If you can get to a radio you need to be listening to Glenn Beck right now. As many of us suspected the number of ACORN sting tapes didn’t stop at three. He is playing audio, and will show on FOX news this afternoon at 5pm, of an office in San Bernadino, CA.

The results are similar to those in Baltimore, DC, and New York.

What is jaw-droppingly different is the ACORN worker telling O’Keefe and Giles that she killed her husband. I guess she just wanted to fit in with the pimp and ho.

Got call and make sure the DVR is set.

Van Jones is out.

A White House environmental policy adviser who specialized in “green jobs” resigned on Sunday after an uproar over his previous affiliation with a September 11 conspiracy group.

Van Jones, special adviser on green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, apologized on Thursday after videotape surfaced of him using a crude epithet to describe Republicans and amid revelations he had signed a petition suggesting U.S. government involvement in the 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.

No mention of his other controversial positions and his desire for incremental restructuring of the entire American way of life. Still, gone is gone.

His face saving resignation used the old classic “distraction” rationale.

Jones said he was resigning to avoid being a distraction in the administration’s effort to pass healthcare reform and climate change legislation.

“On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me,” Jones said in a resignation letter that was released to the media.

“I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future,” he wrote.

Of course by “smear campaign” he must mean “pointing out the truth about my past and my beliefs”.

There’s only one possible response to this news.

NEXT!

Found at Gordon Cafe via my feed reader.

A Woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him,

“Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”

The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.

“She rolled her eyes and said, “You must be a Republican.”

“I am,” replied the man. “How did you know?”

“Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help to me.”

The man smiled and responded, “You must be an Obama Democrat.”

“I am,” replied the balloonist. “How did you know?”

“Well,” said the man, “you don’t know where you are or where you are going. You’ve risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it’s my fault.”

(h/t Concerned Citizen who is ConservaTeacher on Twitter)

John Hawkins has a new Town Hall column – 20 Hypocrisies Of Liberalism. What is sadly surprising about the list is that it’s not very surprising. Here’s a taste:

1) …it’s impossible to come to any sort of reasonable compromise with conservatives on anything, but that we can fix our problems with nations like Iran and North Korea by just sitting down and talking things out.

If you can…

To learn more about the 100 Post Marathon read here and especially here.

John Fund WSJ article, More Acorn Voter Fraud Comes to Light, looks at another case being brought against ACORN and the response from the left.

On Monday, Nevada officials charged Acorn, its regional director and its Las Vegas field director with submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms last year. Larry Lomax, the registrar of voters in Las Vegas, says he believes 48% of Acorn’s forms “are clearly fraudulent.” On Thursday, prosecutors in Pittsburgh, Pa., also charged seven Acorn employees with filing hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations before last year’s general election.

As usual, ACORN claims that the abuses where only the work of a few bad employees.

But Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada’s Democratic Attorney General, told the Las Vegas Sun that Acorn itself is named in the criminal complaint. She says that Acorn’s training manuals “clearly detail, condone and . . . require illegal acts,” such as requiring its workers to meet strict voter-registration targets to keep their jobs.

What is interesting in Fund’s piece is the marked difference between local and federal Democratic response.

State and city Democratic officials — who’ve been contending with its many scandals — are moving against it. Washington Democrats are still sweeping Acorn abuses under a rug.

He cites two examples: John Conyers (D-MI) suggesting that a House Judiciary Subcommittee look into the allegations surrounding the group and later withdrawing that idea saying, “the complaints against Acorn, I have concluded that a hearing on this matter appears unwarranted at this time.” Also Rep. Barney Frank; at first voting in favor of Michelle Bachmann’s amendment that would “block groups indicted for voter fraud from receiving federal housing or legal assistance grants” but latter reversing his position.

Bachmann’s amendment is about the money, and it is a lot of money.

In the stimulus bill passed by Congress, Acorn is eligible — along with other activist groups — to apply for $2 billion in funds to redevelop abandoned and foreclosed homes.

State after state, election after election, allegations and charges have been brought against this corrupt group. So, naturally, they’ve been enlisted to help with next year’s census. Unbelievable.

In spite of every straw heaped upon the camel’s back they don’t appear worried.

“We’ve had bad publicity before, and all it does is inform the community that we’re here working for the community,” Bonnie Greathouse, Acorn’s head organizer in Nevada, assured the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week. “People always come forward to our defense. We’re just community organizers, just like the president used to be.”

