Conservative on Target!

I just finished watching the debate and was wondering who planned it to be a hatchet job on Perry. The questions and their timing made it look like Fox had their people go after a Perry/Romney confrontation with an emphasis on hurting Perry. The quest for TV ratings seems to have supplanted the search for the truth! The last question, pick your VP now,  was a TV Game farce. I would have to say that the loser of the night was Fox. – JS

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The Federal Reserve took steps yesterday to stimulate the economy by buying long-term Treasury bonds in order to lower interest rates on mortgages, but the market responded negatively with the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index dropping 3 percent. [And then the market absolutely tanked again today! The Fed doesn’t have a clue and needs to learn the old saw that “when in doubt, do nothing! – JS]

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HALL of SHAME! California City Closes Down Bible Study in Private Home: San Juan Capistrano authorities claim home Bible study is not allowed because it is a “church,” and churches require a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) in residential areas. The Fromms face additional fines of $500 per meeting for any further “religious gatherings” in their home, according to the Pacific Justice Institute. The city’s action is a brazen violation of the First Amendment, which guarantees free worship without government intervention. [Want to bet whether they would allow study of the Koran? – JS]

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Three Worst States to Conduct Business: California, New York, Illinois. Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina were viewed as having the best business climates…  Things in Common:

• Illinois, New York, and California all have Democratic governors.
• Illinois, New York, and California all have governors beholden to public unions.
• Illinois, New York, and California are not right to work states.
• Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina are all right-to-work states.
• Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina do not have governors beholden to public unions.

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Obama Creates Chicago Solution to Chicago Problem at Solyndra: [The Solyndra guys] thought they were dating the prom king when courting Obama and his government checkbook. But really, they were getting juice from a loan shark, Chicago-style, and they didn’t know it. Maybe that’s why all of sudden the business guys who wear ties for a living and who were so ready to cooperate with the investigation into Solyndra are going to make like mobsters and invoke 5th Amendment proetction when testifying before Congress on Friday.

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Beware of the ‘Gaystapo’: Homosexual activists are pressuring PayPal not to handle donations made to groups that promote traditional values . . . . The homosexual activist group All Out is asking PayPal to immediately shut down the online accounts of ten groups it has labeled “anti-LGBT extremist groups.” Most of the groups are U.S.-based. PayPal reportedly has responded, saying it could not comment on individual accounts and must take “the rights of free speech and freedom of religion” into account.

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H. L. Mencken

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Winston Churchill

"The Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it ... This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." -- Elmer Davis