Dems, incumbents get wake-up call

John F. Harris, Jonathan Martin: POLITICO

RICHMOND, Va. — Eager to drain the 2009 elections of drama and import, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs claimed Tuesday night that President Barack Obama was “not watching returns.”

You can be sure that he is studying them closely now:
The off-year elections were, in two big races, an unmistakable rebuke of Democrats, reshuffling Obama’s political circumstances in ways likely to have severe near-term consequences for his policy agenda and larger governing strategy.

ObamaCare and Me

By Zane F Pollard, MD

I have been sitting quietly on the sidelines watching all of this national debate on healthcare. It is time for me to bring some clarity to the table by explaining many of the problems from the perspective of a doctor.

First off, the government has involved very few of us physicians in the healthcare debate. While the American Medical Association has come out in favor of the plan, it is vital to remember that the AMA only represents 17% of the American physician workforce.

Obama’s Democrats trying backdoor war against your 1st Amendment Rights

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Make no mistake about it, President Obama has sent a clear message during the first two weeks of his leadership; the anti-Christian, anti-faith movement Conservatives feared during his manipulative campaign is in deed real and moving forward.

Letter to the Editor: Payday Loan Became Vicious Hook

We, the people of this great commonwealth, owe ourselves freedom from exploitation by payday lenders. This must not be just a problem for lower-middle- class workers.

We each have different needs. So we each seek different solutions. The solution should not turn into a bigger problem, as payday loans have.

President Obama: “Our patchwork heritage is our strength”

With one quote the President summed up the social challenge before him.

President Obama’s call for a more personal investment from all American’s is dependent on his ability to convince a cynical society to recognize diversity as the strength he alluded to in his address.

Editorial: The True Miracle of the Day: The Peaceful Transfer of Power

By Peter Roff
Conservative Commentator/Former Senior Political Writer for United Press International

Inauguration Day 2009 is as important as everyone says it is. There’s no escaping it. It is, as most of those covering it have already observed, an historic day, full of meaning for people all across the world. That a mere half-century after a time when blacks in parts of America were routinely prevented from voting we inaugurate an African-American president of the United States is a time of celebration for us all. It is a tangible symbol of how far the nation has come on race, one of the thorniest issues we as a nation have ever had to confront. We must not, however, lose sight of the fact that this is a subtext of the real story.

Today’s the Day…Tomorrow’s the question

Today America ushers in the 44th President of the United States. With that, a promise of a better America for all
Americans will be put to the test, not in the first 100 days, but in the first 100 hours.

A HISTORICAL ELECTION: America Speaks and Democracy Lives To Tell About It

Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore once said to me, “Whatever happens on November 4th the sun is still going to rise on November 5th; you’re still going to have to take care of your family, you’re still going to go to work that day, and life will still go on. If you don’t like the what happened on the 4th, your responsibility is to go out and affect change. If these things don’t work for you; stay out of politics…”

America made history on November 4, 2008. If you don’t like it, what are you going to do about it?

The Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority

If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to it. Without the ability to filibuster, the Senate would become like the House, able to pass whatever the majority wants.

Connecting the dots to OBAMA’s radical leftist mentality

Around 1979 Barack Obama started college at Occidental in California.

He is very open about his two years at Occidental where he apparently experimented with all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time, and though he was thought to have a brilliant mind, he did not apply himself to his studies.

During his time at Occidental, ‘Barry’ (that was the name he used all his life) had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan. During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ’round the world’ trip. On the trip he stopped to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, and then he went to Africa to visit his father’s family.