand sales tend to be driven by the economy and are a more timely indicator of a magazine’s vitality than subscriptions, which tend to lag and which can be driven by heavy discounting. While newsstand sales are a small percentage of most magazines’ circulation, they are a profitable part of it — publishers typically charge only a fraction of the newsstand price for a subscription copy.

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CNN and MSNBC Bleeding Viewers

Diana Irey

Eight months ago Sarah Palin was washed up – toast. July 3, the day she announced she would be resigning as governor JR, MFG and I were online at BJG. Knowing what a Palin fan I am, MFG was trying to virtually console me. All three of us lamented the fact that one of the strongest conservative voices would be silenced under the onslaught of Democrats and the liberal media.

A lot has changed since that day. Sarah Palin decided to mount an attack from a different direction. Using state of the art communication techniques, she started fighting back and became stronger than ever. She developed new electronic platforms to circumvent MSM and, in fact, mockingly refers to it as the “lame stream media.” She has 1.3 million Facebook followers, more than 75,000 follow her on Twitter and her book Going Rogue has sold more than 2 million copies and made her a multi-millionaire.

Anyone who reads the papers and “news magazines,” watches CNN, MSNBC or network news or listens to NPR is painfully aware of just how dumb Sarah Palin is (in addition to being a redneck snowbilly). If this type of gameplan can work for someone as “dumb” as Sarah, think of how successful it could be for conservatives with normal intelligence or perhaps superior intelligence (if any exist in the mind of LSM). The simple fact is that LSM will constantly try to promote a liberal agenda and destroy conservative candidates. Sitting there and taking it hasn’t worked in the past, and it will not work in the future.

White House apologists were quick to point to the unemployment rate decline from 10 percent to 9.7 percent as evidence that the recovery is gathering momentum and that President Obama’s policies — especially his $787 billion economic stimulus bill Congress approved last February — are “working.” But the back story behind the figures provides cold comfort.

First, the drop to 9.7 percent unemployment does not reflect the creation of new jobs that normally accompanies an economic recovery. The number of new jobs is actually declining. Total nonfarm payroll employment, for example, dipped by an additional 20,000 positions after a December decline of 150,000 positions. The unemployment rate the day Obama took office last year stood at 7.6 percent and 134.6 million people had jobs. When he signed the economic stimulus, Obama promised the bill would bolster the economy sufficiently to keep unemployment below 8.0 percent. But the unemployment rate has exceeded 8.0 percent since last fall, and total employment stands at only 129.5 million. The stimulus has been a bust.

Second, anybody who thinks the job situation is going to improve dramatically in coming months is not paying attention to what’s going on behind the unemployment rate. The Hudson Institute’ Diana Furchtgott-Roth notes that “the labor force participation rate declined from 64.9% to 64.6%, the lowest since August 1985. This means that more and more Americans are dropping out of the labor force. Last month 661,000 Americans left the labor force.”

Third, among the few sectors of the economy showing net employment growth over the past year is the federal government. The federal civil service is rapidly expanding as Obama increases the size of government, with 33,000 new positions being added in January alone. Only 9,000 of those new slots were for temporary census jobs. In other words, what we are seeing is good times for the public sector and the growing prospect of a continuing and perhaps even deepening recession for everybody else.

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Hat tip: washingtonexaminer.com

Colts look like the better team, Saints are dangerous though

The Super Bowl ad that has caused such a furor this past week is now online.  LifeNews has the video and transcript of the first ad that will be shown today.  It’s a wonderful ad that gives the URL of Focus on the Family website for those who want to learn more of the Tebows’ story and ends with the phrase:

Celebrate Family. Celebrate Life.

PAM TEBOW: I call him my miracle baby. He almost didn’t make it into this world. I remember so many times when I almost lost him. It was so hard. Well he’s all grown up now, and I still worry about his health. Everybody treats him like he’s different, but to me, he’s just my baby. He’s my Timmy, and I love him.

TIM TEBOW: Thanks mom. Love you too.