I don’t know if that’s scary, sad, or just infuriating. Maybe it’s all three.

I’m running behind this morning, so I’ll keep this short.

One of the constant drumbeats during the Bush years was the idea that the President and his administration were shredding the Constitution. Well this administration is above that. They wouldn’t dream of shredding the Constitution, they’re too busy just ignoring it.

Two quick examples.

As I read through the various news reports on GM’s CEO “resignation” I was floored and speechless. John Hinderaker echos my thoughts.

I’m not sure who is on Obama’s “team,” or why they are better qualified than GM management to figure out how to “succeed in this competitive global market.” Obama’s arrogance is best explained, one suspects, by an a priori conviction that government always knows best.

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I wasted a couple of hours today looking for the Automobile Repair Clause in the Constitution, but I couldn’t find it. Again, this intermingling of the state with private (or formerly private) enterprise is a sad echo of intellectual currents that swept through Europe in the 1930s. Resurrecting this sort of state “capitalism” can hardly be considered progress.

Then this morning I read about another power grab at Ace’s.

Basically, HR 875 sets up a MASSIVE new government bureaucracy called the Food Safety Administration, and compels anything known as a “food establishment” to register with the federal government (paying registration fees of course) and to submit to inspections that are at different intervals depending on the type of “food establishment” you are.

The (formerly) ubiquitous summer roadside vegetable stand appears to be both Category 3 and 5 “food establishments” since they sells “fresh produce in ready-to-eat raw form” and “stores, holds, or transports food products prior to delivery for retail sale”.

The explicit exclusions in Section 3 (13)(B) do not exclude roadside vegetable stands.

Section 3 (14) explicitly declares “any farm” (no matter what the size) to be a “FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITY”.

Section 406 is a real doozy which places the burden of proof on the small farmer or roadside stand operator to demonstrate that none of their goods were participants in interstate commerce (the basis for this whole thing appears to be the Commerce Clause)

One of the commenters there (Fish) had this (Cleaned for bR&E) to say:

I am trying to find the notation in the Constitution that gives the Supreme Commander and his lackeys the right to f*** over farmers, but to date, it eludes me.

I also liked this one:

How soon before Michelle Obama faces fines for the farm in back of the White House?

Heh.

The overreaching is unbelievable.

I know, I should have been putting together a witty, intelligent, well thought out post. Instead I’ve been reading the comments at this AoSHQ post and putting this together:

Ok, the title is for the tin-foil brigades, but it is true. President Bush’s stay in the White House will be extended.

The world’s official timekeepers have added a “leap second” to the last day of the year on Wednesday, to help match clocks to the Earth’s slowing spin on its axis, which takes place at ever-changing rates affected by tides and other factors.

The U.S. Naval Observatory, keeper of the Pentagon’s master clock, said it would add the extra second on Wednesday in coordination with the world’s atomic clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC.

That corresponds to 6:59:59 p.m. EST (23:59:59 GMT), when an extra second will tick by — the 24th to be added to UTC since 1972, when the practice began.

It’s a conspiracy I tell you!

Just don’t think you can hide your smears. In an absolutely brilliant investigative report Dr. Rusty Shackleford and The Jawa Report root out the players and the connections behind the false attacks on Governor Palin.

Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views.

Our research suggests that a subdivision of one of the largest public relations firms in the world most likely started and promulgated rumors about Sarah Palin that were known to be false. These rumors were spread in a surreptitious manner to avoid exposure.

What they have found is highly suggestive of much more than private public support gone viral.

It is also likely that the PR firm was paid by outside sources to run the smear campaign. While not conclusive, evidence suggests a link to the Barack Obama campaign. Namely:

• Evidence suggests that a YouTube video with false claims about Palin was uploaded and promoted by members of a professional PR firm.
• The family that runs the PR firm has extensive ties to the Democratic Party, the netroots, and are staunch Obama supporters.
• Evidence suggests that the firm engaged in a concerted effort to distribute the video in such a way that it would appear to have gone viral on its own. Yet this effort took place on company time.
• Evidence suggests that these distribution efforts included actions by at least one employee of the firm who is unconnected with the family running the company.
• The voice-over artist used in this supposedly amateur video is a professional.
• This same voice-over artist has worked extensively with David Axelrod’s firm, which has a history of engaging in phony grassroots efforts, otherwise known as “astroturfing.”
• David Axelrod is Barack Obama’s chief media strategist.
• The same voice-over artist has worked directly for the Barack Obama campaign.

