Video: George W Bush throws out the First Pitch at the Wold Series

Former President George W. Bush, along with his father threw out the First Pitch, to Nolan Ryan, at tonight's World Series Game.  The crowd roared in approval.  Touching moment - and the best thing is President Bush threw a strike!


Hat Tip to Gateway Pundit

Meet the candidates - US House edition

Patrick Murry is running for Congress against Liberal Democrat Jim Moran in VA-8

Sean Bielat is running for Congress against Barney Frank

Allen West is running for Congress against Ron Klein

Ruth McClung is running for Congress against radical Democrat Raul Grijalva who amazingly called for a boycott of his own state!

Video: "Joe Biden" addresses America on Saturday Night Live

Joe Biden spoofed by Saturday Night Live - Funny stuff here:

"When things can't get any worse - it's BIDEN TIME!"

The Democrat's Economic Record:

Or this post could be titled "How to double the unemployment rate in under 4 years".  When the Democrats took over Congress in January 2007, less than four years ago the unemployment rate was only 4.6%.  In less than four years their disastrous policies have more than doubled the rate.  In red is the Unemployment Rate under Republican Rule - in blue is the unemployment rate under Democrat Rule.   Hat Tip BLS.

2000	4.0	4.1	4.0	3.8	4.0	4.0	4.0	4.1	3.9	3.9	3.9	3.9
2001	4.2	4.2	4.3	4.4	4.3	4.5	4.6	4.9	5.0	5.3	5.5	5.7
2002	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.9	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.9	6.0
2003	5.8	5.9	5.9	6.0	6.1	6.3	6.2	6.1	6.1	6.0	5.8	5.7
2004	5.7	5.6	5.8	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.4	5.4	5.5	5.4	5.4
2005	5.3	5.4	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.0	5.0	4.9	5.0	5.0	5.0	4.9
2006	4.7	4.8	4.7	4.7	4.6	4.6	4.7	4.7	4.5	4.4	4.5	4.4
2007	4.6	4.5	4.4	4.5	4.4	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.7	4.7	4.7	5.0
2008	5.0	4.8	5.1	5.0	5.4	5.5	5.8	6.1	6.2	6.6	6.9	7.4
2009	7.7	8.2	8.6	8.9	9.4	9.5	9.4	9.7	9.8	10.1	10.0	10.0
2010	9.7	9.7	9.7	9.9	9.7	9.5	9.5	9.6	9.6

11 Reasons to vote for Democrats in November:

The members of the Democrat party have given us a lot to consider before voting in November 2010. Here are just 11 reasons to consider voting for the Democrats - in their own words.

Meet the Candidates: Senate Edition

Dino Rossi is running for Senate against Patty Murray in Washington State

Carly Fiorina is running for Senate in California

Sharron Angle is running for Senate in Nevada:

John Raese is running for the US Senate in West Virginia:

10 Minute Ticker:

Oh No!
Bill Clinton asked FL African-American Dem Candidate to drop out!

Largest Ever:
40 Jet Aircraft involved in Pres Obama trip to India

Politico:
If you think 2010 is bad - just wait until 2012 Senate Dems...

Michelle Malkin:
The Gawker Smear Machine and the Left's war on conservative women

Real Clear Politics:
Battle for the House:  222 GOP - 173 Dems

Real Clear Politics:
Latest US Senate Polls

The Circus:
Is that a Time Traveler in that Charlie Chaplin movie?

Too Cool:
Some awesome pumpkin carving designs

Breaking:
More shots fired at Marine Corps Museum

It's here: Download your free Voter Fraud App

Voter Fraud already is one of the biggest stories of this election.  Now from American Majority Action is a free Voter Fraud Application you can download to iTunes, Google Android or Blackberry.

Just in time for Election Day, American Majority Action has created the nation’s first mobile application to help identify, report and track suspected incidents of voter fraud and intimidation. This free, cutting edge system will enable voters to take action to help defend their right to vote. Whether you’re a campaign junkie, or just want a better America, Voter Fraud will help you report violations at the election booth and serve to uphold the democratic process.
Take a look at the full list of features below and be sure to download the app for your mobile phone. By the way, did we mention it was FREE

• Download your free Voter Fraud App HERE.

