Lincoln The Benevolent Dictator

Could the American Civil War have been avoided? Did Abraham Lincoln follow the U.S. Constitution? Was the War Between the States about abolishing slavery? Or was it about State's Rights?

Answers to those questions, and more, on Founding Truth Radio Show, Tonight.

American Daily Review On The Air

American Daily Review, the fastest growing political website on the Net, launched January 17, 2009. Since it's debut it has received hundreds of thousands of hits, and has amassed over 50 well-known, level minded contributors.

The site began as an idea between John Barnhart and I nearly a year ago.

As the Co-Founder, Co-Editor, and Senior Writer of American Daily Review, it is my pleasure to announce that American Daily Review will be launching a radio show on Blog Talk Radio co-hosted by myself, John Barnhart, and Jim from Hard Starboard.

Join us as we premiere our first dry-run on Blog Talk Radio at blogtalkradio.com/americandailyreview today at noon, Pacific. Hope to see you there.

Rationed Healthcare

A comical look at things to come, should Obama's Healthcare Idiocy become the American way of life:



-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Obamacare for the masses, but not for them

Get Liberty

Well, for the Democrats in control of Washington socialized medicine looks good on paper. . . more control and power for them, and a dependant populace - for those elitist statists, what's not to like?

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Holder Visits Quietly With American Muslims

Motive? Whenever these politicians do anything, the first question one must ask is why?

And even more interestingly, why wasn't this meeting widely reported?

Why was it a "quieter event?"

The explanation is that the relationship between the Muslim American community and the government has come under strain.

Being a part of an ideology that encourages terrorism tends to do that.

Muslim organizations are worried about investigative tactics by American agencies, as well, calling the FBI's investigations an "infiltration of mosques," and that the FBI uses "agent provocateurs to trap unsuspecting Muslim youth."

Does that mean new concessions are on the horizon?

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Eric Holder makes quiet visit to mosque to meet with Muslim Americans - Los Angeles Times

Walter Cronkite Dies At The Age of 92

"And that's the way it is."


One of the most revered newsmen in American history has died. The CBS newsman was considered by Americans of his era to be the "most trusted man in America".

The face of CBS' Evening News, Walter Cronkite was an unflappable voice of the news, providing the current events in an objective manner that led Americans to love him dearly. He covered historical events from JFK's assassination, to the Apollo 11 lunar walk.

Walter Cronkite epitomized journalism as it should have been. He was fair and balanced, and provided the facts in an unwavering manner that helped you to realize that there was no agenda - aside from getting you the information you needed to be informed.

The mainstream media will recognize him as one of the greats, but will never follow in his footsteps. They are unable to. They are too invested in agenda to be as principled as Mr. Cronkite.

Fair thee well, Walter Cronkite. Your memory lives on.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The Truth Behind Sarah Palin on Political Pistachio Radio

In July of 2007, Douglas V. Gibbs of Political Pistachio announced the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate, if whoever won the GOP presidential nomination wished to choose the best available candidate, would be Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. From that point on we followed her career in Alaska, secretly hoping she would be picked, but doubting the wisdom of the Republican Party to be willing to do so.

John McCain shocked conservatives when he chose his running mate. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin ignited the Republican Party when John McCain announced her as his running mate in 2008. The liberal left scrambled for dirt, making things up as they went along. The media demonized her as best they could, despite the fact their arguments were out and out lies.

Then, the Katie Couric interview of Palin, catching Sarah seemingly unprepared, was the ace in the hole the Democrats had been hoping for - and the popularity of Sarah Palin among more moderate Republicans began to wane, though she remained very popular among the Conservative Base of the GOP.

After the election the critiques and attacks by the Left continued, in an attempt to continue to affect public perception of Palin, possibly to discourage her from remaining involved in national politics. Even recently a comment by David Letterman about Palin's daughter's became headline news.

Then, unexpectedly, Sarah Palin decided to resign from the governorship of Alaska.

