Here’s the audio from my interview with talk show host Kevin James on KRLA in Los Angeles. We discuss my recent article on WorldNetDaily about Ron Paul supporters trying to get spots as delegates to the GOP National Convention. Enjoy!
Andy Barnett discusses presidential politics on KRLA - Los Angeles [12:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
The problem that Barack Obama faces is the fact that he can’t live up to what he and his followers claimed he was: a candidate who represents everyone.
When it comes down to it, Barack Obama has made the same mistake so many politicians have made, he’s tried to be everything to everyone. He can’t represent hope and fight against division while at the same time being a 20-year member of a church that preaches radical messages of racism, and outright anti-Americanism. He can’t represent the socialist progressive left without alienating blue collar Americans who “cling to religion and guns.”
I think what we’re discovering from Barack Obama is a young man who is in over his head. He’s tried to be everything to everyone and in that process he has become nothing to no one. Barack Obama speaks a good game, there’s no doubt about it, his oratory skills are magnificent but they ring hollow. Who is Barack Obama? What does he really believe? We know he has close friendships with extremists like the racist Rev. Wright, the terrorist Bill Ayers, and the crook Tony Rezko. Obama claims to represent the oppressed but he mocks them when meeting with progressive elitists in San Francisco. He’s the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, but his followers claim he’s a uniter not a divider.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of hearing about the many faces of Barack Obama. The more I discover about him, the more I realize there is nothing different about him unless it’s the fact that he has done a magnificent job in deceiving the American public into believing that he’s different. That illusion has come crashing down and all we see left standing is the audacity of division.
So the price at the pump continues to rise and so does your blood pressure. The Mainstream Media would have you believe that it’s all the oil companies fault for raking in big profits! That is a classic distraction from the root cause of our oil price crisis. The problem is government regulation!
Now, I’m no economist, but follow along with my line of thinking and tell me if I’m on to something…
I think we can look at basic supply and demand principles and find the real problem with the price at the pump. We know the demand for gas exists, in fact it’s probably the one constant. I don’t think it’s greater demand that is driving up the price of gas, it seems more likely that it’s supply which continues to decline. So you’ve got to ask yourself why is supply lower? The source of most oil used in the USA is the middle east, and they keep jacking up the prices so it’s more expensive to buy oil. It seems to me that this does two things.
First, existing oil companies get less bang for their buck. These companies work on a budget and they are getting less oil supply for their money. Naturally they have to pass on costs to the consumers to cover the increased cost of doing business. Second, because of the increased cost of doing business it requires more upfront investment money to operate this type of business. This makes it harder if not impossible for smaller oil companies to compete. With less competition oil companies are maximizing their profits. It’s not their fault, it’s all because we have a supply problem.
Why do middle eastern countries keep jacking up the price oil? I don’t know and I don’t care. We could eliminate a lot of headaches if we just quit depending on foreign oil and the various factors that go into their pricing (not to mention we could quit funding terrorist sponsoring nations).
Here’s a novel idea: why don’t we start getting our oil here in America? Why not tap into our own natural resources that exist? Flooding the market with affordable oil supply would benefit everyone.
Government regulations keep us from doing this. The federal government has put regulations in place that prohibit off-shore drilling for oil, drilling for oil in Alaska, and other areas of our homeland rich in natural resources! The oil is there, just waiting to be used. Contrary to popular myth, this oil can be drilled and used in an environmentally responsible way!
The problem is simple: the myth of man-made global warming has been accepted by most Americans thanks to environmental kooks on the left. Not only will these nut jobs not let us use our own natural resources, but they put regulations in place to prohibit more oil refineries which would help open up greater supplies. Other options to increase oil supplies are also thwarted by this same group (developing more coal or nuclear power plants aimed at cutting dependence on oil and increasing supplies that could be used for gasoline).
Wind farms and solar power are wonderful creative ideas, but they don’t produce immediate results. We know that drilling for oil in America, building more refineries, building more coal powered plants, and building more nuclear power plants would all have a proven impact on lessening our dependence on oil overall thus increasing oil supply used for gasoline and creating lower prices at the pump.
So, the next time you see someone complain about the price of gas at the pump, ask them if they believe in man made global warming. If they say yes, I don’t think it would be out of line to point a finger in their face and say, “this is all your fault!”
Another Disney star has had scantily clad pictures released to the public. You heard me right, I said Disney star. I didn’t say music pop star, I didn’t say teen comedy movie star, I said Disney star. For a company that takes pride in family friendly content, Disney hasn’t had the best PR lately.
First, one of the stars of the highly popular High School Musical series, Vanessa Hudgens, had raunchy photos released on the Internet. Now the star of Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, has done something similar by posting for scantily clad photos for Vanity Fair magazine!
