Glenn Beck probably won’t expand his business

Glenn Beck probably won't be hiring, he said last night. So you hate Glenn Beck even if you've never heard him or watched his TV show or listened to his radio show or read his books or worn his clothes? But he is a small businessman--a publisher and owner of a TV production company and a clothing business, plus some other stuff. Anyway, he'd like to expand and hire more people. In the Obameconomy he can't, plus he'll probably be fined because he provides his employees better benefits than Obama thinks is right and fair (although probably not as good as federal employees get).

Even if you don't like Beck, this is the sort of shrinking economy you voted for on Tuesday, which means he'll have to transfer more of your money to support all those government programs—you know, the free stuff.

http://www.theblaze.com/tv/

Good for Chris Matthews

He manned up and admitted he was stupid and wrong on election night when he said he was glad for the storm Sandy because it helped Obama win. He'll keep his job, of course, but if Republicans apologize for being stupid, they lose their jobs. I recall years ago Rush Limbaugh made a comment about a black football player that was true, but he was removed as a Monday night football commentator. Matthews could have made his apology to his fans stronger by not explaining twice how tired he was and caught up in political numbers.

Truthfully, I don't think he said HE was stupid and wrong, but that his comment was. Did Senator Akin try that?

Advice on how to be good Republicans who can win

I've been clicking through most of the advice and do-overs about how Republicans could do it differently. Number one is become like Democrats and grow the government, and number two is become Libertarians and take a chance that everyone is virtuous. Odd isn't it. The party of Abraham Lincoln can only survive if it stands for nothing that has a moral base--it's all about economics. A Fox commentator last night said Republicans could survive if they gave up the pro-life and pro-marriage positions (he might as well have added and "Boo God.")

Obama got elected in 2008 with positive happy talk, but it sunk Romney; he was elected 4 years ago by supporting DOMA and Don't ask don't tell and snuggling with Rick Warren, but that will get a Republican labeled homophobic today; he didn't lie about abortion--openly was supportive of killing born alive aborted babies, but even hinting that a baby conceived in rape is not the enemy can sink a career. We live in strange times.

I was pro-life and pro-marriage when I first voted in 1960. So were millions of other Democrats. In those days they also believed, really believed, in protecting the weakest and least capable among us. Now it's constant yammering about free stuff and helping the middle class with more government programs. Even churches have been lulled into not preaching the gospel if they take money for social programs.  When Democrats started buying votes with the War on Poverty and playing step-daddy to single moms (which I supported) they started us on a 16 trillion dollar failure that killed marriage and responsibility driving millions of children to the poor house.

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/03/17/morning-bell-how-many-trillions-must-we-waste-on-the-war-on-poverty/

Entrenched system that hurts the poor

In Illinois you have one giant city, Chicago, Democrat controlled for years, and an expert at trapping people with patronage. We’re headed that way in Ohio, with a number of good-sized, major cities, all Democrat controlled; Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati are the biggies, then Dayton, Toledo, Akron/Canton and Youngstown. At one time these were all job producers. Now they are tax traps and sink holes for federal block grants, ringed by wealthy suburbs. I don’t know about the other cities, but in Columbus, The Ohio State University just keeps gobbling up the land and areas of deteriorating housing stock, tearing down residences, displacing the low income, and then calling it progress when the yuppies move in and the poor move out where there is no transportation for jobs. Really, liberals (there are very few academics who are not liberals)  have invented a crazy system of feeding off the less fortunate, poorly educated, mentally ill, and addicted. Many are pushed out of the neighborhoods where they have friends, family and social resources into surrounding areas, the rest just become homeless and then more grants become available to take care of them and more PhDs are written at OSU on the social problems. All the while, conservatives are blamed for a crazy system that keeps the academics, government bureaucrats and non-profits in cushy, well-paid jobs!

The joke is on the Democrats. The rest of us know what’s coming. Same ol’, same ol’.

Why does Obama want to put this organization out of business?

Under the HHS Mandate this agency will pay a $100/day fine per employee which will of course, close it down.  I believe this is Obama’s intention.  That will be 2.5 million more people beholden to the government.

OSF HealthCare, owned and operated by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, Peoria, Illinois, includes OSF Healthcare System consisting of eight acute care facilities, two long-term care facilities, and two colleges of nursing. It also has a primary care physician network consisting of over 600 primary care, specialist physicians, and advanced practice providers.

OSF HealthCare owns OSF Saint Francis, Inc., comprised of health care-related businesses, and OSF Healthcare Foundation, the philanthropic arm of OSF Healthcare System and OSF Home Care Services.

OSF HealthCare is a multi-state corporation, operating facilities in Illinois and Michigan, providing state-of-the-art, compassionate care to more than 2.5 million people in the communities we serve.

Attackers get personal

When attackers come to my blog, they don’t get published.  They never have a single fact to contradict what I say, but they have lots of names for me.  They know nothing about Obamacare, or shutting down the coal industry in Ohio, or killing born alive infants who were supposed to die during an abortion, or the gay agenda of Obama’s education appointees, or how much Michelle spends on her vacations, or who died in Benghazi after how many hours of pleading for help.  But they can attack me and call me a hater.  Wonder why they don’t call him a hater?

It doesn’t take even that much

My dad and mother cancelled each others votes for 65 years.  He said she got a ten cent raise under President Roosevelt in the 1930s and he had her for a lifetime.

Are you allowed to work, or do you have to join a union?

How a failed president won a second term with fewer votes than in 2008

1-Promise Latinos that the children of Illegal Immigrants would be able to stay in the U.S.

2-Convince 20-40-year old women that reproductive rights were on the ballot.

