CHECK-IT-OUT:  GOP Rhetoric on the Constitution at Think Progress Conservatives just love the U.S. Constitution!  We all know they do because they constantly rant and rail that only they 'revere the Constitution, and all those Liberals don't cherish the historic document that our country was founded on, and only Conservatives understand it.' Well, we'd better understand what it is that Conser ...

According to Steve Aurillio, professor of Criminal Justice Department at Skyline College, California “Penal Code 12020 makes it a felony to possess a blackjack, a slingshot, a billy club, a sandbag, metal knuckles or a dagger.  Yet Penal Codes 12025, 12031, and 417 make possession of a concealed or loaded firearm and brandishing simple misdemeanors, punishable by no more than a year in jail.” T ...

Sarah Palin.  There --- that's the last time we'll say that name.  We're so over her.  And, wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if the rest of media did the same?  She finally showed her true colors this week, and everyone knows where it will all end for her.  There's no one outside of her base that has the least bit of interest in her or what she thinks.  THE END. Ezra Klein, columnist for the Wa ...

Matt Bai tells us in his article in yesterday's New York Times, A Turning Point in the Discourse, but in Which Direction? that the Arizona shooting is going to be a turning point for America.  We at CLN think so too, and agree that at this point it's hard to tell which way Americans are going to choose to turn. The media and Democrats seem to be struggling to say, "We all have to tone down the  ...

UPDATE: AIDE TO SARAH PALIN, REBECCA MANSOUR ASSERTS, “OUR CROSSHAIRS MAP HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH VIOLENCE OR GUNS.” Uh huh.  Good luck to you with that explanation.  Unfortunately, Ms. Palin herself has undermined her aide’s rationalization last November following the election when she bragged that her PAC had defeated all but two of the Democrats she had targeted with what she referred to a ...

VIOLENT POLITICAL RHETORIC Whether the shooter of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords had political motives for his violent act or not, or as is more likely has serious mental problems --- or whether any potential political motives of his might be from the Left or Right --- this is the time to take a good hard look at the deterioration of our political discourse, and the disasterous cou ...

CHECK-IT-OUT at The New Republic:  "What if They Repealed Obamacare?" by Jonathan Cohn.  A handful of Republican Governors are planning to sabotage the new health care legislation --- The Affordable Care Act.  They rant and rave about socialism and a government takeover of everything, all the while making dire predictions about the consequences of implementing O B A M A C A R E ... sooo scary! ...

NOT PERFECT --- BUT SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE PREVIOUS 8 YEARS.   I'M GRATEFUL: For the room-lighting smile: * For the mind that always thinks:   * For preventing a second Great Depression: * For the humor:  * For bringing the number of women in the Supreme Court to three: * For making the White House the peopl ...

Record profits are being posted by health insurance companies, while at the same time they are complaining mightily and trying to weaken the new regulations through their lobbyists.  These unprecedented profits fly in the face of their claims that the new regulations will harm the industry! Despite a growing number of Americans forgoing the purchase of health insurance, these folks are still ra ...

UPDATE ON OBAMA TAX COMPROMISE: Many missed a key component of Obama’s tax cut compromise:  It included the extension of very important energy tax credits for wind and solar projects that were expected to expire at the end of the year.  AND tens of thousands of American jobs in the renewable energy sector were saved --- for another year anyway. Wind farms and solar projects will get the go-a ...