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U. S. Constitution
Citizenship Terms in the U.S. Constitution
The American Form of Government
Kerchner v. Obama
Exactly What IS a Natural Born Citizen?
The Logical Analysis of a Natural Born Citizen
Little Things You Can Do...
Hope and Change Cartoons
The Obama Deception
Unemployment Map of the United States
KeyWiki
Archive: Is Obama constitutionally eligible?
Was Obama's father Malcolm X?
A Question of Eligibility
Kermit the Frog comments on Obama!
Obama's how-to videos
Even the Dems are calling Obama divisive
Explain this, Obamatons:
Burn this chart into your memory!
How to Buy Your Kids a House
Obama's many defining moments
Why the left uses the term "birthers"
Shirley Sherrod's racist husband...
Refudiate liberalism!
More from that religion of peace...
Hidden cameras on the Arizona border
The Breakup of the United States
Pictorial Essay of U.S. Citizenship
The Law of Nations or the Principle of Natural Law
I wonder...
BP WEB OF DECEIT: THE UGLY TRUTH
In the "actions have consequences" category...
Disturbing oil spill photos
The Ten Commandments According to Obama
Coming to a bedroom near you?
Obama's socialist takeover must be stopped
Why are banks withholding high-end repossessions?
Dems put politics ahead of saving children
North of the Border
I Do Not Like This Uncle Sam
Fear and Whining in Los Angeles
I sure as Hell would have bought them!
Tragedy in Haiti
If you set aside...
Obama and the Paycheck Fairness Act
Obama, the racist and sexist
Profit-Making Is Virtue, Not Vice
Does Obama Want Your Bling?
Quit comparing me...
Average Duration of Employment
A heartfelt argument against Kagan
Obama's criminal ties to Kenya
When World War III started...
Joe "not stimulating enough" Biden
Immigration Counters
The Natural Born Presidency
Don't trust either party to cut spending
Immigration, reconsidered
Notification of Violation
Obama Must Be Impeached
Ten Mental Mistakes of Obamatons
Documents supporting an Obama birth in Kenya
Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit
The Elite Turn Against Obama
Der VerschwörungsFrosch deckt auf: Obama
No mosque at Ground Zero
"I want one of them too"
Why hyperinflation is on the way...
Dumber than a rock...and likely to get reelected
Deficits Are A Symptom - The Problem Is Spending
The Gulf Oil Disaster: Real People - Real Places
The financial mess Obama helped create in Illinois
An intelligent Democrat comments on Obamacare
The wrong-headed Arizona challenge
Obama's Rules for Revolution
Three Million Imaginary Jobs
The Audacity Against Arizona
Life and Death in California
Outrageous Islamist lawsuit
The Islamization of America
Obama the Socialist Fascist Communist
When We Were Negroes
The Flight of the Money - Where Has It Gone?
Learn economics in two hours
NASA 2011
Megyn Kelly for Attorney General!
An illustrated, multiple choice test for Eric Holder
Revolution or Civil War: The choice is ours!
Bad Medicine: a 100-day Obamacare check-up
Two Bad Investments: Stocks, Bonds
What has America become?
Two Resumes
Tiger Woods, Obama and the redemption of America
The Depths of Economic Hell?
Defining unemployment
A chart of unemployment since 1995
Obama's new haircut
The Dumbest President...EVER!
KUHNER: Why Obama is a cultural Muslim
Oil Spill Timeline Video
Obama and redistribution
Give me your tired, your poor...
A True Moderate Muslim And Why Obama Sides Against Him
Block Kagan!
I Fought For You
10 UNDENIABLE OBAMA "BIRTHER" FACTS
When the music stopped...
Santa Claus and Frank Nitti
It's a good thing Obama has been on this since day one...
Obama's worst foreign-policy mistake
What Really Matters
How many of these can Hamas buy...
Oliver North Salute to Troops
The Manchurian Candidate: Deceiving America
America Rising
Illinois Election Outrage
Kate Smith introduces God Bless America
Kagan Must Be Blocked
Time for a little perspective on oil spills
Making the World More Dangerous
Meltdown!
One of these things is not like the other...
World Economic Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes
That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen
Sign of the times...
Deepwater Horizon Incident Timeline
Still more... from the religion of peace
Kagan's Princeton Thesis Cited German Socialist Who Endorsed Nazis
Obama and Kagan would have let this woman be killed
(Even a Few) Words Matter
Whatever happened to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star?
Why Obamanomics Has Failed
Remember in November...
And this jerk will be reelected in November...
The best place to be poor
Hurricane, and Obama, preparedness
Missouri can stop ObamaCare on August 3
The Ultimate Horror Movie
