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J.C's Corner

June 30, 2009

Obama: Thumbs Down On Democracy

It appears our Boy President is not much of a fan of democracy. As frustrated Iranians took to the streets of Tehran to protest a bogus election run by the corrupt mullahs, he stayed on the sidelines, tacitly endorsing the Islamofascist Republic of Iran.

Only after the heads of France and Germany had shamed him into speaking out did he display any concern.

When lawmakers and judges in Honduras realized that their elected President, Manuel Zelaya, had taken a page out of the Hugo Chavez playbook to use a phony referendum to establish a Marxist dictatorship, they acted within the framework of the Honduran constitution to oust the scoundrel.

Now the usual thug suspects, Fidel and Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez and the United Nations have called for Zelaya’s reinstatement. Joining them is their fellow Marxist, Barack Hussein Obama.

Right here at home, the House of Representatives, in an action worthy of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, passed a bill calling for massive energy taxes without a copy of the legislation available for inspection by those voting or the general public. This blatant act of fascism also has been endorsed by the Kingfish, who clearly has great disdain for any semblance of democracy or transparency.

The Waxman-Markey bill approved by the House displays a shocking disregard for basic grade school arithmetic as well as any input from the public, who now could be subjected to the largest tax increase in American history.

The bill calls for the onerous taxation of energy sources that account for 90% of the electricity generated in the United States. It proposes government subsidies for alternative sources that account for only 3% of the nation’s energy output. You do the math: how are 3% going to substitute for more than 90%? Ain’t gonna happen.

If you thought cap and trade legislation was a mess, wait until you see what Congress has up its sleeve for healthcare reform.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, as long as we stand up and speak out against the tyranny brewing in Washington, D.C.

June 29, 2009

ObamaCare = ObamaDoesn’tCare

Now that the House of Representatives has passed a disastrous energy tax bill, it’s on to ObamaCare, an endeavor that threatens to destroy the greatest health care system in the history of the world.

Determined to reduce costs, President Obama will succeed only by restricting health care, meaning that Baby Boomers are going to get royally screwed, along with the older folks ahead of us. Simply put, ObamaDoesn’tCare.

The Kingfish has called for cuts in Medicare and Medicaid that will total more than $300 billion. Had a Republican president done that, say George W. Bush, the Democrats and the elite traitor media (ETM) would be in a major uproar declaring that Bush wants to kill older Americans and children. But since Obama has raised the issue, it’s just fine with the elites.

In other news of the day:

-- The idiotic Waxman-Markey bill on climate change passed by the House last Friday sows the seeds for a major trade war by calling for a tariff on goods from countries that don’t act to curb global warming (hello, China and India). No more cheap goods for American consumers.

-- Because the bill was not available for inspection by the public or those who would vote on it, we were not privy to the fact that the legislation will destroy the housing market that is trying desperately to recover.

It seems that anyone trying to sell a house will have to certify that it has particular energy-saving features. If not, then you will have to retrofit your windows and heating/cooling units to meet the mandates of a federal inspector. Hello, Soviet Union or Nazi Germany!

-- Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor got smacked down by the Supreme Court on her amazingly stupid and racist decision in the case involving firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut.

Fellow Princetonian Samuel Alito delivered the cruelest blow of all with his opinion, in which he wrote, “The dissent grants that petitioners’ situation is ‘unfortunate’ and that they understandably attract this Court’s sympathy. But ‘sympathy’ is not what petitioners have a right to demand. What they have a right to demand is evenhanded enforcement of the law – of Title VII’s prohibition against discrimination based on race. And that is what, until today’s decision, has been denied them.”

Justice Alito is a great defender of the law.

-- In Honduras, the military deposed a president who was trying to inflict a Hugo Chavez-style dictatorship through a phony referendum. The country’s Supreme Court ruled against the action, and when leftist Manuel Zelaya defied them, the Court and Honduran Congress acted to uphold the rule of law by forcing Zelaya to step down and leave the country.

Of course, the usual Marxist suspects condemn the action as an “army coup” – Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama. Even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, herself a solid left-winger, had to walk back the President’s statement of support for Zelaya.

So Mr. Obama can stand up for a communist and meddle in Honduran politics. This from a man who did not want to “meddle” in Iran, but feels perfectly comfortable trying to dictate a dual-state deception to Israel and standing up with fellow Marxists Castro and Chavez to support a Honduran leftist.

-- In case you are wondering why the left-wingers and ETM are still trying to smear Sarah Palin, it’s as simple as this: Sarah Palin represents a real threat to them: she connects with everyday Americans, and the thought that a conservative Republican might become the first woman President of the United States makes them absolutely crazy. She scares the absolute hell out of them. We can make it happen in 2012. Please visit www.sarahpac.com.

I have to say, the most appealing Republican politicians at the national level are Governor Palin and two Congresswomen: Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.

In reference to the Waxman-Markey bill, Congresswoman Blackburn said, “We are the party of KNOW. We believe the people should KNOW what is in the bill.” That’s a classic line.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American. Call your U.S. senators today (202-224-3121) to let them know you want them to say “no” to cap and trade. And look for a Fourth of July tea party in your area to attend.

June 28, 2009

Terrorist Cell Uncovered in Washington, D.C.

It’s common knowledge that terrorist cells exist globally, including some right here in the United States. All these cells intend to inflict maximum damage on the United States and other parts of the Western world.

Someone should alert the Department of Homeland Security to a growing cell right in Washington, D.C., which apparently has more than 300 members, and potentially as many as 535.

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, it would seem that the United States Congress poses a greater threat to our country than Al Qaeda.

Last Friday, the House of Representatives (the most intense part of the cell) passed the Waxman-Markey bill to impose a totally unnecessary and highly onerous carbon tax on all American businesses and individuals.

In truth, the bill does not even exist in the form that legislation normally takes. Our alleged representatives voted on the measure, even though none of them had actually read what was in it because no copy of the entire bill was available.

Queen Nancy Pelosi was determined to ram it through before members could get wise to what was happening and actually do their jobs. This is not the way a democratic republic is supposed to function. It’s more what you would expect in a fascist state such as Venezuela, Cuba or Iran.

In their infinite lack of wisdom, the House members have passed legislation that will have appreciably no effect on the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, should the U. S. Senate go along with the madness.

But it will absolutely affect the more than three million Americans who likely will lose their jobs as heavy industries and small businesses collapse under the weight of the cap and trade tax scheme.

When the vote came around on Friday, about 40 Democrat representatives came to their senses and voted against the bill, which passed by a 219 to 212 vote.

The margin of victory was provided by eight Republican members, who earned their place in history as the “Cap and Traitors.”

For the record, this infamous group includes Mary Bono Mack of California (Sonny is turning over in his grave), Mike Castle of Delaware (take that, DuPont), Mark Kirk of Illinois, John McHugh of New York, Dave Reichert of Washington and the Three Blind Mice from New Jersey: Leonard Lance, Frank LoBiondo and Chris Smith.

So this folly moves over to the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid faces a bigger challenge in getting the needed majority. Now is the time for The Forgotten Street to rise up and let senators from our home states know that our country does not need this dagger plunged into its heart, especially during a severe recession.

Various media outlets are trumpeting this assault on democracy as a triumph for the Obama Administration. The Associated Press, the official public relations firm for Mr. Obama, produced an “analysis” piece (put the emphasis on “anal”) by H. Josef Herbert., with this lede: “Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead.”

In his promotion of the ridiculous notion that “green energy” jobs will emerge as a result of the bill, Mr. Herbert shows that he is as apt a propagandist as a Josef from the past, Josef Goebbels.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, and don’t buy any curly-Q light bulbs.

June 26, 2009

Cap and Trade: The Ultimate in Corporate Welfare

As the House of Representatives debated the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, the American people bombarded the House switchboard with calls of outrage.

What is surely the biggest proposed tax increase in American history is in actuality the ultimate in corporate welfare. As with so many other Congressional actions, it all revolves around redistribution of wealth, with those of us on The Forgotten Street getting stuck with the bill.

The bill passed the House by a narrow margin, 219-212, ensuring that any prospect of economic recovery has been dashed, provided the U. S. Senate goes along with this madness.

So it’s time to look at who wins and who loses: the losers are easy: you and me, all consumers and any American who works in an industrial or manufacturing environment.

The winners? Corporate thieves and big investors in businesses associated with the global warming hoax, with Al Gore standing to clean up as well through his various energy scams. Also, countries like China and India that will see a flood of American businesses coming their way to escape the draconian aspects of the bill.

The bill was rushed through the Congress without any time for members to read it. But here are some of the more disgusting provisions: the bill will force companies to phase out alleged inefficient products and replace them with more efficient and expensive products made by welfare queens like General Electric.

General Electric, of course, has been a big supporter of the global warming hoax, much like Enron, which concocted the entire cap and trade scam. Read my featured article: Enron, the Godfather of Kyoto.

Interestingly, General Electric is the owner of NBC, and the NBC news operation serves as a propaganda arm of the Obama administration.

All this is in keeping with GE’s sordid corporate history, which includes being an early backer of the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, the Nazis in Germany and now doing business with the mullahs in Iran. Frankly put, there has been no more treasonous or heinous corporation in American history than General Electric.

So the Waxman-Markey bill means just more corporate welfare for GE and for a host of alternative energy firms that could never make it on their own in a free market without massive government subsidies.

Waxman-Markey puts America on the road to massive government intrusion in the lives of everyday Americans, with mandates on how we use energy, what sources will fuel that energy and what products will run on that energy.

Folks, welcome to the Soviet Union. So now is the time to let the U.S. Senate know that we are not going to go along with this treasonous scheme. All this is being done in the name of solving a problem, global warming, that does not exist. It's part of a much bigger effort by the moneyed elites to control all aspects of the economy and redistribute the nation's wealth to concentrate political power in the hands of a chosen few.

The Forgotten Street is in the midst of an investigation that will reveal much more. So stay tuned.

And, make sure you never buy any product made by General Electric. They should not be rewarded for their dishonesty in promoting self-serving schemes that damage our nation’s economic freedom.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American if we can fight and continue to preserve our freedom.

June 25, 2009

The Day That The News Died

Today is the day that real news officially died in America. At 6 p.m., I sat down to watch Special Report with Bret Baier, as I generally do, only to find a Fox News extravaganza on Michael Jackson.

At a time when innocent people are being murdered in Iran, the U.S. Congress is getting ready to pass cap and trade legislation that will destroy the economy and put millions of people out of work, Fox News devoted the entire hour to the demise of a weird pervert.

Yes, I know Michael Jackson was acquitted of child molestation charges, but remember, O.J. beat a murder rap in the same city.