In September 2008, Pam was interviewed on a Tallahassee Christian radio program a few weeks prior to speaking there at a pro-life banquet.  Before discussing the difficult circumstances of her pregnancy, she mentions that she and her husband, Bob, taught their children values from their childhood, giving Tim years of preparation before he faced the pressures of being a famous football player.

Pam and Bob had years of preparation before they were faced with the pressure of a difficult pregnancy.  As students at the University of Florida, they were both active in Campus Crusade for Christ, in fact, Bob helped start the UF group of the international CCC ministry.  This was back in the late sixties and early seventies when campuses were roiled by Viet Nam protests and groups like the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society).  It’s an understatement to say that debate and interchange was vigorous, and Christians were in a pressure cooker explaining and living their faith to classmates and professors.  The Tebows were married the day Pam graduated from college.  Bob eventually became a pastor, and they were missionaries to the Philippines at the time Pam was advised to have an abortion.

Here’s a little more background on the Tebows from another interview from the Tallahassee radio program.  This interview was with Mike Braun, the Tebows’ pastor in Gainesville.  Mike was a wonderful pastor who taught hundreds of college students and encouraged many of them to go into full-time Christian work.  His wife was part of getting the pro-life work up and running in Gainesville in the 1970s.  (But that’s another story!).

You never know where life will take you.  At the time when Pam and Bob trusted God with their unborn baby, they didn’t know Timmy would grow up to win the Heisman.  They didn’t know their decision would give them and Tim a platform from which to speak for life and of their faith in Christ. Over two decades ago they were being faithful and trusting God with the life He had given them.  That’s all they knew at the time, but today they have spoken to millions.

UPDATE: Hot Air has video of the first commercial as it aired on television.  Focus on the Family edited some humor into the end of it!

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H/T:  LifeNews (via Hot Air), Focus on the Family, http://www.lifeline-awpc.org/, Gainesville Sun.

Twelve

I am sure MFG ’s first Super Bowl Game Day thread is just a few hours away (after he clears his head from last night’s pre-game parties). But, let’s start game day by discussing the Tea Party movement, the weekend’s Tea Party National Convention and Sarah Palin.

Starting from nowhere last spring, the Tea Party movement has been embraced by millions of middle class Americans, who attended rallies and have begun becoming precinct captains, stuffing envelopes and making calls for conservative candidates. National, regional and local meetings obviously were the next step as this energy has to be channeled into productive action, particularly in an election year.

Regarding the convention, the lowlights were Joseph Farrah bringing up the “birther” issue and Tom Tancredo’s presentation. The highlights were the organizing sessions and speeches by Andrew Breitbart and Sarah Palin.

Breitbart attacked MSM, telling then ” It’s you that suck.”

While others bailed on the Tea Party Convention as criticism grew, Sarah Palin embrased the movement and the national convention. From the moment she took the stage last night (well, maybe after she wished Ronald Reagan a happy birthday and expressed her pride in being an American) Palin was on the attack and she didn’t stop long enough to read Barack Obama his Miranda Rights. She attacked a “charismatic guy and a teleprompter,” and his policies regarding national security, the economy and the direction he is taking the country. She forsook the use of a teleprompter to emphasize the differences between herself and the President.

At the end, Palin took aim at the media, derisively referring to it as the “lame stream media” and stating that at the end of the day, what they say doesn’t matter. In her resignation speech, Palin threw down the gauntlet by telling the media to “quit making things up.” Since then, she has escalated her war with the media, figuring there’s nothing to gain by treating MSM with respect.

Several things are certain: Sarah Palin is in the fight for the long term; she definitely has linked her future to the Tea Party movement; she will remain a major player on the national stage; and she will continue to dominate the media like no one other than the President. This morning Sarah Palin is front page news in Europe, Tokyo and other places around the world and the Associated Press is in full attack mode.

In case you midded it, here’s her speech.

Hat tips: Gateway Pundit, Free Republic, You Tube, CSPAN and FNC.

Tea Party Queen.