The Conservative Revolution

The left is going to regret ever bringing up a discussion about national security readiness. Barack Obama has ZERO experience commanding troops, and as a subcommittee chairman on the war in Afghanistan he didn’t hold hearings to find out what is going on there. McCain’s story is well-known. He will win any argument about national security.

But, as Politico reports, leftist lunatics like Noam Chomsky, Counterpunch and Medea Benjamin are questioning his foreign policy acumen.

Critics have accused McCain of war crimes for bombing targets in Hanoi in the 1960s. A widely read liberal blog on Sunday accused McCain of “disloyalty” during his captivity in Vietnam for his coerced participation in propaganda films and interviews after he’d been tortured.

It’s sad how silent the left was when Jane Fonda was willingly making propaganda for the communist Vietnamese. Left-wing insanity never surprises me.

I just got this from our friends over at Accuracy in Media. They interviewed FreedomWorks about the Dodd/Countrywide Bailout Scandal that we were protesting.

Although it seems like more and more freedom is slipping away every day, the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision today that essentially overturns the unconstitutional DC gun ban.

Here is the most important finding:
The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense at home.

Below are some good commentaries on the decision.

SCOTUS Blog

Ed Whelan over at National Review Online.

And here is the actual opinion.

This video calls on anyone who uses eBay, Amazon.com or other online stores to speak out against a sneaky attempt to build a government database on American citizens. Senator Chuck Grassley slipped a provision in the Senate Housing bill that would allow the federal government to track the online transactions of millions of Americans. Scary stuff.

For more background, which the video doesn’t provide, read this.

Here is the video.

For a candidate that preaches so much about “changing Washington” Barack Obama has proved himself once again to be just another Washington politician. One of the most fundamental reforms he talks about is ridding the system of lobbyists and special interests. He and John McCain both support restrictions on political speech in the form of campaign finance laws.

For the record I think they are both wrong for supporting an unconstitutional measure to restrict free speech. But what makes it worse for Obama is that he is also a hypocrite. At least McCain is going to take public financing this election year. But Obama announced this week that he would forgo public financing and instead rely upon private donations to fund his campaign. The reason? He blames it on 527’s and other “outside groups” that will be running ads and educating the public from their point of view. But as The New York Times and The Politico have pointed out, there is no real presence on the right that is ready to attack Obama through a massive ad campaign. He just needs to place the blame on someone else while deflecting criticism away from his own hypocrisy. Even The Washington Post agrees that Obama’s excuse for not taking public financing like he promised is ridiculous.

So much for the politics of “change.” Obama is just another politician. For someone running on a platform of fundamentally reforming the system, Obama sure seems to be comfortable saying one thing while doing another.

Here is the latest FreedomWorks video. This one features the FreedomWorks panda looking for Senator Chris Dodd to congratulate him for the sweet VIP treatment he received from Countrywide Financial.

The check is worth $75,000, the amount that Dodd saved on his refinancing. Dodd’s mortgage bailout bill is being discussed in the Senate today. Talk about audacity.