MICHIGAN – Mitt Romney is raising the stakes in Michigan, predicting he can’t lose despite trouble in the polls and a surge in support for Rick Santorum.  Asked by Michigan Live on Wednesday whether he might lose the state, Romney said simply:

“That won’t happen.”

Michigan is considered a crucial test for Romney’s campaign. Not only does it come one week ahead of Super Tuesday, when many have predicted the GOP nomination will be clinched, but it has long been considered a lock to go for Romney. Michigan is Romney’s home turf — he was born in Detroit and his father was a popular three-term GOP governor — and he won the state in 2008, beating John McCain in the GOP primary.

Santorum winning Michigan would be a serious blow to Romney’s already-faltering status as the Republican Party’s “inevitable nominee.” (more…)

“It would never come into the people’s heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.

Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.”

– Adolf Hitler

(Fox News) — The top U.S. Catholic bishop vowed legislative and court challenges Tuesday to a compromise by President Barack Obama to his healthcare mandate that now exempts religiously affiliated institutions from paying directly for birth control for their workers, instead making insurance companies responsible.

Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, who heads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in an interview with The Associated Press that he trusted Obama wasn’t anti-religious and intended to make good on his pledge to work with religious groups to fine-tune the mandate. (more…)

In modern, fearful and litigious corporate America it is known as “Plausible Deniability”.  A risk management term to describe an intentional layering of administrative action within an organization to protect the higher-ups from risk.  Plausible Deniability is a condition in which a subject can safely and believeably deny knowledge of any particular truth that may exist because the subject is deliberately made unaware of said truth so as to benefit or shield the subject from any responsibility associated through the knowledge of such truth.

If your opponent lacks incontrovertible proof (evidence) of their allegation, you can “plausibly deny” the allegation even though it may be true.  Because many lawyers are in politics, they brought forward a lower standard of ethics and integrity with them. This is why they rarely put anything controversial in writing. This is also why they most often have you talk to an underling or an agency bureaucrat so they can plausibly deny knowledge of the conversation or be able to say the underling or bureaucrat misstated their position.

Got it? (more…)

Tonight was Eric Bolling’s very last edition of “Follow The Money”, and as his special last guest he invited Gov. Sarah Palin.  Topics ranged from her selection as the VP candidate in the ’08 election to the possibility of a brokered convention for the GOP.  Bolling waiting until almost the end of the interview to ask her if she’d consider saying “yes” to being a candidate if no one else reached the magic number of delegates.  Her answer?  “I would do whatever I could to help.”  Sarah also surprised viewers earlier in the day when she showed up as a surprise guest on The Five.  Guess who was the only one she gave a hug to? 

It is quite amazing to me how the image of Republicans (see Ryan Budget Plan) can be painted as throwing Grandma and Grandpa off a cliff simply because they point out the inherent long-term fiscal flaws in Social Security.   Actually, if you honestly look at the current Obama budget proposal, and Obama’s demand for another payroll tax cut extension, the  opposite is true.

The funding mechanism for Social Security payments is the very Payroll Tax that Obama insists be reduced.  I wonder if people actually realize this or do they confuse the “Payroll tax cut” with income taxes and think that income taxes are being reduced? (more…)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

In any left revolution, be it progressive, bolshevik, socialist, fascist, maoist, or bolivaran, it is necessary to knock down organized religion. The Catholic Church competes for the hearts and minds of people and does so effectively, as do the evangelical Protestant churches, etc. Further, the Church is organized and so can put out a message of opposition.

So at some point the revolution has to take the Church on, or lose. Socialists today understand the power the Church had in Poland in the 1970s, in Nicaragua and El Salvador in the 1980s, and in Venezuela today. The current revolution will not make the mistake of allowing the Church to survive long-term.

If the revolution is strong enough to take out the Church directly, it does so. But if not, it has to take on the Church in ways that compromise the Church’s moral authority and organization. It’s rather Alinsky-like, eh?

The inmates are running the asylum. This Administration has served notice on every illegal alien invader across America: do not be afraid – you are above the law.

(StandwithArizona)…Eleven illegal aliens who claimed ICE agents “violated their rights” in 2007 raids on their New Haven neighborhood have won a $350,000 settlement from the U.S. government, which also agreed to halt deportation proceedings against the plaintiffs, their attorneys said Tuesday.     (more…)