It’s the beginning of a new work week

And if you missed anything, check out The News from The Other McCain.

And as if that is not enough, you can always check out what Glenn “The Instapundit” Reynolds has on his site

h/t to Erica Coyle (aka The Patriotic Nurse) for her piece on Obama’s State of the Union Address falling on Groundhog Day this year. (NOTE: Isn’t every day Obama is President considered Groundhog Day? After all, we experience the same bolshoi from the un-American Obama Administration daily!)

Lately there has been a rash of Conservatives having troubles on Facebook for posting. Here are three of the articles on that.

• Facebook’s Anti Social Assault on Conservatives by Craig Andresen of The National Patriot
• FB...silencing conservative voices by Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor
• Is Facebook actively censoring conservative bloggers? by Joe Newby of The Spokane Conservative Examiner

I had gotten word yesterday (via Becca Lower which you can read at this link) that there was a Blogger in trouble. While she might be out of trouble now, it does not hurt to give her a hand if at all possible.

And in speaking of the Blogger in trouble, it seems that someone is out to cause more trouble for her. (h/t Becca Lower of Lowering The Boom)

It turns out that the attempted coup against Boehner was larger than first thought

Judge Jeanine Pirro is on the prowl against the Journal News for posting addresses of gun owners

It seems that not all Democrats favor Obama’s gun control proposals

However, most Democrats want more taxes and no tax cuts

For those of you on Twitter, there is a new hashtag called #TGDN out which was started by Todd Kincannon yesterday. Check it out and join up if you like.

The Grand Re-Opening of my show Red, Right, and Blue was this past Saturday. In case you missed it live you missed out on a lot. Fortunately for you, there is a podcast available. I will be having a special show on January 26 when I will be interviewing AJ Reissig - the author of Escape to Freedom, the first book in the FreedomRedux series - for the entire two hours. You can find more about the book at http://www.freedomredux.com.

That is all the news that is news for this morning. I will be tweeting out more news on Twitter (@RickBulow1974) throughout the day. Feel free to also check out my Rick Bulow, New Media page as well.

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The Weekend is upon us…

And so is The News

h/t to The Lonely Conservative for her piece on the Unemployment Rate for December

If you give a liberal an inch, they take a mile. (h/t The Other McCain)

h/t to Becca Lower for her piece on the Speaker vote in the 113th House of Representatives

And my good friend Cecil Brown has some good art. For instance, he made a couple of good drawings of Boehner and Cantor. (h/t Becca Lower)

Apparently, according to The Lonely Conservative, Slobbering Barney Frank (h/t Neal Boortz for the nickname) is not done ruining DC. He now wants to ruin the Senate.

h/t to Goldwater Gal for her piece on The Delusional Right-Wing and the GOP.

And here is a happy 1st anniversary to the Goldwater Gal website!

Here’s yet another case of a black Liberal bashing a black conservative.

the battle over the past month about the fiscal cliff hurt the middle class the most. (h/t Michelle Malkin)

Hope all can tune in to Red, Right, and Blue tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 PM Eastern as I debut from a new site!

And that is all that is news for today. Check out my Twitter (@RickBulow1974) for more news and also other information. Also, feel free to like the latest project I am working on. Remember that most of these projects do not come free, so please hit the tip jar and help me get these projects off the ground!

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No matter the weather or time

The News never sleeps.
House Speaker John Boehner may say he is through with one-on-one discussions with Obama, but we will find out at noon Eastern today if he is done as Speaker
In the “no big surprise” column, Al Jazeera buys Al Gore’s Current TV. (I cannot resist a joke here. Will it now be called Al JaGOREa?)
Maybe Mark Steyn is right. The Fiscal Cliff signaled the end of the American Era.
h/t to Diane Sori of The Patriot Factor for her Op-Ed: 85 Republicans should just put a 'D' after their names
It looks like Diane Feinstein will have an opponent to her anti-gun legislation bill she is going to propose in the 113th Congress. (h/t Jackie Wellfonder via The Other McCain)
h/t to Jackie Wellfonder for her piece on The Flesh and Blood of America
Michelle Malkin’s blog has a very interesting fact about the Senate Fiscal Cliff bill: Senators received 154-page fiscal cliff bill 3 minutes before voting on it. (by Doug Powers)
Goldwater Gal’s blog has a very interesting piece (by George Neat) on the future of America.
Join me this Saturday at 1:30 PM Eastern for Red, Right, and Blue as I have moved to another network.
And that is all the news that is news for now. I will be dropping more news links in my Twitter feed throughout the day (@RickBulow1974) so look there for more news. Also as I had just mentioned, check out Red, Right, and Blue this Saturday at 1:30 PM Eastern on a different network. Also, feel free to hit the tip jar as maintaining a blog (and also starting a network) takes a lot of work.