In my outrage, I called Fox News to tell them, that as loyal viewer, I was thoroughly appalled by their decision to devote so much attention to Mr. Jackson’s demise.

Then, to make matters worse, I had to listen to anchor Shepard Smith keep repeating how Michael Jackson was the most famous man on the planet. What, he’s never heard of Barack Hussein Obama? The President would be the first to tell Mr. Smith that he, the Great One, outranks Michael Jackson.

But what would you realistically expect Mr. Smith to say about his fellow nancy boy, Michael Jackson?

What really sent me over the edge were the comparisons of Michael Jackson to Elvis Presley! Comparing Michael Jackson to Elvis Presley is like comparing me to William Shakespeare.

But this is how far American society has fallen. In our obsession with celebrities, we have abandoned all substance and any sense of proportion.

Fellow members of The Forgotten Street, we can remain silent no more. The inmates have taken over the asylum and it’s time for us to take it back. If only we can find some real news outlets that will give us the straight story so we can understand what is really happening to our beloved country.

That’s what I try to do in each column, bring you the truth about what is really happening in our world.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!

June 23, 2009

Nicholas Sarkozy, The New Leader of the Free World

I never thought I would live to see the day when the President of France would become the Leader of the Free World. But God bless Nicholas Sarkozy for standing up immediately against the thug Islamofascists in Tehran and speaking out against the Islamification of Europe.

You know we are in real trouble when the future of Western civilization depends upon the courage of two men: Nicholas Sarkozy and Benjamin Netanyahu.

The President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, has been AWOL in standing up to the regime in Iran until today when he reluctantly admitted he was “appalled and outraged” by the events in Tehran. Better late than never, but in the process he has revealed himself to be a feckless, pathetic pansy unworthy of the office he holds.

At today’s press conference, an event that the elite traitor media generally has turned into a tongue bath for Mr. Obama, he showed some peevishness at a few questions that teetered closer to journalism than the journalistic fellatio that has been in effect since he took office.

Meanwhile, the Kingfish continues to stump for healthcare reform and cap and trade legislation, two Congressional actions that will have one certain effect on America: they will cripple the economy and condemn us to live the rest of our lives in a permanent recession.

If the global warming nuts succeed in passing cap and trade, the industrial base of our nation will be destroyed and the average citizen will be subjected to thousands of dollars in new taxes.

Should Obama prevail in creating a single payer healthcare system, which is clearly his goal, a sector that accounts for 17 percent of our economy will be effectively ruined.

Bottom line, if the Kingfish and the Democrats succeed, the economy we are in right now will be the best we will ever see again.

So get a clue, folks, and start raising hell right now. The inmates are running the asylum and what they are proposing is downright crazy and frankly, un-American.

The Waxman-Markey bill, H.R. 2454, may come up for a vote by the end of the week. This global warming insanity must be stopped in its tracks. For more information, go to the Competitive Enterprise Institute at www.cei.org. Congressmen Henry Waxman of California and Ed Markey of Massachusetts are dedicated Marxists who will not rest until they have done their best to destroy capitalism.

So let your Senators and Congressman know where you stand on this issue. What else can you do? Look for the next Tea Party in your area.

For my friends in the St. Augustine, Florida, area, there will be a Tea Party at the Castillo De San Marco on July 5 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, go to www.UnitedAmericanTeaParty.com.

My Florida readers also should be lining up to support of one of the more exciting younger conservatives, Marco Rubio, in his bid to be our next U. S. Senator. Go to www.marcorubio.com to learn how you can help.

Republicans often moan about their inability to make inroads with Hispanic voters. Supporting Marco Rubio is a step in the right direction. And, there is another rising star in Texas, Ted Cruz, who is running for Attorney General in the Lone Star State. Go to www.TedCruz.org to see how you can help this outstanding young public servant.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!

June 22, 2009

Revolt in Iran: Déjà Vu All Over Again?

The images of thousands of protesters in Iran revolting against an authoritarian government brings a strong sense of déjà vu. Three decades ago, Iranians marched in protest against the iron rule of the Shah. Today they are decrying the tyranny of the mullahs.

Ironically, an American president is following the same path of weakness and stupidity. Jimmy Carter sold the Shah down the river, opening the door to the Ayatollah Khomeini and three decades of terrorism against the West.

Now Barack Obama is kowtowing to the theocracy and hanging the protesters out to dry, at a time when some encouragement from the United States might be the tipping point to getting rid of the Islamofascists.

Those of you who are younger may not remember the turmoil in Iran in the late 1970’s. You will not recall that Iran was a generally prosperous country with a well-defined middle class and a high level of education among the populace.

Today, under the iron fist of Islamic theocrats, Iran is an economic basket case, with rampant unemployment, women subjugated as sub-humans and a young population yearning for freedom.

Barack Obama, a raging egomaniac, thinks that somehow he will find a way to open a productive dialogue with the mullahs and stave off Iran becoming a nuclear power. He is both a fool and a pathetic pansy.

Now is the time for the American president to stand strongly for democracy and freedom, to let the Iranian people that we always have wished them well and wanted their friendship.

But the shame of our undercutting the Shah to let Islamic madmen take over and wreck their country is overpowering.

Thanks to the Internet, we are seeing the true images of a courageous people risking everything to push for freedom. The fact that Barack Obama cannot stand with them and put the moral authority of the United States behind their cause is a disgrace.

Obama talks much of restoring the moral authority of the United States. But he proposes to do it by pandering to Islamofascists by closing the detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay, bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia and now by recognizing the legitimacy of the madmen in Tehran by even referring to the current Ayatollah as “the Supreme Leader.”

So what should we call Mr. Obama? How about the Supreme Jackass?

If only he could show the moral courage and leadership shown by President Sarkozy of France.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, even if the President is an international embarrassment. Baseball fans, check out On the Basepath in the links on the home page for my latest posting.

June 19, 1909

Obama’s Agenda: Built on a Pack of Lies

Now that we are into the fifth month of the new President’s term, we recognize that his political agenda is based on a pack of outrageous lies.

Let’s look at them individually:

Healthcare Reform

Mr. Obama and his stenographers in the elite traitor media keep repeating the ridiculous lie that there are 46 to 50 million Americans without health insurance. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In actuality, there may be about 8 million Americans without access to health insurance. So where does the 50 million figure come from, and why does the media so uncritically repeat it?

First, the elite traitor media are totally in the tank for Mr. Obama. So whatever he says is gospel. What the media doesn’t tell you is that about 12 million uninsured are not even Americans. They are illegal aliens who have no right to any health coverage whatsoever.

More than 38% (17.6 million) of the uninsured population make more than $50,000 a year, but elect not to purchase health insurance.

18.3 million of the uninsured are under the age of 34 and choose not to purchase health insurance so they can spend it on God knows what.

14 million of the so-called uninsured are eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP coverage, but choose not to sign up for it.

Bottom line: any talk of healthcare reform must first deal with the issue of illegal immigration. Healthcare costs for illegals total $5 billion for the state of California alone. Until we deal with the illegal immigration issue first, any talk of healthcare reform amounts to the equivalent of urinating up a rope.

So Mr. Obama’s entire pitch for healthcare reform is predicated on a huge lie.

Global Warming

Next up, global warming and cap and trade regulations. Simply put, global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind.

It is premised on the notion that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, which on its face is ridiculous. Carbon dioxide is one of the building blocks of the universe that all plant life depends upon for survival.

Trying to regulate carbon emissions through the cap and trade mechanism represents the audacity of hoax.

On this outrageous lie, Mr. Obama has based the destruction of the American automobile industry as we used to know it.

War on Terror

When it comes to foreign policy, Obama predicates his posture on the notion that America has been arrogant and imperialistic. He is a fool.

He has unilaterally surrendered in the war on terror by refusing to acknowledge its existence. His decision to close the detainee prison at Guantanamo Bay is beyond stupid.

By kowtowing to the Islamic world with his pandering speech in Egypt and his humiliating bowing and scraping before the thug king of Saudi Arabia, Mr. Obama has shown that his Muslim roots mean more to him personally than his American roots, such as they are.

As protesters in Iran dispute the recent presidential election, Mr. Obama has shown his weakness to the mullahs, even as the Congress, no paragon of courage, has taken action to condemn the result.

Obama says he does not wish to meddle in the Iranian dispute, but he shows no hesitation to meddle in Israeli politics by calling for a halt to the settlements.

This from a man who talks about American arrogance. How arrogant can you get in trying to dictate to the Israelis how to deal with terrorism?

Obama wants a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which amounts to a dual-state deception that spells the death knell for Israel.

What else would you expect from an anti-Semitic Muslim president?

Missile Defense

Obama is running away from any attempt to advance a missile defense system for the United States, even as North Korea aims a ballistic missile toward his native Hawaii. The message sends to the world is this: Barack Hussein Obama is a pathetic pansy.

Each of these policies are based on outrageous lies. Clearly, Mr. Obama is a subscriber to the following quote:

“The broad mass of a nation … will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one.” Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925

When we contemplate the state of American politics today, let us consider the words of Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who said in 1974, “In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”

As we ponder the lies that are the underpinning of the Obama administration, we do well to reflect on the wisdom of William Penn:

“When thou are obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth, for equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell.”

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!

June 9, 2009

David Letterman Can Go To Hell!

The late-night talk show host, who used to be funny about 20 years ago, revealed himself as a total commie in his attack on Sarah Palin, saying she dresses like a “slutty stewardess.”

First, he displays his commie sympathies by attacking the conservative Governor of Alaska, and then he shows his contempt for airline employees by implying that flight attendants are “slutty.”

It’s obvious the late-night jackass has not been on a commercial flight in the past few decades and seen how hard these good Americans work during the course of a flight and how integral they are to passenger safety.

So Letterman can go to Hell for all I care. He’s a worthless son of a bitch.

Speaking of worthless, CBS anchor Katie Couric appeared at a Princeton graduation class ceremony and proceeded to bash Sarah Palin and beauty contestant Carrie Prejean. Then, this unabashed liberal has the gall to wonder why the ratings for the CBS Evening News are at an all-time low? She did proceed to praise liberal icons Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Sonia Sotomayor. Ms. Obama and Ms. Sotomayor are Princeton graduates so she was really playing to the crowd.

Truth be told, Ms. Obama and Ms. Sotomayor spent their Princeton years bitching about their experience there, decrying white males and playing the victim card. But once they had their Princeton diplomas, they were more than happy to parlay them into a privileged adulthood.

