(People)…Sarah Palin has become a grandmother for the second time, according to reporter Joe McGinniss, who is writing a book on the former vice presidential candidate.
Palin’s eldest son, Track, and his wife, Britta, welcomed a baby girl named Kyla Grace Palin on Sunday night, reports McGinniss, who moved next door to the Palins’s Alaska home in 2010 to gain better access to the family.
In May, it was announced that the high school sweethearts were married. The Palin family never officially confirmed Britta’s pregnancy, though pictures of her baby shower surfaced on Facebook. (more…)

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Sure seems like the Carter years are back.  High unemployment, anemic economic growth,  job-killing government policies, and the lack of presidential leadership.  If you can’t see how destructive this man and his agenda have been…you just aren’t paying attention. (more…)

 In the mood for a little music to accompany the sentiments of the day?  (h/t WeeWeed)

HIS DEAL IS BAD FOR AMERICA
President Obama promised to bring change to DC in 2008. The Republicans promised to bring change to DC in 2010.
While it’s good news that people are talking about how much to cut instead of raising taxes, things haven’t changed enough. (more…)

I was watching CNN and just about fell out of my chair when this commercial came on.  It’s sponsored by a group called Crossroads GPS.   I found it eerily reminiscent of the famous “Daisy Girl” ad which ran only once, on a Monday night September 7, 1964, during the ’64 Johnson vs. Goldwater campaign.  The timing couldn’t have been better.  Harry Reid had just finished his latest ‘can’t we just get along’ spiel.

(h/t freedom1781)…Out here in proverbial politico flyover country, we little folk are watching the debt ceiling debate with great interest and concern. Today I re-read the open letter I wrote to Republican Freshman Members of Congress in November 2010, just days after they were ushered into office in an historic landslide victory due in large part to the activism of commonsense patriots who are considered part of the Tea Party movement. I respectfully ask these GOP Freshman to re-read this letter and remember us “little people” who believed in them, donated to their campaigns, spent hours tirelessly volunteering for them, and trusted them with our votes. This new wave of public servants may recall that they were sent to D.C. for such a time as this. (more…)

(Mark America)h/t AFinch…It’s clear enough that the GOP establishment has a basic contempt for its base.  Let me explain to you folks, to whom Mark Levin refers as ‘Re-Pubics’ or ‘RINOs,’ what it is that you seem not to have noticed: You can’t have any lasting electoral victory without the base of your party, and that base is decidedly conservative and a bit populist, and even those who are not members of the TEA Party certainly have firm sympathies and common principles with them.
Today, those of you in the DC ‘leadership’ of the GOP may have sealed your electoral fate in 2012.  Rather than take on the President, and simply shrug and walk away from all the deal-making, you went on the attack, not against Obama, and not against Harry Reid and his band of thugs in the Senate, but instead, you went to war with your base.  You did the same thing in 2005.  You continued the practice into 2006.  You lost your majority.  I suppose you think this is a winning strategy, but I’ve got news for you, since you seem incapable of learning it otherwise:  It can’t work.
Give it up. (more…)

(Mark America)…(h/t PhillyCon) It’s become so commonplace lately that I’ve basically conceded the fact that Fox News is losing its luster as a more objective media outlet. No individual on the network highlights this fact more thoroughly than the utterly estimable Bill O’Reilly. It isn’t that Mr. O’Reilly’s ever been anything but a crude buffoon, paying lip-service to his audience’s presumed fervor-of-the-moment, while basically servicing the inside-the-beltway crowd, but it is his increasing hostility to ‘folks on the right’ that has me most thoroughly troubled. This time, Mr.’O’ has stepped over the line (more…)