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70th Rant: Time to give up or time to fight on?

Last night the House voted to pass the Fiscal Cliff deal, thereby slapping the American People in the face. In fact, Speaker John Boehner (Republican from Ohio’s 8th Congressional District) voted for the deal (thereby proving that he deserved the title of Schmuck of the Week on Red, Right, and Blue for December 8, 2012) as well as Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (Republican from Wisconsin’s 1^st Congressional District) while House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Republican from Virginia's 7^th congressional district) and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (Republican from California's 22^nd congressional district) voted against the deal, thereby dividing the House Leadership and also possibly firing Boehner as Speaker.

This whole fiscal cliff debacle reminds me of the most recent issue of the Imprimis newsletter from Hillsdale College. In it Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale, had posted his interview on the Hugh Hewitt show from November 7. There was a very interesting dialogue at the beginning of the newsletter in which Hewitt had mentioned that “there are a lot of people who are close to saying “game over,” who are tempted now to retreat from politics—to go do missionary
work, for instance—and give up on the republic. But you have made your life’s work the studying of leaders who have refused to do that.” Dr. Arnn’s answer is one in which many people should read many times and commit it to memory.

That’s right. And the reason you can’t do that, by the way—the reason you can’t retreat into private life and give up on politics—is that the cost of doing it is overwhelming. If you don’t live under good laws, life becomes truncated and less happy, injustice becomes customary, civilization is compromised. And one
cannot acquiesce in that. One has to be involved. And since politics is natural to us—man is essentially political, as Aristotle says—and since we do live in the greatest modern country—founded that way at least—we owe it a lot. And many of the people who have seen the republic
through to where we are today have gone through things that are worse than this. So first of all, it’s a duty not to give up. But second, there are good reasons to
know that the game isn’t over.

When pressed by Hugh what he meant, Dr. Arnn went on to say,

One of them is that the election is shot through with contradictions. The obvious contradiction is that we have a divided government. The presidency and the Senate are in the hands of one party, and the House of Representatives and most governorships are in the hands of the other. A second contradiction is that a large majority of people continued to say in the exit polls that they were against raising taxes in order to cut the deficit.
One might be cynical and put that down to an irresponsible refusal to pay for existing benefits—to get more and more “free stuff.” But for a long time now, opinion polls have pointed towards the existence of a broad majority of Americans who favor smaller government. This obviously contradicts the re-election of the president and the Democratic gains in the Senate. The
country is still a house divided against itself, and that’s dangerous. But it doesn’t mean that there’s been a resolution. It means in fact the opposite: there is not a
resolution. That resolution still has to be made, and the making of it lies ahead of us, and not behind us.

Dr. Arnn went on to say that Reagan and Churchill were “two statesmen that regarded the Soviet Union as weak, even at the height of its power, because it was built on self-contradictory propositions and its system led to obvious and repeated injustices.”

You can read the entire interview here and also subscribe to Imprimis for free here. I strongly recommend subscribing to Imprimis as it brings the best and brightest from well-known politicians, columnists, and radio hosts like Thomas Sowell, Mark Steyn, John Bolton, Margaret Thatcher, Mark Helperin, and others. The main question here is, “will you give up, or will you fight on?”

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It’s a New Year…

And here is a new entry on The News from The Other McCain

And in speaking of The Other McCain, a tip of the hat on their coverage on The Fiscal Cliff with the following articles:

• House Passes Fiscal-Cliff Deal 257-167
• Fiscal-Cliff Kabuki nears final scene
• ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal Rumored; Obama Supporters Cheer Tax Increases on Rich
• Two Weeks Until Christmas and Three Weeks Until ‘Fiscal Cliff’
• Happy Fiscal Cliff Holidays

Speaking of The Fiscal Cliff, I had found a very interesting piece by Candi Goldman of Ponytail Patriots which puts it ALL in perspective

Here is a timeline of the Fiscal Cliff Showdown from The Hill.