Elena Kagan, the Censor
The Democrat racist origins of gun control
The Other Bara(c)k?
Is Obama constitutionally eligible to serve?
Ineligibility could prove costly for Obama
BP, oil, the EPA, and Corexit
Write Your Own Caption
Breyer's Wrong-Headed Opinion
Schiff: U.S. Is in a Depression
Pensacola Beach Covered In Oil And Tar
Read this before the November election
The Debt Limit: Made Simple
Apathetic-USA.com
Obama: A Bill of Indictment
Do your job, Obama!
Obama nominee Kagan...
Louisiana Woman Tells It Like It Is!
All the President's (Hench)Men
Two Muslim mothers...
Body Language
The best stimulus? Spend less, borrow less
The Scariest Picture You'll Ever See
Planning to Fail
It Takes a Spillage
1963 Communist Goals
Teddy the Traitor
World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur
The General's Last Laugh
Yet another reason to reject Kagan
MacArthur Defeats Truman: The Real McChrystal Message
Obama... unscripted
That Rolling Stone article...
Can gold be valued in currency or is itself money?
Enemy at the Gates
CALL AND COMPLAIN NOW!
Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket
Alarming statistics...
Boycott Absolut Vodka
The Three Enablers
The fix was in...
101 Thoughts on America's Economy
Sympathy Deformed
A Dog in the Manger Presidency
It All Goes Back in the Box
Why we will have hyperinflation
Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go?
The more things change...
The False Choice
2010 Inflation Report
Somebody paid the price...
Pay no attention...
Salesmanship
Obama, what took you so long?
Yeah, like we really need this...
More wisdom from Governor Christie
Living in the Economic Past
Obama gives taxpayers funds to Hamas
Obama Jokes
Excuse me...
No energy in Obama energy speech
Busted: Governments, Pensions, Unions
The 2010 Idiot of the Year Award...
The Story of The Star Spangled Banner
Roe v. ObamaCare
Of Mosques and Men: Reflections on the Ground Zero Mosque
Gulf Oil Rig Incident Timeline
We Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Uncivilized Tactics at UC Irvine
North Korean defections unlikely at the World Cup
The Other National Debt
Andrea Bocelli... on abortion
We Con the World
22 million illegals and counting
MELTUP
Destroying the economy is a feature, not a bug
Taxpayer-funded global warming lies
Gun registration and confiscation under the Nazis
Talk about audacity!
It isn't the guns that they fear...
The Obama Disaster Machine
Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?
Helen Thomas' Exquisite 'Weimar Moment' Reflects Progressive America
How Not to Get Shot by a Soldier
Corexit is Killing the Gulf
Obama: "It's complicated!"
Nowhere to cut federal spending?
Mario Apuzzo on Obama's ineligibility
The Alien in the White House
Terrorist tactics...
Obama regrets the death of terrorists...
In God is Our Trust...
The Millionaire Cop Next Door
Never again
The greatest threat to America...
A book worth reading...
Join Team Obama in His Fight Against the Oil Spill
Obama Fails the Test of Office
Judge Andrew Napolitano interview
The case for default of the national debt
In God Is Our Trust...
Bilderberg 2010: Between the sword and the wall
Saddam's WNDs were shipped to Syria
Senior citizens...
The nation's best governor...
Ocean currents likely to carry oil along Atlantic coast
1979 Redux
Obama oil spill timeline
From liberty to fascism...
Jihad in humanitarian clothing
The cowardly news anchor...
God Bless a Re-Awakening of America
Election day reminder...
10 People to Blame for the Oil
Obama Administration Closes In On Control of Media
Fast and loose with the census
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the Ima
How to plug the oil leak...
The deficits...
Flotillas and Falsehoods
A bleak scenario in the Gulf...
The old man...
When Masculine Virtues Go Out of Fashion
Courtroom comeback...
The Scope of the Problem
The world economy explained...
Gene Simmons' Military Salute
A Disaster with Many Fathers
When Professor Obama Meets Dirty Reality
A national disgrace...
Time to stop paying taxes?
A Torch With No Flame
Thoughts for Memorial Day
The Freedom Dome
Is the oil spill only a diversion?
National debt increases by president
Muslim beheading in Texas
Obama has not raised any taxes?
Sestak Memo Only Raises More Questions
Reunions...
Obama's Katrina
Can you make...
Restore Our Border Security Plan
Bye, Bye All You Socialist Creeps
Obama's Arizona Stance Borders Treason
Plug the damn hole!
Taxes... up, up, and away
Obama Must Confront World's Bullies
In defense of bigots...
Nashville flood... where was Obama?
Lt. Col. Allen West on Obama
Stop Islamization of America (SIOA)
They will just keep printing money...
