May 2nd, 2012 Edition

You are our warrior Speaker Gingrich. Newt Nation THANKS YOU for speaking out for us, for carrying the banner of conservatism and for taking on the mainstream media, the GOP establishment and all of those who were unwilling to dare to dream of a greater vision for America. You are our hero.

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CVN FEATURE ARTICLE:

MARK AMERICA

Do You Fear Obama?
April 29th, 2012

Listening to conservative commentators, one can witness a kind of fear of Barack Obama that I’ve never encountered in domestic politics before. Sure, back in the 1990s, there were some conservatives who were fearful about the things Bill Clinton might do, given a chance, but the unmistakable terror some exhibit at the mere idea that Barack Obama would somehow be re-elected is astonishing to me. Is he horrible? Yes. Is he actively undermining our nation? Certainly. Is he a demagogue? You bet! Nevertheless, I do not understand the fear that seems to grip so many on the right side of the political divide. I don’t fear Barack Obama. He doesn’t impress me that much, and if he takes the country all the way to and over the brink, patriotic Americans will stop him. I’m not scared of Barack Obama. I’m not threatened by a temporary political hack. The thing that makes me fearful is the tendency among conservatives to imagine more power on the part of Obama than he actually possesses, but worse, the willingness on the part of establishment Republicans to cede to him such power. The power of the presidency doesn’t belong to any man, but to the people, and all it takes to stop any President is their will.

Fear is an important tool used to herd us in the direction of the establishment’s favored candidates. I am not driven by that sort of thing. What makes me fear for my country is the endless parade of candidates who are put up by the Republican establishment every four years who leave us with a choice between the wholly unpalatable and the unconscionably unpalatable. It’s like a perpetual taste test between excrement sandwiches where the only question is whether the prime course originated with a horse or a bull. What drives me to something like real fear is when I see the uncritical thinking that pervades so much of our culture. When I hear alleged conservatives saying that they think George W. Bush was a “real conservative,” I shake my head and walk away. There’s no point to an argument over the matter. He wasn’t a conservative, but for those who think he was, there’s no convincing them, no matter how many instances of his big-government statism his record provides as evidence.

Read More ... http://markamerica.com/2012/04/29/do-you-fear-obama/

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TOWNHALL
False Modesty of 'Nerds'
May 2, 2012 

Jonah Goldberg

Many of the beautiful women you see on TV aren't nerds. That doesn't mean they're not smart. But even if they were study geeks in high school, that doesn't mean they were nerds. In the movie "Election," Reese Witherspoon plays an earnest, dorky, driven young woman, but she's not a nerd. Holly Hunter in "Broadcast News" isn't one either -- she's a maniacally self-serious bore. Tina Fey in "30 Rock"? All nerd, baby.

So why am I telling you this? Because, suddenly, we're supposed to call the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner the "nerd prom." Hundreds of media outlets have recycled that description.

Read More ... http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2012/05/02/the_false_modesty_of_nerds

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NEWSMAX

Obama Shares Campaign Slogan With Jews, Nazis and ... Wisconsin
May 1, 2012
Henry J. Reske

President Barack Obama’s new campaign slogan — “forward” — is neither new nor progressive, with many historic and contemporary iterations and links to Marxism, the news media and the state of Wisconsin.Bloggers were abuzz with the campaign announcement and moved quickly to link forward to a variety of nefarious political movements. Indeed, the word can be found in Chinese Communism, as in the Great Leap Forward, and the Hitler Youth had an anthem called “Vorwarts! Vorwarts!”

On the positive side is the State Coat of Arms of Wisconsin which has the word “forward” on it. The word is also the state motto.

“Reflecting Wisconsin's continuous drive to be a national leader, the state adopted ‘Forward’ as the official state motto in 1851,” the state website notes.

Then there’s New York’s The Jewish Daily Forward and the MSNBC slogan “Lean Forward.”

Jewish Daily Forward’s Gal Beckerman writes, “It’s not every day that the president chooses a new campaign slogan … and it happens to be the name of your news organization.

“We are tickled, of course, by the choice,” Beckerman added. “As are, apparently, the folks in Twitter-land. There are those who think he is borrowing the slogan from MSNBC, and even a few, like Bill Kristol, who think it’s to Mao that the president is turning. We have no special insight on this. It’s just amusing to see our name writ so large.”

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