• Download your Guide to Voter Fraud HERE

Rush Limbaugh launches "Reverse Operation Chaos"

Taking a cue from his hugely successful Operation Chaos America's most popular radio host launched "Operation Reverse Chaos" or "Reverse Operation Chaos".  This operation is designed to help Hillary Clinton get the  Democratic Nomination in 2012 by having the Democrats get absolutely wiped out in 2010.  The theory being, the worse the Democrats lose the worse it is for President Obama because this is a referendum on his policies.  The worse he is perceived as done the better chance Hilary will run in 2012.

In a nutshell Operation Reverse Chaos is instructing Democrats to stay home in 2010.  In Rush's own words:


"Ladies and Gentlemen - it is time for election strategy"

Operation Reverse Chaos or Reverse Operation Chaos, whichever you wish to call it, is once again established so as to allow Hillary Clinton what is rightfully hers:  an opportunity to win the White House.  It was hers.  She had been anointed, and then Obama comes along and for whatever reason they pulled the rug out from under her.  The Clintons still want the White House, bad.  You can tell how bad by how unenthusiastic Bill Clinton is running around the country campaigning for Democrats, for Obama.  Because Clinton and Hillary know that their best chance for her to get the nomination in 2012 is for the Democrats to have a lackluster performance next Tuesday.  The worse the defeat is, the worse it is for Obama.  As Obama said, and he's agreeing with me, he's not on the ballot but his agenda is.  Damn straight it is.  That's exactly what's being voted on Tuesday: Obama's agenda.  Therefore, the greater the Republican victory is, the greater the opportunity for Hillary to challenge Obama for the nomination in 2012.  They don't want to wait 'til 2016.  The odds of the White House being held by Democrats after 2016 is practically nil after what Obama is going to finish doing destroying the country in four more years if that happens.

So the objective here of Reverse Operation Chaos, we're not aiming this at Republican voters.  We're aiming Reverse Operation Chaos at Democrats, especially those of you who are for Hillary and believe she got the shaft, politically, who believe that she was mistreated, who believe that dirty campaigning took away from her what was rightfully hers and gave it to another.  It's just typical of what happens to women in this country.  An unqualified guy, young, good-looking, I mean there were even people -- I don't know if you remember this, I'll tell you how unfair it was for Hillary -- there were people in the primary actually saying, "Did we really want to sit here and watch Hillary Clinton age in office?"  There were people saying that.  There were all kinds of things like this being said.  It was mostly unfair, it was terribly insulting that a guy with no experience but everybody liked his looks and the way he talked came in once again, the glass ceiling shattered with Mrs. Clinton's head banging right into it but never through it, and so now it's time to make good, time to get even.

You Democrats who know that your party is being destroyed by Barack Obama, you Democrats who know that your chances of ever holding power in Congress again are vanishing before your very eyes because of Obama, you Democrats, you may have problems with this country, but you don't want to see it destroyed.  If you have any desire that Mrs. Clinton someday take the Democrat Party back to where it was, remember those glory days of the nineties, the economic boom, we'd all like to return to those, wouldn't we?  Wink, wink.  The best thing that Democrats can do to make that happen is to not vote Tuesday.  Stay home, put your feet up on the table, watch a soap opera or two, watch Oprah, do whatever, listen to this program, but do not vote, do not show.  The bigger the Democrat defeat on Tuesday, the greater the likelihood Mrs. Clinton is the Democrat nominee in 2012.  It's just that simple.  Reverse Operation Chaos, once again in fairness, look at who it is looking out for the woman.  Look who it is hoping that a woman has a fair shot at things, me, El Rushbo and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.  It really isn't complicated. 

Be scared they are at it again...

And by that we mean Voter Fraud.  The Democrat Party is working overtime to maximize Voter Fraud in this election.  In 2008 it was Acorn doing it, this year it appears that the party itself is doing it.  Titanic 5-Star Hat Tip to Michelle Malkin for this:

Here we go again. Desperation plus the by-any-means-necessary credo plus a nationwide force of Alinsky avengers equals another recipe for voter fraud.

In Colorado, it’s Common Cause of Colorado, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund and the Service Employees International Union caught in an apparent scheme to foist some 6,000 shady voter registrations on the state:

A federal judge declined to force the secretary of state to reactivate approximately 6,000 new voters whose registrations were canceled under Colorado’s 20-day rule.
In a decision issued Monday, Senior U.S. District Judge John L. Kane denied a motion for a preliminary injunction that was requested by several labor and voting-rights groups.
When a new voter registers in Colorado, the secretary of state mails a nonforwardable notice of disposition that the voter’s registration has been received. If the notice comes back undeliverable in the mail, then clerks deem the voter’s registration inactive within 20 days.
Melody Mirbaba, an assistant attorney general, argued that the 20-day rule is designed to stop voter fraud and duplicate registrations.