Clearing the Smoke on Obama's Eligibility
Illegal immigrants
South Korea, North Korea, Israel and Iran
30 Islamist terror plots in the U.S. since 9/11
A suggestion for businesses...
Mayor Gordon, shut up!
That volcano in Iceland...
ObamaCare's marriage penalty
Suspend the Constitution?
Sell in May and run away ...fast
Come to the U.S.A.
Reading is really super swell!
Another stupid Obamaton...
Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Let's say I break into your house...
The high cost of cheap labor
The disatrous financial regulation bill
Why you should own gold
Could Palin win in 2012?
Some writings by Jonathan I. Katz
Why Terrorism Matters
How Mexcio treats illegal immigrants
Speak for yourself, Barry Soetoro from Indonesia...
Obama's Waterloo
Tell me again why I bothered with college?
THIS is FRIGHTENING!
The Keynesian Race to Bankruptcy
NIA Inflation Charts
No mosque at Ground Zero!
OBAMA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE THIS
They Walk Among Us...
Dante's Tenth Circle
Obama's ties to Goldman Sachs
If THIS doesn't frost your a** nothing will...
The face of terrorism in America today...
Obama's choice to head Medicare prefers England's system
The Socialist Judge: Elena Kagan and the Teachable Moment
Drill, baby, drill
Hispanic teacher calls for revolution
Paula Abdul for the Supreme Court!
Truer words were never written...
Obama wants your ATM records...
It's Greek to Us
700 illegals on one trail in one month in Arizona
Censorship of Islamic Terminology
Everything I ever needed to learn about Islam...
Floral print plus plaid?
The Greek Economic Crisis Made Simple
Gulf oil spill is a drop in the bucket
Arizona...
In Ohio, not Yemen
Obamacare's unintended (?) consequences
Dear Anderson Cooper:
Time to Plan for War
Fraud in the USA
Commie Obama
Illegals rally in Atlanta
The nation's best governor
Class versus Crass
Obama wants your 401(k)
Natural born versus native born
U.S. Google Maps with Arabic text?
President Ball Sucker
Sneak into a baseball game...
And they say Tea Partiers are dangerous?
Can someone explain this?
Never mind that hospital expansion...
Obama's good and bad words
"Smart Grid" Myths
Federal pay versus private sector pay
The Liberty Tree
Communists Sue Democrat Party!
Why I voted for Arizona SB 1070
The limp and the dead...
Bank Regulation for Dummies
Border Alert!!
Arizona can enforce its new law
Dear Mr. Obama
Dogs on welfare
Obama's day at NASA
Obama the renegade...
Get ready for lousy health care
The Mohammed Image Archive
Why liberals hate the Tea Party
Who's to Blame When a Black Man Rapes a Woman?
Afghanistan for Dummies
What's wrong with this picture?
Arizona's first big catch
The Obama student loan takeover
Duh!
Gaza garbage truck
Who uses phony Social Security numbers?
Remember November
The government can...
Tea Party Slogans Repository
A Question of Eligibility
Tick - Tick - Tick The Economy Bomb
Not Too Hip and Edgy for Censorship
Today, I Cried for America
America sucks, say the Obamas
Ganging Up on Grandma
Physicians and Hospitals That Love ObamaCare
Awesome!
Spreading your wealth
The carbon offset-offset program!
Student loans throw us further into debt
These are...
Bush deficits versus Obama deficits
The Obama budget cuts
Thank your military
A message from your president...
Golf Czar
The Tea Party in Boston knew how to right a ship
Tea Party racism... not
No we can't
We should not be reluctant to assert the superiority of Western values
Earthquake over, corruption back in Haiti
Tea Parties a delayed Bush backlash
So Why Aren't Progressives Called Regressives?
Bibi's Secret Letter to Obama
Yes, a black conservative site
Red Skelton and the Pledge of Allegiance
The Goldman Sachs scam
Britain today... USA tomorrow?
The disaster called ObamaCare
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Stop Spending our Future
Honor
It's All Bush's Fault...
A drunken sailor responds...
America's Quiet Anger
What Do We Do If the Rich Start to Leave?
Feds Busy Rewriting the History of the Collapse
ObamaCare Explained...
Conservative women versus liberal women
Ending the Fed From the Bottom Up
Abortion clinic lies
10 reasons why Barack Obama is the most naïve president in US history
The Unfunded Obligations of Eurpoean Countries
I own gold and will never sell it
Jon Voight's Letter to the American People
Pointing out the obvious...
Davy Crockett's sockdolager tale...
Dear Fox News
The Reason They Hate Us
Let's Outlaw YOUR Business Next
The End of Trust
Hate the Feds and lose your kids
The Shadow of Ryazan
Obama's Kenyan Birth Certificate
Hyperinflation Special Report
All gave some... some gave all
Dems and the media at work...
