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Today is the nationwide grass-roots recess rally against socialized medicine. Folks across the country will be gathering at congressional offices to make their voices heard. Don’t tone it down. Crank it up. Find where your local protest is at the Recess Rally website.

So, here’s what The Perv of Late Night CBS Comedy said last night: “You know about the Taliban? Over here, we call them ‘healthcare protesters.’” I wouldn’t get all wee-weed up about it, though. It’s just another desperate David Letterman stunt. Ho-hum. Guess there weren’t any teenage daughters of Republican politicians to pick on…

You may have heard about the nutroots boycott of Whole Foods, whose CEO John Mackey is an outspoken critic of Obamacare and advocates market-based alternatives. Their food is pricey, but if you have a chance/opportunity to help counter the boycott, go out and buy a few Whole Foods items. I think it’s worth it. Reader [...]

Short shrift.

My syndicated column today spotlights Lecturer-on-Integrity-in-Public-Service David Axelrod. Background on other Obama corporate shilling for hope and change here, here, here, and here. It’s enough to get you all wee-weed up over the Culture of Corruption! *** Corporate Shills for Hope and Change by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009 Money from pharmaceutical firms and [...]

What a weasel. Former Bush DHS head Tom Ridge is hyping his upcoming tell-all book, which claims that the Bush administration pressured him for political reasons to raise threat level assessments. But not a single official will back him up…including himself! The money paragraphs in the New York Times today on Ridge’s allegations: Tom Ridge, [...]

What better way for the Left to show its true stripes than to share classified information and photos of undercover CIA officers with Gitmo detainees. But, hey, don’t you dare question their love of country. After all, endangering America is the ultimate form of dissent! We also now learn that the privacy zealots at the [...]

Is this some Chicago phrase I don’t know about? Is it just a nonsensical scatalogical reference? Is this the teleprompter’s fault? Maybe it’s some sort of SEIU code phrase? Or is it a Hawaiian thing? Can someone clue the unwashed masses in, please? Via The Hill: President Obama is betting on a more successful September [...]

Oh, you are just going to love MSNBC’s explanation for why the network doctored up video of a black town hall protester carrying a gun to suggest that gun-toting Tea Party folks are all white racists. This takes the cake. I don’t think there is a Cone of Shame big enough:

Milblogs are on the story: J.D. Johannes is there. Mudville Gazette has a big round-up.

Sean Paige explains how Obama’s environmental bureaucrats are exploiting Endangered Species Act listings to destroy jobs, drive up energy costs and thwart progress. Scary.

Crossing the line between compassion and coddling, Scotland has freed Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. He served only eight years of a life sentence for the jihadi attack that took 270 innocent lives. There are no words, are there? Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting the Libyan go home [...]

Mark Levin held the #1 spot on the NYTimes best-seller list for 12 weeks this summer. Culture of Corruption has held the top spot for the past 3 weeks. Glenn Beck’s latest book has topped the paperback non-fiction list for 9 weeks. The latest broadside against Obama from Dick Morris and Eileen McGann has also [...]

What a disaster. A disaster from which Washington will learn absolutely nothing: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood assured car dealers Wednesday that they will be reimbursed for sales made under the cash-for-clunkers program and said the department would soon offer plans to wind down the popular car incentives. LaHood said the department will announce by Friday [...]

Oh, this should be good. Nebraska readers, let me know if you can attend. I’m sure Axelrod will offer many illuminating thoughts on transparency, disclosure, conflicts of interest, and the corrupting influence of Eeeeevil Drug Companies on policy debates. When pigs fly: David Axelrod, senior advisor to President Obama, will speak in Lincoln on Oct. [...]

She billed her $25/person Chamber of Commerce pow-wow as a “town hall,” then had it changed after getting smoked out. Then she hastily convened a telephone town hall, but didn’t notify constituents until the last minute. Reader Mary in Johnsburg, Illinois e-mailed last night: Hi Michelle, I am a constituent of Melissa Bean here in [...]

Another former ACORN worker is about to spill the beans. Via the Las Vegas Sun: The attorney general’s office turned up the heat Monday on a national organization at the heart of a voter registration fraud investigation. Christopher Edwards, 33, the former Las Vegas field director for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, [...]

Yes, it’s true. Barack Obama has chipped in $2 billion in loans to exploit offshore oil resources in hopes of extracting a major new source of petroleum…in South America. And yes, it’s true. There is a Soros link. Ed Morrissey has a round-up and notes: Is it a coincidence that Obama backer George Soros repositioned [...]

Just got word that Culture of Corruption will top the New York Times best-seller list for the third week in a row. Thanks again for continuing to support the book and spread the word! You can catch me on Hannity tonight on FNC at 9pm Eastern and on Fox and Friends tomorrow at 7:15am Eastern [...]

Standing up in Standish, Michigan.

Tomorrow, President Obama will host a conference call on his health care takeover plans with the SEIU’s Purple Army. Here’s the message that went out today from radical leftist and SEIU thug-in-chief Andy Stern: I’m getting on a call with President Obama tomorrow and I want you to join me. The President is holding a [...]

John McCormack: CNN Fails to Report Woman Comparing Obama to Hitler is a Lyndon LaRouche Democrat. Here’s the CNN video: Seton Motley: NBC, CNN and MSNBC All Assign Communist LaRouche’s Obama-Hitler Poster to Conservatives, Limbaugh Hot Air Pundit has video/screenshot of the LaRouche PAC poster/table outside the Barney Frank town hall.

Scroll down for updates… Dubious “doctors” keep turning up at congressional town hall meetings to support a government health care takeover plan that sane medical professionals are revolting against in force. Blogger Patterico smoked out fake pediatrician Roxana Mayer at a Sheila Jackson-Lee town hall. Now, bloggers have raised questions about a left-wing activist who [...]

Chris Gautz of the Jackson (MI) Citizen Patriot reports that the SEIU and Organizing For America chartered buses from nearly 200 miles away to plant Obamacare supporters at a town hall meeting held by Democrat Rep. Mark Schauer. All aboard the Astroturf bus: Several readers have criticized the Citizen Patriot’s coverage of last week’s health-care [...]

The ABC News Business Unit does some recession math and compares other luxury vacation resorts to Martha’s Vineyard, where the Obama family will travel next week for an end-of-summer stay. FYI, you’re footing some of the bill: …Caroline Taylor, another Martha’s Vineyard realtor, estimated that the property would go for $35,000 to $50,000 a week. [...]

My syndicated column today spotlights the pay czar’s power grab and the cover it provides both the White House and Congress for supporting, enabling, and rewarding the failures of the TARP bailout recipients in the first place. Team Obama has provisionally approved the AIG CEO’s $7 million compensation package. Here’s Feinberg’s verdict on Weil, Gotshal [...]

I’ve reported several times over the last few months on Team Obama’s hefty funding from the health care industry/drug lobby — see here and here — as well on the deep pockets behind the Astroturf HCAN/SEIU/ACORN campaign. Culture of Corruption also homes in on the cozy cash deals involving Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Sher, [...]

Last week, I noted that constituents in Democrat Rep. Betsy Markey’s district were so frustrated with their lack of access to her during this congressional recess that they announced plans to hold a town hall meeting with her in abstentia. She then released a list of extremely limited-access meetings with voters — with a ceiling [...]

Conservative journalist, author, and Washington institution Robert Novak has died. R.I.P. He will be deeply missed. From the WaPo: Bruised feelings, Mr. Novak wrote in his memoir, were often soothed over many cocktails. He added that his healthy ego was useful in handling inevitable complaints from powerful people. When he printed an accurate tip that [...]