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In regards to the RNC's Pelosi video, much of the reaction from the right as been absolutely pathetic.  Hey folks, if you don't want to fight, then you don't want to win.  It's that simple.

I'm not linking to the whiners.  They don't deserve it, nor are they worth reading.   It's just the same old yack, yack, yack ... Go read a lefty blog. Same thing.

Over the past few days, I've learned the RNSC supports Big Government Statists, Republicans don't want libertarians, Republicans can't handle a joke, and Republicans fear upsetting Democrats ... And they wonder why ...

Hayden Panettiere, better known as America's favorite cheerleading hero (alright ... my favorite cheerleading hero) Claire Bennett on NBC's Heroes, is this week's Rule 5 Hottie of the Week!

First, a little about Miss Hayden, then a bit of social commentary ...

Hayden Panettiere (32-26-34) has become a favorite female role model for young girls in America, thanks to her clean and respectable attitude.  Hayden was cast in the soap opera "One Life to Live" when she was four years old and stayed on for three years. She appeared in over fifty commercials and lent her voice to one of the characters in A Bug's Life ...

Two Pennsylvanian's quit the Flight 93 Memorial Commission last week, protesting Park Service plans to condemn five crash-site properties that it never negotiated for in good faith. Consider the case of the Lambert family, who have been on their land for three generations:

"It's absolutely a surprise. I'm shocked by it. I'm disappointed by it," said Tim Lambert, who owns nearly 164 acres that his grandfather bought in the 1930s. The park service plans to condemn two parcels totaling about five acres - land, he said, he had always intended to donate for the memorial.

"To the best of my knowledge and my lawyer, absolutely

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It's bad enough the crapweasels at the RNSC already endorsed Statist Charlie Crist (a full year and a half prior to the elections), as the pseudo-intellectuals continue throwing up at the mouth. But there's something else that's much, much worse going on ...

The attitude of the average "Republican" towards libertarians.

"What? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy?" - Rage Against The Machine, Know Your Enemy, 1992.

This ...

On November 7, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama's change.gov website detailed a plan that would require all students (middle school through college) to "volunteer" (read work) a set number of hours each year in "community service" (read government).

"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year."

The blogosphere immediately light-up in both shock and outrage!  So Obama, being the noble and  "transparent" guy that he is, had his "America Serves" page "amended" within hours. ...

[This article is excerpted from Murray Rothbard's preface to the 1991 revision of The Betrayal of the American Right, now available.]

The manuscript of the greater part of this book, The Betrayal of the American Right, was written in 1971 and revised in 1973. Little of this original manuscript has been changed here. In a profound sense, it is more timely today than when it was first written. The book was a cry in the wilderness against what I saw as the betrayal of what I here call the "Old Right." Or, to allay confusion about various "olds" and "news," we call it ...

She's hot, she's funny, I have no idea who she is ... but the chick sure can play one mean kazoo!

Particularly since last November's election, there's been a lot of talk about a so-called "intellectual deterioration of the conservative movement." Cato Institutes Brink Lindsey really went off on a rant about it, saying:

Movement conservatism has regressed to something like the days before National Review was founded - back when Lionel Trilling could say that conservatism consisted of nothing but "irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas."

Some who sympathize with libertarian and free-market causes are cheered by the anti-government rhetoric and Tea Party theatrics now increasingly in evidence on the right. Perhaps, they think, the old Goldwater-Reagan conservatism is making a comeback. Sorry, but I

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