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Study hard...
Gold and Silver market manipulation
The Ivy League Hates Nullification
The Coming Dictatorship
The Perfect Constitutional Storm
Survivalism in the suburbs
A Roadmap for America's Future
16,500 reasons to vote for Republicans
Who pays the most income tax?
"I Will Follow Him"
Why I Love Obama!
Obama in Rude Denial
America's Quiet Anger
Capitalism, socialism, and fascism
The ObamaCare medicine cabinet
How To Prepare For Obamacare: Practice Self-Care
Census Numbers Uncensored
What the Democrats do not understand
Democracy Denied
ObamaCare Boards and Commissions
The Media's Myth of Right Wing Violence
The Tax Man
Obama's assault on American identity
I'll bet you didn't know this!
Hold on to your wallet
The Administration Attack on American Business
ObamaCare taxes on those earning less than $250,000
The radical left's war on America
Health Care Timeline
The Complete List of Obama Statement Expiration Dates
Obama birth certificate issue more urgent than ever
Budget crisis!
The most terrifying motion picture in history...
A relieved Jimmy Carter...
How to annoy a leftist...
ObamaCare avoidance tip...
A great Judge Napolitano interview
Obama's 2012 Commemorative Address
The Sneeze
ObamaCare: a win for special interests
A letter for your Congressman...
20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms
Emergency Broadcast! New World Order Ahead!
The Democrats' Unfair Advantage
Health Care and Detroit: Killed By Government
High school arranges student's abortion
Effective dates for ObamaCare provisions
Caution: Obama has been emboldened
Even idiots can learn a lesson...
Suffer the little children...
Your new word for the day...
Where Were You When the Republic Died?
The Obama Retirement Trap
ObamaCare Myths and Facts
ObamaCare screws senior citizens
Doorstep of history...
The "special deals" in ObamaCare
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
ObamaCare's Devilish Principles
ObamaCare: Everything you need to know
Chelsea Clinton, fashionista
Ferris Geithner's Day Off
I've fallen and I can't get up...
Health Care Takeover By the Numbers
The memo that proves Obama is lying
Conservative versus Liberal
How to complete the census form
Health Care Bill Myths
ObamaCare explained...
Veterans Running for Congress
Red Dawn Over America
Up to age 26 my libertarian behind...
A one-page health care plan
Make sure you read the comments too
Some alarming numbers...
The Tenth Amendment Movement
A Sleeping Nation
Census Data Not So Confidential After All
The funding gimmicks in ObamaCare
The Great Reneger
Mark Levin's Great Reagan Forum Speech
The fix is in... no budget reconciliation for ObamaCare
Obamacare worth the price to Democrats
Krauthammer for President 2012!
Who says health insurers earn excessive profits?
Why government is the problem
Penance for Obama voters...
Reconciliation... it won't be pretty
Full speed ahead...
The worst is yet to come...
The truth about the Bush tax cuts
Declaration of Tea Party Independence
The impact of ObamaCare...
Obama Caught Lip-Syncing Speech
Dear Mr. Carter:
How They Killed Kennedy
The Great Enemy of the Truth
The official Sasha and Malia reading list
Why Obama illegally fired an Inspector General
159 Big Spending, Big Government Features of Obamacare
Great news for Olbermann, Matthews, and Cooper!
There's A Communist Living in the White House!
Security or political correctness?
Bernanke on a Bailout of the Treasury
Judge Andrew Napolitano on health care legislation
U.S. health care inflation less than Canada and England
Governor Christie sets a leadership example for Obama
I'm Sure Glad The Recession Ended
Death of a Democrat entrepreneur
The Top 20 PACs
Bill Gates is evil... and an idiot
If Our Colleges And Universities Do Not Breed Men Who Riot
The Four Boxes
Newspeak
Obama Birth Certificate Destroyed in Hawaii Tsunami!
Obama Fatigue
Hyperinflation and its Consequences for America
Illegal Immigration by the Numbers
What to say to global-warming fearmongers
Will somebody please...
And what about bananas?
The Left's Deep, Dark Secret
Master of the Insulting Gesture
Obama gives Ryan the finger at 5:25
Why Obama's job numbers are phony
Woman of the Year
Progressive Islam... be warned
Narrowbacks, Wetbacks, and Payback
MSNBC Hyprocites
Obama's Secret Blueprint
Wall Street's Bailout Hustle
Boondoggle
Dossier2
Obama's Big Sellout
After America, there is no place to go...
Civil disobedience and the census
How to lose the war in Afghanistan
Buy more blankets...
The worst politicians money can buy...
A sign of the times...
GOP Valentines's Day Cards
Defend Michael Behenna
Clinton's stents and ObamaCare
