Election 2012

With only a year until the next presidential election, I thought I would post a few informational videos to start your own explorations of the likely candidates and their various issues.
It's important to be an informed citizen after all. As far as campaign/political speeches, I think these are some of the more articulate and sensible positions you'll find.


Mitt Romney:




And in the interest of equal time, President Obama: http://youtu.be/ehYoIKTsiV0

see also:

Michele Bachman: http://youtu.be/LFB6LQ1-WKU
Howard Cain: http://youtu.be/uE5xZKszXMQ

Go Left Young Man

The Death of the American Idea by Mark Steyn

"I disagree with my fellow conservatives who think the Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Frank liberal behemoth will so obviously screw up that they'll be routed in two or four years' time. The President-elect's so-called “tax cut” will absolve 48 percent of Americans from paying any federal income tax at all, while those that are left will pay more. Just under half the population will be, as Daniel Henninger pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, on the dole. By 2012, it will be more than half, and this will be an electorate where the majority of the electorate will be able to vote itself more lollipops from the minority of their compatriots still dumb enough to prioritize self-reliance, dynamism, and innovation over the sedating cocoon of the nanny state. That is the death of the American idea — which, after all, began as an economic argument: “No taxation without representation" is a great rallying cry. “No representation without taxation” has less mass appeal. For how do you tell an electorate living high off the entitlement hog that it's unsustainable and you've got to give some of it back?"

We're such idiots.

3 days!!!!

Obama on Redistributing Wealth: It's a Given

We are so ignorant about political basics, that this could be regarded as anything but scandalous.