Faced with overwhelming financial firepower on the right, Democratic-aligned super PACs and advocacy groups are increasingly joining forces in a collaborative effort to bolster President Barack Obama and a select number of House and Senate candidates for the 2012 general election.

That’s how it opens, and it’s all downhill from there.

It goes on to hit all the buzzwords, “billionaires,” “Koch,” etc.

What it mentions isn’t news, what it omits is.

There’s no mention of President Obama’s stated intention to raise a billion dollars for his campaign, the hundreds of millions unions have and will continue to dump into ads, or the name Soros. It’s not a David vs. Goliath picture they paint, it’s zygote vs Goliath. Only that zygote has billions and billions at its disposal.

I’d call it lazy reporting but it’s not lazy, it’s blatant.

North Dakota is experiencing a boom right now thanks to a thriving green energy oil industry, so the state has money. But many groups oppose the measure, most notably the Chamber of Compromise, er, Commerce and public employees’ unions, which only makes me like the idea all the more.

Officials, in typical fashion, are wondering where the state would make up the money if the tax was eliminated. No report indicates the idea of spending less ever crossed the mind of anyone opposed to the measure.

The thing I hate most about the concept of property taxes is they’re just a tax for simply existing. You don’t have to sell it, no money has to change hands, nothing has to happen, you just owe. And if you can’t pay, you lose your house.

Government is insatiable, more is all they want and it’s never enough. They have no desire to live within their means because they have no reason to live within their means. They can always raise taxes to get the more they want.

In good times they spend more because they can, they have it. In bad times they spend more because the “have to.” There’s never a point when a government says, “Hey, we’ve been really out of control and spend a lot more than we need to. So let’s cut some spending and live within a sane limit.”

It doesn’t happen.

The federal government just prints and/or borrows money. State have to balance their budgets, so tax hikes are their go-to. Just look at Maryland, where Democrats raised taxes on millionaires and billionaires earning more than $100,000 per year because the alternative was to only increase spending by several hundred million dollars rather than the several more hundred million dollars they wanted. It’s like giving a junkie your checkbook and hoping for the best. They will always rip you off if you let them. The only hope is to take way the access, which is what voters in North Dakota are considering…at least one revenue stream.

It’s not expected to pass, but it will serve as a warning shot and a petri dish of inspiration for people across the country. Who knows what they might do to try to limit their state governments? It could run risk of having liberty break out all over the place!

That’s the problem with bailouts – once people know they’re possible, even probable, you’ve removed all reason to act responsibly.

Italy won’t be the last country in trouble, they’ve all, to varying degrees, embraced a socialistic system of government that only leads to one place. Once the dominoes start to fall…

There are a lot more, each more amazing than the last, click here to see them.

What do the teachers want? A 24 percent raise and a 5 percent raise next year. They also want smaller class sizes because their 5 hour and 45 minute work day for 9 months of the year is just too much.

Why shouldn’t they get a massive raise normal people would have to get a promotion to get? They’re celebrating a massive success this year – a record (yes, record) 60.6 percent graduation rate!

Essentially they have a “D” average, a low “D” average (the lowest, really), and they’re threatening to strike if they don’t get a 24 percent raise.

The city should call their bluff and see if they strike. If they don’t, good. If they do, better…at least, given their failed record, “for the children.”

Above is the face of Paul Krugman people see on TV in the New York Times, but the man has (at least) two. Depending upon which party is in power, he is of two faces on the filibuster.  Just see the examples below. (Brought to our attention by a friend.)

Here he is on March 29, 2005:

“But the big step by extremists will be an attempt to eliminate the filibuster, so that the courts can be packed with judges less committed to upholding the law than Mr. Greer.”

And here he is yesterday:

“Senators themselves should recognize this fact and push through changes in those rules, including eliminating or at least limiting the filibuster. This is something they could and should do, by majority vote, on the first day of the next Senate session.”

The only thing that has changed between then and now is which party controls the Senate and by how much, specifically the election of Senator Scott Brown from Massachusetts.

I would ask how Krugman can look at anyone with a straight face, but he probably has a third face for just that occasion.

Watch the video and learn more from our friends at the Mackinac Center here.

In keeping with the tradition of the Left, SEIU chief goon Andy Stern called Senate Democrats “legislative ‘terrorists’” today.  He was joking…or was he?  There are unconfirmed rumors that we’re starting that say Stern then ordered his purple-shirted gang of thugs to take a break from beating up black conservatives and egg homes of Senators Mary Landreu and Ben Nelson.  Again, these rumors we’ve made up are, as yet, unconfirmed.