President Me! The Musical
Economic Warnings From an Elderly 3rd Grader
Memory aids...
Bush defict bad, Obama deficit good?
The Code of the West versus the Code of the Left
The Decadent Democrats
L'Éducation
If at first you don't secede...
Charlie Wilson and Ronald Reagan's War
The Coming Obama Retirement Trap
Stimulus Jobs Going to China
Palin's Notes vs. Obama's TelePrompTer
Dancing With the Politicians!
Did Open Border Policies Set Off Mortgage Meltdown?
Obama Shrine
Global Disastrification!
Another Look at Obama's Origins
Who Told Fox to Shut Up?
Fallacies Behind Abortion on Demand
Obama: Imaginary Friend of Democrats
How to Blame Bush: Lie
Air America is off the air
Government Snow Plow
Obama talks too much
Why Obama beat McCain
We're Screwed!
Obama's $2.2 trillion in tax increases
Obama's spending cuts and freezes
Obama is nuts...
Airplane laptop fun! (No, don't try it on a plane.)
Unemployed? It's part of Obama's plan
A new era of irresponsibility
Media Malpractice at March for Life
The real story from Haiti...
Obama the vindictive
Really... the guy is nuts
The Obama trash can...
Egypt's move backward
The hottest hoax in the world
Trying terrorists: some facts
The Islam Tax
More Mr. Nice Guy
More Washington
Obama's Nazi Doctors
"Don't demonize me, teabaggers!"
High school brainwashing, Obama style
Make Mine Freedom (1948)
Hello There, Mr. President
This should get your blood boiling...
You're on your own, airline passengers
...and the Leftists aren't pleased either
This little piggy...
That's what we do... we're Americans
Obama clearance sale
$10 says it was Shepard Smith at Fox
Leftist thuggery in action...
Keep your hand on your wallet...
Why the Dems want "Immigration Reform"
America's Impending Master Class Dictatorship
Milton Friedman, the prophet
The more things change...
Does Obama really need...
Head injury, brain surgery, or bad haircut?
Mirror, mirror, on the wall...
Mirror, Part II...
England today, U.S. tomorrow?
Freeze that Waste and Fraud (01/26/2009)
D.C. Double-Dippers
Why O'Reilly and Beck ridicule "birthers"
Stimulus Sign
Teddy's Wake
You can't make this stuff up...
Will doctors dump their Medicare patients on March 1?
The Real Conspiracy...
State of Disunion
Harry Reid Carries MasterLard
Obama, the Tax Man!
The Supreme Court Ruled Correctly
Why California is Broke
How pathetic!
The Bronze Rat
Obama did this! (01/23/2009)
Republican Women versus Democrat Women...
Coincidence?
Obama's First Year
California Dreamin'
Bush advisor mops the floor with Christiane Amanpour
Obama and the 7 Dorks
Hitler learns that Coakley lost to Brown...
Obama vs. Tiger
Senator Brown's daughter sings the National Anthem
Obama's Job to be Outsourced to India
Coakley and the Curling Iron Case
A Brown Victory Would Signal Second American Revolution
Haiti's on Hold while Hussein is Heckled
Democrats hoisted with their own petard (01/18/2009)
Who loses when the dollar collapses?
ObamaCare's Marriage Penalty
Top 10 Union Corruption Stories of 2009
Global Waming - The Other Side
More proof Obama is an idiot (01/15/2010)
How to keep your airline luggage safe
Higher taxes, higher insurance premiums...
Massachusetts Miracle
Cocaine in the White House?
Ghana newspaper calls Obama Kenyan-born
Connecting the dots... in Hawaii
An offer you should refuse...
Anti-War Protestors
Impeach Obama simply on the basis of fraud!
A Speech Full of Promises to Break
Guide to Offensive Statements by Public Officials
Republic, I like the sound of the word...
I'm gonna tell you something, Flaca...
Connecting the Dots
Democrats on an Escalator
What Obama Thinks of Average Americans
Horowitz and Cadell
Keep America Safe: 100 Hours
Who's Your Daddy?
Obama's Next Three Years
Obama's Failed Freshman Year
Strangers On My Flight
Warning to All America
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes of 2009
Why Detroit Sucks
The Third Jihad
An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians
No Left Turns
My dog is a Democrat
Sarah Palin, Man of the Year
Proof that liberals are NUTS!
Three Terrible Choices (12/31/2009)
Secession: The Hope for Humanity
Bungling Ben Bernanke
Another reason to fear ObamaCare
Obama will not rest...
Shame on Obama for doing nothing...
Obama and the Iranian Protesters (12/28/2009)
New Airline Rules
Obama's Real Report Card
We don't need no stinkin' Constitutional authority! (12/27/2009)
What Liberals Do Not Understand
Obama Gaffe List
Muslim Ghost Town
50 Years of Democrat Rule
Recession Over, Depression Beginning
Global Warming Thoughts
The President Without a Country
Top 25 Features of ObamaCare
Obama: Unhinged in Copenhagen
White Guilt in 3D
Yet another job-killing tax...