In Arizona, it’s illegal alien amnesty-supporting, SEIU-tied Mi Familia Vota again and One Vote Arizona submitting massive, last-minute voter registrations. The race between rocket scientist Ruth McClung and open-borders radical Raul Grijalva is down to the wire. Maria Carvajal at Publius Pundit reports:

The Yuma Sun is reporting that two organizations — Mi Familia Vota and One Vote Arizona — submitted more than 3000 voter registrations in Yuma County, and more than 20,000 voters statewide. Even more, they have signed up 43,000 people statewide for the permanent early voter list.
What they didn’t tell you is that voter fraud on a massive scale could be taking place, ostensibly to help Raul Grijalva keep the congressional seat he holds by stealing the election.
Here’s what the article doesn’t tell you, by a source in the Yuma County Recorder’s Office:
* These 3000 voter registration forms were all dropped off at once by the one group on the deadline to turn in voter registration forms.
* Almost all of the registrations were for the Democratic Party, a statistical improbability at best.
* Today, these same 3000 newly registered voters — as a group — had papers dropped off at the Yuma Recorder’s office requesting to be signed up for the permanent early voters list… which means the ballots will be mailed early, with no accountability.
* The Yuma Recorder’s office is checking the voter registration forms and have found that already more than 65% of them are invalid due to the registrant not being a citizen, wrong/invalid address, false signature, etc.
Now, the question is: is voter fraud taking place in Yuma County… and is it taking place on an even bigger scale in Pima County?
So far, the partisan Democrat in charge of the Pima County Recorder’s Office, F. Ann Rodriguez, has been completely silent about any such activity, though certainly even just a few thousand votes could change the outcome of the race between rocket scientist Ruth McClung and boycotter Raul Grijalva.

In Washington state, it’s illegal alien amnesty-supporting OneAmerica Votes sending illegal alien canvassers out to drum up votes:

When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters’ doors, she’s not bashful about telling people she is in the country illegally.
She knows it’s a risk to advertise this fact to strangers — but it’s one worth taking in what she sees as a crucial election.
The 42-year-old is one of dozens of volunteers — many of them illegal immigrants — canvassing neighborhoods in the Seattle area trying to get naturalized citizens to cast a ballot for candidates like Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who is in a neck-and-neck race with Republican Dino Rossi.
Pramila Jayapal, head of OneAmerica Votes, says the campaign is about empowering immigrants who may not feel like they can contribute to a campaign because they can’t vote.
“Immigrants really do matter,” Jayapal said. “If we can’t vote ourselves, we’re gonna knock on doors or get family members to vote.”

In Florida, it’s suspected absentee ballot fraud — from within a city commissioner’s office:

• Read the rest of the story here. 

UPDATE

Today's follow up column on Voter Fraud is just as scary!

My column today builds on Monday’s voter fraud round-up and spotlights left-wing efforts to demonize citizen election watchdogs.
New developments since I filed the piece yesterday: Dingy Harry turns to election bribery. Guess who’s operating Las Vegas voting booths? Rhymes with S-E-I-U. Chicagoans are plagued by a botched vote-by-mail system. In Minnesota, charges are still rolling in from 2008 voter fraud cases. And, as I reported last night, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just undermined Arizona’s citizenship proof rules for voting — sabotaging efforts to ensure that only legal U.S. citizens vote in U.S. elections.
The NYTimes and NPR response? Move along, nothing to see here…
Must-read and share: J. Christian Adams compiles a voter fraud watch primer. Like I said the other day (to great consternation from the Left): We are all voter fraud police now.
And a must-download: American Majority Action’s voter fraud app. Use it!
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The Left’s voter fraud whitewash
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt. It’s the Democrats’ coping mechanism for midterm election voter fraud. Faced with multiple reports of early voting irregularities and election shenanigans across the country, left-wing groups are playing dumb, deaf and blind. Voter fraud? What voter fraud?
More cunningly, these organizations are seeking to marginalize complaints about election integrity by casting citizen watchdog efforts as racist “scare tactics.” Echoing President Obama’s message to the Democratic faithful on the campaign trail, they are accusing political opponents of suppressing the votes of minorities and the poor. On Tuesday, The New York Times quoted a liberal voting rights advocate, Wendy R. Weiser, wringing her hands over individual Americans taking clean elections seriously:
“Private efforts to police the polls create a real risk of vote suppression, regardless of their intent,” said Weiser, director of the Voting Rights and Elections Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. “People need to know that any form of discrimination, intimidation or challenge to voters without adequate basis is illegal or improper.”
Weiser also turned up in a very similar story minimizing voter fraud and voter registration fraud that was published Tuesday by government-sponsored National Public Radio. The NPR report asserted that “most election experts” believe that fears of voter fraud are “overblown.” No word on how many “experts” they surveyed (besides Weiser) to report such a conclusion, which flies in the face of dozens of felony voter fraud convictions across the country over the past two election cycles — and that’s just among ACORN-tied cases.
Overblown?