Way to keep things in perspective, Andy.

Remember the “Coot off” a few years ago?

By any unit of measure, this was a draw.

Here is a sampling of the pictures from First Friday. You can see a larger version of each of these by clicking on them and can see all the pics from Friday by going to our Flickr page here.

Also, we do have a Facebook group but there are only a few members because we don’t do much with it, frankly. But we do post some pictures from First Friday there a few days before we post all of them, and you can tag people, so there is a small benefit to joining. If you are so inclined you can join the group here. Considering some of the odd groups on Facebook people join, joining our group isn’t all that strange.

No wonder Barney Frank wouldn’t answer the question that kid at Harvard asked him about what responsibility, if any, was his.  He kept referring to when he became Chairman and forgot about when he was Ranking Member and blocked anything from getting done.

What you should have done all along is NOT be a corrupt douchebag, Congressman Frank.  But that’s too much to ask for from you, especially when you’re raking in money from them.

It does seem odd that liberals, who love regulating damn near everything, somehow thought there were enough regulations on Fannie and Freddie.  There’s a connection – those industries that pay, get to play. Those that don’t, get regulated.  We’re still waiting for the Special Comment from the “special” Keith Uberdouche on this issue.

Note the use of Nazi type propaganda.  If you don’t get that reference, go look up some history.

Yes, something very ugly has surfaced in contemporary American liberalism, as evidenced by the irrational and sometimes infantile abuse directed toward anyone who strays from a strict party line. Liberalism, like second-wave feminism, seems to have become a new religion for those who profess contempt for religion. It has been reduced to an elitist set of rhetorical formulas, which posit the working class as passive, mindless victims in desperate need of salvation by the state. Individual rights and free expression, which used to be liberal values, are being gradually subsumed to worship of government power.

We know and have known many people like this, with whom a rational conversation is impossible, people who run out of things to say once they’ve used up all the “facts” they read in the latest issue of The Nation, Mother Jones or Newsweek.  The inability of these people to thing beyond what they’re fed, to extrapolate beyond talking points they’re read or to have a coversation that doesn’t end in anger and name-calling on their part is why we don’t miss the ones we knew and won’t the ones we know, should it come to that.  Paglia, on the other hand, is welcome to join us for a beer any time.

Feeling sad about the economy?  Worried about your financial situation?  Forget the fact that people have been through much worse, even this country has been through much worse (we survived the Depression and Jimmy Carter’s Presidency), Barack Obama is going to save you.  Or at least offer pseudo-help.

The White House has come out with warning signs for depression over the economy, they can be found here.

Oddly enough, there is nothing on the site for people who are depressed that the President is ruining the country, making a natural correction of the economy much, much worse, spending the country into insurmountable debt, attempting to ruin health care, nationalizing industry and banks, all the while laughing and and having Wednesday night parties to maintain a sense of “normalcy.”  (What normal person has mid-week set for party time every week?)

Maybe the President will assign everyone their own personal Reggie Love, the guy that dials Obama Blackberry, because you can’t take a second to dial your phone or supply your own snacks when you’re THE ONE!

This is real.  You can read the whole story here.

At the same time, Obama will be constantly minded by his personal aide Reggie Love, who dials his BlackBerry, fetches his jacket and tie and supplies him with snacks.

Bet none of those greedy, evil CEOs on Wall Street had a dude to “fetch” their jackets.

Sadly, while he walks on water, we all drown in his debt.

Click on the pick, it's official White House (all the way at the bottom)

He's just crazy enough to do it!

There are stories that you simply can’t make up because no one would believe you. They also require little comment. This reporter wonders if taking out his whole family might be the best way to deal with a potential water shortage…

Depressed? Well, it’s a sign of the grim times for our planet when pre-schoolers are worrying about something as basic as water, a commodity which my generation never even thought about at his age.

When I look at my kids like my son and wonder what kind of place the world will be when they are my age – about 2050 – I find myself wondering if me and my family shouldn’t just open the balcony doors of my 16th floor apartment and do the planet a favour by jumping out.

They're smiling because he usually votes like they do.

It looks like Arlen Specter’s apology tour to conservatives to make up for his selling out on the “stimulus” bill continues…

It has been announced today that the will oppose cloture on the Employee Free Choice act, commonly referred to as Card Check.

Thanks for agreeing to do the right thing, Senator Specter, but this in on way makes up for your selling out to the tune of a trillion dollars.  We appreciate this, but will never forget that.