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Vote of confidence for Obama? The community organizer can't be concerned with the daily girations of the stock market...his words.

Seems the Romneybots and Establishment Republicans now want to blame Conservatives like myself for Mittens going down to defeat last night to a political lightweight with a horrible record of mismanagement! Not only did Mittens lose, but his much hyped coattail never materialized and not only was he defeat handily, but the Republicans lost seats and influence in the Congress. What the establishment fails to realize and continues to not understand is that when there is not true Conservative or even Conservative Ideas on the ticket, we tend to stay home. It is time for the Republican Establishment to understand...

There really isn’t much to say about yesterday’s defeat at the polls. We can talk about which groups voted how, but alas that would do little to help us face the consequences of the Democrats’ big victory last night. The warnings from this site and countless others as well as most of talk radio and a surprising number of newspapers fell on deaf ears. As the saying goes, Americans always get the government we deserve.” While there are many issues that deserve to be addressed first, for us on the Right pulling together and avoiding the temptation to point fingers...

I had a few moments of weakness last evening. I had major anxiety. I was sick, but to be honest I was not surprised. I have been living a lie, just like I did in 2008. Sarah Palin is not the solution. Mitt Romney is not the solution. We have been complicit for way to long. We need to starve the beast. The left has found their grip in government by working methodically and Faithfully by utlizing Hollywood,Celebrity,Education and Technology.Liberals have framed their message in culture. Our conservative traditional values cannot exist in a vacuum. We can't keep funding moderate...

Voters on Tuesday opted to change California’s "Three Strikes and You’re Out" law, which mandates a life sentence for anyone convicted of three serious crimes, NBC projects.

The day after the election, 8-employees of a Florida based company were individually called into the office of management and informed that their services would no longer be needed following the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. The owner and his company cannot be named for fear of legal hassles and thug reprisals, even though Florida is a "right-to-work-state". He had previously let it be known to trusted individuals outside the company, that if Barack Obama was re-elected, the healthcare laws and other anti-business policies the Obama admistration is pushing would force his company to down-size, and that his down-sizing would begin with...

Here is my take on why we are losing. I didn’t say “why we lost” because it is an ongoing, systemic problem and not indicative of one political season. All the pundits are talking about campaign tactics, the Mormon factor, Bush blaming, women’s issues, etc. But I think those are all minor compared to one overriding thing – we have, as a nation, bought in to the idea that the State can and should take care of us. Gallup had a poll a week or so that said that 40% of Americans thought that government should do more. That is...

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It is a glorious day The Lord has given us. This morning I extend an honest “Thank you” to the American electorate, for they provided a snapshot of themselves with unusual clarity. Six weeks ago I declared that the election was not a choice between two candidates as much as it was a verdict on us as a nation, and with near ubiquity and persuasive forcefulness that verdict has been rendered. From coast to coast the electorate chose debauchery and an expanding welfare state. (they may not have thought that was what they were voting for, but make no mistake...)...

George Smith, one of the Navajo code talkers who helped the U.S. military outfox the Japanese during World War II by sending messages in their obscure language, has died, the president of the Navajo Nation said. "This news has saddened me," Ben Shelly, the Navajo president, said in a post Wednesday on his Facebook page. "Our Navajo code talkers have been real life heroes to generations of Navajo people." Smith died Tuesday, Shelly said, and the Navajo Nation's flag is flying at half-staff until Sunday night to commemorate his life. See CNN's complete coverage of Veterans in Focus Several hundred...

Louisiana voters gave strong support to seven out of nine new constitutional amendments Tuesday that include a provision increasing protections for gun rights, allowing for public servants convicted of felonies to be stripped of some retirement benefits and ensuring that a state Medicaid trust fund for the elderly is not used for other purposes.

I suppose we’ll always have Chick-fil-A celebration days as a reminder of what might have been and what can get people motivated. But we are here now, the day after the election and we have to figure out what “forward” means to the conservative movement and by extension, to the idea of limited government. It should be clear. To preserve and restore this republic as it was founded we need a constitutional convention in which the states reassert their 10th amendment rights. I believe that there are enough Republican held legislatures to make this a viable option. This reassertion of...

A newly re-elected President Barack Obama will push for higher taxes -- including a dividend-tax hike that will cause a substantial drop in stocks, Pimco's Bill Gross told CNBC Wednesday. Obama will get little time to enjoy his election victory Tuesday, as he will have to get to work quickly with Congress to avoid the nation's "fiscal cliff" of looming mandated tax increases and spending cuts. One likely remedy for revenue-raising will be to take the current dividend tax rate of 15 percent and hike it five to 10 percentage points, said Gross, co-CEO at the firm that runs the...

This was within reach. Obama had ten million fewer votes than 2008. Despite huge rallies and intensity, Rs didn't show up. Was it... 1. Insufficient ground game? Hundreds of millions on tv instead of laser beam ground game on our base? 2. Too moderate. Romney didn't motivate the conservatives. 3. The Mormon thing. Evangelicals stayed home. 4. The gender gap. Romney didn't close it. Despite the MSM spin, this was a winnable election and we lost the chess match. Thoughts?

If a coward president, vice-president & Sec of State leaving men to die on the field of battle is not a High Crime or a Misdemeanor then there are no such things. We have the House and the necessary votes. Investigate & Indict. After the dirty, lying, divisive campaign the cowards ran and after he, Biden and Clinton left those brave men to die begging for help we have a DUTY to bring Charges of Impeachment against the 3 criminals: OBAMA, BIDEN, CLINTON.

I stayed up as late as I could - as late as I had to - to confirm what I had suspected for some time - President Barack Obama was reelected to another four year term of office. I slept surprisingly well. Not because I am not worried about the future of Nation and the freedom of the Church under the coming second Obama term. I am deeply worried. But because I knew I had done everything that I could to ensure a different result and that the future is in the hands of a loving God. ...There are serious...

“The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship will beset the land, with severe distress that could involve questions of class, race, nation and empire. The very survival of the nation will feel at stake. Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and twin emergencies of the Great...

Stocks took a sharp nosedive across the board Wednesday in the wake of President Barack Obama's re-election, triggered by worries over the looming "fiscal cliff" and as fears over Europe's economy reemerged. The Dow fell below 13,000, while the S&P 500 traded under 1,400 for the first time since early September...

Akin was favored to beat McCaskill until his remarks about "legitimate rape." KANSAS CITY, Missouri - Missouri Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin, who sparked a furor in August with comments about "legitimate rape," was defeated by Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill on Tuesday. Until the rape comment, Akin was considered the favorite to beat McCaskill in a state that has trended Republican and voted for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday. But the race reversed course after Akin's comment to a television station that women have natural defenses against pregnancy from "legitimate rape." The comment drew scorn from state...

WASHINGTON -- Fitch Ratings said that there would be "no fiscal honeymoon" for President Obama, warning early Wednesday that the U.S. probably would lose its AAA credit rating if the White House and Congress don't address looming tax increases, spending cuts and the fast-approaching debt ceiling. "The economic policy challenge facing the president is to put in place a credible deficit-reduction plan necessary to underpin economic recovery and confidence in the full faith and credit of the U.S.," said Fitch, one of the three major credit rating companies. The expiration of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts and the start...