Tonight's Crazy Story:
Federal Inmate Keith Judd Receiving Sizable Percent of Vote in West Virginia Democratic Primary
Barack Obama was not the only candidate on the ballot in Tuesday's West Virginia primary. Opposing him was Keith Judd, also known as Inmate No. 11593-051 at Texarkana, Texas's correctional institution. Judd picked up a mere 41% of the vote against Obama.
Topic One: Truth and Tales on Voter Fraud
Michelle Malkin on separating truth and fiction on electoral fraud: "With six months until Election Day, conspiracy theories are percolating on the Internet like bubbling mud pots at Yellowstone: Left-wing billionaire George Soros is going to rig the election for Barack Obama. Foreigners will oversee the nation's entire vote-counting system. The fix is in, and all is lost."
"Before conservatives go all Michael Moore-moonbatty, let's calm down and separate voter fraud facts from fiction. There's no time to waste worrying about manufactured scares. And there are plenty of legitimate threats to electoral integrity without having to inflate or concoct them."
Time for a Laugh:
"Nestle is releasing new Crunch bars in Girl Scout cookie flavors like Thin Mint and Peanut Butter. And to make it even more authentic, Nestle’s CEO is having his parents pressure their coworkers into buying them."
-Jimmy Fallon
Topic Two: Graduation Season
May is here, and that means people across the nation will put on colored robes and march across a platform to receive the most expensive piece of paper they will ever purchase. Meanwhile, Congress is arguing over the terms of a renewal of legislation that will keep the interest rates on loans for those pieces of paper cut in half. Even the New York Times said today that the interest rate debate means very little for students: "But the partisan posturing is a distraction from far more pressing issues that face students and parents who must borrow to cover their college costs. What’s lost is how Congress, in numerous ways, has been hurting the most vulnerable college students and dithering on the crisis of college affordability. The Stafford debate is more rhetoric than substance. If the rate on the subsidized Stafford loan program does double, as scheduled, to 6.8 percent this summer, very little will happen. In fact, students who borrow through this program will ultimately end up paying only about $6 a month extra for one year of loans. And the rate increase won’t affect previous loans, only new loans borrowed for the 2012-13 school year."
Much more pressing than either the student loan interest rate or the affordability of a college education is the lack of work available to graduates: "Of all those who have graduated college since 2006, only 51 percent have a full-time job, according to a Rutgers University study released Thursday. Eleven percent are unemployed or not working at all. The situation is even more dire for those who have graduated since 2009. Fewer than half of college graduates from those years found their first job within 12 months of graduating, much less than the 73 percent of those who graduated from 2006 to 2008. Those who graduated since 2009 are three times more likely to not have found a full-time job than those from the classes of 2006 through 2008."
Debt Watch:
$15,674,047,733,490.96
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As of Wednesday, May 9, 2012
)
Change: -$11,679,252,225
Your share as a citizen: $50,126.78
Share per household: $137,207.61
Debt since Obama inauguration: $5,047,170,684,578
Topic Three: Romney's High School Years
Run for office as a Democrat, and the media will help you cover up your entire past, including your association with violent radicals, your alleged drug use, and even your birth certificate and college transcripts. Run for office as a Republican, and the media will unearth events that you may have even forgotten. Today, we learned that Mitt Romney was an immature prankster in High School, something that probably applies to a large majority of High School graduates. As Ed Morrissey wrote at HotAir: "That is a pretty cruel prank. It’s one reason not to vote for a teenager for President. It’s not a story that will cover Romney in glory, but this took place almost half a century ago."
I am very disappointed in the liberal media. Is this seriously the best you can do at destroying Romney? Maybe he was not such a bad choice after all.
Tweet of the Day:
Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley):
W/ Bush we were divided over war. That's expected. But w/ Obama we are divided by our very beliefs & race. It's the saddest thing to see.
Topic Four: National Security "Change"
Obama is living up to his 2008 campaign slogan when it comes to national security: "In 2008, President Obama campaigned with the slogan "change we can believe in." When it comes to national security, change is exactly what he has been creating ever since he took office. None of those changes are for the better. The president has finally realized that his economic policies have utterly failed. He cannot successfully campaign on gas prices, unemployment, or the national debt. The only ammunition he has left in his campaign arsenal comes from national security. Yet national security has become a politicized flip-flop extravaganza as well."
Food for Thought - A Quote from our Founders
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
-Patrick Henry
Topic Five: Governor Walker and the Economy
What are the economic stakes riding on the Wisconsin recall? "A Gov. Walker win could help other states push back against the trends highlighted by the World Economic Forum report. The alternative to reigning in spending and improving state worker productivity is essentially like saying "It is a better plan to raise business taxes and kill private sector jobs and to keep state worker costs and productivity where they are, even if that wastes $400 billion a year, give or take." And that attitude would just put Wisconsin back in the mess Gov. Walker has been working to get the state out of. ... Gov. Walker's recall election is just the first fork in the road America faces in a path of restraint and fiscal responsibility or a path of larger state governments, higher taxes, more wasted resources, and less private sector growth. I, for one, will be up late on June 5th watching those election results."
Tomorrow in History
May 10, 1924
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Gottleib Daimler and Karl Benz merge their car companies, forming Mercedes-Benz.
Grab Bag - Interesting and Important Stories to Conclude Your Evening:
The Soros ties on Obama's energy council
USPS reverses course; will not close rural post offices
Obama's poor first week of campaigning
Guess which President requested the largest "ex-President fund" budget
Latest underwear bomb plot was foiled by double agent, not TSA
Warren and heritage lies
Olympic flame lit in Greece
6-year-old pulls off baseball's rarest feat
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