Both are prime examples of why I quit giving money to my alma mater. I served on the Executive Committee of the Princeton Alumni Council and got fed up with minority alumni grousing about their experience at Princeton while they were enjoying privileged careers. All I can say is this: I went to Princeton when you actually had to be smart to get admitted. It’s a totally different place now.

In other news of the day:

-- The disgraceful treatment of General Motors and Chrysler dealers is beginning to attract serious attention from members of Congress, who no doubt are hearing from The Forgotten Street. What has happened to these dealers, who have businesses owned for multiple generations and have become pillars in their communities, is frankly criminal.

But we now have a federal government populated and run by “czars,” which is a fancy name for commissars. The United States run by Barack Obama is beginning to look more and more like the Soviet Union or the Italy of Benito Mussolini.

-- The elite traitor media (ETM) are not sharing this story with the public. Instead, you have people like Evan Thomas, editor of Newsweek, comparing Mr. Obama to God and criticizing former President Reagan because he was focused on America, not the world.

What else might we expect from Mr. Thomas, whose grandfather Norman ran for president six times as the nominee of the Socialist Party? Evan Thomas is a damn commie, like a lot of folks in the State Department, as evidenced by the traitor Kendall Myers, just arrested by the FBI for spying for Cuba. Mr. Myers is another privileged American who has turned his back on our heritage and traditions.

-- Some enviro-Nazi knucklehead at the United Nations is talking about a worldwide ban on plastic bags. Which leads me to ask this penetrating question: what are we going to use to pick up the dog poop?

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, as long as we are rooting out the commie spies.

June 5, 2009

Ronald Wilson Reagan: The Past is Our Future

Five years ago today, the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan, went to his well-earned eternal rest with our Heavenly Father.

To put him in the proper perspective, let me say that President Reagan was the greatest American of the 20th century and the second greatest President ever after our Founding Father, George Washington.

He still is revered by millions of Americans and hailed as the Great Liberator for helping to free hundreds of millions of Eastern Europeans from the iron fist of Soviet rule.

More importantly, he set in motion the forces that helped to break up the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union, discredit communism and win the Cold War. He also ushered in eight years of unmeasured prosperity after the calamity of the Carter years, creating more than 21 million new jobs, cutting onerous taxation and stemming the tide of progressive secularism.

We haven’t seen his like since. I happened to be living in Alexandria, Virginia, at the time of his death and had the privilege of being able to pay my respects to him by viewing his casket in the Rotunda of the Capitol, along with tens of thousands of people from The Forgotten Street of all colors and economic strata.

You can read my report on that remarkable experience in my feature article, June 5, 2004 . It was one of the most powerful and memorable experiences in my life, one that I will treasure forever.

Today, Republicans debate the future course of the party, with liberal squishes like Colin Powell and others saying we need to forsake Reaganism and move past him to a more moderate future. WRONG!!!

We ran a moderate Republican in 2008, John McCain, and he got his clock cleaned. The term “moderate Republican” is just a euphemism for: loser.

The truth is really simple: the GOP enjoyed its greatest success with Reaganism and could once again capture the American imagination and generate genuine enthusiasm among the American people with an emphasis on a less intrusive federal government, lower taxes, a strong national defense, an abiding appreciation of patriotism, support for families and traditional values, and a belief in America’s ability to use the entrepreneurial spirit to create a land of true opportunity for all.

For those of us on The Forgotten Street, the past can represent our future: the principles and values embraced and so effectively advocated by Ronald Wilson Reagan give us the roadmap to a true rebirth of freedom and liberty at a time when our country is threatened by the divisive national socialism of Barack Hussein Obama.

So tonight, I once again, say, “Thank you, Mr. President. And may God always richly bless Ronald Wilson Reagan.”

As I write this, I look at the signed lithograph of the famous Reagan portrait by artist Gary Guiffre that hangs above my desk. Each day it gives me inspiration to always try my best to be a good American.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! I also thank God today for the celebration of my 38th anniversary of my wedding to my beloved wife Dottie. She shepherded me through my difficult illness 10 months ago, and made it possible for me to get on the right road to recovery.

June 4, 2009

Obama Sells out Israel, Appeases Muslims

In his much ballyhooed address to the Muslim world, President Barack Hussein Obama did not disappoint his legions of followers: he disrespected the United States, bashed Israel and pandered to the Muslim world.

Oh, where do I begin? Is this the same man who traveled to Europe and then took his country to task for being arrogant? A man who does not believe one country should dictate to another? Then what do you call a man who is trying to force the Israelis to halt any settlements and accept the ludicrous two-state solution that I have accurately dubbed the dual-state deception?

Brother Obama, you have just written the new book on arrogant.

But why should we be surprised? This is the man who declared in Turkey that the United States is not a Christian nation. Now in Cairo, he brags about how the U.S. is one of the largest Muslim nations. Wrong!

If we use his criteria, going by the number of particular practitioners of any given religion, the United States is an overwhelmingly Christian nation and more a Jewish nation than a Muslim nation.

Then, he has the unmitigated gall to take our nation to task for abandoning our ideals in the wake of September 11, 2001? Hey, jackass, get a clue. We found our ideals after 9/11, after years of appeasement, we told the world we are not going to put up with the tyranny of evil and we are going to stand up for freedom, liberty and democracy.

So what motivates The Great Appeaser? I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it is as simple as this: he is a Muslim, he is anti-Semitic and he hates Jews. And, he will do whatever is necessary to sell Israel down the river to appease militant and radical Muslims, including the thugs who represent the Palestinians. If you are an American Jew and you voted for Obama, you are a traitor to your race and your religion.

Sorry to be such a downer, but I call them as I see them. It’s part of having some integrity in a world slowly going mad.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it's a great day to be an American!

June 1, 2009

Where is the Outrage?

In the last few days, we’ve seen the senseless shootings of abortionist George Tiller in Kansas and American soldiers in Arkansas. The President of the United States saw fit to get weepy over the murder of George Tiller, but had not one word to say about the soldier in Arkansas.

Yes, Barack Hussein Obama could not bring himself to condemn the murder of a soldier under his command as commander-in-chief. But of course, the American serviceman was killed by a black Muslim, a representative of the religion of peace.

Hey people, get a clue. Islam is a coercive religion that views non-believers as people ripe for killing.

Yet, Janet Napolitano’s Homeland Security Department will target anti-abortion protesters as potential terrorists, but not Black Muslims. What in the name of God has happened to our country when American servicemen can be killed in America?

The killing of George Tiller was plain wrong. All cold-blooded murder is a sin against God, as was Tiller’s work, but it did not justify his murder.

But for the President of the United States to comment on his murder but not that of an American serviceman by a domestic terrorist is an abomination.

George Tiller will rot in hell for his filthy and disgusting sins. For the President to mourn his loss while not commenting on the death of an American hero, someone who volunteered his life to serve others, is beyond disgrace.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, even when the President is an embarrassment.

May 31, 2009

Obama’s Biggest Deficit

As the President who proposes to rack up a mega-trillion dollar deficit, bigger than all the former presidents combined, Barack Hussein Obama is displaying an even more significant deficit: a total lack of empathy for the plight of the average American and our children’s grandchildren, who are getting stuck with the tab.

For a guy who cites empathy as the main criteria for a Supreme Court justice, President T. J. Weil (The Jackass Whose Ego Is Limitless) is totally clueless about the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs since he took office in January 2009.

His “date night” jaunt to New York City this weekend cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, a real slap in the face for people whose idea of a “date night” is hopefully being able to watch a movie on television in their living rooms, provided they still have a place to live.

When it comes to empathy, our Kenyan Muslim president has loads for the terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay. In one of his first acts in office, he signed orders to have the prison closed and to find new locations at which these creeps will be held. He has decried enhanced interrogation techniques as “torture,” thus showing he has ample empathy for his Muslim brethren, but not the thousands of automobile dealers and their employees, families and suppliers who will suffer because of the national socialist takeover of General Motors and Chrysler.

Part of his problem is that Mr. Obama has led a very privileged life and never had to face any of the day-to-day challenges that many Americans routinely have to overcome. His Marxist parents engrained in him a strong dislike for capitalism and America, and as near as I can tell, he never worked a hard day of labor in his life before being pampered in Ivy League schools.

His life experience is so far removed from reality, yet he traded heavily on his racial background to con black Americans and others into voting for him on the basis of his empathy for the disadvantaged. He simply failed to tell them that the disadvantaged he had foremost in mind were radical Muslims.

He promises to “remake” America, which belies his great distaste and disdain for our way of life and the freedoms for which so many Americans in our past perished, including those who died to end the evil of slavery.

Remember in the election campaign how he told a wine and cheese crowd in San Francisco about those Americans in middle America who are bitter and cling to God and their guns? That shows you how little empathy he really has. By his own criteria, he would seem unfit to be on the Supreme Court.

He certainly is unfit to be our President.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!

May 30, 2009

In Praise of Joe Biden, and to Hell With Obama’s Date Night

What? No, I still have all my marbles. I just thought I’d say a few good words in support of our Vice President, who clearly is not treated with the appropriate respect by President Obama and the Chicago thugs around him.

Joe Biden is a committed liberal and I am a Reagan conservative. So there are few things we actually agree on. But it is disgraceful that he has not been in the loop on such decisions as the lunatic choice to close the detainee prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Even old Joe knows what a colossally dumb idea that is, saying it will open Pandora’s Box. When Senator Biden was a presidential candidate, he opined that the presidency was not suited for on-the-job training. How right he was!

On a more personal note, I deeply admire how Vice President Biden recovered from two brain aneurysms earlier in his life to go on and enjoy such a highly productive career. As an aneurysm survivor myself, I recognize the mountain he had to climb to get to where he is today.

Passing thoughts on other news of the day:

-- Florida Governor Charlie Crist took one on the chin this week in his bid to succeed Mel Martinez in the U. S. Senate. Former Governor Jeb Bush has come out in support of Florida Speaker of the House Marco Rubio, a highly appealing young conservative who would make a fabulous addition to the Senate.

The Forgotten Street has already endorsed Mr. Rubio and has been in touch with political activists across the country to provide support to him. I urge all of you to visit his Web site at www.marcorubio.com and see how you might lend him a hand in his bid for the Senate.

As for Crist, it would be easy to write him off as a RINO (Republican in Name Only). He is actually worse – I think he is a real DORC (Democrat Outraging Republican Conservatives). He has been a lousy governor and would only add to the Democrat majority in the Senate, even while taking a seat as a Republican. All you need to know about him is that he is a global warming kook. Enough said.

-- As General Motors becomes Government Motors, I hope that The Forgotten Street will wake up to the fact that one of our largest manufacturing companies is now completely run by government bureaucrats, right down to daily decisions on what cars will be made and how they will be marketed.

