Yea, though we walk through the valley of the shadow of Obama, Pelosi and Reid, we shall fear no sovietization of America–for the people of Massachusetts have once again launched a revolution to set us all free. Thank you, Massachusetts, for your second "shot heard 'round the world"–the election of a solidly conservative Republican in the person of Scott Brown to take over the seat of never-worked-a-day-in-his-life Ted Kennedy.

We were just weeks away from what Lenin described as "the linchpin of collectivization," national health care, when Scott Brown and the people of Massachusetts rode to our rescue.

Even Politburo Chief Pelosi now admits there are not enough votes in the House to pass health care, and there certainly aren't enough Demofiend robber barons in the Senate to overcome a Republican filibuster. RIP, Obamacare and everything it intended to do to us American, i.e., enslave us.

Meanwhile, Barack Hussein Obama still doesn't get it. He was out on the hustings yesterday sounding like Hugo Chavez or any other two-bit dictator, trying to camouflage his own failings by blaming everything on the nation's largest banks. He had the gall to say these banks have gotten too big.

Hussein, if you want to see something too big, I suggest you look at two items–the federal deficit and the federal government.

Those two are the 800-pound gorilla ruining the economy, not the banks. Shrink them, and you might win back some votes from the Scott Browns of the world. Might, but unlikely because you have no intention of reducing either government or the deficit. After all, you can't enslave a nation unless you bankrupt them and then rule over them with a soviet-style government.

By Rick Rozoff

Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China's (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington plans a record $708 billion defense budget for next year compared to Russia spending less than $40 billion last year for the same, China and Russia are portrayed as threats to the U.S. and its allies.

China has no troops outside its borders; Russia has a small handful in its former territories in Abkhazia, Armenia, South Ossetia and Transdniester. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in six continents.

While Gates was in charge of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and responsible for almost half of international military spending he was offended that the world's most populous nation might desire to "deny others countries the ability to threaten it."

On December 23 of last year Raytheon Company announced that it had received a $1.1 billion contract with Taiwan for the purchase of 200 Patriot anti-ballistic missiles. In early January the U.S. Defense Department cleared the transaction "despite opposition from rival China, where a military official proposed sanctioning U.S. firms that sell arms to the island." [1]

The sale completes a $6.5 billion weapons package approved by the previous George W. Bush administration at the end of 2008. In the words of the Asia bureau chief of Defense News, "This is the last piece that Taiwan has been waiting on." [2]

When Ted Kennedy passed away, I was happy to see one less power-lusting socialist in Congress, but I figured it would be temporary given that his home state was Taxachusetts.

Now, I can honestly say that I've lived to see a miracle happen. Ted Kennedy managed to turn a Democratic state Republican. But he had lots of help in the persons of Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi. Still, the election of Scott Brown last night as Massachusetts' replacement senator for Kennedy was the thrill of a lifetime, especially as it now puts the kibosh on any left-leaning crusades in Congress, such as cap and trade.

Health care reform, unfortunately, Brown may be too late to stop, but the future looks bright. As Senator-elect Brown himself noted, "When there's trouble in Massachusetts, rest assured there's trouble everywhere."

I love that kind of trouble.

By Tom Burghardt

In the wake of the Flight 253 provocation, over-hyped terrorism panics, and last year's Big Pharma and media-engineered hysteria over the H1N1 flu pandemic, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13528 on January 11.

Among other things, the Executive Order (EO) established a Council of Governors, an "advisory panel" chosen by the President that will rubber-stamp long-sought-after Pentagon contingency plans to seize control of state National Guard forces in the event of a "national emergency."

According to the White House press release, the ten-member bipartisan Council was created "to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State Governments to protect our Nation against all types of hazards."

"When appointed," the announcement continues, "the Council will be reviewing such matters as involving the National Guard of the various States; homeland defense; civil support; synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States; and other matters of mutual interest pertaining to National Guard, homeland defense, and civil support activities."

Clearly designed to weaken the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 which bars the use of the military for civilian law enforcement, EO 13528 is the latest in a series of maneuvers by previous administrations to wrest control of armed forces historically under the democratic control of elected state officials, and a modicum of public accountability.

There's a great read over at Big Government dot com called "The Most Underreported Stories of 2009."

I'm sure we could all add a few more stories that the liberal media suppressed and/or distorted during Anno Obamano I.