If I hear another thing about “too much defense spending” I’m going to hurl.

Dear friends, please check out the actual numbers:

American Thinker Blog: Graph of the Day for September 22, 2009

Graph of the Day for September 22, 2009
Randall Hoven
“The United States will be paying the price of Iraq for decades to come. The price tag will be all the greater because we tried to ignore the laws of economics — and the cost will grow the longer we remain.”

Linda J. Bilmes (former CFO at the Commerce Department, teaches at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government) and Joseph E. Stiglitz (professor at Columbia University, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, and 2001 Nobel Prize winner in economics), writing in the Washington Post.

National Defense Spending as a Percentage of GDP

Year on year Defense Spending as part of GDP

Hoven’s Index for September 22, 2009

National defense spending as a percentage of total federal outlays in 1990: 23.9%.

National defense spending as a percentage of total federal outlays in 2007: 20.2%.

Source: Calculated from data in Table 455 of the US Statistical Abstract

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Read this on the wonderful Powerline blog this morning.

Power Line – Are You A Racist?

Are You A Racist?
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September 18, 2009 Posted by John at 9:19 PM

These days it’s hard to tell. If you think government-run medicine is a bad thing, former President Jimmy Carter and many other Democrats say you’re most likely a racist. So Missourah.com explains everything in this handy chart:

I could be wrong, but I suspect that this is the last time any partisan faction will be able to broadcast the charge of “racism” and have it taken even slightly seriously. The word “racism” used to have a meaning, but no one can remember what it was.

And now from the real journalists alive and well in the UK, some News.

A couple of comments I read over at Lucianne.com which are so appropriate:

I guess we can’t afford it. ACORN is supposed to get $8B.

Now THIS is a subject Jimmy Carter should be well familiar with.

Barack Obama surrenders to Russia on Missile Defence – Telegraph Blogs

By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: September 17th, 2009

I blogged a couple of weeks ago that the Obama administration was about to abandon its plans for Third Site missile defence installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. I wrote then that “if enacted, this would represent a huge turnaround in American strategic thinking on a global missile defence system, and a massive betrayal of two key US allies in eastern and central Europe. Such a move would significantly weaken America’s ability to combat the growing threat posed by Iran’s ballistic missile program, and would hand a major propaganda victory to the Russians.”

It now looks as though the president has surrendered to Russian demands to kill off Third Site. Michael Goldfarb at The Weekly Standard is reporting that:

Obama surrenders, Russia, US Security

OK. One last time. All you really, really need to know about the size of the 9/12 march.

Don’t listen to Bill (there were 75K there) O’Reilly or anybody else. Decide for yourself!!

Update: I Own the World has the pic we need to get a real count;How big was the crowd? Media credibility plunges to new low; Aerial Views added: D.C. Police close roads to buses, people on foot; estimate 1.2 million; ABC can’t count..912 – Party On Patriots!! « Moderate in the Middle.

And you thought all we had to be thankful for was Monday Night Football! Man-oh-man – what wonderful news for our Republic.

Of course, there needs to be an amendment to the bill to tie the ban to any future organization that has any ACORN executive associated with it. Hey, wonder if that would include any in the current administration?

WASHINGTON AP – The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.

The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

via Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN.

Update from Michelle Malkin:

Here are the ignominious ACORN sex ring enablers….

Burris (D-IL)
Casey (D-PA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Leahy (D-VT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)

Full roll call vote here. 9 not voting…

Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Coburn (R-OK)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hutchison (R-TX)
McCain (R-AZ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Vitter (R-LA)

Of course the question of the hour is why are they NOT voting?? Hum?