In addition, the closure of dealerships across the country by GM and Chrysler will have a devastating effect on local economies, right down to lost advertising revenues by local media, lost jobs by salesmen, mechanics and clerks, cancelled sponsorships for local charities and kids’ organizations, no more business for office supply stores and on and on.

-- Meanwhile, it occurs to me that the national socialist government of Mr. Obama is going to turn us into Cuba, with lousy health care run by the government and all of us driving 20 and 30-year old cars because we won’t buy the Obamamobile deathtraps that will be made in China for GM and then be sold here. None but idiots will buy that garbage. That’s why I say the road to riches in the future isn’t in gold. It’s in auto parts to keep our current cars running.

-- As our country hurtles down the road to a debt-laden, inflationary hell, President T.J. Weil (The Jackass Whose Ego Is Limitless) jets off to New York City for the weekend with the missus to take in a Broadway play while the rest of us are debating whether or not we can afford to go to the local movies.

For a man who says our country is “out of money,” he has no conscience or compunction about wasting taxpayers’ money on a frivolous “date night” in New York City. What a slap in the face to American families struggling to pay mortgages or keep their jobs! The Kingfish clearly does not give a damn about the American people.

Enjoy your “date night,” you jackass. You should be ashamed of yourself. Grow up and show some respect for the fools who elected you.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, even when we have an incompetent President.

May 29, 2009

Oprah For the Supreme Court?

Thanks to President Obama, we now have a new standard for selecting Supreme Court justices – the nominee must have empathy and must satisfy gender/racial identity criteria. No need to get fussy about academic credentials or judicial experience.

So maybe the next appointment should go to Oprah Winfrey. That gal has empathy out the wazoo.

The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor was eminently predictable, another example of Democrats playing the race card to box Republicans into an impossible position. It’s highly likely that Judge Sotomayor will sail through the Senate to an easy confirmation.

It’s quite all right for Democrats to demagogue Miguel Estrada and subject Clarence Thomas to a hi-tech lynching and not suffer any consequences. As the self-proclaimed party of the perpetually aggrieved, Democrats pay no price for their outright racism.

In its rush to embrace and endorse Ms. Sotomayor, extol her “compelling story,” and proclaim her greatness, the elite traitor media made her personal story the entire focus of the coverage. These same Democrat stenographers never found anything compelling about the extraordinary personal stories of Miguel Estrada or Clarence Thomas.

Had they taken time to read Justice Thomas’ incredibly moving and well-written autobiography, My Grandfather’s Son, they would realize that compared to the abject poverty and racism that Clarence Thomas endured, Ms. Sotomayor’s story reads like that of a princess fairy tale.

My Grandfather’s Son is one of the greatest books I have ever read. Anyone who can read it and not be moved to tears has no heart or soul. Justice Clarence Thomas is one of our greatest Americans and should be extolled for the shining example he sets.

The elites made much of Ms. Sotomayor being the first Hispanic justice, thus ignoring the fact that 77 years ago President Herbert Hoover, a Republican, nominated Benjamin Cardozo, of Portuguese Jewish descent, to the Court. He went on to become one of the more celebrated justices ever. Oh, how fleeting fame can be, or how ignorant today’s alleged journalists are as they serve as propagandists for the national socialist government.

I saw some really lame excuses in a few elite media for ignoring Justice Cardozo, including they can’t regard those of Portuguese descent as truly Hispanic. Is there no limit to how low these creeps will stoop?

As for Judge Sotomayor’s comments regarding the judicial sagacity of Latina women (a redundancy on her part that borders on illiteracy) compared to the Neanderthal thinking of white men, they indicated a certain narrow-mindedness that borders on bigotry. Such remarks would disqualify her from every serving on a jury, let alone being a Supreme Court justice.

Her disdain for the potential wisdom of white males displays the liberal elitist dogma that makes white men one of the few remaining groups that are acceptable to hate and disparage, a group to which I claim proud membership. Bonus! I am a Roman Catholic as well, which makes me a two-fer. Just one more reason for liberals to hate me.

So now Mr. Obama can preen before the cameras, congratulating himself on his brilliance in selecting Ms. Sotomayor. Given his new criteria for selecting Supreme Court justices and federal judges, certainly Oprah is the most obvious pick for the next vacancy. But, seriously, it would be a step down for her. So I guess we might expect him to pick a blind, paraplegic lesbian dwarf.

In other news of the week:

-- Ever the narcissist, the Kingfish has proclaimed that the first four months of his administration are the finest since those of Franklin Roosevelt. Knowing how much I enjoy giving the President nicknames, I now have a new one: T. J. Weil. The Jackass Whose Ego Is Limitless.

-- When Mr. Obama, or T. J. Weil took office in January, General Motors stock was trading at $3.70 per share. Today it closed at $0.75. In his four months, T. J. has succeeded in destroying our largest manufacturing industry, unconditionally surrendering in the war on terror, trying to sell out Israel for the sake of his Muslim brethren, racking up more debt than all the 43 previous Presidents combined, belittling America as arrogant in foreign travels and disparaging his predecessor, who was extremely gracious to him during the transition.

-- In his first four months, Mr. Obama has earned and perhaps permanently retired the title of Worst President Ever.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, despite Obama’s single-minded quest to destroy a great nation.

May 23, 2009

The Dual-State Deception: A Death Knell For Israel

As Barack Hussein Obama, his internationalist cohorts and his Muslim brethren try to force the so-called “two-state solution” on Israel as a path to Middle East peace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees the prospective deal for what it really is: the Dual-State Deception that is so one-sided in favor of the Palestinians that it represents a death knell for Israel.

What the Kingfish (that amiable blowhard Citizen of the World) fails to acknowledge is that the Palestinians declined an opportunity to accept their own state back in 1948 when Israel was formed. What motivated them then is what motivates them now: hatred for all Jews and all things Jewish.

A new book on Israel’s founding, A Safe Haven by Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh, details the courageous role President Harry Truman played in recognizing the new Zionist state, despite the opposition of his own State Department and Defense Department.

As we would soon learn, thanks to Senator Joe McCarthy, the State Department was infested with Communists and Communist sympathizers who were highly anti-Semitic.

Well, the more things change, the more they stay the same. The same crowd at Foggy Bottom has been pushing the Dual-State Deception since the days of Jimmy Carter, along with their dupes in the elite media and left-wing intelligentsia.

It remains abundantly clear that the Palestinians, particularly the Hamas branch, have no intention of ever recognizing the right of an Israeli state to exist, despite whatever goodies the United States and other Western nations might bestow upon them.

Now we are being treated to the ugly spectacle of the Obama Administration linking any effort to inhibit Iran from becoming a nuclear power to Israel’s capitulation to the Dual-State Deception.

For a President who huffs and puffs about trying to run foreign policy from a “moral high ground,” Mr. Obama has clearly demonstrated that when it comes to Israel all pretense at morality goes out the window.

Creation of a Palestinian state that could be easily dominated by Islamofascists would give radical Islam a launching pad for terrorism against Israel under the protection of misguided Western nations.

Rather than risk the unending hail of rockets raining down into their territory, Jews in Israel once again would flee looking for a safe haven to live their lives in peace. A modern democracy with a thriving capitalist society, Israel would soon find that development would dry up, entrepreneurs would leave and a once-great nation would be a shell of its former self.

Because the current occupant of the Oval Office bears absolutely no resemblance to Harry Truman, a truly great President and patriotic American, Mr. Netanyahu now faces the unenviable but inevitable choice of going it alone in staring down Iran’s nuclear ambitions and derailing the Dual-State Deception.

Mr. Truman backed Israel’s creation because he knew the world owed the Jewish people a heavy debt after the horrors of World War II and that their claim to the land in Palestine was grounded in the fact that “God gave it to them.”

Truman essentially believed that, given the opportunity, the Jewish people could build a modern, democratic nation that would be a key ally of the United States. He was right, and the dual-state deceivers that infested our government and both major political parties then and today could not be more wrong.

The Palestinians had their shot back in 1948 and decided they could not abide living next to Jews. I highly doubt that anything has changed appreciably on their side in the past 61 years. The worldview of the fellow travelers in the State Department hasn’t changed either.

The Forgotten Street fervently prays that Prime Minister Netanyahu will stand strong and realize there are many millions of Americans cheering him on.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!

May 22, 2009

The U. S. Constitution Is Not a Cheap Prop

In focusing on the much-heralded dueling speeches by former Vice President Dick Cheney and President Barack Hussein Obama on enhanced terrorist interrogation, most of the media overlooked a very startling difference:

Our Kenyan Muslim president used the actual Constitution of the United States as a cheap political prop by giving his speech at the National Archives. His doing so was a despicable, disgusting act by an American President.

You would be hard pressed to find any American President who has demonstrated more contempt for the Constitution so early in his tenure as Mr. Obama.

By using the National Archives as a stage and our most sacred public documents as tacky props for a highly partisan attack on his predecessor, the Kingfish showed he is not such an amiable blowhard after all. Instead, he is a narcissistic egomaniac along the lines of a Hugo Chavez.

The Kingfish has shown complete contempt for property rights granted to the American people under the Constitution by his national socialist appropriation of the financial services and automobile industries, thus depriving many Americans of due process while demolishing their personal wealth built up through pension investments in these business institutions.

He also has signaled that his first Supreme Court appointment, who will replace retiring Justice David Souter, must be someone who shows empathy and perhaps views the Constitution as a “living document,” a not-so-clever liberal phrase for bending the law beyond the Founding Fathers original intent to suit your crass political needs.

It’s ironic that the Obama and Cheney speeches came at a time when a homegrown terrorist plot was uncovered in New York City. Mr. Obama and the Democrat Congress had better hope that our homeland security efforts continue to dig up such heinous and treasonous acts.

Meanwhile, Queen Nancy 1 got a little breather from the scandal brewing around her knowledge of the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA. If, in fact, she can prove that the CIA misled the Congress, then she is required by law to furnish the proof of such an action, because lying to Congress is a felony.

As a constitutional officer of the United States of America, Ms. Pelosi is guilty of covering up a crime if she does have any proof and she declines to provide it. So maybe her impeachment would be in order.

A cruise around the news of the day:

-- The elite traitor media ballyhooed the alleged discovery of a millions-of-years-old monkey fossil that supports the totally ridiculous theory of evolution. Let me say it here first: this fossil will be proven to be a hoax. Evolution flies in the face of common sense and rationality and those who promote it so vigorously do so only because they hate religion.

