From his Twitter feed:

I’m proud to endorse Christine O’Donnell for US Senate in Delaware. She will stand strong for the principles of freedom.

As I’ve said, better to lose with a conservative than win with a RINO. If you could prove to me that Mike Castle, and only Mike Castle, would assure us of 51 GOP Senators in January, then I’d still back O’Donnell…better to be a strong, conservative minority than a weak, RINO majority.

This promo video was put out for the St Louis 9/12 event – but it’ll do for the whole nation:

And, of course, there will be a march in DC, as well. This is the kick off for the final push – the battle for November.

The future of our nation is at stake – if we can win, we can start reforming our nation and stave off complete disaster. If we fail, then America will pay a high price. Time to get in to the trenches.

From Walter Russell Mead:

…The greatest victory we have won in this war came on one of its most questionable battlefields: in Iraq. It was not a military victory, though it opened the door to military progress. It was a moral victory. And it was not something that Americans imposed on Muslims; it was a choice that Muslims made…

…They decided that the future of their families, their children and their values was better served by aligning with the United States against the terrorists and against the fanatics.

What those Sunni Arabs in Iraq came to understand is the basic truth of this conflict. The war unleashed nine years ago is not a clash of civilizations between Islam and the west. It is a clash between civilization and barbarism, and in that clash the Americans and true Muslims are on the same side…

I put a bit of a different spin on it – they didn’t so much decide to fight alongside us as recognize that they finally had a chance to settle accounts with those who had alternately bamboozled and brutalized them for the benefit of a tiny minority. Once in Iraq it has been Saddam and his henchmen, after Saddam it was al-Qaeda and other such groups trying to take over. We offered them the chance for no one to take over -for them to be able to live their lives as they see fit.

They took the chance and, so far, its working out.

Mead goes on to note that in the Moslem world, there is a lot of anger over this, that or the other American policy. I can imagine that most Moslems are horrified at some of the gross immorality on display in the West. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that when they think of “democracy” they don’t mean “hey, lets build a combination San Francisco/Las Vegas here in the Middle East”. Furthermore, I’m sure they’ve still got a bit of a learning curve on what real religious toleration is all about – the Christian minorities in the Moslem world have it very rough, even under the best of circumstances. But, and this is crucial, they are people who want to live their lives without let or hindrance from others – and in that, they are 100% like the rest of us, and thus our natural allies.

I talk about this theme from a different angle over at Noonan for Nevada – to nutshell it, we are faced not with a nation in arms against us; not with a war of Islam vs West. What we have are various, small minorities which wish to gain absolute power in order to advance whatever cause they think best regardless of what everyone else wants. My personal view is that the goal of 90% of the enemy is personal wealth and power – but even if I’m wrong on that, I’m right in my contention that decapitating the tiny minority is the key to victory.

How we go about finally getting rid of all the leadership of the enemy is an empirical question – you take a look at the particular circumstances for the leaderships of the nations and groups which battle us, and work out the best means of taking or killing them. But getting them out of they way is the only path to victory – because it is the only means of having the broad masses of the Moslem world able to take charge of their own lives…and once they do so, I’m certain they won’t be terribly interested in having their sons blow themselves to bits just on the off chance they might kill a few Israelis or Americans.

Victory, peace and freedom beckon us – if we’ll just understand what we’re faced with, and steel ourselves to the necessary actions.

From the Associated Press:

The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama’s watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.

Census figures for 2009 — the recession-ravaged first year of the Democrat’s presidency — are to be released in the coming week, and demographers expect grim findings…

Time to surrender in the War on Poverty and start trying to fight and win the War for Wealth. We should not think in terms of ending poverty, but of increasing the amount of wealth to the point where even the poor in America are the envy of the world.

To do this, we’ll have to ditch a whole bunch of policies which, in the end, do nothing but subsidize squalor. Polices which give money without requiring work; which allow people to engage in non-productive enterprises; which clog wealth generation with taxes and regulation.

Our policies should be geared towards making, mining and growing things – and should be also set so that the individual or the small, local group has a shot at competing against the behemoth corporations. This isn’t just about money – we can print up trillions and make everyone a millionaire tomorrow – but about spreading the means to create wealth to the largest number of individuals and groups.

America is the land of plenty. We are positively slopping over with the means to create wealth – all we need do is show the will to use it.

From the Associated Press:

A 25-year-old soldier from Iowa who exposed himself to enemy gunfire to try to save two fellow soldiers will become the first living service member from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced Friday.

President Barack Obama phoned Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, on Thursday at the base in Italy where he’s stationed to tell him he’d be receiving the nation’s highest military honor, Giunta’s father told The Associated Press. He will become the eighth service member to receive the Medal of Honor during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The seven previous medals were awarded posthumously…

We can never repay the men and women who serve our country – especially those who serve in battle, and most especially those who show a supreme disregard for their own lives. On this day of remembrance, it is altogether right and fitting that we should pay homage to Staff Sgt. Giunta and all of those who have bravely done their duty in this war.

From Byron York over at the Washington Examiner:

…Prognosticators have upgraded the coming political storm from Category 4 to Category 5. Republican control of the House has gone from possible to inevitable.

But Republicans don’t believe it, or at least the insiders involved in the midterm effort don’t believe it. As they see it, they’re in a good position to pick up the 39 seats needed to win control of the House, but polls showing a huge GOP lead are simply wrong. “I’m assuming that Cook and Rothenberg and Rove and the others have got different indications from what we’ve got,” says one member of the House GOP election team. “I don’t want to overestimate what’s out there.”

“I think it’s about even,” says a strategist involved in the GOP effort…

Maybe we will be able to shed the label of “stupid party” here in 2010 – this is wise; campaign real hard, count on nothing and then we’ll see where the votes come out on November 2nd. The polls are good for the GOP – most notably the Ramussen poll which has been consistent all year long with a strong GOP vote in prospect. But, polls don’t vote – people do.

We have a chance for a historic victory on November 2nd – but only if we work for it. It won’t just land in our lap. The correlation of political forces are in our favor, but fighting hard or slacking off will make the difference between a decent gain in seats, and a crushing victory. If we want a big victory, then we’d better dig down deep and find the will to make it happen.

How many Obama staffers and how much they owe the IRS – from the LA Times:

…Privacy laws prevent release of individual tax delinquents’ names. But we do know that as of the end of 2009, 41 people inside Obama’s very own White House owe the government they’re allegedly running a total of $831,055 in back taxes. That would cover a lot of special chocolate desserts in the White House Mess…

Through the whole government, its a total of $1 billion owed by officials in back taxes. These are the people who run the government, who tell us that we have to make sacrifices, who tell us they are working for us…

Now I’d like our members of the audience here to ask themselves – “do I owe the IRS money in back taxes?”, and then put a “yes” or “no” in the comments. You can do it anonymously. I’d like to find out if even one of the people who come here (and outside of the regular commenters, there are quite a lot of you) owes back taxes…let alone whether 41 of you do.

This is the Ruling Class – out of touch and figuring they don’t have to obey the laws they burden us with.