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BREAKING: Sarah Palin Painted a Bus! With Money! Cash Money! Posted: 18 Jul 2011 04:35 AM PDT Really, left-wing media? That’s the story? Palin spent a lot of money to get a custom paint job on her tour bus? Well, okay, but as Stacy McCain notes, at least that money went to small businesses and other folks not employed by Big Poppa Government. Of course, I'm sure the guys employed by the sign company in Tennessee didn't mind getting paid for that work. And I'm sure that House Republican freshmen like Ann Marie Buerkle, Allen West and Renee Ellmer didn't mind the $5,000 SarahPAC donated to each of their campaigns. Also: $18,700 to Young America's Foundation, one of the most worthy and respectable conservative non-profit organizations, which trains hundreds of high school and college activists. The liberal media are once again desperately trying to make scandalous mountains out any molehill related to Sarah Palin — FAIL! Fail indeed. At least Palin didn’t charge her political advertising to the American people the way Barack Obama and his Democratic buddies in Congress did. Who can forget the millions of dollars they spent on road signs to brag about the miles upon miles of “scarified pavement” created by the Vote Buying Act Stimulus Bill? Why, just one of those signs cost us nearly as much as Palin’s entire bus. As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting “The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and reminding passers-by that the program is “Putting America Back to Work.” On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there’s a 10′ x 11′ road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17 jobs, according to recovery.gov. However, there’s another number that caught the eye of ABC News: $10,000. That’s how much money the Washington Airports Authority tells ABC News it spent to make and install the sign – a single sign – announcing that the project is “Funded by The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and is “Putting America Back to Work.” The money for the sign was taken out of the budget for the runway improvement project. According to the Department of Roadside Bragadocio…err…Transportation, states spent about $5 million on road signs. Of course, our government bragged that was only a tiny sliver of the total $28 billion available to that point, but is that a point on which any responsible person would want to brag? Buck up, you silly Americans who cling bitterly to your paychecks! In a better world, where our supposedly-independent media were interested in afflicting the powerful (as opposed to afflicting the conservative, regardless of power), ABC News would have run a series of stories on the millions of public dollars spent on Democratic propaganda and none at all on the efforts of a private citizen who used private money to advertise herself.

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Mosque Mania Monday Edition Posted: 18 Jul 2011 03:10 AM PDT Presidential candidate Herman Cain turned more than a few heads this weekend when he said that he would not consider a ban of a proposed mosque in the city of Murfreesboro, TN unconstitutional. He repeated and expanded on that statement at a private event in Bethesda, MD. Stacy McCain has the exclusive video of his remarks there and I recommend you spend a few minutes watching it before you read the MSM reports. I’ve said on The Delivery and Right this Way that I’m torn on the subject of Islam in America. On one hand, I consider freedom of religion inviolable. On the other, I understand that Islam as it is currently practiced by more than a small number of its adherents is not simply a religion. Islamists are quick to cloak their deadly anti-American activities as religious because they know how important the First Amendment is to us. We are fools if we allow them to do so without looking for ways to differentiate between innocent centers of worship and cultural exchange and breeding grounds for jihad. I don’t think it’s outrageous to suggest that the people of Murfreesboro have the right to keep Islamists from building an outpost in their city if it turns out that what’s this mosque is. It is not wrong to operate from an abundance of caution when every piece of evidence suggests that caution is warranted. If the mosque will simply be a mosque, then it’ll get built. That’s now America works. Still. But if it’s not, we shouldn’t allow it in Murfreesboro or anywhere else. That’s just common sense. And now, links! When it comes to the pragmatism vs. idealism argument on the right, I’ve long sided with Jeff Goldstein, and it’s put a few relationships on shaky ground. My argument, though, is simple: making a stand on principles and defending those principles clearly and often is pragmatic. The right has mistaken pragmatic defense of ideals for pie-in-the-sky idealism and it’s caused us to cede ground we should never have ceded and may never recover. No means…maybe? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, before a reporter writes a piece on religion, they should make sure they understand at least the basics of that religion. Be sure to check out Steve Green’s newest This Week in Blogs! I’d never dare speak for all of America, but if it turns out that the administration launched Operation Fast and Furious to advance a new effort to restrict the Second Amendment (and it looks like this is a safer bet with each new revelation), the country should rise up as one and demand that the President resign. Yes, folks, it’s that serious. (via Instapundit) John Hanlon at Big Hollywood says the final Harry Potter movie might be as good as the first. Matt at Old Line Elephant is reading the Bible from cover to cover, and has a couple early thoughts. Saturday was the 42nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch.

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