Katherine Morrison is author of the book, "An Independent Call," which chronicles her work in the 2008 Presidential Campaign and in New Hampshire politics. Regarding Palin, Katherine Morrison during the last few weeks has appeared on Talk Radio News Service, ABC Australia Radio, The Kirby Wilbur Show, KPFK-FM Los Angeles, The Terry Gilberg Show, KBFK-AM News Sacramento, The Morning Zone with Dave Chaffin, KOMO News Radio Seattle, and several others.

Tonight, she is the guest on Political Pistachio Radio. We air live at 7pm Pacific. You may catch the show live, or the archive later, HERE.

North Dakota's huge oil field

As the Democrats say we need to break our dependence on foreign oil, while refusing to drill for oil domestically, it has become more and more apparent that the United States has more than enough domestic oil to supply us with.

The hunch that there is a massive oil field beneath the Dakotas is nothing new, but the evidence that it exists is. Possibly the largest formation of oil in North America, it is only a matter of whether or not the technology has the capability to extract the oil efficiently.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

North Dakota could have a huge new oil field - Associated Press, James MacPherson

Church Responds To Vandals

Hateful, atheistic graffiti in red spray paint covered the windows and outer walls of The Hope Chapel. The vandalism had some profanity, but was primarily anti-Christian in nature. Some of the 40, or more, phrases included, "end the lies," "think," "end the hate" and "Nietzsche was right" (reference to "God is Dead" and other statements by 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche). Symbolism was also used, including anarchy signs, anti-Christianity signs, and anti-religion signs. The damage was estimated at $15,000 to $20,000.

A Hope Chapel elder said of the episode, "I was angry, at first, that someone would do this because we're doing our best to help people and make good news available for people."

The anger is gone and now is the time to forgive.

"You just can't allow that to overcome you to where you're going to respond in the same kind."

Services proceeded on Sunday morning, and the members of the church agreed to update their billboard and send the vandal a message. The message read, "Mr. Vandal, Jesus loves you, too."

The conversations among the members became about finding whoever did this and welcoming him into the church.

The identity of the vandal may not be difficult to discover, according to police. The perpetrator left behind a number of clear fingerprints.

This is not the first time Hope Chapel will need to clean up their building. When the pastor and congregation took over the building ten years ago, it had been a club that featured exotic dancers.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Douglas V. Gibbs

Keene Congregation Carries On Following Vandalism - WMUR New Hampshire

Obama Throws Like A . . .

Get Liberty

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Douglas V. Gibbs

Exhibit A-4,982, How Racism Is Still Rampant In The Democrat Party

‘God Awful’: Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Rips Sen. Boxer for ‘Condescending’ Racial Remarks

Remember, the liberal left sees America in groups, rather than individuals.

Boxer continually uses the word "diverse," meaning members of many groups. How about diverse in the sense of individuals? Who cares what the groups are? Why are liberals so preoccupied with groups, and racial differences? Why can't they see Americans as individuals? Why is the Democratic Party so racist?

Is it no surprise that Barack Obama is racist against Whites (see "Dreams of my Father," and his membership for twenty years to Reverend Wright' church), or that Sotomayor thinks that a wise Latina is a better judge than an old white man? The liberal left Democrats promote hate among the groups, that way, if we are too busy fighting, we won't notice them taking away individual liberties.

Maybe we should rename the Democratic Party the Party of Hate. They always accuse the Right of that, but it seems they may be slinging such accusations in order to get eyes off of their hateful racism, and policies that address groups, rather than individuals.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Explosions in Indonesia - Islamic Terrorists Strike Jakarta

Two American hotels in Jakarta were rocked by explosions, killing at least nine, and injuring many more. The targets were the Marriott Hotel, and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

Indonesia's Security Minister has stated at least 50 were injured in the blasts.

