Did Newt Dis the Gipper?

Today the big news attack against Newt is coming directly from the GOP establishment. An impatient, young Congressman Newt obviously felt that the Reagan admin was being too over cautious and moving way too slow in its battle against communism in 3rd world countries like Nicaragua. Mr Abrams does admit, though, that Newt "voted with the President regularly". And I have to believe that Reagan must have had some fondness for Newt in a grandfatherly way.

I do believe this account by Mr Abrams. Newt continues to have that "impatience" although its now tempered with age. More mature and controlled. But its still there and millions of middle Americans share that frustration and impatience with Newt. If we are an exceptional nation, why don't we start conducting ourselves as such? Why do we continue to kowtow to world opinion and world governing bodies?

It'd be fun to get some discussion going about this. Please feel free to comment.
( read Elliot Abrams NRO article in its entirety here )

Is Romney Electable? Not So Fast. . .

Whoever the GOP nominee is, they're going to get my enthusiastic support. Even if its Mitt Romney. That doesn't necessarily make Mitt electable. Fitsnews.com makes a fairly good argument here that he will not be all that electable . . .

There’s a generally-accepted notion that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the most “electable” Republican running for president in 2012.
In fact, that underlying notion pretty much defines his support.
Ask most Romney backers why they’re voting for him and they’ll tell you “we need someone who can beat Barack Obama.”
These people don’t particularly like or trust Romney, mind you, they’ve just been led to believe that his nomination is the key to getting rid of Obama and undoing things like Obamacare – which is especially ironic (and especially ignorant) in light of Romney’s prior support for socialized medicine.

( read article in its entirety at Fitsnews.com here )

The Angst-Ridden Electorate . . .

I spotted this article posted on Townhall.com. Written by Erica Werner of the AP. I love her term "the angst-ridden electorate", and I'm assuming she coined the phrase. Those 3 words, in my view, describe why this election cycle is far different than any we've had in the past couple of decades. Ms Werner does a fine job of painting a picture of the true situation, in my view. As phrases such as "income inequality" and "the widening gap between rich/poor" keep being tossed about by both sides (especially the dem's), the Gallop poll that Ms Werner cites debunks these charges by showing clearly that Mom/Pop middle America are not envious, jealous nor do they begrudge the rich their riches. But rather they simply want to return to a fat job market with lots of medium to high paying jobs for themselves and those closest to them.

So, try as they may, the dem's just aren't having much success in their efforts to beat the drums of class warfare.

( read Erica Werners AP article in its entirety - here )

NC 7th Candidate Ilario Pantano on Fox and Friends

Really proud of our own, Ilario Pantano. Candidate for North Carolina's 7th congressional district. Interviewed this morning by Brian Kilmeade on Fox and Friends.

( read article and view video interview here )

Open Challenge to the U.S. from Los Zetas

A Message to the Citizens of the United States of America from Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, Zeta Leader Z-40:


"Not the Army, not the Marines nor the security and anti-drug agencies of the United States government can resist us. Mexico lives and will continue under the regime of Los Zetas . . . "

We have severe national security problems right here in our own hemisphere. Zeta and other drug cartel violence is starting to bleed over into the border states and will test the resolve of the American people. The government of Mexico has proven powerless (or unwilling) to control this situation.

( read foxnews latino article in its entirety here )

A Convoluted, Confused Democratic Strategy

A must-read for anyone who fancys themselves as a reader of the political tea leaves, Thomas Edsall's NYT opinion piece "The Future of the Obama Coalition". Just about the time we begin to convince ourselves that the Republican dynamic is, well, not very dynamic we're given this gift from the democrats. They're in an even greater state of turmoil than we are. To quote Mr Edsall, ". . .the party will explicitly abandon the white working class". The problem with that reasoning is the word "white". The working class is not just white. They are the Contemporary Reagan Democrats and they're made up of educated and non-educated folks of all races. What they have in common is that they like to be independent and they all - work! That is if they can find a job.

So the democrats just can't refrain from pulling the race card so much so that they're employing it into their overall strategy - and in a very negative way. And it should back-fire on them. Question is, will our side make the necessary adjustments so that they can then exploit these massive chinks in the democrat party armor? We'd all like to think so. But our GOP has allowed the gift horse to wander off into the woods before.

Charging At Windmills? Not Don Quixote This Time...

"The Netherlands is finding out just how expensive offshore wind power really is. Last year the Dutch government paid 4.5 billion euros ($6 billion) in subsidies to wind producers. With a population of only 16.6 million, the Netherlands subsidizes wind production at an astounding cost of $370 per Dutch resident. This is unsustainable for the Dutch government, which has decided to reduce its own costs and transfer the subsidy costs to Dutch electricity consumers.
Since 1996, the Dutch government has been providing an 18 euro-cent (24 cents U.S.) per kilowatt hour subsidy to wind power producers. To put these subsidies in perspective, the average retail price for US electricity is only 10.60 cents per kilowatt hour. In other words, American electricity rates are less than half the Dutch’s wind subsidy..."

( Read the article in its entirety on the Institute for Energy Research website here )

Our crack CSC Blog research team has also learned that the same thing is happening with Massachusetts' Cape Wind Project. It is forecasted that once completed the Boston area electric users will pay about 34.7 cents per kilowatt hour to power their homes and businesses. Plus the government will have to continue to subsidize it.

And guess what else we've learned? The Green Energy folks have targeted coastal North Carolinians as their next victim. ( link ) No matter how the Green's try to spin it, Wind Energy can not be market-driven because it's costs are prohibitive. It must be subsidized by both government and you!