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Wall Street is the biggest donor to Obama's inauguration, no doubt because they're thanking him for his support of the Wall Street bailout boondoggle and looking forward to Obama giving them billions more in taxpayer handouts in the future. Don't you just love corporatism?

Obama's and the Democrat's war on free speech continues. Obama's stimulus boondoggle includes net neutrality provisions, another Orwellian named scheme that would give the government the power to regulate the internet. The main hope we have that Obama will not lead us into a second Great Depression is that, despite the dangerous bias of the mainstream media, the people are still well informed from alternate media - namely talk radio and the internet. Democrats are systematically attempting to silence those alternate media through the Fairness Doctrine and net neutrality.

One of the global temperature datasets used by global warming con men disagrees with the baseline dataset by almost exactly the amount the global warmers claim the planet is warming. Analyzing nearly 300 years of sunspot data, the only time sun has been this long between cycles was the cycle before the Dalton Minimum - a period of severe winters and crop failure. Not good.

I agree with Thomas Sowell that Bush was an honorable man, but I think his assessment of the Bush presidency is too kind. He's right that Democrats slanderously attacked Bush for political gain and in doing so undermined America. But that doesn't mean a Democrat president would have done differently. I think a Democrat, with the support of Democrats, would have done the same things Bush did to secure the country after 9/11. And with all the Democrat support for toppling Saddam Hussein, based on the intelligence at the time, a Democrat would likely have invaded Iraq as well. I think any president would have kept us safe.

But Bush's fiscal irresponisibility, his rhetoric in support of free markets while he poisoned the private sector more than any president since FDR, far outweighs anything else he did. No Child Left Behind. Medicare Part D. Nearly doublding the size of the budget. Dramatically reducing economic freedom with worthless regulations and regulators. Sucking $700 billion from taxpayers to give to failed businesses. Bush's fiscal policy not only brought America significantly closer to collapse, but gave Democrats the moral authority to do far more damage than even Bush did. That he kept us safe is fine achievement, and every American should be grateful, but as honorable as Bush is, he was a terrible president.

While this story that Bush ordered Condi Rice not to support a Gaza cease fire she brokered is amazing, why would Condi Rice broker a cease fire that left Hamas armed without consulting Bush? Why would anybody, besides terrorists and rogue nations, want Hamas armed? Any way you look at it, it shows a lack of cohesion in the Bush White House.

Charles Krauthammer describes how Obama is adopting Bush's policies, agreeing with Dick Cheney, and dismissing his own campaign promises as "campaign rhetoric". Obama admits he duped Americans on about everything, not just his meaningless rhetoric about capturing Osama bin Laden. I keep saying Obama is Bush on steroids. His rhetoric is different, but his policies are the same except where they're worse. Obama's foreign policy will look almost exactly like Bush's - that's why he kept Gates around and appointed Hillary the domineering Democrat. Obama's domestic policy is even more interventionist, fiscally irresponsible, and doomed to failure than Bush's.

Walter Williams explodes the myth that Bush deregulated the markets by showing how many regulators, regulations, and the budget increases Bush made. But don't show facts to liberals - they don't care. Bush deregulation is at fault.

Harry Reid steamrolling a bill that prevents 3 million acres of US land from being used for energy production. Only 12 votes in the Senate resisted it. These people are trying to destroy our country.

Democrats pushing huge tax increase on cigarettes.

Michael Barone suggests the illegal immigrant tide may be turning. The question is whether the economy or enforcement is turning the tide. I don't want to live in constant recession to stop illegal immigration.