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The Adults are Back In Charge

And In the Imaginary World

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From the Republican Talking Points:

Many companies only allow their employees to choose their health care plan once a year during open enrollment. Meanwhile, if consumers want to buy a cell phone, they get options every day . The President believes our health care system should be as responsive to individual needs as our other consumer marketplaces.

Seriously, do the people who write these not understand that getting out of a cell phone contract can be a huge pain in the ass? It’s almost identical to the yearly contract at a minimum and often a 2 year contract.

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A Surprise to Some that Obama Endorsed Daley

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After all he passed up Dorothy Brown.

It took me a bit to stop laughing. I pointed out in comments Meeks called her a loser (and since apologized), but the larger thing is that no one of any import in Illinois is going to endorse someone against Daley unless someone like Jackson Jr. ran.

Frankly, I’m more annoyed when Costello gets endorsed, but I’m alone on that for the most part. I’ve never believed in the purity notion that someone cannot have anything to do with someone under investigation in a political party. In Illinois there wouldn’t be much of a political party on either side.

The caterwauling over this and the Stroger endorsement kind of crack me up. I’m not a fan of Todd or his father, but endorsing a member of your party is hardly earth shattering behavior. I find the Giannoulis endorsement the dumbest move, but then again Alexi won and the first signs are promising.

We have people who are pure in who they back and we call them Greens, Constitution Law Party Members and Libertarians. Good for them.

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It’s Bigoted to Point Out a Cult Leader Runs a News Organization

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So Insight tells me:

Both Wolfson and Kurtz raise the issue of Insight being owned by the Unification Church. This is not only irrelevant, but bigoted and, unfortunately, consistent with The Post?s 25-year attempt to discredit if not destroy the one major opposition print publication in their market. It is a form of religious bigotry that tries to smear our credibility by implying that we are owned by religious zealots. And hence, our reporting should not be taken seriously. As Kurtz knows, the truth and veracity of our reporting is what is relevant. We at Insight developed our publication concept, gained support of the Board of Directors, and have run with it ever since, being selected as the top conservative magazine by Rolling Stone in just our first year. So what?s the point in mentioning religion when referencing a relevant and credible secular publication, except as an underhanded ploy to try to marginalize us?

That might be true other than the Unification Church appears to subsidize the Washington Times and Insight as an extension and takes a role in the editorial policy from reports gathered by FAIR.

That is there right and it harkens back to when papers were the arm of political parties. The First Amendment doesn’t make exceptions for newspapers owned by entities, but pointing out the fact that a guy who declared himself the Messiah owns and influences editorial content of a major daily newspaper is hardly bigoted.

Perhaps me calling Moon a cult leader is bigoted, but only if you view the Unification Church as anything other than a cult. John Gorenfeld has a great comparison of Moon to Soros that’s hysterical.

For more Moon fun go here.

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Daily Dolt

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Andy Martin:

CONTRARIAN COMMENTARY FOR JANUARY 23, 2007

“I TOLD YOU SO,” PART FOUR:

“THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN BARRACK OBAMA”

MADRASSA MADNESS EXPLODES, BUT CNN WON’T PUT OUT THE FIRES

[Editor’s note: With “I told you so,” Part One, Andy initiated a beginning-of-the-year series of comments on some of his columns, predictions and projections that have stood the test of time and continue to generate intense public interest.]

(CHICAGO)(January 23, 2007) Two and a half years ago, in August 2004, I held news conferences in London and New York to expose Barack Obama as a complete fraud. My news release is posted on the web, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189687/posts, so there is no doubting the date or authenticity or content of our original research.

Since then, all opposition research on Obama has relied on our seminal work from the London Bureau, working through our special contacts in the Foreign and Commonwealth office for Kenya analysis and Chicago headquarters for political insight.

ArchPundit.com, a site that identifies itself as “the best blogger on the Illinois political scene,” now states that “Andy Martin is the guy who seems to have gotten all this started.” I should point out that ArchPundit.com is no friend of mine and gives credit only grudgingly and venomously.

When the history of the Obama fall-from-media-grace is written, our columns will have been the fuse that exploded the Obama myth and stripped the mask off Barack’s face.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg [http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/221436,CST-NWS-stein21.article] refers to some of Obama’s opponents as “crazies” and “nuts” who live in an “intellectual wasteland.”

I can’t speak for other writers and other groups, but for myself I just write the news as I see it. At ContrarianCommentary.com we go where other media are too lazy or incompetent to tread, perhaps including Mr. Steinberg.

