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By Ezra Klein, Washington Post, August 12, 2010
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Studies by the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Administration itself show that tax cuts do not come anywhere close to paying for themselves over the long term.

 - - Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 26, 2006

Will the tax cuts pay for themselves? As a general rule, we do not think tax cuts pay for themselves. Certainly, the data presented above do not support this claim.

 - - Edward Lazear, Chair of Council of Economic Advisors, Sept. 28, 2006
     In testimony before the Senate Budget Committee on behalf of the
     administration of President George W. Bush

• Gwendolyn Barry with New Global Myth is extremely ticked at the state of ObamAmerica and enlists a video song to help express it.

• MadMike's TheLawyer talks thoughtfully about a possible religion of the scientific future. I dunno. Had some appeal, but still struck me as "May the gravity be with you."

• Tim McGaha at Tim's Thoughtful Spot mentions the most knowledgeable aircraft guru in the solar system and his space flight successors. Tim always finds ways to make hi-tech interesting.

• Ned Williams at WisdomIsVindicated ponders what Democrats will do in South Carolina's Senate race. (Hint: lose).

• Nancy Hanks at The Hankster ponders nightmares, movies, and political beliefs.

• Max's Dad ponders how fate transformed Levi Johnston into the luckiest slacker on the face of the earth.

• Slant Right's John Houk targets Obama for sending the leader of the proposed NY Islamic center abroad on goodwill tours, possibly unaware that it is a continuation of a Bush initiative with the same fellow. John is not much on research. He just knows he's right.

• MyCue at RANDOM THOUGHTS considers the conservative proposition that freedom of religion applies to everyone but Muslims.

• Chuck Thinks Right slams a legislator for wishing death on Sarah Palin. Fellow resigned: an excellent career move.

• James Wigderson's article on a Wisconsin Democratic power grab will make a lot more sense to readers who are armed with the knowledge that DNR means Department of Natural Resources. Glad to help out.

• Jack Jodell, friend of the working blogger, at THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON POST fact checks a TV ad by Fred Thompson.

• The World of Doorman-Priest researches a story about how an Iraqi militant is told off and discovers it is completely bogus. False witness in service to a forgiving God.

• Manifesto Joe of Texas Blues explores proposals by a growing number of Republicans to abolish Social Security.

• David Everitt-Carlson of The Wild Wild East Dailies in Vietnam discovers growing readership in Azerbaijan.

It's time to get real about the threats to America, and to reject the limp wristed liberal whitewash. Dan Maes of Colorado is made of stronger stuff.

As Maes points out, the biggest threat to the Republic is not terrorism. Terrorism has killed a lot of people, decisive action is needed. More liberties may have to be curtailed, the second amendment being an obvious exception. But the nation will endure and prevail over terrorism. While dealing with terrorism, we have to be alert to the real threat to our country.

Deficits are a threat. If working families have to tighten their belts, so should government. Spending should be cut. Job stimulus should be slashed. Workers on roads and bridges should be laid off. Teachers and police should be fired. Street lights should go out. Hospitals should close. But deficits are not the greatest threat to the nation. While dealing with deficits, we must be diligent about the real threat.

Gays threaten traditional marriage. A constitutional amendment is necessary. If gay people are allowed to get married, there won't be enough left over for everyone else. That's not the actual argument, but Dan Maes can explain it. Stopping gay marriage is vital, but we can't allow it to be a distraction from the real threat to our American way of life.

Immigration needs to be curtailed, especially those immigrants not from Europe. Those who would annex Arizona, attacking ranchers, beheading ordinary citizens, flying across borders to drop babies in a long term scheme to impose a Mexican-Muslim sharia law must be stopped. But foreigners, sadly, will never be eliminated from the world. We will always have to deal with the threat of strangers, but, as Dan Maes explains it, we can't let immigration blind us to the imminent danger to us, our children, and our American democracy.

We have to take action against the real threat to the US ......... Bikes.

Maes is a Republican running for Governor. His opponent, Democratic Mayor (sorry. Democrat Mayor) of Denver John Hickenlooper has his city getting information on bicycle programs from around the world. Which opens us up to the famed United Nations plot to infiltrate our way of traveling. "This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed." He admits bikes seem pretty harmless, but "that's exactly the attitude they want you to have."

It seems that for many years, going back to before Bill Clinton became President, Denver has been part of an information exchange, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. Bicycle safety is most of it. "These are very specific strategies," says Maes, "that are dictated to us by this United Nations program that mayors have signed on to."

The spokes of the conspiracy lead everywhere. The wheels are turning dangerously. All of us are in danger of ending up in chains. Bicycle chains.

Thus is the current state of contemporary conservative thought in Colorado.