Islamic terrorists are being blamed for the explosions. Anti-terrorist officials have been conducting major crack-downs on terror activities, and this is the first major event in at least three years.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Explosions at 2 Hotels in Indonesia Kill at Least 9 - The New York Times, NORIMITSU ONISHI

Official: 9 dead, 50 wounded in Jakarta blasts - Associated Press/Yahoo News, ANTHONY DEUTSCH

On A Personal Note

Gryph's Gripes takes a step away from politics tonight for stories of inspiration and testimony. He has asked me to join him to tell some of my tales - join us HERE at 7pm Pacific for two hours, or later for the archive.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Douglas V. Gibbs

Obama, More Dangerous Than Marxism

Biden: We Must Spend More Money To Keep From Going Bankrupt

Joe Biden is not saying anything the Democrats haven't been saying all along. That is the purpose of the bailouts and stimulus packages. To spend more money.

When critics of Franklin Delano Roosevelt provides evidence that FDR's policies not only did not slow down the Great Depression, and it in fact worsened it, the liberal response has been that FDR didn't spend enough money fast enough. Even Obama has used this argument.

Think about the insanity of this. They believe to keep from going bankrupt the nation must go further in debt. In fact, what they are doing is doubling the national debt, and then some.

Remember, these are the same Democrats that have been hammering the Republicans for the National Debt for the last few decades.

I could just imagine my wife's response if I walked in the door and said to her, "I have our financial worries solved, my dear. We simply need to go more in debt. In fact, we should more than double how much we owe. That ought to straighten things out, and keep us from going bankrupt."

My wife would have me committed.

But this is exactly what the liberal Democrats are doing. And while they are at it, they are expanding government into every corner of the private sector.

The question is, why would they do that? Isn't it obvious to them that to grow an economy you encourage the components of that economy? Without the growth of businesses, and emerging business should their competitors go under, the economy will remain stagnant, and in the long run, the economic strife will worsen. Failed businesses should be allowed to fail, and eventually be replaced by emerging competitors. It would create a downturn for a short while, but then with pro-growth policies, including easing regulations and cutting taxes, the economy would flourish and prosper down the road as a result - and liberty would reign supreme.

In order to bring about change, the old system must be destroyed. What is the old system? To Obama and the far left, the American Form of Government, and Capitalism, are the old system. A new system of communism, without personal liberty, cannot exist until the old system is destroyed. To destroy the old system it must be riduculed, demonized, and made to be considered obsolete. Then, use government takeover of the private sector using the excuse that it is necessary to save the nation. The private sector must be destroyed, and the middle class must be slapped down to the level of poverty. Misery breeds dependency on the government, and then once in place, there is nearly no way out of it without revolution.

Explains why Obama and the liberal Democrats are working so fast, doesn't it? They want to get the system in place before Obama's brainless disciples realize the truth.

Remember, Barack Obama comes from the cess-pool of Chicago Politics - a place coincidentally that Saul Alinsky, communist and anti-American radical, comes from. In fact, the folks that recruited Obama as a community organizer (a tool of Marxism), were sprung from Saul Alinsky's influence.

Marxism has been a term that has been brought to the table often when describing Obama, but in reality, he is not only a Marxist. I believe he is something much worse. If you dissect what Barack Obama is doing, it is perfectly in line with Saul Alinsky and his Rules for Radicals.

Obama, therefore, is not a Marxist. He is something worse. And what he is doing to America is exactly in line with what Saul Alinsky had planned for America, and eventually, the world.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Joe Biden: ‘We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt’ - CNS News, Penny Starr

Obama Explains FDR's Folly? - National Review Online, Guy Benson

A chilling comparison: Obama & Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals - Brookfield Now, Kyle Prast

Saul Alinsky - yet another Obama mentor from his Marxist past - From The Duke

SAUL D. ALINSKY: Teaching Obama - David Horowitz and Richard Poe

Responding to GM Bailout

After being urged to support the bailout, a supplier to GM wrote a response that should be read by Congress.


This is GM's letter:

Dear Employees & Suppliers,
Congress and the current Administration will soon determine whether to provide immediate support to the domestic auto industry to help it through one of the most difficult economic times in our nation's history. Your elected officials must hear from all of us now on why this support is critical to our continuing the progress we began prior to the global financial crisis.

As an employee or supplier, you have a lot at stake and continue to be one of our most effective and passionate voices. I know GM can count on you to have your voice heard.