We broke the original Obama stories in 2004 because we conducted the international investigative reporting concerning Obama’s invented family history that Chicago newspapers had failed to perform. We did the same from Baghdad beginning in 2003; those columns were the first to predict the chaos and collapse of Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority; many can still be found on the web. It is an enviable track record of impartial accuracy and unerring analysis.

I don’t bear Obama any animus as a person or as a politician, any more than I take media criticism of myself personally. Neither Mr. Steinberg nor ArchPundit are drinking buddies on Friday afternoons.

Nevertheless, while people are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts. We deal in facts and even those who disagree with us can’t dislodge our facts. So let it be with Obama.

So, as ArchPundit states: “Andy Martin is the guy who seems to have gotten this [Obama controversy} all started.” Well.

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE: Does anyone have a copy of Lynn Sweet’s Chicago Sun-Times article on Obama’s book on August 8, 2004 available to send me? I would appreciate a copy as I have misplaced my own and I can’t find it on the web.

TOMORROW: MORE analysis on Obama and why he should not be president.

CNN claims it has extinguished the “Madrassa Madness” about Obama with a report from Jakarta supposedly exploding the myths about his Indonesian education, but don’t bet on it. We will have more to say, of course. (Question for Barry: Do you still speak Bahasa?)

COMING: a CIA-style psychological profile of Barack (Barry) Obama.

And thank you ArchPundit for stating the truth. We have “gotten this all started” and we will keep adding fuel to the fire. Keep reading the controversial truth, only at ContrarianCommentary.com. “Just the facts, mam’m.”

Lucky me, I just made another loon e-mail list. Your Fox News sources at work.

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The Stupidest Person In Canada

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Judi Mcleod!. To her credit, if one didn’t know what a crackpot she is, one might mistake her site for the Onion. The two different spelling of Barack are especially entertaining. It appears they only got the correct spelling after reading the Insight article since the original article used only Barak.

And to think, crackpot Andy Martin is the guy who seems to have gotten this all started.

Ms. Mcleod is worried that Rockefeller funds the University of Chicago and that such ties to the Instructor of Con-Law are troubling. Also, you know, his parents met at a Rockefeller and Bill Gates funded institute. Of course, Bill Gates hadn’t even dropped out of Harvard then, but who cares.

But the money quote is when she asks if he isn’t a Manchurian candidate, but a Mohammedan Candidate.

But The man who receives his mail at 555 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington D.C., Capitol Hill is Madrassa-trained with the same kind of schooling as those infidel-hating kids in Pakistan.

Is this media darling in reality a brainwashed man?

Is Obama Osama Barack not really a Manchurian candidate but a classic Mohammedan Candidate?

As one CFP wag mused: “What happens when “our” President goes on a pilgrimage to Mecca after he discovers his roots?”

“Hillary doesn’t have to make like Maggie Thatcher to convince me. If I have to choose my poisons, I’d rather have Hillary. Better the devil you know.”

These kind of loons are getting crap on Fox News.

Via Eric.

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Law of Unintended Consequences

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From SaukValley.com via Rich

Q: Did competition develop, and how did it affect consumers?

A: Competition developed for the commercial market, as several companies emerged to provide electricity for businesses and industries. But ComEd and Ameren strengthened their grip on the residential market because potential competitors were scared off by the rate freeze, fearing prices were too low to make a profit.

With any luck, greater electrical choices should be around the corner as the caps are gone. Blue Star and Commerce are the only listed Residential choices as of now, and while the consumer market isn’t as valuable as the business market, I would expect some green energy companies to jump in now that the caps are gone. It would be especially smart if the Governor were to recruit some of those green companies in conjunction with the Sierra Club and other environmental groups in Illinois.

I’ve generally stayed away from the commentary on the rate freeze–I tend to think that a more gradual rate increase would have been the answer, with perhaps a built higher rate at the end to help the companies recoup. That’s too much compromise apparently. That said, the Lege and the Governor need to think of ways to spur residential and business energy development with green sources. In theory, deregulation should help that by allowing individuals to choose green energy over other sources even if there is a slight premium. Given the disincentives to date, a little bit of salesmanship might be in order once the rate increase is finally dealt with.

It also has important long term competitive effects in green energy tends to have far fewer greenhouse gas emissions and as such, will be far more cost effective when regulations force standard energy prices higher. Additionally, the presence of such power providers increases the research and development that would go on in Illinois, another side benefit then being the technology spillovers as people move towards greener energy.

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