This suggests that false rumors and outright lies about Sarah Palin and John McCain being spread on the internet are being orchestrated by political partisans and are not an organic grassroots phenomenon led by the left wing fringe. Our findings follow.

Be sure to allow yourself the time to read the whole thing.

The difference between the approach by the left and right on energy are pretty clear. Two posts on The Hill Blog highlight those differences.

Rep. Alcee Hastings: Working Families Need a Gas Tax Credit

For months we have been doing a lot of talking about America’s working families who are paying twice as much as they were paying for a gallon of gas last year while oil companies are reporting record profits. For the first time since 2001, Congress is finally conducting real, meaningful oversight over the energy industry. What we’re finding out is deeply troubling while what we’re experiencing at the pumps is literally highway robbery.

Americans are looking to Congress to help them respond to unwarranted gas price increases. Sadly, Senate Republicans this week said that they would rather play politics than help Americans out. I find their actions to be reprehensible.

Blame the producers, government is the answer. Democrat boilerplate.

Hastings goes on to tout his Working Families Gas Tax Credit Act

All individuals and families who were eligible for the economic stimulus rebate recently passed into law by the Democratic Congress would be eligible for this tax credit. Similar to the 2008 economic stimulus package, the amount of the credit will phase out for individuals making over $75,000 and families making over $150,000.

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It is time for Republicans to stop obstructing Congress from providing Americans with the relief that they need. Democrats are doing everything we can, and I hope that my bill will be a part of the package that we ultimately pass.

If that’s everything they can it’s no wonder they’re approval rating is in the mid 20’s.

Contrast that post with this one from Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.

Action Needed to Address Oil Supply

We know that a history of inaction has caused a lot of the situation that is in front of us. We also know that if you go back and look at the issue historically, you can look at the Carter policies in the 70s. You can look at Bill Clinton vetoing drilling in the ANWR in the 90s and see what has happened.

I find it so interesting that some of our friends don’t want to talk about the supply and demand issue. We have capped our supply. We have capped our capacity, and the global demand continues to increase. To address the issue, we need to look at that. Uncap and open up that supply. Open up our capacity and address those issues, so that we can begin to address the price at the pump.

Clearly the left doesn’t understand the basic principle of supply and demand. They would rather China drill off the coast than the U.S. and they always think that a government solution to a problem is preferable to a market one.

The Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less. petition has over 600,000 signatures. It could use one more. Add yours today.

Not satisfied with his failed presidential bid, Dennis Kucinich (ET-Area 51) has introduced an impeachment resolution in the house.

He contended Bush deceived the nation and violated his oath of office in leading the country into the Iraq war.

Kucinich introduced a resolution last year to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. That resolution was killed, but only after Republicans initially voted in favor of taking up the measure to force a debate.

The reality based party.

Right.

Parody Master Don Surber picked up the song I was thinking about in regards to Obama’s “it’s all about me” reaction to President Bush’s remarks in Israel.

The reaction from the candidate and the left has been laughable and telling. Phrases like, “if the shoe fits”, and “me thinks he doth protest too much” leap to mind. In fact the entire reaction makes it clear that the remarks are right on target.

I’ve read the remarks several times. I’ve yet to find a reference to Barack Obama. What I did find were several points that should give the left pause, but won’t.

There are good and decent people who cannot fathom the darkness in these men and try to explain away their words. It’s natural, but it is deadly wrong. As witnesses to evil in the past, we carry a solemn responsibility to take these words seriously. Jews and Americans have seen the consequences of disregarding the words of leaders who espouse hatred. And that is a mistake the world must not repeat in the 21st century.

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

Probably my favorite phrase from the speech. It is the difference between the left and right on national security and dealing with terrorist and dictators. Following the July 7th bombings in London I wrote a post with the title My Dog is a Terrorist. Here’s what I said at the time:

The terrorist perform their actions not because of Bush/Blair/Iraq/et. al. but because infidels exist. That’s you an me my friend. Getting along with these extremists is a one way proposition. They have no desire to get along with us, no matter how hard we try to get along with them. Their goal isn’t accommodation, but elimination. Period.

President Bush’s words speak to that understanding.

We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

It’s a truth that Obama and the left just don’t seem to understand.