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US Federal Revenue, Spending and Debt

Kudos to Jon Gabriel of Ricochet.com for developing this chart.

At the Barack Obama website, you can buy a poster of our country’s flag being desecrated by the narcissist in chief.  It looks like this:

If this doesn’t make you mad, you are probably part of the 47% Mitt Romney mentioned a few months ago.

Dictionary.com defines Narcissism as follows:

inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love;vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness,egocentrism.

They should add a picture of Barack Obama to illustrate this definition.  The latest offense of the Narcissist-in-chief was recently discovered by the good folks at Commentary Magazine.  Seems our president has added his name and accomplishments(?) to the biographies of most of our recent presidents at Whitehouse.gov.  So when you read the bio of President Ronald Reagan, who is undoubtedly spinning in his grave over the damage this President is doing to the country he (Reagan, not Obama) loved, you get to read that Obama and Reagan stand unified in support of the Buffett Rule.

This kind of stuff just sickens me.

Saturday, we lost one of the great modern heroes/workhorses for the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Chuck Colson, reformed political operative turned missionary to prisoners, went to be with the Lord following complications resulting from a brain hemorrhage. Colson was 80.

I first became acquainted with Colson through his book Born Again, which had a significant impact on my spiritual walk in the mid-1980’s.  He similarly impacted thousands/millions of others through his books, speeches and the work of the Prison Fellowship ministry he founded.  A number of wonderful testimonials can be found at the National Review Online.

Chuck Colson was a man who made peoples’ lives better because he took the gospel to heart and lived it daily.  He was unapologetic in sharing is faith and standing up for “the least of these.”  He is a powerful example of the redemptive power of faith in Jesus Christ and he will be missed.  He truly was a good and faithful servant.

One of my biggest concerns about the upcoming election is that if President Obama is re-elected, Obamacare gets implemented, the American people lose their sense of responsibility for their own lives, and voila, we are France.  Not a pretty scenario.  A further blow to the American value system which underpins American Exceptionalism.

Shelby Steele has written an excellent article about Barack Obama’s disdain for American Exceptionalism in the Wall Street Journal.  The last couple of paragraphs are quite profound:

America seems to be facing a pivotal moment: Do we move ahead by advancing or by receding—by reaffirming the values that made us exceptional or by letting go of those values, so that a creeping mediocrity begins to spare us the burdens of greatness?

As a president, Barack Obama has been a force for mediocrity. He has banked more on the hopeless interventions of government than on the exceptionalism of the people. His greatest weakness as a president is a limp confidence in his countrymen. He is afraid to ask difficult things of them.

Like me, he is black, and it was the government that in part saved us from the ignorances of the people. So the concept of the exceptionalism—the genius for freedom—of the American people may still be a stretch for him. But in fact he was elected to make that stretch. It should be held against him that he has failed to do so.

Think about this statement – “His greatest weakness as a president is a limp confidence in his countrymen. He is afraid to ask difficult things of them.”  That sounds very much exactly like our President.  He won’t ask difficult things of the American people because he believes it is government’s role to make our lives easy.

A very interesting read – please take a look.

… is located here.  However, it’s really a story of two presses – the fawning press that easily overlooks when Barack Obama misspeaks, and the vengeful press which takes words out of context and amplifies its scorn for any conservative candidate or politician.  Unfortunately, both of those are the same press and it causes all conservatives to face “a headwind” in effectively communicating their conservative message.  All we ask for is consistent coverage of all the candidates.  Is that too much to ask for?

Gary Halbert has penned an outstanding analysis of Warren Buffet’s misguided NYT op-ed that the “rich” have been coddled and should therefore pay more taxes.

If Buffet feels he in undertaxed, he should send the gov’t a check.

President Obama Politics , sensing weakness in his poll numbers with Hispanics, has decided that it doesn’t make sense to deport ILLEGAL ALIENS, thereby “allowing many undocumented immigrants without criminal records to stay in the United States indefinitely and apply for work permits.”

Excuse me, but if you are in the U.S. illegally, does that not constitute criminal activity?  Does not the Constitution of the United States state that the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”?  I guess that part of the Constitution does not apply to this President.

Once again, this President is placing politics ahead of doing the job he was elected to do.

I am certainly no Rick Perry fan (can you say Gardisil or Trans Texas Corridor?) but he would be 14.5 trillion percent better than Barack Obama as President of this country.  However, he faces an uphill challenge when the MSM (NBC News) is carrying Obama’s water and painting Perry as a racist.

Kudos to Breitbart.TV for highlighting this deliberate misrepresentation of Rick Perry’s comments regarding the national debt into a racist statement.

An outstanding post by the Heritage Foundation about our President bypassing the Legislative branch to “transform America”, whether legal or not.  In summary:

Congress can’t pass Cap and Trade:  The EPA rules carbon dioxide a pollutant and starts to regulate it;

Congress can’t pass Card Check:  The NLRB implements rules to make it harder for employers to fight union elections and starts telling companies where they can and can not build factories;

Congress can’t pass the Dream Act:  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and attorneys begin to exercise selective enforcement of immigration law;

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) assumes authority over Internet regulation despite a ruling by a federal appeals court explicitly denying the commission that authority;

The President disagrees with the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and decides DOMA is unconstitutional: He tells the DoJ to stop defending it.

This guy has got to go!!!