-- Economic news continues to get more grim. More than 6.7 million Americans now are on unemployment insurance. Home and apartment construction is at its lower rate in the past 50 years. Rumor has it that economic elites have decided to move the world off the dollar as the global currency.

-- Even as the elite media continue to slobber over the Obamas, with TIME devoting its 17th cover in the past year to them, the Kingfish shows his growing contempt for his acolytes by banning them from coverage of live events and instead furnishing videos produced by his propaganda apparatchiks.

-- Try as they may, the media elitists cannot explain the tax revolt in California or the tea party phenomenon because they don’t want to face the facts that millions of Americans want their country back before it turns into a rotten facsimile of Venezuela.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, and may God always richly bless our veterans, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice, as well as those courageous men and women who volunteer to defend our freedom today.

May 15, 2009

Queen Nancy I: It’s Time For You To Go

To anyone with a modicum of intelligence, or even barely breathing, it’s painfully obvious that the Speaker of the House, Queen Nancy I, is damn liar.

It’s time for the few responsible Democrats who are left to do the right thing for America: force Ms. Pelosi out of the Speaker’s chair and let Steny Hoyer assume the reins.

It’s bad enough that the Obama Administration has unilaterally surrendered in the global war on terror. Now Queen Nancy I wants to further gut our ability to defend ourselves by going after the CIA and accusing it of misleading Congress.

In modern political history, there have been few politicians as overtly partisan and divisive as Queen Nancy I. Or as inarticulate and stupid. The fact that this woman is third in line for the Presidency of the United States is a disgrace. President Barack Hussein Obama must comprehend that his ambitious agenda to nationally socialize America may well go up in flames because of the Speaker’s ineptitude.

Not that he is helping himself very much. Can you believe he has termed his deficit spending as “unsustainable?” Gee, do you think? At a town hall meeting in New Mexico, he said that the government is “mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

And who is responsible for that? He can’t blame that on George Bush. But I’m sure he will give it a good try. That seems to be the bedrock of his Administration: blame anything bad on your predecessor and don’t assume any responsibility for the consequences of your own actions.

My three-year old grandson can tell you that there are consequences for your actions. He hasn’t been dumbed down yet by government and Ivy League schools.

The Kingfish, a.k.a. President Obama, has talked about how he plans to remake America. That tacitly means he does not like the United States of America as it currently exists, particularly that messy capitalism.

He also has shown his disdain for traditional American values, our Judeo-Christian heritage and our reverence for individual freedom.

The speed and fury with which he has demolished our largest industry, the automobile business, is stunning. He also has wreaked havoc on financial services and now has energy and healthcare in his sights.

Propelled by mindless populism, the Kingfish clearly won’t rest until America more closely resembles the Venezuela of his hero, Hugo Chavez. The Kingfish especially likes the thought of crippling his opposition, both in politics and the media.

In other news of the day:

-- The latest Gallup poll shows that Americans are now more pro-life than pro-choice on the issue of abortion, by a 51 to 42 margin. So all those Republicans seeking to be Democrat Lite at the expense of their conservative base should pause and smell the coffee.

-- God bless Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann for trying to block federal funding of the many criminal activities of ACORN, (American Communists Organized to Ruin our Nation). Of course, the Banking Queen, Barney Frank, stymied her attempt, but she will continue to press the issue.

To learn more about the leadership displayed by this outstanding public servant, visit her Web site, www.bachmann.house.gov.

-- When Florida Governor Charlie Crist announced his intention this week to seek the U. S. Senate seat of retiring Senator Mel Martinez, he was immediately endorsed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee. The endorsement came despite the fact that Marco Rubio, Speaker of the Florida House, had also announced his intentions to run.

Clearly, the GOP bigwigs in Washington don’t trust Florida Republicans to make an informed choice in a primary election. I sent them an email expressing my dismay at their endorsement of Crist, and never received any reply. And these knuckleheads wonder why the GOP is in trouble?

So let me help them see the light: The Forgotten Street believes that Marco Rubio represents a much better nominee for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator in 2010. I urge my fellow Floridians to visit his Web site at www.marcorubio.com and let him know you stand with him in his bid for office. He is a true Reagan conservative, not a Democrat wannabe like Crist. When Crist claims to be a Reagan conservative, I think, “My God, he’s a bigger liar than Nancy Pelosi!”

-- It’s bad enough that Mr. Obama has that noted Chicago gangster Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff. He also employs Rahm’s brother, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, as a medical policy adviser. Kevin Williamson examines this troubling development today in an article, Paging Dr. Mises!, in National Review Online, www.nationalreview.com. Like other socialized medicine proponents, Dr. Emanuel regards patients, particularly those who are ill, as liabilities to the state. The healthcare reform schemes currently under consideration are downright dangerous to your health.

-- As we watch the government-directed bankruptcies of Chrysler and General Motors unfold, we are witnessing a vicious assault on The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA. By forcing the car companies to trim their dealer networks and close thousands of car dealerships across America, the government is throwing many thousands of Americans needlessly out of work in smaller towns and cities across America.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to let the marketplace decide which cars are purchased and which dealers sell them? Those that continue to sell cars can survive. But bureaucrats assume they know what’s best. And in the process, they’ll throw hundreds of thousands of Americans under the bus in order to save unsustainable union jobs and keep those union dues and subsequent campaign contributions flowing.

What Washington has done to Detroit and America’s manufacturing base through unfunded government mandates and union protectionism is unconscionable, colossally stupid and frankly, un-American.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American because we can stand up, speak out and fight the creeping fascism enveloping our society.

May 14, 2009

Happy Birthday, Israel, May You Have Thousands More!

Today marks the 61st anniversary of the founding of Israel, one of the few times in modern history that Western nations got together and did the right thing.

I am especially proud to share my birthday with this great democratic nation, which faces the gravest threat to its existence since its founding: an American president and Congress who are indifferent to how close the Islamofascist state of Iran is to producing nuclear weapons.

Like foolish Chief Executives before him, Barack Hussein Obama is enamored with the so-called “two-state solution,” a hideous proposal that would force Israel into accepting and recognizing a neighboring Palestinian state without any meaningful assurance that the Palestinians will reciprocate or that Iran will be thwarted in its nuclear quest.

What is truly repulsive is the attempt of the Obama Administration to link American action to halt Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons to Israel’s acquiescence to the two-state solution.

I fervently pray that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will tell Mr. Obama to stick his “two-state solution” in his extremely large ear.

Using in-house Jewish Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as the vehicle to push the dual-state deception, Mr. Obama misses the key point in all this clumsy diplomacy: America should lead the world in stopping Iran from achieving its nuclear dreams, not because it will advance a bad deal for Israel, but because it is the right and moral thing to do.

By linking one to the other, the Obama administration has not proven to be the proverbial “honest broker” that America pretends to be from time to time, but instead a stalking horse for Palestinian ambition.

Mr. Netanyahu is entirely too brilliant to fall for this sham proposal. He realizes that the Western World is all too eager to sell Israel down the river because it has bought into the fully bogus theory that the creation of a Palestinian state will diminish Arab antipathy toward Israel.

Creation of a Palestinian state will only serve to establish a permanent launching pad for Islamic terrorism against Israelis and the ultimate destruction of the Israeli state as Israeli citizens flee to safe havens in other countries and economic development grinds to a halt.

So it’s time for President Obama to get real and face the fact that he bears a primary responsibility to stare down the Iranian threat to Israel and that his failure to do so will forever damage whatever moral authority the United States carries in the world.

He also should recognize that his crude attempt to link the “dual-state deception” to his taking appropriate action is immoral, dangerous, duplicitous and unworthy of a nation that has distinguished itself for the past six decades as a staunch ally of Israel.

He seems all too prepared to throw all that away – for what, to appease his Muslim brethren or win a Nobel Peace Prize for a phony peace deal that will blow up in his face?

In recent weeks, Obama has revealed himself as a cruel, narcissistic egomaniac with a very sick sense of humor. He may laugh at jokes about Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys failing, make fun of retarded children and offer wisecracks about the Air Force One flyover of New York City. He simply is not funny, and not a very nice person to boot.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! And, may God always bless Israel and hold it safe in His keeping!

May 1, 2009

Obamacare Will Destroy America

Through the budget reconciliation process, President Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Congress are well on their way to destroying the economy and fabric of America.

In his budget proposal, The One-Term Wonder (TOTW) has buried healthcare reform legislation that will transform and, frankly, destroy the largest single segment of the American economy and eviscerate the very fabric of American society.

In his quest to provide healthcare coverage for all Americans and tens of millions of illegal aliens, Mr. Obama will essentially destroy the private health insurance market that has created the greatest healthcare system in the world.

By doing so, TOTW has declared war on baby boomers and elder Americans in general in order to buy future votes from illegals he will seek to turn into voters.

As a former executive in the healthcare industry, and one who takes great pride in playing a key role in defeating Hillary Clinton’s misguided attempt at healthcare reform, I shudder at what I see now.

We have no details on what the President is proposing because the reconciliation process will shield it from any public debate. Folks, that is frankly un-American. You don’t enact legislation that will transform 18% of the national economy without having a thorough and informed public debate.

TOTW and the eggheads he has surrounded himself with are fixated on controlling health costs because they think America spends too much on healthcare. The fact of the matter is we spend so much because we can, unlike other nations that are bogged down by socialism and corruption.

What TOTW is moving our country toward is a system that will have government controls that will tell your doctor what is “cost-effective.” Given the positively obscene and virtually pornographic deficit spending that Mr. Obama is committed to, I ask, “When in hell have Democrats ever cared about cost effectiveness?”

In the past year, I have undergone a very traumatic illness in which swift medical care and compassionate doctors and nurses saved me from imminent death. The enormous cost of my care was borne by private health insurance provided by my wife’s company as part of her retirement. So all the years at which she worked at a less than worthy salary, she accrued healthcare benefits for us that were worth their weight in gold.

Under the Obamacare scheme, some heartless bureaucrat in Washington D.C. would tell my surgeon in Gainesville, Florida, that I was not eligible for my life-saving surgery because of my age and life expectancy. You might expect such callous treatment in the Soviet Union, Cuba or China, but not the United States of America.

TOTW wants to create a government-based insurance program that will undercut private insurance and essentially create a single-payer system that will put the private insurance companies out of business.

His friend Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky from Illinois all but said so in commenting on the Obamacare plan. She is a truly vile human being who obviously would be more at home in Moscow than Chicago.

Have any of the geniuses in Washington calculated how the tens of thousands, perhaps of hundreds of thousands, of private healthcare company employees might impact the unemployment rolls?

