So our “Homeland Security” department has now, under Obama, determined that our military is a threat to… who?

WASHINGTON – A newly unclassified Department of Homeland Security report warns against the possibility of violence by unnamed “right-wing extremists” concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion and the loss of U.S. sovereignty and singles out returning war veterans as particular threats.

The report, titled “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” dated April 7, states that “threats from white supremacist and violent anti-government groups during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts.”

However, the document, first reported by talk-radio host and WND columnist Roger Hedgecock, goes on to suggest worsening economic woes, potential new legislative restrictions on firearms and “the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.”

What a slap in the face!  Those protecting us from rogue nations and terrorists abroad are now being singled out by our own government as possible terrorists?!?!  Where, Mr. President, do you find these people?

Find a tea party near you and attend to show your support.

So you’re a Christian, but you support partial birth abortion; you agree to give a speech a a religious institution, but you ask that all religious symbols be hidden from view.

It only makes sense if you are a liberal.

It’s only taken a short time for President Obama to give rights once only afforded Americans and those who commited crimes within the borders of the united states to just about anyone.  This sets a dangerous precident that will definitely come back to haunt us.

For a president who promised honesty, integrity, and openness in his administration we sure are seeing a lot of cronies in the Great One’s administration and advisory staff.

There’s even a new joke going around about how the IRS has changed the rules on filing taxes.  You only have to file your taxes if you are nominated to a cabinet position.  I’m guessing that’s for Dems only, though.

He said there would be no lobbyists… yet exceptions are being made.

I’m really fed up with the way this administration is handling itself.  When President Obama said the other day that he didn’t know about the tea parties, it said a lot about him.  I’m still undecided if he’s lying, or if dead fish is keeping him that isolated.

Historically, when the Chief of Staff keeps such tight restrictions on access to the president they are working more for themselves than for the president.  Believe it or not, Dick Cheney is regarded as one of the best Chief’s ever.  He was seen as there to serve which is really what the job is supposed to be.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — About 10,000 people rallied at the Bi-Lo Center in downtown Greenville to call for less government spending.

The “Tea Party” was organized by young Upstate Republicans and marked the final protest of the week.The “tea” in “Tea Party” stands for “taxed enough already.”

I’d say that would count as a success.  When you have 10,000 people show up for a protest in a city the size of Greenville, you know that you’ve gotten people excited about something.  Governor Mark Sanford spoke as well as Sen. Jim Demint and Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer.  Senator Demint has made himself known in his first term and a senator from South Carolina.  He’s been pushing for less spending and lower taxes since he arrived in Washington.  He is definitely one of the best we have up there.

I was hoping for  larger crowd than we had in February, but I never thought that it would swell to this size.  I hadn’t even heard about it until my friend Kelle Corvin put a post up on her Facebook about it tonight and by then it was almost 7:30, the scheduled end of the party.  Oh well, maybe next time.

Mr. President… If you’re worried about a confidence gap don’t make symbolic guestures to try to improve your image.  CUT THE DAMN SPENDING!

So what’s next?  Are you now going to bail out the companies who you just cut out of those government contracts the the ones that creat logos?

I’m not buying what Chrysler is saying.  If you have an opportunity to borrow as a lower rate, especially if you are nearing bankruptcy, you are irresponsible if you don’t take it.  To say that you don’t need the money right now, but that you are going to borrow from other sources with higher interest rates points straight to the fact that pay limitations are in your future if you borrow from the government.

So what do you do in this situation?  Either you effectively hand over control of your company to the government, or you risk bankruptcy.  It appears that Chrysler has chosen the lesser of two evils.

I think that it’s a disgrace that a company would agree to pay any employee a “performance bonus” even when the company is in the tank.  The current financial status of the company should be considered in the contract as a common sense measure.  Sure, the car companies might have been ok if not for the economic downturn, but what kind of plan doesn’t have some kind of contengency just in case the economy doesn’t keep on its track of unsustainable growth?

On the other hand, the government should not be in the business of business in the first place.  To hand out my money to a company that’s failing simply does not happen in a true free market economy.  Have you realized yet that we don’t have a true free market economy?  The government controls so much of business both directly and indirectly in the name of the “common good” that we aren’t even close anymore, albeit closer than most other nations around the world.

Corporate subsidies exist because someone was convinced by a lobbyist that industries could not be allowed to fail, yet they weren’t self-sufficient enough to survive in a free market economy.  Amtrak and the airline industry are perfect examples.

Give tax breaks to business.  That’s the way to get industry moving, but don’t allow the government to buy into the company and begin dictating business strategy.  Look at the mess they’ve made with everything else they’ve tried to run and you will see why.

Admiral Blair’s assessment that the interrogation methods did produce important information was deleted from a condensed version of his memo released to the media last Thursday. Also deleted was a line in which he empathized with his predecessors who originally approved some of the harsh tactics after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past,” he wrote, “but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.”

A spokeswoman for Admiral Blair said the lines were cut in the normal editing process of shortening an internal memo into a media statement emphasizing his concern that the public understand the context of the decisions made in the past and the fact that they followed legal orders.

Umm, yeah.  They wanted to get their point across, not get the facts out.

Here’s another article from another point of view:

(CNSNews.com) – The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) — including the use of waterboarding — caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles.

Before he was waterboarded, when KSM was asked about planned attacks on the United States, he ominously told his CIA interrogators, “Soon, you will know.”

According to the previously classified May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that was released by President Barack Obama last week, the thwarted attack — which KSM called the “Second Wave”– planned “ ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los Angeles.”