I also have to give a tip of the hat to W.J.J. Hoge of Hogewash for his WONDERFUL series on the #BrettKimberlin issue. In case you missed it, here they are:

• Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin: Year in Review 1 (The Beginning)
• Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin: Year in Review 2 (The first Peace Order in the Kimberlin v. Walker case
• Dread Pirate #Brett Kimberlin: Year in Review 3 (The Injustice)*
• Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin: Year in Review 4 (The Revenge)
• Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin: Year in Review 5 (The Downfall of Kimberlin Continues)
• Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin: Year in Review 6 (The Seth Allen case goes sour for Kimberlin)
• Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin: Year in Review 7 (The defenders of Kimberlin)
• Dread Musician #BrettKimberlin: Year in Review (The Musicianship of Kimberlin)

(*Here is a brief note on the Dread Pirate Kimberlin series. Hoge said that the Vaughey ruling, where he told Walker not to blog, tweet, smoke signal, or whatever about Kimberlin, earned Kimberlin the nomination for The Second Annual Popehat “Censorious Asshat of the Year” Poll. No big surprise in the Vaughey ruling earning Kimberlin the nomination OR the fact that Kimberlin ran away with the win in the poll, getting 42% of the votes and getting more votes than the next 4 nominees COMBINED.)

And the #BrettKimberlin parade continues with the latest article from the esteemed Mr. Hoge: Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin and Perjury

h/t to Becca Lower of Lowering The Boom for her article on “The REAL Person of the Year? Andrew Breitbart” (I had read the article she is referencing. It is fantastic, and the author in the piece deserves a follow or three on Twitter. I did.)

There are two pieces that make me glad I left Chicago in 1987 and only go back to visit:

• “Entire [Jesse] Jackson Family” Selling Out Black Chicagoans: Black Activist (from Lowering The Boom)
• The Chicago Way: Obamaland Reports 500 Homicides (So Far) This Year (from The Other McCain)

Attention Sports Fans: Now you can get your Sports Fix on Breitbart Sports.

There are 4 more days until the Grand Opening of Conservative Nation Radio’s new website. Come check it out and be a part of history.

And that is all of the news that is news for today. I hope you had a wonderful New Year’s celebration. Stay tuned to this blog as there are other projects coming out in 2013 which is destined to blow the roof off. Basically, the liberals and other people will not know what hit them when I unleash a few projects from my crazed mind. Of course, none of these will get off the ground without help from you, so feel free to hit the tip jar and lend me a hand in getting these projects going.

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69th Rant: The 112th Congress and the Fiscal Cliff

Well, 2012 is fast coming to an end in 10 hours and 32 minutes, and there has been NO deal reached on the Fiscal Cliff. That means that the can will be kicked down the road for another three months when the debt ceiling is reached.

If you remember from the beginning of the 112^th Congress there was the matter of the debt ceiling debacle from July to August, 2011, where the Republican-led House of Representatives had brought  Cut, Cap, and Balance to the floor on July 15 (as H.R. 2560; the entire transcript of the debate can be found in the Congressional Record here) and it passed on July 19 with a vote of 234-190 with 8 members not voting. Cut, Cap, and Balance in effect died in the Democrat-led Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) called it one of the worst pieces of legislation he had ever seen, and even Barack Obama said he would veto it should it pass the Senate. On July 20, the bill was read twice in the Senate and placed on the Calendar (The entire Senate record can be found in five separate places; S4743-4751, S4751-4779, S4781-4795, S4813-4826a and S4813-4826c) for a vote. The vote to table H.R. 2560 occurred on July 22 and that vote passed with a vote of 51-46 with 3 not voting.

I mention the Cut, Cap, and Balance debate and the debt ceiling debacle as that is how and why we are at this point where we are about to fall off the fiscal cliff. If the Senate had passed Cut, Cap, and Balance I feel that it would have been one step in avoiding the fiscal cliff. Now we are on our way toward that cliff, and as I had mentioned in a prior rant,

there is a cliff symbolizing socialism ahead of us, and this election is a make or break election in which we either have a chance to put the car in Reverse or keep it in Drive. If we keep going the way we are, then as I had mentioned in recent editorials, the country as we know it will cease to exist. We need someone to put a bandaid on the bleeding, and Mitt Romney in my opinion is the one to if not stop the bleeding outright at least stop the bleeding for 4 or even 8 years.

Well, we had failed to put a bandaid on the bleeding of the country November 6, and now we are bleeding to death. In that same rant and also in another rant, I had mentioned the Tytler circle, and those words are ever so true even here once more.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.  It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.