Read the rest of the story here.

Today October 25th is St Crispien's Day:

Inspiring:

Hat Tip to Carol's Blog

From Shakespeare's Henry V, 1598:

KING HENRY V:
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Stand up and fight - the top House races in the country:

In 2008 Barack Obama ran one of the most negative and decisive elections ever.  He famously gave both John McCain and Hillary Clinton the middle finger.  He constantly deride McCain for his disabilities.  He accepted foreign money.  Unfortunately, his Divide-and-Conquer tactics worked.  Some of his more famous quotes:

* Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
* Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!”
* Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
** Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
* Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“
* Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
* Obama to lib supporters: “It’s time to Fight for it.”

          *Obama told far left Latinos to go out there and “punish” your enemies. 
          *Obama to Republicans:  "They can come along but they gotta SIT IN THE BACK"


There is something you can do to fight back.  VOTE REPUBLICAN.  The Democratic majority has been a unmigated disaster.  As we've mentioned in previous posts they have increased the unemployment rate from 4.4% to nearly 10%.  They've increased the national debt by nearly $3 Trillion.  They have been far too partisan, and mean-spirited.  Below are some of the top races in the country and links to the Republican challenger's homepage.  And a huge Hat Tip to Redstate for them.
In the meantime, here again are the top 99 races in the country. The GOP only needs 39. 37 are already swinging their way. Bold picks are my personal favorites.
Give money. Volunteer. Pray.