Fascism, defined...
Away with the Manger
The Greatest Man in the World
We Must Take the Threat Seriously
Nazi Eurabia, and America's Fate
The Public Option: Explained in 41 Seconds
Merry Christmas, from Harry Reid
Terrorist Test Runs?
Wikipedia and the Global Warming Scam
Why no one watches MSNBC...
Beggar in Chief (12/20/2009)
A Republic, not a Democracy
We the People
A new low for the left (Warning: foul language)
America Under Obama
Climategate: History's Message
The Need for Shame (12/19/2009)
One Nation Under God
Never Forget
A great Newt Gingrich speech
How to Stop Obama
The first 8 of the last 9 years... (12/18/2009)
America needs more men and women like this
ObamaCare will Kill People
Global Warming Linked to Postal Rates!
The Manufactured Health Care Crisis
Isolate and Crush the Secular Socialist Left
ObamaCare meets Global Warming (12/17/2009)
Consumers Lose Under ObamaCare
100 Reasons Why Climate Change is Natural
A Sarah Palin Primer (12/15/2009)
The History of Republican Evil
Climate Scientologists Exposed
A Suggested Survival List
The Globalony Warming Apostles' Creed (12/15/2009)
The Reagan Obama Debate
The Death of the Dollar
Alien Tree Hugger
One child per family... (12/14/2009)
Capitalist Pigs and Global Warming
The Death of the Dollar
Twas the Night Before a Non-Denominational Winter Holiday
Hide the Decline
United Nations Gun Ban Plan
Obama Ensures a Long Depression
Nowhere to Hide
Why California is in trouble...
Social Security Will Go Bust in 2010
Not hiring...
ObamaCare is Bad Medicine
The Worst American President poster
Another reason Obama has to go...
A TOTALLY JUSTIFIED Angry Letter
Obama's Safe Schools Czar Promotes Pornography
Walking around blindly...
General Patton on tthe War on Terror
Alinsky Does Afghanistan
Nice work if you can get it...
Everything old is new again (12/03/2009)
A military mother's take on the president's speech
Obama Mirrors LBJ's Vietnam Exit Speech
Party Crashers
Row, row, row your ship of state (12/02/2009)
Obama's triangulation
Why I Own Gold (11/28/2009)
The Geography of a Recession
Global Cooling May Be Coming
The Day Al Gore Stood Still
Digits and Revolution
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
Does Spaghetti Cause Wind? (11/25/2009)
Climategate Hide the Decline
Read this... and buy gold
A business offer you can't refuse...
A German's view of Islam (11/24/2009)
Sarah Palin's Breast Panel (11/21/2009)
People said it didn't matter...
Secession From Obama's America
A Case for Secession
Trial and Terror
Psalm 2009
Obama Is Not Eligible
A man beneath contempt... (11/13/2009)
Almost beyond belief...
Amnesty by any other name... (11/14/2009)
Thank you, President Bush and Mrs. Bush
Jihad AND Treason
Devil's Dictionary of Healthcare Reform
Advice for Weak-Kneed GOP Senators
The Employee Meeting (11/10/2009)
This lunacy has got to end... (11/09/2009)
The New Obama-Pelosi Stealth Tax
The Health Care Bill in 90 Seconds
Health Care in Cuba
The 2012 Race
Circus Tents and Side Shows (11/06/2009)
The Worst Bill Ever
PelosiCare Reading Guide
The Pelosi Bill
Obama, the Proud Muslim
Gold and Freedom
(Olympia) Snowe Job (10/30/2009)
Dear Mr. O'Reilly:
Reagan's Rendezvous with Destiny
Birds, Pigs, and Vaccines... Oh, My! (10/27/2009)
The Government Can
The Shrinking Middle Class
Health Insurers NOT So Profitable
Why Health Insurance?
Explain this, Hussein!
Baucus Bill Bull (10/24/2009 update)
The Baucus Health Care Bill Decoded
Internet Censorship
We noticed...
But, oh, the humidity!
Just Texas
Where's the Inflation? (10/18/2009)
ObamaCare the Musical!
Obama Addresses and Multiple SSNs
Obama Meets with General McChrystal
Doogie Howser for ObamaCare
Job Loss Map, by Date
How Crazy Are Those Birthers?
Doctors "Going Galt"
Socialism, Fascism, and Obama (October 12, 2009)
A hoax? Or even more evidence?
ACORN Employment Application
Obama and Madame Defarge (October 10, 2009)
Don Rickles Roasts Congress
Kool-Aid in Kokomo
The Secret Scrapbook of Barry Soetoro
Letter to the Nobel Prize Committee (10/09/2009)
Nobel Peace Prize Jokes
Ignored Advice
The Energy Non-Crisis
Top 10 Reasons Why Chicago Lost the Olympics
Letter to Mark Kirk (October 5, 2009)
Obama's Olympics (10/02/2009)
Implications of House Bill 3200 (09/14/2009)
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Barack Obama rarely gives a speech without talking about “equal rights for women.”  Then he goes on to repeat the meaningless statistic that women make only 77 cents for every dollar made by a man.  I say meaningless because you can insert any number you’d like and it proves nothing.  (Department of Labor statistics place the number at about 82 cents.)  Here’s why.

