My Top 5 Must Reads of the Day 7/6/10

1. Son pleads for help as mother awaits stoning in Iran CNN 




"Legally, it's all over, and we have no chance. It's a done deal. Sakine can be stoned at any minute. But we have experienced again and again that when we organize events world-wide, when we protest world-wide, and in particular when we contact European governments and these governments put pressure on the Islamic regime in Iran, sometimes we have a chance."


This needs more attention!!! It really makes you appreciate the rights and freedoms we have in America - including the double jeopardy rule in the 5th Amendment. 




2. Arizona Dems contest Obama's assertions on border security
The Hill




“The crisis on America’s borders won’t be addressed with words,” said [Dem Rep.] Giffords. “I was disappointed to hear the president give short shrift to border security concerns by saying that our nation’s southern border is more secure today than at any time in the past 20 years. “That is not a sign of progress, it is a statement on the poor job we have done in securing the border for the past two decades.”


Even Democrats know Obama is "just words." Too bad the teleprompter can't jump into action!




3. NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World FOXNews
   




"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things...third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.


NASA = Now About Self-esteem for Arabs. BTW, he gave this interview to Al-Jazeera.




4. Barack Obama: The great jobs killer Las Vegas Review Journal
By Wayne Allyn Root




This "community organizer" knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics. It's time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes -- rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners -- Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones.


And they call him Barak the Knife.  With all his complaining about the economy he "inherited," what exactly does Obama think he will leave to his own successor?




5. The Massachusetts Health-Care 'Train Wreck'
The future of ObamaCare is unfolding here: runaway spending, price controls, even limits on care and medical licensing. WSJ
By Joseph Rago




As events are now unfolding, the Massachusetts plan couldn't be a more damning indictment of ObamaCare. The state's universal health-care prototype is growing more dysfunctional by the day, which is the inevitable result of a health system dominated by politics. ...The deeper problem is that price controls seem to be the only way the political class can salvage a program that was supposed to reduce spending and manifestly has not. Massachusetts now has the highest average premiums in the nation.

Read it and weep at what ObamaCare has in store for our country.

My Top 5 Must Reads of the Day 7/1/10

1. Six Months to Go Until The Largest Tax Hikes in History ATR




In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011

Just what we need during a recession - thank you Obama and Democrats!


2. Gunfire hitting City Hall prompts Texas AG to ask for more troops on border El Paso Times




"More than 1,300 people have been murdered in Juárez this year as a war continues relentlessly between the Juárez and Sinaloa drug cartels," he told Obama. He also said the "time for talk has passed."

The number of people being killed in the drug war is staggering, meanwhile Obama gives a speech to mollify his pro-amnesty base.


3. Florida school district bans Bibles on Religious Freedom Day Orlando Sentinel




“How sad that on the eve of Independence Day, when we celebrate the religious and political freedom our forefathers won for us at the cost of much blood and great sacrifice, we are compelled to sue to protect the right simply to make free Bibles available to students in public schools,” said Mathew D. Staver, Liberty Counsel founder.

Sad indeed. But typical of public schools.


4. Supreme Court gun rights ruling will add to death toll The Hill
By Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.)



Amid one of the most violent and deadly summers Chicago has ever experienced, in which only the last few weeks have seen shootings that left 81 wounded and 13 dead, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an almost 30-year-old citywide ban on handgun ownership is unconstitutional.

Yeah, um, cuz that gun ban thing y'all have going is working out so well for ya!


5. Crist says no hookers on Bahamas trip Tampa Bay Times




Beth Kigel, a lobbyist, fundraiser and member of the state party executive committee from Palm Beach County, told investigators she had heard about a men-only trip to the Bahamas and that "women were involved and paid."

Threw that one in there just for fun!

If not Obama, Arizona, Military, then WHO?

The American public wants to secure our borders and stop illegal immigration but the federal government is trying to pass off responsibility while preventing enforcement by states like Arizona - which leaves us wondering who will actually do it.  Reminds me of the grade school song "Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?" 

President Obama: Who me?
American people: Yes, you!
President Obama: Couldn't be.
American people: Then WHO?

The latest answer was short lived.  It sounded like the military was going to be sent in to help fix the problem, but now comes the clarification that they will not be addressing illegal immigration:

US troops won't be used to stop illegal immigration: US

US National Guard troops being sent to the Mexican border will be used to stem the flow of guns and drugs across the frontier and not to enforce US immigration laws, the State Department said Wednesday.

The clarification came after the Mexican government urged Washington not to use the additional troops to go after illegal immigrants. 

[How do they not see that the gun and drug problems are just symptoms of our broken immigration laws and the refusal to enforce them?]

President Barack Obama on Tuesday authorized the deployment of up to 1,200 additional troops to border areas but State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters, "It's not about immigration."

He said the move was "fully consistent with our efforts to do our part to stem, you know, violence, to interdict the flow of dangerous people and dangerous goods -- drugs, guns, people."

[Mr. Crowley, sir, please explain to me how interdicting the flow of people is NOT about immigration.  Do you really think that none of the "dangerous people" are illegal?  What, is it only Americans running the Mexican drug wars and killing 23,000 people in 3 years?  Good luck stemming the, you know, violence without enforcing the law and addressing the real problems.]

The border is a mess - oh, goody a terror watch for the TX-MX border! - is it too much to ask that SOMEONE enforce our borders and laws - preferably the department or agency that is SUPPOSED to be enforcing them?