Rank	2010 Incumbent	District	Nominee	Rating
1	Melancon	LA3	Jeff Landry	Safe R
2	Gordon	TN6	Dianne Black	Safe R
3	Snyder	AR2	Tim Griffin	Likely R
4	Ellsworth	IN8	Larry Bucshon	Likely R
5	Moore, D.	KS3	Kevin Yoder	Likely R
6	Edwards, C.	TX17	Bill Flores	Likely R
7	Kilroy	OH15	Steve Stivers	Likely R
8	Massa	NY29	Tom Reed	Likely R
9	Markey	CO4	Cory Gardner	Likely R
10	Halvorson	IL11	Adam Kinzinger	Likely R
11	Kosmas	FL24	Sandy Adams	Likely R
12	Tanner	TN8	Stephen Fincher	Likely R
13	Dahlkemper	PA3	Mike Kelly	Likely R
14	Driehaus	OH1	Steve Chabot	Lean R
15	Kratovil	MD1	Andy Harris	Lean R
16	Kirkpatrick	AZ1	Paul Gosar	Lean R
17	Perriello	VA5	Robert Hurt	Lean R
18	Nye	VA2	Scott Rigell	Lean R
19	Stupak	MI1	Dan Benishek	Lean R
20	Shea-Porter	NH1	Frank Guinta	Lean R
21	Baird	WA3	Jaime Herrera	Lean R
22	Hodes	NH2	Charlie Bass	Lean R
23	Teague	NM2	Steve Pearce	Lean R
24	Grayson	FL8	Dan Webster	Lean R
25	Kagen	WI8	Reid Ribble	Lean R
26	Kanjorski	PA11	Lou Barletta	Lean R
27	Berry	AR1	Rick Crawford	Lean R
28	Pomeroy	ND1	Richard Berg	Lean R
29	Obey	WI7	Sean Duffy	Lean R
30	Sestak	PA7	Pat Meehan	Lean R
31	Childers	MS1	Alan Nunnelee	Lean R
32	Murphy, P.	PA8	Michael Fitzpatrick	Lean R
33	Kissell	NC8	Harold Johnson	Lean R
34	Titus	NV3	Joe Heck	Toss Up/Tilt R
35	Boyd	FL2	Steve Southerland	Toss Up/Tilt R
36	Boccieri	OH16	Jim Renacci	Toss Up/Tilt R
37	Space	OH18	Bob Gibbs	Toss Up/Tilt R
38	Mollohan	WV1	David McKinley	Toss Up
39	Schauer	MI7	Tim Walberg	Toss Up
40	Herseth Sandlin	SD1	Kristi Noem	Toss Up
41	Marshall	GA8	Austin Scott	Toss Up
42	Spratt	SC5	Mick Mulvaney	Toss Up
43	Mitchell	AZ5	David Schweikert	Toss Up
44	Arcuri	NY24	Richard Hanna	Toss Up
45	Hill	IN9	Todd Young	Toss Up
46	Carney	PA10	Thomas Marino	Toss Up
47	Foster	IL14	Randy Hultgren	Toss Up
48	Hall, J.	NY19	Nan Hayworth	Toss Up
49	Bright	AL2	Martha Roby	Toss Up
50	McNerney	CA11	David Harmer	Toss Up
51	Giffords	AZ8	Jesse Kelly	Toss Up
52	Minnick	ID1	Raul Labrador	Toss Up
53	Salazar	CO3	Scott Tipton	Toss Up
54	Schrader	OR5	Scott Bruun	Toss Up
55	Adler	NJ3	Jon Runyan	Toss Up
56	Klein	FL22	Allen West	Toss Up
57	Hare	IL17	Bobby Schilling	Toss Up
58	Rodriguez, C.	TX23	Quico Canseco	Toss Up
59	Davis, L.	TN4	Scott DesJarlais	Toss Up
60	Chandler	KY6	Andy Barr	Toss Up
61	Boswell	IA3	Brad Zaun	Toss Up
62	Owens	NY23	Matt Doheny	Toss Up
63	Bishop, S.	GA2	Mike Keown	Toss Up
64	Delahunt	MA10	Jeff Perry	Toss Up
65	Donnelly	IN2	Jackie Walorski Swihart	Toss Up
66	Skelton	MO4	Vicky Hartzler	Toss Up
67	Murphy	NY20	Chris Gibson	Toss Up
68	Wilson, C.	OH6	Bill Johnson	Toss Up
69	Taylor	MS4	Steven Palazzo	Toss Up
70	Grijalva	AZ7	Ruth McClung	Toss Up
71	Bishop	NY1	Randy Altschuler	Toss Up/Tilt D
72	Heinrich	NM1	Johnathan L. Barela	Lean D
73	Critz	PA12	Tim Burns	Lean D
74	Boucher	VA9	Morgan Griffith	Lean D
75	Larsen	WA2	John Koster	Lean D
76	Peters	MI9	Rocky Raczkowski	Lean D
77	Connolly	VA11	Keith Fimian	Lean D
78	Maffei	NY25	Ann Marie Buerkle	Lean D
79	Sanchez, Loretta	CA47	Van Tran	Lean D
80	Kind	WI3	Dan Kapanke	Lean D
81	McMahon	NY13	Michael Grimm	Lean D
82	Altmire	PA4	Keith Rothfus	Lean D
83	Walz	MN1	Randy Demmer	Lean D
84	Murphy, C.	CT5	Sam Caliguri	Lean D
85	Sutton	OH13	Tom Ganley	Lean D
86	Rahall	WV3	Elliot “Spike” Maynard	Lean D
87	Himes	CT4	Dan Debicella	Lean D
88	Shuler	NC11	Jeff Miller	Lean D
89	McIntyre	NC7	Ilario Pantano	Lean D
90	Perlmutter	CO7	Ryan Frazier	Lean D
91	Pallone Jr.	NJ6	Anna Little	Lean D
92	Kennedy, P.	RI1	John Loughlin	Lean D
93	Etheridge	NC2	Renee Ellmers	Lean D
94	Costa	CA20	Andy Vidak	Lean D
95	Loebsack	IA2	Marianette Miller-Meeks	Lean D
96	Oberstar	MN8	Chip Cravaack	Lean D
97	Braley	IA1	Benjamin Lange	Lean D
98	Hinchey	NY22	George Phillips	Lean D
99	Carnahan	MO3	Ed Martin	Lean D

And some more Upset Specials:

Michael Faulkner is running for Congress against Charlie Rangel

Dr. Rob Steele is running for Congress against John Dingell

Van Tran is running for Congress in CA-47 against Loretta Sancez