by Ron Hart

Another Muslim extremist, finding it hard to pick up chicks here on earth, tried his best to win the 72 virgins promised him by his religion by attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound plane. Obama was playing golf in Hawaii. For the first time in any 48-hour period since taking office, he did not appear on TV.

The heroic passengers on the plane took care of this guy, because our PC government did not. Besides, anyone willing to go to Detroit is certainly not scared of some idiot fumbling with explosives in his pants. It is as if they said, Nigerian Please!

Obama has a weak cabinet. It's almost like he got it at IKEA and assembled it himself. The Secretary of Homeland Security should be a job for a hard-nosed, ex-police chief with a nervous tick. Instead, Obama went with Janet Napolitano, a politically correct former lawyer for Anita Hill. She is a leftie Obama-nite who dresses like a small-town lesbian and calls terrorism a "man-caused disaster" — which is a better description of the Obama cabinet.

Rest assured, the "mainstream" media give you both sides of the story — Obama's and Janet Napolitano's. They came out and said, "The system worked" after the crotch bomber managed to smuggle explosives onto the plane but was too dumb to set them off. How is this not a Bush/Katrina-like "You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie" moment?

I'm not some neo-con. Long ago I called for us to withdraw and just protect our borders. I do believe in a strong national defense, preferably run by someone like Dick Cheney who is mean and has that scary, faraway look in his eyes, like someone who is replaying a water-boarding interrogation in his mind. It really sends a message to our enemies when he shoots his hunting buddy in the face. I am just redneck enough to like that.

Even al-Qaida is recruiting women. Realizing that their Islamic men would have to drive them to the airport to suicide bomb a plane, they would not want 72 virgins — just one man who likes to cuddle and might actually pick up after himself.

The Obama administration is too afraid of offending any other nationality to protect us. The crotch bomber will probably get a big show trial in New York City, with Alec Baldwin and Neal Patrick Harris hosting from the red carpet. Trials where we offer terrorists their own soapboxes will be big business. I suggest that Atlanta bid for the Sheik Ali Tupac trial.

Despite its ineptitudes, the government continues to grow. The government agencies did not even communicate with each other when they had specific information. Kudos to Hillary Clinton who obtained the information from the Nigerian's father and turned it over to authorities. Lord knows Hillary is experienced with a man whose crotch could explode at inopportune times.

The TSA is too busy confiscating my bottled water to fret about a man on the terrorist who paid for his one-way ticket with cash and had no luggage. Maybe a study funded by airport concession operators determined that my $1 bottle of water purchased outside the airport is more likely to cause trouble on the plane than the $6 bottle of water they sell once I am in the concourse.

What lies at the core of the liberals' thought process is the notion that, aside from knowing what is best for poor people, they consider themselves more open minded and smarter than anyone else. Day in and day out they endeavor to prove this to anyone willing to listen who can vote, all the while putting our country at risk by imposing their self-aggrandizing, "Kumbaya" world view on us. When they test it on other countries, they call it foreign policy.

Sadly, our government, founded on liberty and tasked with "providing for the common defense," is being slowly taken down by deluded notions of political correctness while bestowing rights on our sworn enemies. It sacrifices common sense - and our safety - in doing so.

Ron Hart is a southern libertarian columnist. Contact him at RevRon10@aol.com.

by Eric Dondero

Libertarian groups such as the Libertarian Party, Americans for Limited Government, Sam Adams Alliance, and various statewide taxpayer groups have had to deal with enormous legal challenges and fees over the years for their petition gathering efforts. Allegations of signature fraud and illegal gathering methods have been lobbed at these groups. Naturally, the challenges have come from mostly Democrat and Democrat-allied groups.

That makes the following story especially sweet.

It's seems a Democrat State Rep. from the Dallas area, used some "creative" methods for signature gathering in order to qualify for the ballot. Texas law allows major party candidates to qualify by peition signatures - approx. 600 - or by paying a filing fee. Filing closed on Jan. 6.

Ironically, the news comes from a liberal-leaning alternative publication in the Dallas area. The Rep. has a Democrat primary opponent. And its easy to speculate that perhaps that's where the news originated.

From The Dallas Observer:

Good grief: Buzz just loves shenanigans, so it's no wonder we found ourselves roped in by claims from Eric Johnson's campaign that some of the petitions attached to state Representative Terri Hodge's ballot application didn't pass the smell test. It appeared as though Hodge, who submitted 610 signatures from registered voters (500 are required) just prior to Monday's filing deadline in lieu of paying the $750 filing fee, might have been circulating petitions with Dallas County Clerk Gary Fitzsimmons' name on them, nabbing the signatures, whiting out his name and then replacing it with hers.

"I was able to hold the petition up to the light, and by looking through it, Gary Fitzsimmons was typed under the whiteout," said Ben Setnick, one of Johnson's two campaign operatives dispatched to Dallas County Democratic Party headquarters.

No Republican or Libertarian filed for this south Dallas seat. However, Texas law does have a provision for write-in candidacies. Which could certainly be an important consideration, particularly for the GOP, if Rep. Hodges somehow manages to prevail over her primary opponent.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Jan. 6, that Georgia Congressman Nathan Deal has sent a letter to the White House formally requesting a copy of Obama's birth certificate. Deal is the first Congressman to take such a step. Earlier last year, Rep. Bill Posey of Florida introduced legislation requiring future Presidents to produce birth certificates as proof of eligibility. Deal and 6 other Republican Congressmen have signed on as co-sponsors.

Deal is currently a candidate for the Republican nomination for Georgia Governor. He is often identified with the Tea Party movement, and is a relatively high scorer on pro-taxpayer and libertarian voting indexes. (He's received 5 awards as a Taxpayer friend from NTU).

Deal told the AJC:

"I have looked at the documentation [birth certificate] that is publicly available and it leaves many things to be desired."

Additionally, AJC columnist Jim Galloway reports:

The White House on Thursday confirmed receipt of a letter from U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal that formally asks Barack Obama to address questions about his place of birth – and thus, whether he is qualified to be president.

The letter arrived Dec. 10. Beyond that, no one is willing to say much.

The Post & Email blog, which was one of the first to report on the story, comments:

Now, what does this mean? This is probably the first time in 233 years of American history that a sitting member of the House of Representatives has officially challenged the legitimacy of a sitting president….one full year into his term.

This forever changes the public discourse.