February 12, 2009 – On this, the 200th anniversary of the birth of the emanci-effing-pator of the slaves – another installment of Obama and His Amazing Technicolor Trenchcoat!

President Obama clearly didn’t do his homework before ordering the suspension of military tribunals to try terrorist suspects. We have learned that even his own legal counsel admitted that Mr. Obama erred in discussing details about terrorism with families of victims last week, and that the administration was ignorant of a key point that terrorists exploit to their advantage. In his rush to fulfill a campaign promise to his more fervid anti-war supporters, the president’s legal oversights risk the disclosure of some highly classified information to terrorists.

The rumors of the death of the American spirit and freedom are decidedly premature and she will not go quietly into the night without first engaging in a ferocious battle to retain her liberty.  It will take more than one man and a false ideology to put her in her grave.  It will take much more than just robbing the treasury of our material wealth and spending us into oblivion to seal her fate.  No matter what you see and hear, the real America, the heart of America, is alive and well and beginning to show her teeth, once again.

Sure, we are thrashing about and trying to get our bearings, but our bearings we will gain in time.  Sure we have a false leader at the helm, but he too will flounder in heavy seas of his own making.  Yes, some crazed inmates are running the show in congress and the President’s cabinet, but they will soon be hoisted upon their own petard.  It’s going to cost us, but we are a wealthy nation beyond anyone’s imagination and as you will see, we can ultimately afford it.

February 12, 2009 - “Motivation” is the set of reasons that determines one to engage in a particular behavior.  Humans can be motivated to some behavior or a particular action for external reasons, or internal emotions caused by external events.  Many of us are motivated to action by anger, wherein the anger is caused by the actions or behavior of another individual or group.  Individuals can be motivated to action by incentives and rewards, such as receiving a sum of money to perform a specific act, legal or illegal.  Some can be motivated to action or inaction by threats, or intimidation, or fear for our life, or another’s life to which we are emotionally connected.  Some are motivated by dire predictions of doom and gloom, real or imagined, from persons in authority, as our current President is doing now.   It is the same for every human being that lives on this planet and it is especially true for politicians.

February 12, 2009 – Africa has more natural resources than the United States. Yet its people wallow in poverty and a horrible existence, not because the land doesn’t provide for them, but because of bad governments.

Case in point is Zimbabwe which, by all accounts, should be the richest of all African nations. It was once called the breadbasket of Africa because of its rich soil and prosperous farmers. Today, under the brutal, unending dictatorship of insane ruler Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe sits in ruins. As The Washington Times reported, “People are starving and compete in the countryside with baboons, jackals and goats for roots and wild fruits; health care has imploded and cholera is on the march as water and sewer systems collapse.”

February 12, 2009 – When Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal declared before a cheering crowd in Doha, Qatar, on January 28, the need for a new leadership, his words generated panic amongst leaders of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority as well as traditional Palestinian leadership elites stationed in various Arab capitals.

The reaction to Mashaal’s call was more furious than most of the statements issued by the PA and its backers during the 23-day Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip, which killed and wounded thousands of innocent Gazans.

The interview was nearly over. on the Fox News Channel last Wednesday evening, Sean Hannity was coming to the end of a segment with Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, the chair of the House Republican Conference and a vociferous foe of President Obama’s nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. How, Pence had asked rhetorically, was $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts going to put people back to work in Indiana? How would $20 million for “fish passage barriers” (a provision to pay for the removal of barriers in rivers and streams so that fish could migrate freely) help create jobs? Hannity could not have agreed more. “It is … the European Socialist Act of 2009,” the host said, signing off. “We’re counting on you to stop it. Thank you, congressman.”

There it was, just before the commercial: the S word, a favorite among conservatives since John McCain began using it during the presidential campaign. (Remember Joe the Plumber? Sadly, so do we.) But it seems strangely beside the point. The U.S. government has already—under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries. That seems a stronger sign of socialism than $50 million for art.