 

The number is taken by estimating the average income made by all full-time working women in America and comparing it to an estimate of the average income made by all full-time working men.  Those who throw out the statistic never mention that most differences in pay are not due to “paying women less than men for the same work,” but to women generally being in professions that pay less than men, and having fewer years of experience than men.

 

It is difficult to comprehend the statistic when thinking of the entire nation of working men and women.  To better understand the situation, take it down quite a few notches, to the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina, circa 1964:

 

Here are the men of Mayberry, and their estimated salaries

 

Andy Taylor, sheriff - $8,000

Barney Fife, deputy - $6,000

Gomer Pyle, filling station employee - $4,000

Floyd Lawson, barber - $4,000

Howard Sprague, city clerk - $4,500

Emmet Clark, repair service - $3,500

 

Here are the women of Mayberry, and their estimated salaries

 

Helen Crump, teacher - $5,000

Sarah, switchboard operator - $3,000

 

The six men make an average of $5,000.  The two women make an average of $4,000.  The women of Mayberry thus make 80 cents for every dollar earned by the men.  Granted, these salaries are estimates, Mayberry has a few more citizens than the ones listed above, and the town is fictional anyway – but that’s not the point.  The point is that Obama (and all liberals, and even some conservatives) would look at these statistics and say, “There, that’s proof that Mayberry discriminates against women!  We need another new federal program!”

 

It’s certainly easier to look at eight workers and their salaries than over one hundred million.  Clearly the two women of Mayberry make, on average, less than the men.  Than again, four of the men earn less than one of the women.  Are those men being discriminated against?

 

School teacher Crump earns less than sheriff. Taylor.  Is that fair?  Perhaps, perhaps not.  But that’s not the question – because teachers and sheriffs do not perform the same job.  The question is whether, if Mayberry’s school added a male teacher to its staff, that male teacher would be paid more than Helen Crump.  Or, if Sheriff Taylor resigned and he was replaced by a woman, would she receive less than he had been receiving.  If so, a case for discrimination because of gender could be made.  (Of course, some pay differences may be justified due to experience and qualifications.  Crump’s new co-worker may be paid less because of fewer educational degrees; the new sheriff may be paid more because she may have many more years of experience in law enforcement at a larger town.)

 

It should be noted that the Equal Pay Act was made law in 1963.  Helen Crump would not have had to wait for Barack Obama to come to Mayberry to protect her.  All she would have needed to do was file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor – within 180 days of her first recognition of the discrimination.

 

What about city clerk Howard Sprague?  Does he have a case of gender discrimination because he is paid less than teacher Crump?  No.  Sprague is paid less than Crump because of the job he performs.  He might argue that he deserves a raise, but he should take that up with the Mayor and the City Council.  If Crump feels underpaid, she should express her arguments to the Mayberry Board of Education.

 

This does not mean to suggest there may be no discrimination in Mayberry, but it certainly wouldn’t be solved by a federal bureaucrat from Washington trotting down to North Carolina to tell everyone who should be paid what.  Needless to say, the bureaucrat would never suggest cutting anyone’s pay, so to “correct the discrimination” he or she would order raising the pay of those who have been shortchanged.  But why should a bureaucrat define the salaries?  (And does anyone get a bigger raise because the bureaucrat happens to be his or her cousin?)

 

Assuming this makes sense so far, simply extend it to the entire United States.  Do some women get paid less than some men?  Yes.  Do some men get paid less than some women?  Yes.  That proves nothing.  (I earn less than Oprah Winfrey.)  In general, women cumulatively get paid less because they enter the professions that pay less.  But individually they sometimes earn less and sometimes earn more than men.  Granted, gender discrimination has certainly prevented women from entering some professions – but once they are there they are guaranteed equal pay under the 1963 law.

