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Check out what Larry Kudlow has to say about President Bush’s lifting of the executive order halting offshore oil drilling. This is what I’ve been saying all along: Just mention that we’re going to start drilling in ANWAR, and oil prices will plummet! Free market economics works, folks.

Be sure to click the link to read the whole article.

In a dramatic move yesterday President Bush removed the executive-branch moratorium on offshore drilling. Today, at a news conference, Bush repeated his new position, and slammed the Democratic Congress for not removing the congressional moratorium on the Outer Continental Shelf and elsewhere. Crude-oil futures for August delivery plunged $9.26, or 6.3 percent, almost immediately as Bush was speaking, bringing the barrel price down to $136.

“This sense that America is in need of fixing in order to be a great country points to Obama’s real patriotism problem. And it’s not Obama’s alone. Definitions of patriotism proliferate, but in the American context patriotism must involve not only devotion to American texts (something that distinguishes our patriotism from European nationalism) but also an abiding belief in the inherent and enduring goodness of the American nation. We might need to change this or that policy or law, fix this or that problem, but at the end of the day the patriotic American believes that America is fundamentally good as it is. It’s the ‘good as it is’ part that has vexed many on the left since at least the Progressive era. Marxists and other revolutionaries obviously don’t believe entrepreneurial and religious America is good as it is. But even more mainstream figures have a problem distinguishing patriotic reform from reformation… Obama… will ‘remake’ the country. Well, what if you don’t want it remade? And Michelle Obama—who believes America is ‘downright mean’ and is proud of America for the first time because of her husband’s success—insists that Barack will make you ‘work’ for change and that he will ‘demand that you, too, be different.’ What if you don’t want to work for Obama’s change? What if you don’t want to be ‘different’?… The notion that what America needs is a redeemer figure to ‘remake’ America from scratch isn’t necessarily unpatriotic. But for lots of Americans who like America the way it is, it’s sometimes hard to tell when it isn’t.” —Jonah Goldberg

The highest American distinction

National Endowment for the Arts announces the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters.

Washington, DC – The National Endowment for the Arts  announced the recipients of the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters Award—the nation’s highest honor in this distinctly American music. The six recipients will each receive a $ 25,000 grant award, and will be publicly honored in an awards ceremony and concert at the Lincoln Center NY on Friday, October 17, 2008, where the Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis dedicates the program to the honorees’ works .

The six 2009 NEA Jazz Masters are: George Benson (vocalist and solo instrumentalist, guitar), Jimmy Cobb (rhythm instrumentalist, drums), Lee Konitz (solo instrumentalist, saxophone), Toots Thielemans (solo instrumentalist, harmonica and guitar), and Snooky Young (solo instrumentalist, trumpet). Recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder will receive the 2009 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy.

More information is available at: http://www.nea.gov/national/jazz/press/JazzMasters2009.html

 

Link: sevenload.com In her world, Che Gueverra is Diktator Imperial! Yet, somehow, she gets paid to say these things. She’d do it for free, you know. Because she really believes it.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 23, 2008

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This morning Vets for Freedom Political Action launched its first internet advertisement, which asks Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) why he is willing to meet, unconditionally, with foreign dictators, but has shown no interest in meeting with Commanders on the Ground and has not visited Iraq in over 2 years.

The 60-second ad, which was released at 8 am E.T. today, features retired Iraq war veteran Sergeant Garrett Anderson.  Click here to view the ad. Sergeant Anderson served in Iraq with the Illinois Army National Guard, and was severely wounded when his patrol was hit by an IED.

The ad highlights the unfortunate fact that:

1) Senator Obama has never met, one-on-one, with the Commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus.

2) Senator Obama has not visited Iraq, and our brave troops on the ground, in over two years.  His last visit to Iraq was January 2006, and he was there for less than two days.

3) On April 8, when two-dozen Illinois veterans went to his office for a meeting, Senator Obama was unwilling to meet with them.  He was in the office, just wouldn’t come out. Sergeant Anderson was a member of that group.

 

The ad can be viewed at www.VetsforFreedom.org and can be downloaded HERE.

This is too good!

   

Don’t bet on it, but it was encouraging to see the contestants singing this praise and worship song made famous by Darlene Zschech:

Enjoy this clip:

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