3-Promise free birth control to 20-40 year old women on budgets.

4-Promise the fantasy of free healthcare.

5-Collaborate with the heads of the major media to block negative stories about Barack Obama OFF the national stage.

See how easy it was?  However, social media was the key says The Kitchen Cabinet.  “The landscape of electioneering has now changed forever. This massive defeat for Republicans is no reflection upon Mitt Romney’s talents. It is a reflection on the age of our Party. We were beaten by a younger and technologically more current crowd. From this point forward, no one has to WIN an election by turning out passionate voters.

Just engineer it.”

http://thekitchencabinet.us/the-painful-truth-about-a-massive-loss/

Takers live in the blue areas

Along with the academics, the government workers, and employees of non-profits.  And they vote Democratic.  They vote for free stuff like contraceptives.  Blue cities like Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, etc. have a vested interest in keep their low income folks close by so they can vote Democrat.

By the world’s standards, there are no poor people in America.

We believed Obama was wrong, now what can we do asks Bill Whittle? The health of the country is about 50-50 he says.  Without a virtuous people, our system doesn't work. The premise of limited government is based on the idea of virtue, so that’s 150 million people for starters.  Yes, Obama bought votes with "free stuff," but it's the people who are the takers. Slightly less than half of us understand the problem.  Liberals have high IQs and a lot of education, but they don't see it.  And they bus the poor and less educated to the polls to keep their perks.  They don't know how to recognize evil or face it. We've also been protected from danger, we're not used to sacrifice. Tough times is the wrong flavor in your latte.  By the world's standards, there are no poor Americans. We've done that through the virtuous among us--the government has been raiding that wealth for 50 years.  The bank is empty.

Virtue has to be taught, we aren’t born that way.  It’s not a natural state. Pop-culture is a wasteland of virtue.  It is horrifying and scary for the people who have influence over our culture—because they don’t have any virtue.  Thoughts from Bill Whittle.

Freestuff vs. Freedom

Or Democrats vs. Republicans.   A decade ago I couldn't have imagined women would be so callous, cold and culpable. Voting for sugar daddy pimping candidates after they put up such a battle in the 1970s for good jobs, pay, and the rights that men had enjoyed for years.  Now a woman raising 2 kids alone can qualify for government benefits equaling almost $60,000, so why have a career?  Why not just stay on the old plantation and do what the massa wants?  What a bunch of whiny gimmees they raised.  In 2012 it's free contraceptives; by 2016 it will be free abortions; and eventually they'll vote for forced abortions and therapeutic suicides for the parents who raised this sorry lot. They're already doing that for the mentally challenged and elderly, so I wonder who will be setting the IQ score and age category by 2020?

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/nevada-judge-questioned-by-state-supreme-court-presses-forward-with-forced/

The leftist cliff looms

Rosa Parks first entered the front of the bus about 11 years before the famous incident we hear about in 1955, but the public wasn't ready. (Remember Jim Crow was created by Democrats and they used it to intimidate and terrorize blacks.) Conservatives are refusing to sit in the back of the bus which the leftists are driving off the cliff, so we have some work to do to get more people on board with us and stop them.  Considering the Democrats’ hard left turn these last four years, I think the Republicans will have to swerve further right to counteract them.  It doesn’t make much sense to occupy the middle seats the Democrats have vacated, does it?  We’ve seen where that goes.  The two parties as we’ve known them in the 1980s and 1990s seem to be gone anyway.

Biden is Obama’s insurance

that there won’t be an investigation into Obama’s failures during the seven hours of the Benghazi attack and the days and weeks of warnings that came before and the cover-up that came after.

A hard left turn

It's really a puzzle to me that the immigrant vote goes to the candidate who is most likely to destroy the country that gave them refuge. And it's not because they are the "takers," either, because the immigrants I know are extremely hard workers, and seem to find work when our native born PHDs can't.  Did they not learn their lesson at home before they got here?

How it works

Coverings and cover-ups

I don't mind if religious groups require women to cover their heads--like the Amish, Mennonites, and Catholic nuns in traditional habits.  In the event I’m in my home church to attend Communion, I’ll put on a prayer covering.  It’s completely optional, and these days just a tie to the past when it showed God’s order for people who were weak.

But the government requiring it? Would you support Obama having a czarina for head covering and prayer veiling? He supports fundamentalist Muslim groups in the civil wars in the Middle East which are repressive towards women against secular Muslim governments which are rather casual about women's freedoms. Part of the cover-up in Benghazi is a weapons pipeline to Syria.

Mismanagement, lies, and cover-ups. Summary of Obama’s term.

Everyone agrees Obama came into office with decisions and policies not his. What president doesn't? But by going the socialized medicine, take-over-huge-chunks of the economy route, he made things worse by throwing the economy into a tail spin every time it looked like recovery was at hand. Then he wouldn't even follow the advice of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform he created on how to solve the mess. Now he wants more time to make things even worse with more private decisions. And some of you are willingly going along!

Benghazi isn't the only cover-up which will be revealed after the election. With the help of his friends in media, Obama is quiet about the federal agencies which are sitting on a pile of major health, environmental, and financial regulations that lobbyists, congressional staffers, and former administration officials say are being held back to avoid providing ammunition to Mitt Romney and other Republican critics. They should further set back the economy.

“What’s past is prologue. We know what we will get from a second Obama term because we’ve all endured his first term. We know how well he kept his 2008 campaign promises. Do we really believe he’ll keep his 2012 promises?”  Sarah Palin

Catholics have an advantage . . .

Roman Catholics have three sources of revealed truth.  They not only have God’s written word, the Holy Bible, but they have tradition and the Magisterium.  Apparently, many Catholics are not following all three.