DON’T LET THE TEA PARTIERS WIN. This explains why the Democrats are going to lose large in 2010.

A new poll names Fox News Channel as the most trusted news outlet. Sarah Palin has 1.2 million fans on Facebook and is the $100,000 headliner at the national tea party convention. If we don't fight back, and stand up for America, then their version of America will get the upper hand.

We cannot let that happen.

The Democrat leadership is cutting off the nose to spite the face by doubling down on the Obama agenda. It’s incredible that they cannot recognize that it’s their own party members who are deserting the Democrat party.

SURE, YOU CAN keep your current health insurance. Quoting the President:

[W]e said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your -- if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you're not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge. [emphasis added]

Nothing to see here. Move along, now. Just move along.

Instapundit has more.

RETRACTO the correction alpaca has been busy. And the media isn't looking very good.

CHRIS MATTHEWS" "Obama's taken us beyond black and white in our politics."


Progressives like Chris Matthews and the rest of the MSNBC aren’t racist - they aren’t smart enough.

WHERE CLIMATE CHANGE WENT WRONG: "Healthy science is not a list of orthodox beliefs, but more like an endless, running debating club.... You could tell that global warming was in trouble the moment that James Hansen, NASA’s chief climate astrologer and enforcer of The Faith, said that 'climate deniers' should be put in jail."

HAIRLESS POTTER: coming to an office near you.

TEN TWEETS TO OBAMA: Add your own - 140 characters or less.

OBAMA’s EGO: His political career may have come back down to earth, but his view of himself sure hasn't.

IT IS TIME to rethink our opinion on President Obama: "He has done more to discredit big government in one year than we could do in an entire decade."

THE NEW RACISM: cultural incompetence.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER columnist Gregory Kane on "culturally relevant" education. "They [black boys] are not seeing themselves in the curriculum, and they do not see where it is relevant outside of school and therefore do not see it as an investment in their future."

As a former black boy myself -- one who managed to learn how to read, write and master enough math to get me through algebra and calculus -- I feel compelled to slash through this web of nonsense.

When I was a lad I did not have to "see" myself in the curriculum. The only picture I needed to see was my mother's foot being placed firmly up my derriere if I didn't bring home good grades from school. You'd be amazed at how "relevant" that made everything my teachers taught me.

In other words, the geography I learned in eighth grade, the history and the science: all were relevant outside of school because my mother said they were. And her vote was the only one that counted.

Start talking about "culturally relevant teaching strands," and you may end up teaching students absolute nonsense.

It doesn't matter if you "see yourself" in the subject taught; it does matter that you master it.

OBAMA TO end NASA's Constellation program.

In his new budget, President Obama plans to eliminate the space program's manned moon missions. When the president releases his budget on Monday, a White House official confirmed on Thursday there will be a big hole where funding for NASA's Constellation program used to be.

From the comments at Michelle Malkin's web site: "For the love of God, would someone please point out the hypocracy [sic] of trying to create jobs on one hand, while killing the space program with the other?"

PRO-LIFE, PRO-CHOICE: At a rally in San Francisco, pro-life outnumbers pro-choice 500 to one.

OBAMA TRANSLATOR. Ben Shapiro deciphers Obama-speak.

“Hope and change”: Socialism at home, surrender abroad.
“False choice”: A very real choice Obama wants to pretend doesn’t exist.
“Let me be clear”: Let me lie to you.
“Make no mistake”: See “let me be clear.”
“This isn’t about me”: This is completely about me.
“Failed policies of the past”: Don’t blame me! Blame Bush!

There are more here.

[Added] Here's one I suggest:

"A failure to communicate": You’re not listening.

THE CREDIBILITY GAP: Sarah Palin on Obama’s State of the Union.

Last night, the president spoke of the “credibility gap” between the public’s expectations of their leaders and what those leaders actually deliver. “Credibility gap” is a good way to describe the chasm between rhetoric and reality in the president’s address. The contradictions seemed endless.

We now can see the failed policies behind the flowery words. If Americans feel as cynical as the president suggests, perhaps it’s because the audacity of his recycled rhetoric no longer inspires hope.

Read it all.

I ALSO THINK that the people governing us have become objectively dumber over the last 50 years or so.

Of course. A larger and larger percentage of that governing class have been edjumakated at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, ....

MSNBC'S CHRIS MATTHEWS: "He is post-racial by all appearances. You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour."



Jon Stewart responds:

IN THE WASHINGTON POST:

Promising to change the tone in Washington, [Obama] managed to be petty, backward looking, defiant and self-justifying.

Barack Obama has lost his promise. He has lost his momentum. He has lost his touch. He has lost his filibuster-proof Senate majority. He has lost his first year in office.

Tonight, he lost his grip on reality.

No, he just demonstrated it to the rest of the rest of the world.

THE "COURAGE" OF CONVICTION: Invited to a tea party debate on climate change, AGW supporters opt out of participating — and quite rudely.

When the idea came up for a debate on global warming, it seemed like a great idea to our tea party group.

I invited scientists from all over the country — even some from around the world — to a fair and balanced event. I was amazed at the lack of response to the many invitations that went out, but more interesting were the insulting, mocking, sarcastic replies I received from scientists who seem to share a similar belief that a debate is ridiculous on such a settled science.

I agree with many of the commenters - 1) I sure wish Ms. Simac would post the scientists' email responses, and 2) Ms. Simac overestimates the intelligence of men "much smarter than me."

NEVER LET FACTS interfere with the narrative: "The Jan. 25 article 'Is the President Panicking' originally stated that Fox News led the charge against Bill Clinton in the '94 midterm elections. Fox News did not come into being until 1996. The story has been corrected. [Correction made 1/27/10]”