Streets were crowded with people who had no clue how to reach their destinations, families lost contact with each other, pizzas went unordered, and perhaps most disturbing, more than one child per family may have been conceived.

“We have done our best to set up emergency help centers,” said Chinese President Hu Jintao, “However, we set them up online and nobody can find them or figure out how to contact them. It’s best if you just stay in your homes. America, please help us! Send us one of your heroes like Superman or Batman or Elvis or Judge Reinhold. We would contact ourselves, but we can’t even find pictures of them.”

Google pulled out of China this week after the company became frustrated with the country’s heavy censorship.

“Google is an all-or-nothing deal,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt, “If you want maps, pictures, video, thousands of blogs, Gmail, everybody’s phone number, pictures of their houses, and every last bit of information in existence; you’ll have to agree to sift through a few web sites that mention the word ‘vagina.’ It’s just a fact of life. No unmentionables, no Google.”

Jintao, while making desperate pleas for help, did not back down from his desire to censor Google.

“Google flagrantly disregards the values that China holds dear,” said Jintao, “So, while we find ourselves suffering because we can’t locate the web page that tells us whether or not Abe Vigoda is dead, we still cannot give up on our fundamental values. Namely, we cannot let Google continue to show us search results that include words like ‘tromboner’ and ‘dipthong.’”

Jintao also expressed displeasure at the alarming number of web sites listed on Google that depict families with more than one child.

“Damn you, Coach Lubbock and your ‘Just the Ten of Us,’” said Jintao, “You will rot in hell alongside the man named Brady who married a harem of unnaturally blond women.”

President Obama pledged to send help to China immediately.

“We owe it to our Asian friends to help them through this crisis,” said Obama, “That is why I’m prepared to go to China, bow down to Mr. Jintao and kiss his ring.”

The President almost left before he remembered what he was going to China for.

“Oh yeah,” said Obama, “There was more than just the bowing part. We’ll also set him up with an emergency search alternative. I’m sure we can find a bunch of Yahoos who can help out.”

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That’s the conclusion drawn by “unbiased journalist” Rachel Maddow of MSNBC.

And although I agree with her that making African-Americans take a literacy test as a means to keep them from voting was shameful, it is a thing of the past and she needs to get over it.

Tom Trancredo, on the other hand, makes an excellent point.

I, like Mr. Trancredo, have been advocating for years that people should be required to take a basic civics test before being allowed to vote, and I would add the requirement that the potential voter must not only have knowledge of where a candidate stands on particular issues, but if the candidates’ prior voting record reflects his or her current political rhetoric.

As far as restricting voting rights to people who can’t spell or speak the word “vote” in English, Mr. Trancredo and I are in complete agreement.

If someone is an illegal immigrant, they should not be allowed to vote.
And I don’t want to hear any self-righteous whining from you loony liberals, you know that it happens.

And for the immigrants who came to America in search of a better life for themselves and their children, if they don’t care enough about the country they felt was better than the one that they left to learn to speak, read and understand it’s native language, they they should not be given a voice on selecting the people who run it.

Click Here to see a video of Rachel Maddow’s idea of fair and balanced reporting.

Sarah Palin, the former US presidential running-mate, on Sunday hinted strongly she was preparing a 2012 presidential bid and suggested that Barack Obama needed to take radical steps, such as going to war with Iran, to boost his chance of winning a re-election.

Ms Palin’s comments to Fox News Sunday followed a provocative speech on Saturday to the Tea Party Convention in Nashville.

Amid chants of “Run, Sarah, run”, Ms Palin told the Nashville audience: “America is ready for another revolution and you are part of this.”

The former governor of Alaska also mocked the president as a “charismatic guy with a tele-prompter” and accused him of being a “professor of law at a lecture” rather than the US commander-in-chief.

However, it was Ms Palin’s comments about Mr Obama on Sunday that are likely to cause most controversy. “Things would dramatically change if he [Mr Obama] decided to toughen up and do all that he can to secure our nation and our allies,” she told Fox.