We have people like David Blumenthal, a Harvard Medical School professor, now as national coordinator of health information technology. This is a man who admits “government controls on healthcare spending are associated with longer waits for elective procedures and reduced availability of new and expensive treatments and devices.” He is someone who clearly thinks that the medical innovation that separates the United States from the rest of the world is driving healthcare costs.

Are these the same idiots who want to waste government money on stem cell research? So what will these cruel elites tell the baby boomers who have been promised healthcare through Medicare and the prescription drug program?

Apparently, the word of the United States government counts for nothing.

Nancy-Ann De Parle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform said, “We have to get to a system of keeping people well, rather than treating the sickness.”

I have news for Ms. De Parle, whose stupidity is absolutely breathtaking: Treating sickness is the very essence of medicine. That is what it is all about.

The Forgotten Street needs to rise up now, contact its doctors and have them fight any attempt by Washington to completely obliterate the doctor-patient relationship. I want my doctor to tell me what care I need, not some Communist in the Obama Administration.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!

April 26, 2009

Obama to World Thugs: Go Ahead, Kick Sand in My Face!

During the first 100 days of the Obama Administration, the new President has presented a different image for America to the world: the proverbial 98-pound weakling at the beach who gets sand kicked in his face by bullies.

In his most recent foreign jaunt to a Latin American summit, the One-Term Wonder (TOTW) subjected the United States to further humiliation by sitting quietly through a 53-minute anti-American tirade by Nicaraguan Commie thug Daniel Ortega. Even worse, he registered no protest against the scurrilous attack on our nation.

To make matters worse, he played soul brother with his new home boy, Commie dictator Hugo Chavez, who presented him with a book filled with anti-American lies and hatred. Had it been me, I would have told Chavez to stick the book in a certain body cavity, and I don’t mean his fat mouth.

It’s probably not worth getting exercised over TOTW’s style and lack of substance. What really galls me is his boneheaded release of the CIA interrogation memos, which will seriously weaken national security at a time of great peril.

I can see the bumper sticker now: Obama Appeased, Americans Deceased.

To satisfy his left-wing supporters at MoveOn.Org (move on to pure communism), ACORN (American Communists Organized to Ruin our Nation) and the ACLU (American Communist Litigation Union), he also is talking about releasing photographs from the CIA interrogations, which will further inflame the Islamofascists who want to kill us.

Even more disturbing is the suggestion that lawyers from the Bush Administration, who rendered legal opinion in support of the CIA interrogations in a good faith effort to protect our nation from terrorists, may be subjected to prosecution.

Former CIA Directors George Tenet and Porter Goss, as well as Mr. Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, all have said that the interrogations provided valuable intelligence against Al Qaeda and prevented further attacks in America, including a major strike on Los Angeles.

So honest government employees are at risk of being prosecuted for doing their jobs well. No wonder folks are leaving the CIA in droves. They know the President does not stand behind them. The result: a nation more vulnerable than ever to terrorism.

At the very least, the Marxists in Congress are gearing up to create a Truth Commission to investigate the CIA and the interrogation methods. Truth Commission? Where do these knuckleheads get the names for their lame policies? I believe they are taking their cues right from George Orwell’s novel, 1984.

I am by no means alone in my complete disgust with these shenanigans, which only ramp up the odds that our nation will be hit with a major terrorist attack sometime in the next few months. Among those raising their voices is the 911 Families For America, an organization founded by Debra Burlingame, whose brother, an American Airlines pilot, died in the crash of AA 77 into the Pentagon. I urge you to go to the site www.911FamiliesForAmerica.org and check out what they have to say.

Are you following the latest swine flu story? It seems the epidemic originated in Mexico and easily crossed our border. You know, the border where we were supposed to build a fence? Hey Congress, thanks for nothing.

Do you think there is a possibility of bioterrorism behind this situation? If so, the terrorists correctly assumed they could easily infect Americans and get it over the border.

Most likely, TOTW will issue an apology of some sort to Mexico and make it America’s fault.

In other nutty news of the week:

-- For you black Americans who regularly vote for the Democrats, are you as outraged as I am that former Vice President Al Gore has the outrageous gall and stupidity to compare the fight to combat global warming to your fight to get the civil rights you deserved for so long?

His greed to profit from a carbon tax scheme as part of the biggest hoax in human history is more important to him than millions of Americans being able to vote, attend school and get jobs. Al Gore is nothing but a racist moron like his disgraced father, who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

-- For those of you who are following the ongoing controversy over Mr. Obama’s invitation to give the commencement address at Notre Dame next month, I urge you to visit the Web site created by Note Dame students, who are getting the brush-off from university president Father John Jenkins. Go to www.ndresponse.com.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! And my best wishes to the readers from more than 35 countries who’ve visited The Forgotten Street so far this month. I’ll provide the entire list in a few days.

April 24, 2009

Obama Exposes Global Warming Hoax

President Barack Hussein Obama, a.k.a that amiable blowhard, The Kingfish, has inadvertently exposed global warming as a total hoax.

By traveling to Iowa for an Earth Day photo op, he showed that the problem really does not exist and that he has no personal concern about greenhouse gases causing global warming.

His flights on Air Force One and the Marine One helicopter are estimated to have used more than 9,000 gallons of fuel for the day. So, he obviously knows global warming is a hoax or he wouldn’t want to contribute to the problem.

If, in fact, The Kingfish does believe in global warming, then he is a completely cynical hypocrite who doesn’t think he needs to consider his carbon footprint while a fascist government tells us what kind of car to drive and what kind of light bulb to use while wanting to spurn the use of any domestic energy sources that would make energy incredibly affordable and available to all Americans, even the poorest among us.

To cap off a week of Earth Day follies in Washington D.C., hoax perpetrator (perhaps “traitor” is the truly operative word) Al Gore appeared before a congressional committee to share his lunatic views on global warming while the committee refused to hear any contrary opinions. That is the Democrat Congress’ idea of getting to the bottom of things.

Why try to learn the truth about the matter when you can hold Soviet-style show hearings to pump out government propaganda?

Such is the state of science that is driving government policy. But it is not pure Marxist ideology that is motivating Congress. There also is the lure of easy money. A cap and trade scheme run by the government would produce significant revenues for the bureaucrats to turn around and award to their benefactors and cronies under the guise of promoting “green energy.”

So hucksters like Boone Pickens can benefit from foolhardy wind energy projects and conglomerates like General Electric can sponge off government funds and get mandates to help them sell their products, like the light bulbs that will bring a highly toxic poison, mercury, into every American home and business.

As Marxist environmentalists and their useless idiot friends climb aboard the government gravy train, they will try their best to cover up the real environmental dangers posed to government lands in the American West by their bogus schemes for large-scale solar and wind energy installations that will endanger wildlife and use scarce water resources.

What we do know is that huge government subsidies are needed to promote solar and wind energy, which already have proven incapable of being economically viable or able to create meaningful jobs for Americans.

Many American farms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries tried to use windmills to generate power only to find they were unreliable, given the vagaries of the weather. That’s one reason why the Rural Electrification Act came into being.

So, thanks Mr. President, for unwittingly demonstrating what total garbage the global warming hoax is. And if that wasn’t your intent, then thanks for showing the country what a hopeless cynic you really are.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!

April 18, 2009

Economic Recovery in 2009? Not a Chance!

In his recent economic speech at Georgetown University, President Barack Hussein Obama, the One-Term Wonder (TOTW), talked about “glimmers of hope” for economic recovery in 2009.

Instead of monstrous government spending giving birth to recovery, we find the Administration doing all it can to smother the baby in the crib. What else would you expect from people who favor infanticide through their extreme positions on abortion?

I hate to be the skunk at the garden party, but economic recovery isn’t going to happen in 2009 or even 2010. First, there is no evidence that government spending is actually stimulating much of anything.

Second, the Congress and Obama Administration are hell-bent on letting the Bush tax cuts expire. So, those of us who carry the tax burden in America, you know, the productive Americans not the moochers, are facing an enormous tax increase.

Worst of all, the Democrats don’t seem satisfied with having destroyed most of the industrial base of the United States through excessive and onerous regulation and protection of unsustainable union contracts. On top of that, they want to promote more costly unionization through un-American legislation that will eliminate the right to the secret ballot for workers.

In addition, thanks to an irresponsible and ridiculous Supreme Court decision that gave the Environmental Protection Agency the green light to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, the EPA is now talking about climate change regulations that will destroy what is left of industrial America and will impose burdensome costs on American businesses and homeowners.

What the EPA hasn’t admitted is that such regulation may impede all construction of public and private buildings, including schools and hospitals, through a costly and extensive permit review process. As a result, unemployed Americans will be denied needed jobs.

By declaring global warming a man-made phenomenon that endangers public health, the EPA will be able to regulate carbon emissions without the need for Congressional action that would involve public debate about the issue. Obviously, the enviro-Nazis aren’t too high on democracy.

Thus, the EPA could institute a cap and trade program that will cripple power plants and heavy industry with a carbon tax. Naturally, these costs will be passed onto us in the form of higher utility bills and higher prices for the goods and services we purchase.

This madness will further inhibit any development of America’s ample domestic energy resources, thereby putting us more at the mercy of countries that use our money to bankroll terrorism against us. It also will further weaken our ability to compete with other industrialized nations.

Not satisfied to merely cripple American industry and attack American consumers, the Obama Administration also is talking up immigration reform, which would accelerate the influx of illegal immigrants, further burdening health care and education systems that are collapsing under the growing costs.

Any talk of health care reform without reducing or controlling the cost shifting caused by illegal immigrants is sheer madness. But the Democrats look at this issue and see only one angle – how they can convert illegals into voters who will help them expand their fascist grip on America’s government.

In other disturbing, but sometimes funny, news of the week:

-- Did you catch the photo of TOTW’s “soul brother” handshake with dictator Hugo Chavez of Venezuela? I guess the President wasn’t satisfied to merely disgust us with his bow to Saudi King Abdullah. Now he has to pal around with a fascist brute.

-- When TOTW spoke at Georgetown, his staff requested that the university hide a Christian symbol that would appear in the background of any media shots of the speech. Pathetically, the allegedly Catholic administration complied. What a disgrace and a farce! Was the real reason for covering the symbol that Mr. Hussein Obama did not want to offend any of his Muslim brethren?

-- Secular progressives in the Elite Traitor Media (ETW) got a kick out of calling the tax protest tea parties “teabagging parties.” Apparently, “teabagging” is some sort of deviant homosexual activity. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann seemed particularly familiar with the practice.

-- It makes me wonder, while hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans were at more than 750 tea parties across America, was Barney Frank at a teabagging party?