Thank you for your urgent action and ongoing support.

Troy Clarke
President,
General Motors North America

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Response from:
Gregory Knox, Pres.
Knox Machinery Company
Franklin , Ohio

Gentlemen:

In response to your request to contact legislators and ask for a bailout for the Big Three automakers please consider the following, and please pass my thoughts on to Troy Clarke, President of General Motors North America.
Politicians and Management of the Big 3 are both infected with the same entitlement mentality that has spread like cancerous germs in UAW halls for the last countless decades, and whose plague is now sweeping this nation, awaiting our new "messiah," Pres. Obama, to wave his magic wand and make all our problems go away, while at the same time allowing our once great nation to keep "living the dream." Believe me folks, The dream is over!

This dream where we can ignore the consumer for years while management myopically focuses on its personal rewards packages at the same time that our factories have been filled with the worlds most overpaid, arrogant, ignorant and laziest entitlement minded "laborers" without paying the price for these atrocities.. This dream where you still think the masses will line up to buy our products for ever and ever.

Don't even think about telling me I'm wrong. Don't accuse me of not knowing of what I speak. I have called on Ford, GM, Chrysler, TRW, Delphi, Kelsey Hayes, American Axle, and countless other automotive OEM's throughout the Midwest , during the past 30 years and what I've seen over those years in these union shops can only be described as disgusting.

Troy Clarke, President of General Motors North America, states: "There is widespread sentiment throughout this country, and our government, and especially via the news media, that the current crisis is completely the result of bad management which it certainly is not."

You're right Mr. Clarke, it's not JUST management. How about the electricians who walk around the plants like lords in feudal times, making people wait on them for countless hours while they drag ass so they can come in on the weekend and make double and triple time for a job they easily could have done within their normal 40 hour work week. How about the line workers who threaten newbies with all kinds of scare tactics for putting out too many parts on a shift and for being too productive.

(We certainly must not expose those lazy bums who have been getting overpaid for decades for their horrific underproduction, must we?!?)

Do you folks really not know about this stuff? How about this great sentiment abridged from Mr. Clarke's sad plea: "over the last few years we have closed the quality and efficiency gaps with our competitors." What the hell has Detroit been doing for the last 40 years?!? Did we really JUST wake up to the gaps in quality and efficiency between us and them? The K car vs. the Accord? The Pinto vs. the Civic?!? Do I need to go on? What a joke!

We are living through the inevitable outcome of the actions of the United States auto industry for decades. It's time to pay for your sins, Detroit .

I attended an economic summit last week where brilliant economist, Alan Beaulieu, from the Institute of Trend Research , surprised the crowd when he said he would not have given the banks a penny of "bailout money."

"Yes, he said, this would cause short term problems," but despite what people like politicians and corporate magnates would have us believe, the sun would in fact rise the next day and the following very important thing would happen.. Where there had been greedy and sloppy banks, new efficient ones would pop up. That is how a free market system works. It does work if we would only let it work."

But for some nondescript reason we are now deciding that the rest of the world is right and that capitalism doesn't work - that we need the government to step in and "save us". Save us my ass, Hell - we're nationalizing and unfortunately too many of our once fine nation's citizens don't even have a clue that this is what is really happening.

But, they sure can tell you the stats on their favorite sports teams.
Yeah - THAT'S really important, isn't it?

Does it ever occur to ANYONE that the "competition" has been producing vehicles, EXTREMELY PROFITABLY, for decades in this country? How can that be??? Let's see. Fuel efficient. Listening to customers. Investing in the proper tooling and automation for the long haul.

Not being too complacent or arrogant to listen to Dr.. W Edwards Deming four decades ago when he taught that by adopting appropriate principles of management, organizations could increase quality and simultaneously reduce costs. Ever increased productivity through quality and intelligent planning. Treating vendors like strategic partners, rather than like "the enemy." Efficient front and back offices. Non union environment.

Again, I could go on and on, but I really wouldn't be telling anyone anything they really don't already know down deep in their hearts.