“Say he decided to declare war on Iran, or decided to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do.”

Pressed on whether she would run in 2012, she said: “I would if I believe that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family.”

However, Ms Palin, who took a fee of $100,000 (€71,400, £62,500) for the speech, which she said she would donate to the “cause”, has also hinted that her association with the Tea Party movement, a large chunk of which boycotted the Nashville convention because it charged $549 a ticket, could open the way to a third-party candidacy along the lines of Ross Perot’s 1992 and 1996 presidential bids. “You’ve got both party machines running scared,” she said.

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Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his country’s atomic agency on Sunday to begin the production of higher enriched uranium, in a move that’s likely to deepen international skepticism about the country’s real intentions on the crucial issue of enriched uranium.

In comments broadcast on state television, Ahmadinejad said: “God willing, 20 percent enrichment will start” to meet Iran’s needs. He did not give a date for the start of the enrichment process.

He was speaking at a meeting attended by the head of Iran’s atomic energy agency, Ali Akbar Salehi.

Turning to Salehi, Ahmadinejad said: “Mr. Salehi, begin production of 20 percent” enriched uranium.”

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He has become an ally of global warming guru Al Gore.

A charlatan making millions off of his carbon credits crapola, a Ponzi scheme that rivals the Bernie Madoff scam.
A man without a single scientific credential to his name who flies around the world in a private jet, yet wants the rest of us to reduce our carbon footprint by driving a Prius

Prince Charles dismissed critics of climate change science yesterday.
He said evidence of long-term and potentially-irreversible effects was utterly overwhelming, adding: ‘This isn’t an opinion – it is a fact.’
In a bullish speech, the prince joined the row over whether false claims by some experts compromise the case for global warming.
He said: ‘I have watched with growing dismay and alarm the glee with which the sceptics have leapt upon the recent news stories that question the science that climate change is man-made and suggesting it is nothing more than a myth.
‘Well, if it is but a myth, and the global scientific community is involved in some sort of conspiracy, why is it then that around the globe sea levels are more than six inches higher than they were 100 years ago?

‘It is also a fact that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are 40 per cent higher now than they were before the industrial revolution.’

Prince Charles made the comments on a visit to Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry where he was launching a campaign to help people lead more environmentally sustainable lives.

He said: ‘To those who seek to persuade us that there is no such thing as climate change, in the face of the now overwhelming peer-reviewed scientific evidence, I would ask just one question  -  are you prepared to take the risk of being wrong?’

Charles said the planet’s poorest would suffer ‘first and worst’ if the problem was not tackled.
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The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.

FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Internet users’ “origin and destination information,” a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday.

As far back as a 2006 speech, Mueller had called for data retention on the part of Internet providers, and emphasized the point two years later when explicitly asking Congress to enact a law making it mandatory. But it had not been clear before that the FBI was asking companies to begin to keep logs of what Web sites are visited, which few if any currently do.

The FBI is not alone in renewing its push for data retention. As CNET reported earlier this week, a survey of state computer crime investigators found them to be nearly unanimous in supporting the idea. Matt Dunn, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the Department of Homeland Security, also expressed support for the idea during the task force meeting.

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In an interview with Fox News, Ayers, who along with Bernadine Dohrn were co-founders of the Weather Underground, a 70’s era group of violent radicals, he had this to say:

“I think that what we need is a peace movement, and I’m trying to build one.”

When questioned as to how he planned on doing it, his reply was:

“Well, I mean, how do you build a movement? How do you build a civil rights movement or peace movement? Look at history. All kinds of ways, but what we need is to stop spending billions of dollars on war and we need to invest in being a nation among nations and giving up on the insanity of thinking we can conquer the world.”

So, William Ayers wants to form a peace movement.

Seems kind of ironic coming from Ayers who, along with his wife Dohrn and their fellow domestic terrorists in the Weather Underground were responsible for attempting to blow up dozens of military and civilian security facilities, and during their reign of terror the actions of the Weather Underground were directly responsible for the killing of three police officers.

This talk of forming a peace movement is what William Ayers has to say now.