-- According to liberal shrew Janeane Garafolo, those attending the tea parties were “racist rednecks.” How stupid can this woman be? She’s lucky she’s not a hooker, because with her looks, she wouldn’t earn a dime.

-- In receiving an award recently from Planned Parenthood, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was “in awe” of the organization’s founder, Margaret Sanger. This would be the same Margaret Sanger who wrote in 1922, “We want fewer and better children... and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens you would inflict on us.”

What Ms. Clinton failed to acknowledge is that Margaret Sanger was barking mad racist who created an organization that has waged war on blacks and potentially-retarded children by promoting abortion among disadvantaged Americans.

Sanger embodied liberal elitist racism at its worst. Adolf Hitler was a great admirer of hers as well because her thinking dovetailed with his nutty eugenics theories.

I just thought I would bring it up because $350 million of our tax dollars are given to Planned Parenthood, a thoroughly heinous organization that cloaks its position as the number one provider of abortions under the guise of offering family planning services.

If you give money to this racist, elitist outfit, or even are thinking about it, don’t. Planned Parenthood views children as a burden, not a gift from God, and equates more children with poverty, crime and misery. Are you still “in awe,” Madame Secretary?

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!

April 17, 2009

DHS Has Met the Enemy, And It Is Us!

As further evidence of the Obama Administration’s unconditional surrender in the War on Terror, we now have the revelation that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) -- what a misnomer that is -- is more concerned about patriotic Americans than radical Muslim terrorists.

In its now infamous report on “right-wing extremists” as the big threat to America, DHS singled out military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan (thanks for nothing), pro-life Christians (as opposed to Episcopalians) and those who favor American sovereignty over transnationalism.

DHS also targeted folks who believe in the U. S. Constitution as it was written and amended, patriots concerned about the size of the federal government and the usurpation of states rights, and those of us who believe the federal government has the duty to secure our borders – we are viewed as a bigger threat to America than any external force (i.e., Islamofascists).

As a pro-life Roman Catholic who reveres the Founding Fathers and our Constitution, who wants protection of American sovereignty from transnationalist fascists, who thinks one of the primary duties of the federal government is to provide a robust national defense, who believes the border fence with Mexico should have been built by now, and who fervently believes in the Second and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution, I say:

I’m clinging to my God and my guns – guilty as charged!

Seriously, since the knuckleheads in Washington under the leadership of the disastrous Janet Napolitano are, in essence, questioning my patriotism, I say: Madame Secretary, you and the cretins who produced this report are the traitors. You have abdicated your responsibilities to protect this nation from Islamist fanatics who want us all dead.

Meanwhile, DHS concentrates on American patriots when the real domestic danger are groups like ACORN and the ACLU, which are intent on undermining the sanctity of our elections and the security measures taken to fight foreign terrorists.

You know what ACORN stands for, don’t you? American Communists Organized to Ruin our Nation. Or the ACLU? American Communist Litigation Union. These two organizations have done more damage to our nation than the most outrageous militia groups.

With the southern border of the United States still leaking like a sieve, and the Obama Administration damaging our ability to counteract Islamic terrorists by releasing secret memos on interrogation techniques, the government’s will and capability to protect America are declining at an alarming rate.

This past week, hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans rallied at more than 750 tea parties across the country to register their concern about a federal government that is mortgaging our country’s future with unfathomable debt as well as a Washington that doesn’t listen to the people.

In reaction, the Elite Traitor Media (ETM) either ignored the gatherings in its coverage or made snotty and condescending remarks about average Americans who took the time to exercise their free speech rights. Worst of all, we were told that the President of the United States was unaware of the tea parties and obviously not listening to the people of the United States.

Not surprisingly, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi made despicable remarks questioning the sincerity of the protesters and disparaging the effort. What else would we expect from an elitist princess who looks down her nose at her colleagues as well as the rest of the country?

DHS, the Congressional leadership and Mr. Obama are covering their eyes to what is going on in the real world, and they do it at our peril.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American because we have found our voice and we will not be silenced!

April 11, 2009

Obama’s War on Catholics and America’s Heritage

President Barack Hussein Obama has made it quite clear that he is not at war with Islam or Somali pirates. But it is increasingly obvious that he has declared war on Catholicism.

The One-Term Wonder (TOTW) has taken great pains from the outset of his administration to reach out to his Muslim brethren and indicate his solidarity with the Arab world by bowing down to Saudi King Abdullah.

In the current standoff with Somali pirates holding an American merchant captain hostage, TOTW has gone AWOL and left it in the hands of the military and the State Department. Oblivious to any suffering pirate hostages worldwide have undergone, Mr. Obama did have enough focus to fly in a pizza chef from St. Louis to make his lunch yesterday.

It’s great he can live like royalty while unemployment soars toward 10%.

Our Muslim president has gone to great lengths to thumb his nose at American Catholics by lifting the ban on using taxpayer dollars to fund abortions overseas, pushing for federal funding of embryo stem cell research and indicating his willingness to lift a Bush administration executive order offering protection to hospitals, physicians and nurses who are unwilling to perform abortions. Those who exercise decisions of conscience then could suffer coercive or punitive action from the government.

TOTW’s aggressive pro-abortion policies are a payoff to his secular progressive base, for whom abortion is a sacrament. Catholic bishops, physicians and nurses have indicated that any federal pressure to force them to become abortion mills may lead to the closure of many Catholic hospitals and the departure of critically-needed doctors and nurses from the medical profession. Is that change we need?

Adding insult to injury, the University of Notre Dame has invited Mr. Obama to deliver its commencement address next month, a direct slap in the face to millions of American Catholics who are revolted by the idea of a pro-abortion fanatic being given such a prestigious platform.

Unfortunately for TOTW, he has fallen into a very dangerous trap. His address at Notre Dame is likely to be compared to former commencement speeches by American presidents. It will be truly embarrassing for him to have his remarks compared to those that President Ronald Wilson Reagan delivered on May 17, 1981 in his first trip outside of Washington D.C. after the March 30, 1981 assassination attempt on his life.

President Reagan’s address at Notre Dame is simply one of the finest speeches ever delivered by an American president. It is a rhetorical tour de force that weaves the university’s grand traditions and American history into a compelling speech designed to inspire the graduating students to carry our great American traditions and values forward and preserve them for future generations.

Consider these inspiring words about our Founding Fathers who today are scorned by secular progressives:

“This Nation was born when a band of men, the Founding Fathers, a group so unique we’ve never seen their like since, rose to such selfless heights. Lawyers, tradesmen, merchants, farmers – 56 men achieved security and standing in life but valued freedom more. They pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. Sixteen of them gave their lives. Most gave their fortunes. All preserved their sacred honor.”

Through his words, Ronald Reagan demonstrated his profound love for the United States and its unique place in world history, as well as his intense faith in God.

“They gave us more than a nation. They brought to all mankind for the first time the concept that man was born free, that each of us has inalienable rights, ours by the grace of God, and that government was created by us for our convenience, having only the powers that we choose to give it.”

In his remarks, President Reagan cited a quote by author William Faulkner noting that humans, alone among all forms of life, are capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance. This then prompted Mr. Reagan to discuss another great man who had just been shot,

“One can’t say those words – compassion, sacrifice, and endurance – without thinking of the irony that one who so exemplifies them, Pope John Paul II, a man of peace and goodness, an inspiration to the world, would be struck by a bullet from a man towards whom he could feel only compassion and love. It was Pope John Paul II who warned in last year’s encyclical on mercy and justice against certain economic theories that use the rhetoric of class struggle to justify injustice.”

The Pope was prescient in foreseeing the growing hatred against the productive in our society being generated by the secular progressive socialists that infest our government, academia and the Elite Traitor Media (ETM).

In his closing to the graduating students, President Reagan urged them to embrace the nation’s history and tradition and share it with their children and grandchildren.

“My hope today is that in the years to come – and come it shall – when it’s your time to explain to another generation the meaning of the past and thereby hold out to them their promise of the future, that you’ll recall the truths and traditions of which we’ve spoken. It is these truths and traditions that define our civilization and make up our national heritage. And now, they’re yours to protect and pass on.”

In typical Reagan fashion, he closed on an inspiring note:

“I have one more hope for you: when you do speak to the next generation about these things, that you will always be able to speak of an America that is strong and free, to find in your hearts an unbounded pride in this much-loved country, this once and future land, this bright and hopeful nation whose generous spirit and great ideals the world still honors.”

How is a president who feels the need to apologize for American “arrogance” and who with his wife does not demonstrate any abiding love for or pride in our country, going to top the Gipper at Notre Dame? He doesn’t stand a chance because he does not share Ronald Reagan’s love and belief in America or his faith in God.

For those of you who find President Reagan’s words uplifting and those who felt a lump in their throats or a little more moisture in your eyes, I urge you to search online for the full text of his remarks at Notre Dame and relish them for their greatness.

God, I love that man! Like our Founding Fathers, we haven’t seen his like since he left the White House in 1989.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!

April 10, 2009

Another White Flag Week in Washington

Barack Obama’s “white flag” Administration continued its appeasing ways in the past week, showing disturbing weakness in the face of an increasingly threatening world.

As North Korea launched another ballistic missile capable of hitting Alaska and Hawaii, The One-Term Wonder (TOTW) took the occasion to talk about nuclear disarmament and the distinct possibility that the United States will disarm unilaterally.

Mr. Obama’s great initiative was to run to the United Nations Security Council for help, knowing full well that the Chinese and Russians would balk at any action. By putting his faith in a Security Council resolution, TOTW showed incredible weakness in the face of one of his first foreign policy challenges.

At the same time, Iran keeps hurtling towards final development of nuclear weapons while the world stands around and sucks its collective thumb. All except Israel, thank God. The reality is that the only hope for Western civilization rests with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Secretary of Defense (talk about an inappropriate title) Robert Gates announced significant cuts to the defense budget, including a 20% cut of $1.4 billion for the Missile Defense Agency. This decision is sheer lunacy in the face of the missile threats posed by Iran and North Korea.

Gates has bought into the Obama appeasement strategy and demonstrated how much he has degraded the Defense Department since the departure of Donald Rumsfeld. To make matters worse, the defense cuts will hit several major American contractors, resulting in the loss of thousands of good-paying jobs.

Muslim Somali pirates attacked an American cargo ship and took the captain hostage. In response to this provocation, the Great Appeaser in the White House issued no statement of condemnation and, in fact, blew off reporters who tried to ask about it. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mumbled a weak response about calling in the FBI. Notorious weakling Senator John Kerry has called for Senate hearings on piracy. Boy, that will really show the pirates we mean business!

