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Cartoons of the Week

March 6th, 2010 § 2

Editorial Cartoon by Chuck Asay.

Editorial Cartoon by Glenn Foden.

Google, Microsoft Spar on Antitrust

March 5th, 2010 § 0

I don’t know a lot about the Google controversy, but reading a Wall Street Journal article entitles “Google, Microsoft Spar on Antitrust,” piqued my interest.

Seeking $335,000 in unpaid advertising bills, Google Inc. filed suit against a small Internet site in Ohio in October. The complaint was so routine it was just two sentences long.

Google never expected the response it got. Last month, the small Internet site countered with a 24-page antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the search-engine giant of a litany of monopolistic abuses.

This sounds like a Hollywood movie thriller drama with mega corporations fighting each other to see who will be the king of the search world. IT turns out, so says Google, that it’s Microsoft really behind this “little gy.”

To Google, the pattern is clear: It contends Microsoft is embarking on a proxy war against it through various apparently unrelated cases, preparing the ground for a broader antitrust assault of some sort on Google’s dominance in the online world. “It’s become clear that our competitors are scouring court dockets around the world looking for complaints against Google into which they can inject themselves, learn more about our business practices, and use that information to develop a broader antitrust complaint against us,” said a Google spokesman, Adam Kovacevich.

But I do begin to wonder whether Google is doing what many mega businesses do; try to create a monopoly.

The legal maneuvering, at a minimum, shows that Google—with nearly 75% of the Internet-search advertising market in America and over 90% in France and Germany—has now become the high-tech giant that some would like to hobble.

With a 75% market share, I’m concerned that Google will be able to block all other new search engine companies. We don’t allow any TV, radio or other media company to capture the whole spectrum of media.
Another article I’m reading to try to sort this out is a NY Times article “It’s Not Just Microsoft Against Google.“

Ann McElhinney’s, from Not Evil Just Wrong, speech at CPAC. Great passion.

March 3rd, 2010 § 0

This was truly one of the best speeches I heard at CPAC 2010.

Ann McElhinney, the director of Not Evil Just Wrong and Mine Your Own Business speaks about anti-development bias in James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar and about environmental indoctrination in public education system in US.

Imagine if Sarah Palin had uttered this Biden gaffe

February 28th, 2010 § 0

So what century does our Vice President think we’re in today? Here is accidentally says the 20th century when I’m sure he meant the 21st century. The interesting thing is that the AP wrote that Biden said the 21st century

“I absolutely refuse to accept the notion that the United States of America is not going to lead the world economically throughout the 21st Century,” Biden said during remarks to supporters on the Delta campus.

Lame Stream Media bias? I’m shocked.

via The Powers That Be.

Oh my. Socialist Bernie Sanders evokes ignoring Nazi threat in 1930’s … with Global Warming Deniers

February 28th, 2010 § 1

One of the strongest arguments for fighting the War against Islamic Terrorism is looking back at history at how France, Britain and most of Europe ignored Hitler’s actual speeches, his nation’s re-armament and aggression expanding the boundaries of Germany. If they had just listened to what Hitler said he would do, they could have avoided World War II. There are countless books written about it. Thomas Sowell’s latest book Intellectuals & Society has a great chapter detailing that era.

And it’s no different today. Listen and read what Osama bin Laden, or Ayman al-Zawahiri have said, and you’ll know their aim is to defeat our way of life, and create a world dominated by Islam and Sharia Law.

So here’s The Senate’s sole (admitted) Socialist, using the same argument to sell Global Warming. Sanders equates watching Hitler’s rise to power with the supposed “settled science” and the claims of Al Gore and the 2500 scientists, blah blah blah.

And the irony is that Bernie (as he did with Saddam Hussein) would have done exactly the same as Neville Chamberlain did. Appeased Hitler while waiving the Munich Agreement piece of paper claiming “Peace In Our Time.”

Give me a break.

This, like so many other examples, clarifies the philosophical divide between how Liberals and Conservatives see the world and their different perceptions of human nature. That subject is also amply described in Sowell’s latest.

Cartoons of the Week

February 27th, 2010 § 0

Editorial Cartoon by Chuck Asay.