I have six children, so I am not unfamiliar with the concept of wanting someone to bail you out of a mess that you have gotten yourself into - my children do this on a weekly, if not daily basis, as I did when I was their age. I do for them what my parents did for me (one of their greatest gifts, by the way) - I make them stand on their own two feet and accept the consequences of their actions and work through it. Radical concept, huh. Am I there for them in the wings? Of course - but only until such time as they need to be fully on their own as adults.

I don't want to oversimplify a complex situation, but there certainly are unmistakable parallels here between the proper role of parenting and government. Detroit and the United States need to pay for their sins.

Bad news people - it's coming whether we like it or not the newly elected Messiah really doesn't have a magic wand big enough to "make it all go away." I laughed as I heard Obama "reeling it back in" almost immediately after the final vote count was tallied. "We really might not do it in a year or in four." Where the Hell was that kind of talk when he was RUNNING for office.

Stop trying to put off the inevitable folks. That house in Florida really isn't worth $750,000. People who jump across a border really don't deserve free health care benefits. That job driving that forklift for the Big 3 really isn't worth $85,000 a year. We really shouldn't allow Wal-Mart to stock their shelves with products acquired from a country that unfairly manipulates their currency and has the most atrocious human rights infractions on the face of the globe. That couple whose combined income is less than $50,000 really shouldn't be living in that $485,000 home.

Let the market correct itself folks - it will.. Yes it will be painful, but it's gonna' be painful either way, and the bright side of my proposal is that on the other side of it all, is a nation that appreciates what it has and doesn't live beyond its means and gets back to basics and redevelops the patriotic work ethic that made it the greatest nation in the history of the world and probably turns back to God...

Sorry - don't cut my head off, I'm just the messenger sharing with you the "bad news". I hope you take it to heart.


Gregory J. Knox, President
Knox Machinery, Inc.
Franklin , Ohio 45005

Snopes confirms it

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Douglas V. Gibbs

Boiling Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman, Liberal Marxist Extraordinaire, has decided to use an old analogy that Conservatives have also been using a lot of late. Specifically, he referred to the story of the boiling frog in a recent OP-ED piece for The New York Times.

"Creeping Incrementalism" is the term I have always used for it.

The story is of a proverbial frog that is swimming in a pot of cold water. A fire is under the pot, but the frog never notices. He begins to swim freely in the comfortably warm water, never realizing he is slowly being cooked - until it is too late.

Krugman believes our environmental peril and economic slide into another Great Depression are a couple of cases of "boiling frog" disasters that have been creeping up on us, without us taking notice.

The economic situation is easily blamed on George W. Bush by folks like Krugman, and like all of the other anti-American whackos out there, he does this without being willing to take a look at history. Paul Krugman has joined the Bush-derangement-syndrome crowd, and in fact, an "everything is the GOP's fault" mindset.

I wonder if he is at least able to think clearly at night.

Many factors play into the fact that the economy took a bigger dip than it ought to have. Most of them were based on liberal economic policies (regardless of whether it was Republicans or Democrats applying them). The crisis was in the making many years ago, with that I agree. But it was not the Free Market System that caused the problem. It was government interfering with the system of Capitalism that created the great rises in dips in the rollercoaster ride of financial stability.

The first stimulus package, created by the Democrats, and of which Bush had to be talked into signing, only worsened the economic climate. Obama's latest debacle then lay on top more damage, which included government intrusion into the private sector. Now, even community colleges are on the chopping block - err, uhh, in the bailout reception line. Every few week you'll hear about something else that needs to be bailed out, and the funds of fiat money being forced upon the industry, along with government's input on how to run whatever it is, goes up and up and up.

Americans not even born yet owe taxes on this insanity.

All of these stimulus packages are akin to a household running into a cash flow problem, and so the couple runs out and opens up a bunch more credit cards. Sure, they will be able to buy things for a little while, but eventually, the increase of debt will catch up to them, and then they will end up worse off than if they had just decreased their spending habits until revenue rose, and maybe even lost a car to the repo-man, which would, in the end, eliminate that loan from their outgoing bills. Sounds like a horrible thing to happen, losing cars and houses, but if that is what it takes to start over, and do it right the next time because you learned from your mistakes, then so be it.

