INDEPENDENCE DAY, July 4, 2010.



Old Glory. Long may she wave.

TAKING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE TOO FAR: “[T]he U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reject[ed] a proposal by [Louisana’s] Jefferson Parish to build a series of rock dikes to protect the ecologically important Barataria Bay.... The Corps found that the dike plan was incomplete, lacking a designated agency to remove the barriers, a restoration plan for environmental damage and data to measure any such damage."

The mind reels at such boneheaded stupidity. Perhaps the Obama administration would get a clue if it were immediately moved to the Louisana marshes and housed in FEMA trailers – but I doubt it.

THE MIND-NUMBING power of collectivism. Welcome to the Age of Aquarius Obama.

WHAT IS A TEA PARTY?

What unites Tea Party supporters is less their geography or demography than their policy views: a firm conviction that the federal government has gotten too big and too powerful and a fear that the nation faces great peril. Nine in 10 are unhappy with the country's direction and see the federal debt as an ominous threat to its future.

What the MSM, and sadly, both major political parties fail to understand is that the Tea Party is not a political party in any conventional sense of the word and it has a profound distrust of the political establishment on both sides of the aisle.

Link from Instapundit.

SIX MONTHS TO GO until the largest tax hikes in history. Forty-eight pages of detail are here.

Our only recourse is November 2, 2010, when Americans will finally have the opportunity to send nearly 500 of the bums who got us into this mess to the unemployment lines.

THE FEDS ARE TRYING TO BLOCK MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE GULF OIL SPILL.



As should be obvious by now, I’m no fan of MSM coverage of disaster events, but riddle me this ... why does the government have no problem with an idiot journalist standing on the balcony of a beachfront condominium at the peak of a category IV hurricane and then have “safety concerns” when the same journalist wants to photograph an “oil soaked” boom in the water during calm weather?

Could it be that the spill isn’t as bad as the Government wants it to be? Or that the Government is even more incompetent than we already know it is?

More here.

IT’S 1938 AGAIN, and there will be war. The only remaining questions are time and place. Read the whole thing.

THE BATTLE OF NEW OIL-LEANS. Johnny Horton would be proud.

Linked from Instapundit.

PORTLAND POLICE TO reopen “crazed sex poodle” case. It’s always enjoyable to watch a pompous airhead get his just desserts.

Pass the popcorn.

SARAH PALIN on peace through strength and American pride.

WHO ARE YOU GOING TO KILL TODAY? If Pete Stark (D-CA) were my representative and running against a chimpanzee for re-election, I’d vote for the chimp knowing I’d be better represented in Congress.

BACK SOON: cataract surgery was today and I'm still in the "blurry vision" post-op cycle. Hopefully, tomorrow.

IS GOVERNMENT TOO BIG?



Only by a factor of 2 or 3. Or 4 or ....

The YouTube link here.

WASHINGTON POST HEADLINE (print edition): “Supreme Court expands gun rights.”

Hogwash! The Supreme Court decision merely affirmed that the Second Amendment applies to all Americans; that the fundamental right to bear arms cannot be violated by state and local governments.

For more, go here.

CHICAGO GUN BAN STRUCK DOWN: the right to bear arms is an individual right.

WE HAVE a stupid gap. It’s widening.

BRAVO, GOV. BREWER!



Mr. President, contrary to liberal belief, Arizona belongs to Americans. We intend to keep it, with your help - or without it.

Link from Hot Air.

SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK


June 26, 2010.

OUR TAX DOLLARS WELL SPENT: U.S. spent $2 million on study promoting condom use among intravenous drug users in Kazakhstan.

Link from Neal Boortz.

NO CHOCOLATE FOR YOU. A subsistence diet is healthier.