Unlike some “news” websites, I’m not going to post links to any of the photos because that’s exactly what the magazines and stars would want me to do. In fact, I’m wary about writing about this in the first place because I don’t want to encourage this kind of behavior.
The worst part about these stories is that these are stars of shows aimed at little kids! We’re not talking about shows aimed at teenagers, we’re talking about kids ages 6-10 years old. Now for the record, Cyrus is 15 years old, and the High School Musical star, Hudgens, is in her late teens.
You’ve got two problems here. First, we’re talking about magazines, the media, and our culture sexualizing young teenage girls! Second, you’re exposing pre-teen kids to this kind of stuff because they idolize these television stars. This is a huge problem! This should outrage parents, families, and everyone in America who has any decency at all!.
Who’s to blame? The teenage Disney stars? The parents of the teenage Disney stars? Disney? The magazines that publish these photos? American culture out of control? I think it’s a little bit of all of the above!
You can’t place all the blame on the teenage Disney stars, because they are young and immature, but at the same time they should know better. Their parents and other adults that surround these kids should be ashamed of themselves for letting these little girls be sold as sexual objects.
Disney should share some of the blame as well. They should do a better job of picking employees of character and they should also punish these stars for this behavior. Why not set an example and fire Hudgens or Cyrus? At the very least they could suspend them from future productions. Why won’t Disney take some sort of action? The simple answer is Disney isn’t in the family values business, they’re in the entertainment business which is all about making money. The same can be said for the magazines that publish this stuff.
It’s a shame that parents are forced to discuss these mature topics with innocent children who shouldn’t have to think about sexual topics like this until they’re much older. Such is the world we live in. Our culture is at war that much is clear. Will Americans say enough is enough? Will we as a culture continue to stand for the sexualization of our children? One of the most valuable assets of any nation is children, for they are the future.
I think Walt Disney would be rolling over in his grave if he knew this kind of stuff was going on.
As the new blog design gets tweaked so will different sections of the site. I’ve just updated the ’stances’ section and you’re more than welcome to check it out and tell me what you think. You’ll have to excuse the mess as I fine tune everything on the site over the next week or so. Also feel free to check out the ‘donate’ section as that will be updated soon as well. Enjoy!
Andy
John McCain, the presumptive presidential nominee from the Republican party lambasted conservatives in his own party this morning for ‘being out of touch with reality’. McCain attacked leadership in the North Carolina Republican Party which ran an ad linking state politicians with Barack Obama.
Here’s the ad…
I don’t know about you, but I’m a little upset at John McCain right now. I don’t see anything particularly offensive in this ad. I see a message that resonates with a lot of people in this ad. I know that the Rev. Wright issue has been very unsettling to me, and I know many people (who might have even considered Barack Obama an intriguing candidate) who have been disgusted with the fact that Obama attended such a church for over 20 years. What’s wrong with pointing this out in a campaign ad?
How is the North Carolina Republican Party out of touch with reality for running this ad? Is Sean Hannity out of touch with reality? Is Rush Limbaugh out of touch with reality? Am I out of touch with reality? Senator McCain seems to be out of touch with conservatives in his own party!
I’ve held my tongue for a while now on the issue of John McCain because I desperately want nothing to do with Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the White House. I was hoping John McCain would reach out to conservatives and there is evidence that he has done some of that. This however does not help his case.
The last thing McCain needs to do is upset conservatives in the Republican party. John McCain needs to quit pussyfooting around trying to please the leftwing media. He needs to quit reaching out to Democrats and start reaching out to conservatives.
John McCain may think that everything is hunky-doory, and that his road to the White House seems certain. Let me be the first to say that if he continues these types of actions he will alienate conservatives even further, and that is risky business. Many of us are less than excited about John McCain and his candidacy as it is. It won’t take much to swing conservatives from quietly supporting John McCain to not supporting John McCain at all.
Do you hear me Senator McCain or are you out of touch with conservatives like me?
There’s an article from the Associated Press (dated 04/22/08), which talks about new Internet legislation from the federal government which is being discussed by Congress. The topic of this Internet legislation? Network Neutrality. Which in essence is legislation designed to keep Internet service providers from filtering out parts of the web.
The article is a little confusing because it talks about legislation to regulate Internet Service Providers from regulating content. The language and logic is confusing. The legislation says that regulating the service providers is good but regulating people using the Internet is bad. So it’s arguing for regulation to keep off regulations. Doesn’t that seem like an oxymoron? This seems like government sticking its nose into a problem where it does not belong. Let me tell me show you how I arrived at that conclusion. I’ll give you two examples where I feel freedom may actually be taken away because of Network Neutrality legislation.
