From Citizen Outreach:

By: Chuck Muth

BLOGGERS OF THE RIGHT, UNITE

Folks in Colorado, specifically those who have had to deal with the liberal media machine known as Colorado Media Matters, will be happy to know that center-right/Free-market bloggers are organizing and networking to counter the message of bigger government and more regulation on the lives/businesses of free Americans.

That’s right, this Saturday, April 19th, a rock star lineup of Colorado based bloggers and free-market activists will gather in Denver for SamSphere, a new media forum, hosted by the Sam Adams Alliance, where they can gather together to network and share ideas.

The day will play host to blogger workshops, training, discussion groups, and thought provoking commentary from some of the states most prominent conservative voices. If you’re in Colorado you do not want to miss this event. Registration is still open and at only $20.00 (which includes grub and blogger schwag), you just can’t go wrong. Click HERE to visit the official Samsphere Denver page and sign up for the event.

THE ELITIST

“(Sen. John) McCain went to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for major economic addresses this week…but if Hillary or Obama had much to say about that speech, it was lost in the tsk-tsk-tsking over whether Obama is more elitist than a woman who has been driven around in limousines by state troopers and Secret Service agents for, maybe, decades.”

- Rich Galen, Mullings.com, 4/18/08

ANOTHER REPUBLICAN BUSH-WHACKED

“The bad news last week for conservative Republican Rep. Mike Pence was private confirmation that his proposed law protecting journalists from runaway judges was opposed by President George W. Bush himself. . . . Pence has spent three years seeking federal protection for journalists pressured to reveal confidential sources.”

- Columnist Robert Novak

WHY CHANGE ISN’T ALWAYS SO HOT

“Remember the election in 2006? Thought you might like to read the following. A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

“Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

“America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!”

- Author unknown; forwarded to us by a News & Views reader

TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS

“Forget government corruption or corporate fraud,” reports GOPUSA. “Three members of Congress want the Justice Department to investigate whether college football’s Bowl Championship Series is an illegal enterprise.”

Reps. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, have introduced a resolution asking Congress to stick its big fat nose where it doesn’t belong…yet again. I think the bowl system is stupid and archaic. Clearly college football should develop a playoff system similar to its March Madness tournament for college basketball. But why is this an issue for Congress?

WHAT TO DO WITH THE POLYGA-KIDS

“In the sad case of the children caught up in the maelstrom of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) alleged child abuse matter, I tend to fall onto the church side in the separation of church and state. The state is ill-equipped to deal with 400-plus youngsters it has torn from the bosoms of their mothers in the guise of protecting them from alleged abuses.

“...It’s obvious that the government, which is great at starting wars and taxing the citizenry to pay for some of the worst hare-brained schemes imaginable, hasn’t got the slightest idea of how to raise children.

“They know how to take children from their homes but they don’t know how to raise them once they’ve got them in their hands. Yet the idea that the government is better equipped than parents to raise children is widespread among the big-brother liberals who lust after inserting the power of the state into the very heart of the American family.

“The reality is that when you take children from their mothers and put them in the hands of the state or its subordinate agents you ultimately do more damage to them than almost any abuse they might have suffered at home.”

- Columnist Michael Reagan

SURVEY SAYS!

Do you support the government’s decision to take the 400+ children at the Texas polygamist compound away from their mothers?

• Yes
• No
• Not sure

Cast your online vote HERE

THE UNION LABEL

Well, here is the question: will Service Employee International Union president Andy Stern come out and forcefully denounce the violence perpetrated in Michigan in the name of the SEIU? Will Stern denounce the hundreds of SEIU members who were bussed in to disrupt the Labor Notes Magazine conference last week? Apparently, even the AFL-CIO has denounced this violence, but will the SEIU president be man enough to crack down on this nonsense? Read all about it HERE on the Union Label blog.

TELE-COMMIES.COM

On Tuesday a bipartisan bill to ban new cell phone taxes was introduced into the House. Read all about it HERE on the TeleCommies blog.