Compare it with what he had to say then:

“Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.”
“The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.”

Now if that statement didn’t urge you to hold hands with someone and sing Kumbaya, how about this one:

“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents.”

Oh yes Mr. Ayers, you’re a peaceable man.

About as peaceful as a suicide bomber.

You know, the next time you try and blow up a building, why don’t you try that method?

The election of Scott Brown to take over the Massachusetts Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy was only the opening battle in the Republican war to take back Congress.

According to data from Newsmax

In President Obama’s home state of Illinois, Republican Mark Kirk is polling higher than his Democrat opponent Alexi Giannoulias.

Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio holds a  12-point lead over RINO Governor Charlie Crist in Florida’s Republican Primary race for the U.S. Senate.

Incumbent Democrat Senators who currently trail their challengers include:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada

Michael Bennet of Colorado

Former RINO now certified Democrat Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania
(Specter swithed parties, knowing he would lose in the Republican primary. That plan isn’t working out so well, he is facing a stiff primary challenge from fellow Democrat Joe Sestak.)

And last but not least,  Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas

Democrats who are usually considered to be a “shoe-in” for re-election, but find themselves in competitive races this year are:

Barbara Boxer: California
Evan Bayh: Indiana
Russ Feingold: Wisconsin

In open-seat Senate races, Republican candidates are leading their Democratic challengers in Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota Delaware, Florida, Kentucky,  and Ohio.

I’m sure that these Democrat Senators struggling to hold onto their positions, as well as the DNC itself, hope that this isn’t the change they will see this November.

Cross-posted at Vote 2010

Republican Mark Kirk holds a modest 46 percent to 40 percent lead over Democrat Alexi Giannoulias in the race for the Illinois Senate following Tuesday’s party primaries.

The first post-primary Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 telephone survey of the Kirk-Giannoulias race finds just four percent (4 percent) of likely voters in the state prefer some other candidate, while another 10 percent are undecided.

Among voters not affiliated with either of the major parties, the Republican holds a sizable 59 percent to 22 percent lead.

In December, Giannoulias was up by three points over Kirk. In October, the two men were tied at 41 percent each. In mid-August, Kirk held a modest 41 percent to 38 percent lead over Giannoulias.

The two men, as projected in previous Rasmussen Reports surveys, defeated several challengers to win their respective party primaries on Tuesday. But while Kirk holds a six-point lead for now in the race for the Senate seat held by Barack Obama, he may still face an uphill struggle in a state that trends Democratic.

Kirk, a U.S. congressman, leads Giannoulias, Illinois’ current state treasurer, by a wide margin among male voters but trails his Democratic rival by 13 points among female voters.

Fifty-five percent (55 percent) of Illinois voters have a favorable opinion of Kirk, including 17 percent with a very favorable view of him. He’s viewed unfavorably by 33 percent, with just eight percent (8 percent) who have a very unfavorable opinion. Twelve percent (12 percent) are still not sure what they think of Kirk at this point.

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Election Day 1988 was only days away. Ronald Reagan was headlining a rally in Nevada. He said the options were the same as “when I stood before you.” Reagan framed the Democratic “choice” as one for “liberal policies of tax and spend, economic stagnation, international weakness, accommodation, and always, always blame America first.”

Reagan-era framing is regaining its relevance. Fair or not, liberalism’s worst stereotypes have returned from the dead to haunt Democrats. “Tax and spend liberal,” it’s back with the charge of being soft on security threats – a claim that dogged Democrats from debates over crime to the Soviets to terrorism.

Democrats branding deteriorated across the board from November 2008 to the close of 2009, according to the McClatchy-Ipsos poll. Democrats’ 17-percentage point advantage on taxes became a 2-point GOP advantage. Democrats’ 30-point advantage on the deficit became a 7-point GOP advantage. Democrats’ 9-point advantage on protecting the public against terrorism became a 7-point GOP advantage. The numbers were a light on Barack Obama’s new political terrain, a landscape eerily reminiscent to liberals of the bad old days.

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