—>From the Rocky Mountain News:

Quote from a speech by Obama on Jul 2:

Just as we teach math and writing, arts and athletics, we need to teach young Americans to take citizenship seriously. Study after study shows that students who serve do better in school, are more likely to go to college, and more likely to maintain that service as adults. So when I’m President, I will set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year. This means that by the time you graduate college, you’ll have done 17 weeks of service.

I would ask that you comtemplate what the Media and the Democrats would have said, if John McCain had made this speech.  The cries of “Fascist” would have been drowned out only by the references to creating a new “Hitler Youth”.

Considering the continued failure of our schools in teaching basic skills, I would think the last thing we need to burden them with is creating a new compulsory public service program.  But thats just me.

—>From the UK Telegraph:

Toddlers who dislike spicy food ‘racist’

The National Children’s Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

This could include a child of as young as three who says “yuk” in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.

The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age.

So now, in the UK, a dislike of Curry means you are a bigot - even if you are still potty training.

Considering the other foolishness going on in England today - Muslims in Britain should be able to live under sharia, says top judge, and Apology over ‘offensive’ puppy police advert after Muslim complaints, you begin to wonder how long it will be before there is a mass exodus of brits from the soon to be dhimmi island.

(hat tip to Jonah Goldberg on the top two items)

—>Larry Kudlow has a great piece in the NRO:

America First should be the rallying cry. We have the natural resources to become the Saudi Arabia of coal and the Saudi Arabia of oil. Lift the moratoriums. Stop attacking our own businesses. Put technology to work. Put venture capital to work, with rock-bottom capital-gains and corporate tax rates. Stop being mau-maued by the extremist greenies who have prevented energy production for over three decades. America First. Unleash our free-enterprise energy sector: 2 trillion barrels worth of shale; 90 billion barrels of offshore oil; at least 10 billion barrels up in ANWR and more throughout Alaska, both onshore and off.

The John McCain campaign should be hammering - absolutely HAMMERING - this point home.  The Democrat party and its candidate CANNOT embrace this position without alienating their base.  But as the summer and fall drag on, with fuel and energy prices increasing, pulling the cost of food, goods, and services up with it, the American people will vote for the man - and the party - that will DO SOMETHING NOW to fix it.  In the end, if it means fundamentally changing their lifestyle, or upsetting the mating of Caribou in ANWR…well, from experience, I can tell you that Caribou make tasty sausage.

—>Democrats working with FARC (thats the Columbian Marxist rebels, and Drug Smugglers, for the uninformed).  Courtesy of Gateway Pundit:

Colombian Sen. Piedad Cordoba (left) is currently under investigation by the Colombian attorney general for ties to the FARC. Cordoba claims that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sending messages to the FARC terrorists. Cordoba also claimed during FARC negotiations that Pelosi had assigned Rep. Jim McGovern, as the point man. Captured FARC documents confirmed in March that Mr. McGovern had been working with an American go-between, who had been offering the rebels help in undermining Colombia’s elected and popular government.

But DON’T YOU DARE question Pelosi’s patriotism!  And just think - this woman is 3rd in line from the presidency…  I wonder if anyone has the guts to bring Treason charges against Pelosi and McGovern?