O’Reilly: “Are We responsible for the chaos that is enveloping America?”

This “Talking Points”  commentary “by  Bill O’Reilly aired last night, January 18, and, in our opinion, rings true in many respects; foremost—elections have consequences .

• U.S. Government's Fiscal Years 2012 and 2011 Consolidated Financial Statements (GAO-13-271R, Jan 17, 2013)

What Would Fiscal Cliff Mean for Student Aid?

FinAid.org founder Mark Kantrowitz on how the potential fiscal cliff would impact college students.

If you are considering Federal student loans to help put your son or daughter through college, you must watch this video and read the related reading to better prepare yourselves.  The status quo will be seriously  impacted based upon how the president and congress solve the quickly approaching, so-called "fiscal cliff."

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Update on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 7:13 AM by Basil Ryan

Will Big Bird Survive the "fiscal cliff"—and other Pressing Questions>>

Dear Liberals and Progressives We Want a Divorce

Painting: “The Forgotten Man”—Jon McNaughton

I received this email the other day from a friend and wanted to share it with my like-minded readers.  You may have already received it but for those who haven’t and my Liberal friends—this is for you.

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and different tastes.

We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election has made us realize that we want a divorce. 

I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.  It’s not me it’s you!

Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on somewhat friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.  We offer you this separation agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and different world views.

We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them.

You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.

Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.

We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar and bio-fuels.

You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them to your country.

We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.

You can have your beloved Big Bird, PBS, generational able-bodied welfare cheats food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, dopers and illegal aliens.

We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey Moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks.

We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.

You can make nice with China, Russia, Iran, Egypt, Libya, Pakistan and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and destroy countries that threaten us.

You can have The Hague, peaceniks, war protesters and “occupiers.”   When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.

We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.

You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, Roseanne Barr and Arianna Huffington.

You may also have the United Nations, but know this, we will no longer be paying the bill.

We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.

You can give everyone "afordable health care," if you can find any practicing doctors.

We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."

I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing,” "Kum Ba Ya" or "We Are the World.”

We'll practice trickle-down economics, and you can continue to give Keynesianism, trickle up poverty your best shot.

Since it so often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name, our flag and Country Music.

Would you agree to this?   If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots.  If not, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, we’ll let you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Most Sincerely,

Fred Keller

Proud Conservative American

P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, “Hanoi Jane” Fonda and Cindy Sheehan with you.

P.S.S.  And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.

Virginia Woman Fined $5000 for Throwing Birthday party on Her Family Farm

This video story needs no introduction.

This is not the America I grew up in. Is this the kind of America you want to live in?

The choice in November is crystal clear for me.

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Philadelphia Good Samaritan Faces Fine for Feeding the Hungry

Proving once again how ever-caring Americans are willing to step up when it comes to helping the needy, and that intrusive big government over-regulation only serves to get in the way of these well-meaning Americans.

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Obama Recycles Biden’s 2008 Suggestion “paying taxes is ‘patriotic’”

Over the weekend Barrack Obama suggested it’s “patriotic” for well-off Americans to pay more in taxes, bringing back an argument then-Senator Joe Biden first made before the 2008 election.  It’s perfectly clear that Obama and Biden have no idea what American patriotism is.   >>Read more.

Patriots have never liked paying taxes to govertment.  One wonders whether either of these two has heard of the Boston Tea Party.  Listen very closely to the words in the narration.

Rare Standing Ovation Last Week in House of Representatives

U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA), speaking on the House floor last Thursday, managed something very rare in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives—he received a standing ovation.  While applause is normally discouraged in this institution, Kelly‘s scathing attack on regulatory red tape and Washington’s culture of control was apparently so powerful that several of his fellow House members could not keep from showing their support; clapping, standing up and shouting “USA! USA! USA!”

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Big Government: The Mother of All Invention?

A satirical take on “You didn’t build that!”

Obama: Green with Failure After Failure...

When President Obama took office in 2009, he told Americans that he “will be held accountable.” He also told us that, within his first term, he would turn around a struggling American economy and put the country back on the right track.

I’m Fired Up! How ‘bout you?!

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More of Obama’s Big Government Injecting itself Where it Does Not Belong

“The reason [The Obama Administration] [is] bemoaning JPMorgan Chase is because they’re a target. They are a target of this president and his big government allies who would like to use this loss of their own money as a means to regulate them even further; which means banks will do less, will be less risky, will earn less and will charge their customers more.”

—Andrew P. Napolitano FOX News, senior judicial analyst