 

There are more female elementary school teachers than female brain surgeons.  It is perfectly reasonable for a brain surgeon to get paid more than a teacher.  One can argue that it was more difficult for women to enter medical school decades ago than it is now, which explains why we have more male brain surgeons than female brain surgeons.  But today, nothing stands in the way of a woman who chooses to be a brain surgeon.  As time goes by, more women may become brain surgeons.  Then again, more may not.  They may choose to enter different professions.  Perhaps they’d rather be attorneys than brain surgeons; or start their own businesses; or run for Vice-President.  (If Sarah Palin becomes Vice President, does the salary of every man in America have to be raised to her $198,600 level to avoid the charge of “discrimination against lesser-paid men?)

 

What would be the Obama “solution” to the “problem” of women’s cumulative salaries being dragged down by too many elementary school teachers and too few brain surgeons?  Would he force some women to become brain surgeons against their will?  If the career path of a woman happens to result in her being paid less than she would have earned had she taken another career path, so what?  What business is her career choice anyone’s but hers?  The cumulative salaries of women may someday equal or even exceed the cumulative salaries of men.  So what?  Those statistics merely reflect the types of careers men and women enter, they do not “prove” that something needs to be “evened out.”

 

This is not to suggest that discrimination does not exist – of course it does.  But a remedy already exists when the worker believes her (or his) pay was based on gender, and not job duties, experience, or skills - file a written complaint with the Department of Labor.  (You can search the Internet to find the address of local DOL offices.)

 

The inherent fallacy in the “82 cents on the dollar” (or 77 cents, if that’s the number you believe) argument is that if women could always be hired for 23 per cent less, why on earth would any business hire men at all? Labor costs are, after all, typically the single greatest expense of any business. If you could reduce your payroll expenses by a full 23 per cent, why would you not do so? The answer is that you hire the best person for the job, regardless of that person’s gender. If a hospital needs a neurosurgeon, it interviews all the applicants and makes an offer to the one it feels is most qualified. The construction company that needs five new carpenters runs and ad in the newspaper seeking carpenters; it does not look for male or female carpenters.

 

When Obama talks about women getting paid “77 cents for every dollar a man is paid,” he implies that women and men who work side by side doing the same work on an assembly line are paid different hourly wages.  That is generally not the case – but where it is, a 35-year old law is equipped to handle it.  But Obama wants women to believe that is the case, and that he is the only candidate capable of protecting them.  He is manipulating the voters, by taking advantage of their ignorance of the law.

 

But doesn’t Obama talk about his support of a “Fair Pay Restoration Act,” and say that McCain is against it?  Does this proposed law require equal pay for women?  No, equal pay for women is already required by the 1963 law.  The “Fair Pay Restoration Act” removes the 180-day filing limit of the 1963 legislation.  That is what Obama is supporting – although he is certainly implying more.  (The media never questions him about the proposed law, either because it has no idea what is in the law or it chooses to let Obama continue his manipulation of the issue.)

 

The intent of the removal of the 180-day limit is mostly to enrich lawyers.  Under current law, a woman can file a complaint with Department of Labor.  It will be investigated, and if found to be a legitimate complaint her pay will be appropriately increased, she will receive retroactive wages to correct the discrimination, and the employer may have to pay a fine.  There is no particular need for an attorney (the taxpayer-paid DOL attorneys will be working on behalf of the complainant), so private attorneys have no great interest in these cases.  Attorneys instead prefer cases with large corporations where many women are involved, so that they can file large class action lawsuits and receive greater fees.

 

If Congress and Obama eliminate the 180-day filing limit, attorneys will then be interested in cases with a potential for many years of retroactive pay.  Currently, a complainant generally won’t receive more than six months of retroactive corrected wages.  The 180-day filing limit was included in the original law both to encourage women to examine their own personal circumstances promptly (in order to eliminate the discrimination promptly), and to prevent the problem of going back years - or even decades - to right a wrong at the expense of massive retroactivity payments that benefit an aggrieved worker but put a company out of business (thereby causing all the workers the loss of their jobs).

 

Obama’s interests are not those of the women in his audience.  His interests are primarily their votes, and the campaign contributions from attorneys who will take a big cut out of any retroactive payment given female workers in a retroactive discrimination case.  If Obama truly cared about the plight of women who may have been underpaid, rather than promise what he would do if he’s sworn in at the end of January, he would tell them to hustle down to the Department of Labor right now - before their 180 days are up.

 

 

Don Fredrick

September 11, 2008

 

Copyright 2008, Don Fredrick