American Glob

Obama is a Leo (the Sun sign) and King Louis the XIV was called “the Sun King.”

They have so much in common. Discuss…

Via Instapundit.

I only ask because to me, this sounds a lot worse than what’s going on in Arizona…

Jackie Bugnion is an American citizen who has lived in Switzerland for 45 years. She had two securities accounts in her adopted country but in the spring she was told that she should find another home for her money. This summer those accounts were moved into SEC-regulated subsidiaries. “I call them the ‘American ghettos’,” she says. These subsidiaries are subject to higher fees and higher minimum investments than normal accounts. “It makes you feel toxic when this happens to you after you have been the client of a bank for years,” says Ms. Bugnion.

American expatriates are fast becoming the world’s financial refugees. Onerous legislation from the U.S. government is making it too difficult – and too expensive – for banks to service U.S. citizens that live abroad. Expats are being left with a fast diminishing range of options. An increasing number are taking the most drastic step and renouncing their citizenship.

HT to Glenn Reynolds.

Don’t worry Newsweek, we’re not listening to you. Which is precisely why you are all looking for jobs now.

Via Instapundit comes this piece of laugh out loud Newsweak spin on Tuesday’s primaries.

Why Tomorrow’s Primaries Won’t Be a Big Deal—No Matter What Happens
Prepare yourself. Political types are billing tomorrow as a Super Duper Tuesday of sorts—”a date that ranks as the most important of the election calendar so far,” according to Politico’s Charles Mahtesian. That means, of course, that there will be some banner election contests: Democratic Senate primaries in Pennsylvania and Arkansas, a Republican Senate primary in Kentucky, and a special election to fill the late John Murtha’s congressional seat, again in the Keystone State. But even more, it means that there will be a lot of people like me taking to the airwaves and the Internet to tell people like you what “really’s going on here.”

Here’s a tip: don’t listen to us. Truth is, you already know what’s going on.

HT to Instapundit.

From GOProud:

“We want to thank Former First Lady Laura Bush for her courageous support for marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. Laura Bush now joins prominent conservatives such as former Vice President Dick Cheney in support of same-sex marriage.

“It will be impossible for the gay community to achieve equality of opportunity without the support of conservative voices like Laura Bush. I further hope my friends on the left note that now we have members of the Bush, Cheney and McCain families in support of marriage, but no Obamas or Bidens.”

Conservatives who have voiced support for gay marriage:

First Lady Laura Bush

Vice President Dick Cheney

Cindy McCain

Moe Lane of Red State

Roger Simon of Pajamas Media

ALSO: The nation’s most prominent military bloggers, most of them conservative, have now advocated a change to the military’s DADT policy.

UPDATE: Instapundit links! Welcome Insta-readers!

Left wing/media + Tea Party = Define. Demonize. Rinse. Repeat.

It’s like watching a 3 year old struggle with a jigsaw puzzle for AGES 14 AND UP.

The 3 year old thinks he’s grown up enough to do the puzzle, but after hours of frustration, throws the box of pieces at the wall in anger and screams “RACISTS!”

Charles Blow of The New York Times hit that breaking point last week.

Mark Lilla, writing in the New York Review of Books is the latest 3 year old to step up to the plate.

Many Americans, a vocal and varied segment of the public at large, have now convinced themselves that educated elites—politicians, bureaucrats, reporters, but also doctors, scientists, even schoolteachers—are controlling our lives. And they want them to stop. They say they are tired of being told what counts as news or what they should think about global warming; tired of being told what their children should be taught, how much of their paychecks they get to keep, whether to insure themselves, which medicines they can have, where they can build their homes, which guns they can buy, when they have to wear seatbelts and helmets, whether they can talk on the phone while driving, which foods they can eat, how much soda they can drink…the list is long.

Apparently, by Lilla’s estimation, Americans should not be allowed to decide these things for themselves. Don’t you cave men know that your social betters know what’s in your best interest? Lilla’s article is long but it doesn’t take him too long to reach the tantrum point…

A new strain of populism is metastasizing [Note the Cancer reference] before our eyes, nourished by the same libertarian impulses that have unsettled American society for half a century now. [SNIP] Welcome to the politics of the libertarian mob.

Forgive me for asking, Professor Lilla but aren’t the words “libertarian” and “mob” mutually exclusive?

Robert Stacy McCain, commenting on the same article observes…

An exaggeration, of course, but you sense the source of liberal Lilla’s frustration. What was the point of the Left’s “long march through the institutions” if, having captured those institutions, they can’t use them to tell everybody else what to do?

Streiff at RedState smartly adds…

This is a very convenient position to take when you’re in Mr. Lilla’s position. The alternative is to admit that your entire world view is being repudiated by most of the country.

Here’s an explanation of the Tea Party for Misters Blow and Lilla that any three year old could understand. Federal spending and the expansion of government under eight years of George W. Bush was bad. Under Obama, it’s already worse.

Libertarianism is not the enemy and the Tea Party movement is not racist.

Now who wants a cookie?!

Dan Riehl recently posted a video throwback to the the 2008 presidential campaign which was featured on Instapundit and Reason.

It got me thinking about the 2008 election and I suddenly remembered the “Obamacans.” Remember these morons?

Susan Eisenhower is more than just another disappointed Republican. She is also Ike’s granddaughter and a dedicated member of the party who has urged her fellow Republicans in the past to stick with the GOP. But now Eisenhower, who runs an international consulting firm, is endorsing Barack Obama. She has no plans to officially leave the Republican Party. But in Eisenhower’s view, Obama is the only candidate who can build a national consensus on the issues most important to her—energy, global warming, an aging population and America’s standing in the world.

SNIP

Former GOP congressman Joe Scarborough, who anchors MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” says many conservative friends—including Bush officials and evangelical Christians—sent him enthusiastic e-mails after seeing Obama’s post-election speeches in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. “He doesn’t attack Republicans, he doesn’t attack whites and he never seems to draw these dividing lines that Bill Clinton [does],” Scarborough told NEWSWEEK.

I wonder how the “Obamacans” will be voting in 2010 and 2012.

I bet I can guess…

My video of the best moment from tonight’s Massachusetts Senate debate. Scott Brown reminds everyone that “Its the people’s seat.”

NOTE: This video is guaranteed to go viral.

It’s being shown at Gateway Pundit and Hot Air.

The video is also being shown at Legal Insurrection and to give credit where it’s due, Professor William Jacobson has done an outstanding job covering the Scott Brown campaign.

UPDATE: The video is also being displayed at Althouse, NEO-NEOCON, Instapundit ,The Other McCain, Gay Patriot, and Weasel Zippers.

Please visit my YouTube Channel for more great vids.

BIG shout out to Smitty at The Other McCain for citing American Glob as his source for this video.

Thanks, man.

Moe Lane at Red State links, thanks Moe!

UPDATE: Linked at the top of Drudge. Wow!

Money quotes at 8:07

Gillespie:

“If you’re a Libertarian, does your future depend on the health of the Republican Party?”

Reynolds:

“If you’re a Libertarian, neither party is all that great but the Republicans are clearly less bad.”

I disagree with Glenn Reynolds on only one point and that is his view of Sarah Palin. He says she wasn’t ready for national politics. I say the media had/has a crystal clear agenda to destroy her. Moreover, as a state governor she was/is more qualified for national office than Obama, Biden and McCain combined.

And Instapundit says C.J. Burch has already suggested Palin as a “Tea Party” candidate.

Hmmmm……