"From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.  These nations have progressed through this sequence:

"From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage."

I had said that we are in the selfishness to apathy or apathy to dependence stage. After looking at this debate and debacle over the fiscal cliff, I would say that we are fully in the apathy to dependence stage. Right now Atlas is totally shrugging, and there is nothing that can be done to stop him, even if Obama and Congress comes to a deal because it is the final countdown. As Robert Stacy McCain of The Other McCain said on December 10, “It’s either (a) a hopeless stalemate, or (b) the prelude to a total GOP surrender, and there not really anything you or I can do about it.”

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End of the Year Retrospective

Well, 2012 is fast coming to an end believe it or not. So much had happened that it is hard to fit into a blog, both event-wise as well as the friends I had made online. I would like to say to everyone first, thank you for being an inspiration to me this year. Each of you had brought much joy and passion into my life in 2012. Some of you more than others and I will get into that later. One main thing is though we had not met face to face (and for 80% of you I would like to just because you mean a lot to me) you had treated me not as one with a handicap like many I had met in my real life have done. Rather, you welcomed me into your online world as a “normal” person.

Now granted there might be some things we disagree on, and for a few we even came down to verbal blows to the point I wished I would have climbed through the computer monitor and throttle you, but at least for the most part we have been civil to each other and handled our disagreements like gentlemen and not like animals. There are still a couple of issues we disagree on and in 2013 I will get into why I believe the way I do a little more. However, I also realize we are all on the same page and have the same goal in mind – the betterment of America.

There are certain people I would like to thank personally. I had done so in my blog entry on Christmas Day, but will say it here once more.

To Michael B. Smith - we have been through thick and thin from our days on the Herman Cain Dashboard back in the Summer of 2011. While we might have parted ways back in late December 2011 to early January 2012 due to you supporting Santorum when I supported Mr. Newt, I am ever thankful to you for allowing me 2 hours every Saturday to vent and let my crazed mind roam on Conservative Nation Radio.

To Harriet Baldwin and Patricia Baber - Thank you both for being former co-hosts with me on Red, Right, and Blue. No matter what, I still consider you a part of the Red, Right, and Blue family as well as a part of the Conservative Nation Radio family.

To Billie Cotter - Thank you for stepping up and being my co-host on Red, Right, and Blue. We might disagree on a couple of things, but no matter what we always make the show as interesting and intriguing as can be.

To Becca Lower - You have come a long way in the year or so since we had met. I am thankful you had stepped in for Patricia that one time on Red, Right, and Blue and that catapulted you into making your own blog and now your own website at Lowering the Boom. Keep up the good work.

I know there are others I might be forgetting, but as I said at the outset you all have been an inspiration to me over the past year. I would like to wish you all a very happy New Year. Here’s to good friends and good times now and in the year to come!

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68th Rant: Remove Boehner as Speaker of the House

As I had mentioned in my 67th rant, Barack Obama and John Boehner had met the beginning of the month to figure out a way to avoid the fiscal cliff. Just before Christmas Boehner had put forth a “Plan B” which he had pulled off of the table after it was found out that he would not have the required votes for it to pass. Stuff like this had been Boehner’s modus operandi for the past 2 years. Granted, some of the things the House had done in Boehner’s term as Speaker was good, but for the most part it ALMOST felt like we were seeing another term by San Fran Nan Pelosi as House Speaker!

The Republicans kept the House on November 6, but it was a pyrrhic victory as they lost ground in the Senate and lost the chance to win the White House and stop Obama fundamentally transforming America into a Socialist state. There had been some scuttlebutt to replace Boehner as House Speaker, and I am in agreement with that.

There had been many articles floating about online in regards to who SHOULD replace Boehner as House Speaker, and on Red, Right, and Blue last Saturday, Matt Boyle of Breitbart was talking about the division in the House as well as who should replace Boehner. Some possible candidates to replace Boehner are:

• Paul Ryan – as reported to Laura Ingraham by her sources on Capitol Hill.
• Bob Goodlatte – requested by the sixth District of the Virginia GOP to challenge Boehner
• Kevin McCarthy – as mentioned by Republican Strategist and Whip ally Dee Dee Benkie

I like the pick of Paul Ryan to replace Boehner. I also like Michelle Bachmann to replace Boehner as House Speaker. Of course, those two are IF the Speaker has to come from the House membership. If the Speaker does not have to come from the House membership, then I have a couple of options of my own:

• Allen West – He lost his House seat in November (due to fraud) to Patrick Murphy. I had thought he was an effective Congressman and as such thought he would make a great Speaker in the future should he have remained in the House. Now that he is not a House member (effective January 3, 2013) I think it would be poetic justice if the majority were to drop Boehner for West
• Newt Gingrich – Say what you will about Newt as a man and as a 2012 presidential candidate. His term as House Speaker after the Republican Revolution in 1994 gave America a balanced budget after many meetings with Bill Clinton. Newt was an effective bulldog against Clinton in the meetings on the budget and the government shutdown, and we need a bulldog to face Obama now.

We are stuck with Obama for 4 more years. If Boehner keeps the Speakership in 2013, then we look forward to the Republicans losing the House in the 2014 mid-term elections. If that happens, then we will be stuck with either Pelosi as Speaker or (even worse) Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the next House Speaker.

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YEAR IN REVIEW SHOWS

The end of the year means there will be a ton of radio and TV shows doing end of year (commonly known as year in review or countdown) shows. Things will be no different this year There are two networks with WONDERFUL year in review shows

• Starting Friday night, Own The Narrative will host Part 1 of a 2-part year in review show hosted by Titan92 at 11 PM Eastern, going through the year from January to June.
• Then on Saturday afternoon, Red, Right, and Blue will host their own Year in Review show at 1:30 PM Eastern.
• On Sunday, Soldiers of Patriotism will have a year in review show at 4 PM Eastern with the hosts of Conservative Nation Radio discussing what they had done in 2012 and where they will go in 2013.
• Then later that night Own The Narrative will be back on the air with Part 2 of the year in review hosted by Titan92 at 11 PM Eastern, going from July to December.

It all leads up to New Year’s Eve and the ball dropping in Times Square at midnight Monday night. Hope all can tune in and enjoy the shows. These are shows that you do not want to miss live. In the event you do miss them, you can always catch the podcasts on the Conservative Nation Radio and the Own The Narrative sites.

Conservative Nation Radio (http://www.conservativenationradio.org) is home to the following wonderful shows:
Women Patriots 9 PM Eastern on Tuesdays
The Catholic Warrior 7 PM Eastern on Wednesdays
Nobamanation 8 PM Eastern on Thursdays;
Things Not Seen 12 PM Eastern on Fridays;
Red, Right, and Blue 1:30 PM Eastern on Saturdays
Soldiers of Patriotism 4 PM Eastern on Sundays

Own The Narrative (http://www.ownthenarrative.com/live) is home to the following wonderful shows:
Open Forum at 11 PM Eastern on various days
PWN the Narrative 11 PM Eastern every other Sunday

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It’s the Weekend

And here is The News to get your weekend started right

h/t to Robert Stacy McCain for his piece on a Constitutional right to Donkey Sex (This apparently has something to do with a book I had read about but no clue what it means)

And another episode of The Erik Loomis Chronicles was posted on The Other McCain yesterday

h/t to Smitty for his piece about the Super Committee of 2011 being this year’s coal in the stocking

h/t to Howard The Bluegrass Pundit for his piece on cell phones spying on us

h/t to Donald Douglas for his piece on advice for any last-minute shoppers

Also, I have to give Donald Douglas credit for his pieces from The Five yesterday: Greg Gutfeld calling out Prof. Adolph Reed and also Bill O'Reilly slamming Bob Beckel on the Marine being jailed in Mexico

From Roll Call:

•  Cory Booker eyes NJ Senate seat held by Lautenberg, not the NJ Governor seat held by Christie
• Ben Affleck not ruling out a Senate Bid

And another wise quote from W.J.J. Hoge

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

—Theodore Roosevelt

Hugh Hewitt held a wonderful interview with Dr. Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, the day after the election. The interview was published in the December edition of Imprimis. Click here to read the interview or Click here to find out how to subscribe to Imprimis for free. (NOTE: I have been an Imprimis subscriber for a little over a year now, and every issue is wonderful. Imprimis is highly recommended by me)

Don’t forget coming up on December 24 is the 1st Annual Christmas Eve Special on Conservative Nation Radio. Click here for details and to RSVP. Also remember if you miss it you can also click this link to listen to it in the archive

That is all for the news. Remember you can keep an eye to my Twitter feed (@RickBulow1974) for more news as I see and retweet throughout the day.

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