Editorial Cartoon by Michael Ramirez.

Editorial Cartoon by Bob Gorrell.

Editorial Cartoon by Gary Varvel.

Editorial Cartoon by Lisa Benson.

A billion, or a trillion. What’s the difference to an MSM reporter?

February 27th, 2010 § 0

Kelly O’Donnell just reads what’s on the screen. When the numbers get that high, people don’t even comprehend what it means.

via The Powers That Be.

Paul Ryan gives Excellent Anaysis of ObamaCare. Should be our next VP

February 25th, 2010 § 0

Paul Ryan: Hiding Spending Doesn’t Reduce Spending

“I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future.”
(Remarks by President Obama to a Joint Session of Congress, September 9, 2009)

This afternoon Budget Committee Ranking Member Ryan walked through why the bill put forward by Democrats FAILS the Presidents deficit test.
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Obama & Dem incredible hypocrisy in 2005: 51 Vote ‘Nuclear Option’ Is ‘Arrogant’ Power Grab Against the Founders’ Intent

February 24th, 2010 § 0

I can’t understand how these people live with themselves. And worse, the LameStream Media won’t air this.

via BreitbartTV

Many things I did not know about the nature of Islam.

February 22nd, 2010 § 0

From CPAC, Steve Coughlin, Former Pentagon Islam specialist gave an incredible lecture.

via Pam Geller’s Atlas Shrugs compilation of 6 videos.

Charlie Cook: “Very hard” to see how Democrats keep House

February 22nd, 2010 § 0

Charles Cook has the best record of predicting the outcomes of elections. I hope he’s right this time too. And if he is … and the Republicans take back the House (and maybe even the Senate), they had better get it right this time. If not I believe it will be the end of the Republican Party and there will be a successful third Party.

Of course, Charlie Cook or not, it’s still a looong way before November.

via Chris Cillizza

Keith Olbermann “look-a-likes” at MSNBC. Raaacism.

February 22nd, 2010 § 0

I love this. Liberals are such hypocrites.

via John J. Miller

HowTheWorldWorks – Joe Biden Says Washington is Broken!

February 18th, 2010 § 0

I’m at CPAC, but wanted to make enough time to post Lee Doren’s latest.

Quote on Why They Hate Us – Michael Totten

February 14th, 2010 § 0

I’m sure the vast majorities of believers of Islam do not want to kill us. But if the Islamo-Facists who do want to kill us are 1%, that’s about 13,000,000 people.

On the subject of anti-Americanism, I think you nailed it, and it really isn’t that complicated. You wrote, “Anti-Americanism is the region’s lingua franca, and from Nasser to Nasrallah it has not changed in over fifty years. The United States is hated not because of what it does, or because of what it is. The United States is hated for what it is not, not Arab and not Muslim. — Michael Totten

via Right Wing News.

Cartoons of the Week

February 13th, 2010 § 0

Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez:

I’m ambivalent on this next one. I like some things about Sarah, but also agree with these “crib notes.”

And the next cartoons, by Chuck Asay, and Gary McCoy, gives the other side of the same coin.

Political Cartoons by Chuck Asay:

Editorial Cartoon by Gary McCoy:

I really do believe that the majority of “Tea Party” movement is based on the same principles that the writers of our Constitution understood.

Here’s the very same people who, when George W. Bush was in office, publicly said we were losing in Iraq, and undermined the WOT in myriad ways.

Editorial Cartoon by Chip Bok:

Editorial Cartoon by Bob Gorrell:

John Brennon thinks we’re all idiots.

February 11th, 2010 § 0

Senator Jeff Sessions talks straight about John Brennan’s absurd claims about reading Abdulmutallab Miranda rights.

It’s great that there are a few (very few) Republicans willing to just tell the truth as they see it and leave the political correctness behind. Sessions doesn’t care if the NY Times doesn’t write good things about him.

via Power Line

Wow. The BBC is Questioning Mann Made Global Warming

February 11th, 2010 § 0

That the BBC is beginning to question Climate Change is a very very encouraging sign. It should only take NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, MSNBC, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times …. about 5 years to follow suit.