It is called personal responsibility.

History is plain when it comes to the effects of overspending versus cutting spending. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (and Hoover, for that matter) increased spending, increased entitlement programs, increased taxes, and increased public works projects. The strategy ultimately extended the Great Depression, and in fact worsened it. Harding and Coolidge averted recession by cutting taxes and cutting spending. The following period was prosperous. The same thing happened after Carter's near destruction of the American Economy. Ronald Reagan's pro-growth, tax cutting measures encouraged the growth of businesses, grew the private sector, and resulted in years of prosperity. Even under George W. Bush's watch we enjoyed prosperity. His tax cuts averted economic difficulties that ought to have followed 9/11. Instead, for six years, our economy prospered - only to fall to ruin when the mortgage industry collapsed (of which both Bush and McCain warned the Congress about, and the Democrats called the Republicans fear-mongers for even muttering that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were becoming unstable).

As for Krugman's hysterical rant about the environment, the prosperity of America has made us one of the cleanest nations on the Earth. Don't get me wrong - I agree, if there is pollution, we ought to maintain its levels at a minimum. But to create a power-grab, and the largest tax-hike in history in a Cap and Trade Climate Bill over a debunked man-made global warming lie is completely outrageous. Does Krugman really believe that humanity spitting out less than one percent of the total greenhouse gases into the atmosphere really had an effect on the environment?

When it comes to the environment, not only is the frog not boiling, it has jumped out of the pot.

I can't believe Krugman is so foolish to believe such poppy-cock.

Then again . . .

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Boiling The Frog - The New York Times, Paul Krugman

Obama To Discontinue F-22 Fighter Jet

I was watching C-Span yesterday, flipping over to the Senate floor while the Sotomayor hearing was on break, and across the bottom of the screen scrolled "debate over F-22 Fighter Jet". I looked more into it, and found that along with disarming missile defense technologies, and working towards disarming America's nuclear capabilities (both are important deterrents against the enemy), Obama now also wishes to stop production of the F-22 Fighters against the recommendations of his military advisers.

Specifically, a couple weeks ago Barack Obama threatened to veto a defense authorization bill because it contained money for the fighter jets.

He is not only destroying the private sector, crippling our economy, weakening our tactical advantage while weakening our defenses, and apologizing to the world for this nation being exceptional (while bowing to a Saudi King, telling the Muslim World this is no longer a Christian Nation, and repeatedly disrespecting the Queen of England), but now he wishes to cut our conventional capabilities off at the knees too?

In addition to stopping the production of the F-22, he also wishes that changes be made to the bill that would delay the fielding of the F-35, while deteriorating our strike fighter inventory.

At this rate, he'll be handing the keys of the White House to some dictator, or maybe even the United Nations.

This president is intent on destroying America - and yet, there are still idiots out there defending him.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Wire: Obama Threatens Veto of Defense Budget Bill Over F-22, F-35 - The Tension Blog

Israel Prepares To Attack Iran

According to the Times Online in the United Kingdom, Israeli warships have moved through the Suez Canal shortly after an Israeli Submarine with nuclear strike capabilities did so ten days earlier. According to The Times Online U.K., this maneuvering by the Israeli Navy is in preparation for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The British website also indicates Israeli officials have confirmed the Red Sea deployment of vessels, and that this positioning of vessels is a clear sign that Israel is putting its strike force within range of Iran.

While strengthening ties with Arab nations also fearing a nuclear-armed Iran, Israel is hoping the mutual distrust of Iran will enable a successful strike against Iran.

The Israeli air force is also in preparation mode, participating in exercises at Nevada's Nellis Air Force base this month, and at another exercise in Washington.

Concessions by Israel to the formation of a Palestinian State has been the condition of support by neighboring Arab nations. If Israel agrees to the "give up land for support" offer, it is believed by one British official an Israeli strike on Iran could occur within the year.