Apparently the Ivy League educated Obama and Clinton never cracked a history book to learn how President Thomas Jefferson used the Navy and Marines to go to Africa and wipe out the Barbary Pirates in the early 1800’s. Those Muslim terrorists were the inspiration in the Marine Corps hymn for going “to the shores of Tripoli.”

Through all this activity President Obama looks like the proverbial 98-pound weakling who gets sand kicked in his face at the beach.

But weakness and appeasement were not confined to the White House. Seven members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) traveled to Cuba to slobber at the feet of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. By doing so, they revealed themselves for the feckless traitors they really are. Not just traitors to the United States but traitors to their race.

Castro’s Cuba remains one of the most racist and oppressive regimes on earth. The Castro brothers and their murdering henchman Ernesto “Che” Guevara take great pride in overthrowing a Cuban government that included the following black men: head of state Fulgencio Batista, the chief of the Cuban Army, the president of the Cuban Senate and the minister of agriculture.

Guevara, the darling of campus leftists everywhere, was quoted as saying “The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent .. We’re going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the Cuban revolution. By which I mean, NOTHING!”

Every time I see some young knucklehead parading around in a tee shirt with Che’s repulsive face on it, I think to myself, oh, the college tee shirt shop must have been out of Hitler tee shirts.

At least the communist thug Che kept his word; Cuba maintains an apartheid more severe than that ever imagined in South Africa. Ninety percent of the prison population in Cuba is black and blacks endure systematic racism and repression throughout Cuba.

So representatives Barbara Lee, ex-Black Panther Bobby Rush, Laura Richardson and Emanuel Cleaver disgraced not only themselves with their embrace of the Castros, but the Congress by being used as such willing dupes in Cuban propaganda.

Writers have dubbed such dupes “useful idiots,” using a term created by Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin for suckers in the West who fell under the spell of communism. In this case, the disgraceful seven of the CBC have proved themselves “useless idiots.”

In other news of the week:

-- Jobless numbers show that, since TOTW took the presidential oath in January, more than 1.3 million Americans have lost their jobs., Mr. Obama and the Elite Traitor Media (ETM), try blaming that on George Bush like you do everything else.

-- Memo to the President: It is very unpresidential to keep taking cheap shots at your predecessor and blaming all problems on him. Be a man and take a little responsibility yourself.

-- Memo to the Vice President: See the above memo to Mr. Obama and stop your damn lying about George Bush. It’s beneath the office you hold.

-- Did you see where Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were paying out retention bonuses of more than $210 million, with some executives getting as much as $1.5 million each? Where is the phony outrage about that? I haven’t seen any ACORN rent-a-mobs going after those executives. Or the ETM and the Congress either getting exercised about it.

-- The incomparable Mark Steyn noted recently that Europeans who criticize Americans for their larger cars overlook one key point: we need bigger cars here because we have children, while the infertile Europeans keep ceding their countries to immigrant Muslims.

-- The global warming kooks have failed to note one key benefit of the current global recession: it is reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, as is the milder weather in general. So the need for onerous cap and trade regulations or a carbon tax is dissipating. But that won’t stop them from trying to destroy capitalism and promote communism.

-- We still don’t know what the major banks have done with the TARP bailout money. But we do know who has benefited: Obama benefactor Warren Buffett and others who are heavily invested in leading banks. I wouldn’t be surprised if somehow international gangster and former Nazi sympathizer George Soros has made a buck or two off it as well.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! Happy Passover to our Jewish friends and a Blessed Easter to our Christian friends. I don’t care what TOTW says, the United States is, has been and will always be a nation with a sacred Judeo-Christian heritage.

April 4, 2009

Mr. President, Please Come Home and
Stop the Humiliation Tour Now

The One-Term Wonder’s (TOTW) excellent adventure in Europe has been a gaffe-filled exercise in how not to be President of the United States.

For an American president to apologize for American arrogance is disgraceful and disgusting. Our country has no need to apologize to Europe, most of which we have saved from total destruction in two world wars and rebuilt with American taxpayer dollars.

These are countries we have defended at our expense so they could build unproductive welfare states and ignore our requests for help in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan while radical Islamic terrorists target Europe.

But the list of humiliations does not stop there. Consider TOTW’s gift to Queen Elizabeth: an I-Pod with copies of major Obama speeches. Yeah, I can just imagine the good Queen sitting around Buckingham Palace in the evening playing Obama’s Greatest Hits. What kind of narcissistic, self-absorbed jackass would give such a gift?

I don’t know who advises TOTW on gifts to heads of state, but he or she should be fired immediately.

At the G-20 economic summit, TOTW couldn’t cave in soon enough. He was like the new kid in school who gives away his lunch money so the other kids will like him. So we'll give billions of dollars to the IMF and World Bank to waste or steal.

But the real kicker came when Mr. Obama greeted King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia by practically kissing his shoes while bowing like a Muslim supplicant. The idea of a President of the United States bowing down to an autocratic thug who bankrolls Islamofascist terrorism with the money we pay for his oil is sickening.

The king also supports the Wahhabi branch of Islam that promotes killing nonbelievers and treats women as property and objects to whip, rape or kill. This is not a person to bow to.

If our energy companies could ever be permitted to develop domestic resources, such bowing and scraping would be unnecessary. With the royalties generated by such exploration and production, we could cut the national deficit in half.

It was bad enough when President Bush held hands with the king and looked like he was playing Skip-To-My-Lou. But the Obama obeisance to his fellow Muslim made me think I was watching an old movie, perhaps “Stepin Fetchit’s European Vacation.”

I’m beginning to think our new President is schizophrenic. At one point he acts imperially in firing the CEO of General Motors and telling the heads of our largest banks that he is all that stands between them and the “folks with the pitchforks.”

He also talks tough on Afghanistan and going after the Taliban and Al Qaeda, but puts no real pressure in face-to-face encounters with leaders from NATO countries to step up their assistance or individual efforts.

Then the Emperor turns into the Candidate again, still trying to win approval from the overseas masses by talking down his country, making critical references to a predecessor who treated him with the utmost respect and graciousness, and sucking up to the Russians and Chinese.

The sight of TOTW holding a town hall style meeting in France was really humiliating. It made me recall how other presidents used various foreign forums to advance the cause of freedom, especially President Ronald Reagan’s stirring speech to students at the University of Moscow.

Russian President Dmitri Medvdev warmly hailed Mr. Obama as a “new comrade.” He knows he doesn’t have another Reagan to deal with. Given how TOTW is wrecking capitalism as we know it and trying to force the United States into European-style socialism, I’d say the appellation “comrade” is highly appropriate.

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! So stand up and speak out for liberty and freedom!

March 30, 2009

Obama’s Imperial Presidency

It’s clear that being President of the United States is not good enough for Barack Obama. His disregard of the Constitution and the rule of law in general was clearly evidenced in his takeover of the American automobile industry.

In the greatest tradition of Caesar Augustus, Mr. Obama fired the CEO of General Motors in what was perhaps the most outrageous act of his nascent administration or any action every taken by an American president. All hail Obama Augustus?

As he gets ready to head to the G-20 Summit in Great Britain, The One-Term Wonder (TOTW) let word slip that he is taking 500 staff with him. How much is that costing the American taxpayer? No one in Washington cares because they can spend trillions of our grandchildrens’ money in the blink of an eye. The Emperor needs his court to travel with him. Let’s hope he doesn’t forget his teleprompter.

So the Imperial Presidency is morphing into a true empire in which the federal government has taken over capitalism and turned it into a feeble resemblance of the national socialism of Germany in the 1930’s built on the cult of personality.

Fortunately, those of us on The Forgotten Street have seen enough. No European socialism or even liberal fascism for us! We want our country back and for the government to get out of our markets and let the markets work.

The major automobile companies should have followed the example of the major airlines and declared bankruptcy long ago to work themselves out from under onerous labor contracts and the difficulties imposted by rising fuel prices.

Emperor Obama’s foray into the automobile industry is designed solely to protect the United Auto Workers, not the companies as thriving entities in a capitalist system.

He’s not satisfied to be President or even a self-styled Citizen of the World. No, he wants an empire. All hail Obama Disgustus!

Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American if we all have the courage to stand up and speak out!

March 29, 2009

March Madness: Will It Ever End?

As the NCAA basketball tournament winds down to the Final Four (Go Huskies!), the rest of March Madness continues unabated, with all signs pointing to its living on as April Asininity.

President Obama, The One-Term Wonder (TOTW), finally delivered his much-awaited pronouncement on Afghanistan policy moving forward. If I didn’t know better, I would think George W. Bush left an old speech in a drawer and that TOTW dusted it off and called it his own.

Mr. Obama talked tough and made it sound like he was serious about going after Al Qaeda and the Taliban. If George Bush had sent 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan, the left-wing anti-war loonies would have rioted in the streets. TOTW ups the ante and not a word of protest. Which leads one to conclude the left and the Elite Traitor Media were never anti-war, simply anti-Bush.

With the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey scrapping the name “Freedom Tower” for the new complex that will replace the World Trade Center, let me offer a suggestion: Boycott New York City. Do not travel there for business or pleasure until those knuckleheads reverse the name change, which is completely un-American and a slap in the face to the families of those who perished on September 11, 2001 and those of us who will stand with them forever.

Meanwhile Secretary of State (SOS indeed!) Hillary Clinton continues her embarrassing travels, this time making a complete fool of herself in Mexico. When visiting the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadelupe, the most sacred Catholic shrine south of our border, she asked Monsignor Diego Monroy to tell her who painted the image of the Virgin Mary on the cloak of Saint Juan Diego in 1531. He correctly answered, “God.”

Is Hillary truly this stupid and ignorant, or is her staff just completely incompetent in briefing her on her upcoming stops on the tour? My vote is for both.

While talking about Catholic shrines, many American Catholics are mortified by the University of Notre Dame inviting TOTW to speak at this year’s commencement and receive an honorary degree. So mortified that the Cardinal Newman Society, which promotes Catholic higher education, has created a web site,
www.notredamescandal.com. I urge those of you who are Catholic to visit the site and sign the petition to Father John Jenkins, the Notre Dame president, that more than 200,000 of us have signed protesting the invitation.

The petition says in part, “It is an outrage and a scandal that ‘our Lady’s University,’ one of the premier Catholic universities in the United States, would bestow such an honor on President Obama given his clear support for policies and laws that directly contradict fundamental Catholic teachings on life and marriage.”

“Instead Notre Dame has chosen prestige over principles, popularity over morality. . . this honor comes of the heels of some of the most anti-life actions of any American president, including expanding federal funding for abortions and inviting taxpayer-funded research on stem cells from huma