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Don’t Let Alinsky Win By Quin Hillyer
Conservatives itching for an all-or-nothing showdown with Barack Obama risk playing right into his hands. A crisis is exactly what he wants. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength,” wrote Alinsky in Rules for Radicals. “The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step….”

A crisis is Obama’s friend. An angry reaction is his ally. Disorder is his goal. His mortal enemy (speaking tactically), on the other hand, is steady, sober, thoughtful, rational pressure by political adversaries who are willing to take the time to consolidate gains, explain themselves, reassure the public that it (the public) has nothing to fear from them (Obama’s adversaries), and which constantly calibrates their words and actions to make it evident that they are keeping the moral high ground. A government shutdown does not fit this model. Forcing a debt crisis does not fit this model.

Tea Partiers may not yet recognize it, but Obama knows he lost a bit more than he won on the $38 billion deal on the Continuing Resolution, and he knows he has been outflanked in the short term at least by Ryan’s plan as well. Obama is rattled. His own budget speech last week showed it. His tone was hostile, petulant, incendiary/demagogic and, in a word, unpresidential.

The reason Obama is off his game is that Republicans did not force things to a crisis level. We’ll beat them at the polls, as conservatives did in 2009, 2010, and in the Wisconsin judicial race. Let the left, not the right, lose its cool.

The Mendacity of Barack Obama By Steve McCann
While I have always been wary of and have written about his dishonesty, after the speech the president delivered the 13th of April regarding the federal budget, one that was chock full of lies, deceit, and crass fear-mongering, it must be said that Barack Obama is the most dishonest, deceitful, and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever witnessed…he may well be the most dishonest and disingenuous occupant of the Oval Office in history, and will do more damage to the nation than all his predecessors combined.

Samantha Power’s Power, On the ideology of an Obama adviser By Stanley Kurtz
A member of the president’s National Security Council who shares Noam Chomsky’s foreign-policy goals? An influential presidential adviser whom 1960s revolutionary Tom Hayden treats as a fellow radical? A White House official who wrote a book aiming to turn an anti-American, anti-Israeli, Marxist-inspired, world-government-loving United Nations bureaucrat into a popular hero? Samantha Power, senior director of multilateral affairs for the National Security Council and perhaps the principal architect of our current intervention in Libya, is all of these things.

U.S. Intervention In Libya Aids the Jihad by Robert Spencer
Barack Obama has committed American lives to building an Islamic state in Libya.  In making their case for U.S. intervention in Libya, conservatives who support the action generally acknowledge that the biggest problem with it is what may come after Gaddafi.

Libya rebels will receive $25 million from U.S. – Washington Times
Dismissing concerns over possible links between Libyan rebels and al Qaeda, the Obama administration has notified Congress it is providing $25 million in nonlethal aid to the rebels’ effort to drive Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s regime from power.

Latinos regret voting for Obama because of the abortion issue
– Jill Stanek

Obamacare: Burying Us in Regulations – Wesley J. Smith
I warned and I warned, here at SHS, in speeches, on the radio: Obamacare would spawn 100,000 pages of regulations.  That’s because we no longer pass laws that govern, we pass laws that serve as skeletons for the bureaucrats to create the rules that actually exert the details of control.  We are in the midst of establishing a bureaucratic oligopoly–and Obamacare is the worst, as in the Independent Payment Advisory Board. Six pages of Obamacare have equaled 429 pages of regulations! Not only is the law almost incomprehensible, with books and books and books of regulations, only the army of Obamacare bureaucrats will know what is going on. 

White House visitor logs leave out many
– Politico
…the logs are missing the names of thousands of other visitors to the White House, including lobbyists, government employees, campaign donors, policy experts and friends of the first family, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity. The White House website proudly boasts of making available “over 1,000,000 records of everyone who’s come through the doors of the White House” via a searchable database.

Book to Reveal Obama’s “true” identity?
– Drudge Report
The street date is a LONG month away, and author Jerome Corsi, the man who torpedoed John Kerry’s presidential dreams with SWIFT BOAT, has gone underground and is holding his new findings thisclose. “It’s utterly devastating,” reveals a source close to the publisher. “Obama may learn things he didn’t even know about himself!” Does Corsi definitively declare the location of Obama’s birth?

Obama to hold Facebook town hall; kicks off campaign fund raising in Bay Area – Mercury News
President Barack Obama will visit Facebook this month for an online town hall event with CEO Mark Zuckerberg before going to San Francisco for a series of pricey fundraisers