Such concessions on settlement policy, Palestinian land claims and issues with neighboring Arab states, however, could lead to further problems with the neighboring Arab States in the future. They are simply using this as an opportunity to creep closer to Israel's borders, and place her within a stranglehold of their own. Question is, for Israel: Is the temporary support of some Arab nations in a strike against Iran worth such concessions that could lead to a war with her neighbors later?

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Israeli navy in Suez Canal prepares for potential attack on Iran - The Times Online U.K., Sheera Frenkel

Space Shuttle Endeavor Struck by Debris From External Fuel Tank

This morning the Space Shuttle Endeavor lifted off. This was the sixth attempt. The previous five launches were postponed due to weather and fuel line concerns. As she lifted off this morning, debris separated from the external fuel tank with at least one of the flying pieces of debris striking the shuttle's underside.

Engineers on the ground are in contact with the astronauts in space, and will determine through examination, and analyzing the damage, to determine if the shuttle will be safe to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.

Images of the dislodged debris was captured by a camera on the external tank. The piece of debris that struck the orbiter left three marks on the underside of the shuttle, scoring the heat-resistant tiles. The belief is the tiles have only minor damage to the coating, and that the strikes were not deep enough to cause great concern.

The Endeavor's 16-day construction mission to the International Space Station, otherwise, began as planned, without any major hitches. The mission includes five spacewalks. The Endeavour brought the final pieces for completion of the Japanese laboratory on the space station. One of the laboratory's tasks is to expose experimental samples to the extremes of outer space, and observe the effect of space on the samples.

One of the Endeavor's occupants, Colonel Kopra, will remain on the International Space Station while a Japanese astronaut returns to Earth in his place. Koichi Wakata of the Japanese Space Agency has been in orbit since March. Kopra will serve as flight engineer on the space station until he is replaced at a later date.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Debris Strikes Endeavour in Liftoff - The New York Times, Kenneth Chang

Terrorist Leader Wants To Sue Bruno

Bruno film actor Sasha Baron Cohen has Ayman Abu Aita a little upset. The Comedian conducted an interview of the Palestinian under the pretense that the interview would help the Palestinian cause. To Aita's dismay, he was labeled a terrorist leader in the film, and Bruno is a homosexual character in a movie that contains frontal male nudity and graphic homosexual sex.

Aita states he is not exactly a terrorist, or at least not anymore.

Aaron Klein, the Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily has the details.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Douglas V. Gibbs

Obama's Broken Teleprompter

While defending his economic stimulus plan, one of Obama's teleprompter screens came loose and fell crashing to the floor.

Laughing it off, Obama turned to his notes.

Can this president not memorize, or speak freely, about anything?

The great orator is only great at reading other people's speeches. The only original thoughts in his head are Marxist - the teleprompters keep him from showing his hand.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Oops: Obama's Teleprompter Breaks Mid-Speech - Fox News

Gingrich: Stimulus Puts off Tough Decisions

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Douglas V. Gibbs

Obama Dismal Failure

With the rise in unemployment, and the cries by Democrats that another stimulus package is needed, it is becoming increasingly clear to the Republicans that Obama's attempt to slow the economic bleeding is a dismal failure.

America is realizing that going into debt up to your eyeballs, and leaving the huge bill for our posterity to pay for, is foolish.

A complete economic meldown is on the horizon. Allowing the free market to self adjust was never allowed, and artificial stimulus will, in the end, destroy our financial markets.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Douglas V. Gibbs

Obama takes heat over job losses; Republicans question whether stimulus is creating employment - New York Daily News

1934 Cartoon Reveals The Sordid Truth

What you see above is a Chicago Tribune Political Cartoon from 1934. The cartoon is 75 years old, but the warnings are all too familiar.

The Obama/Liberal Democrat agenda is the same as it was before - it just has a new name.

Marxism wouldn't have gone over too well.

Click on the image for a larger image.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Douglas V. Gibbs

Judging Judge Sotomayor

Get Liberty

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Douglas V. Gibbs