Donald Trump told Greta Van Susteren tonight that he believes Barack Obama will go to war with Iran because he thinks it’s good politics.
Sad but true.

Candidates use one word to describe themselves at CNN GOP Debate.
Newt says he’s cheerful.

Obviously, the audience was not impressed with Rick Santorum’s defense of earmarks.
In this day and age defending earmarks is bad politics.

Tonight’s CNN debate is the last time the GOP candidates will share a stage before primaries in Arizona and Michigan

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The candidates are sitting down tonight.
Mitt Romney has a great introduction – and quotes George Costanza.

Mitt doesn’t hesitate to attack Rick Santorum on his spending record.

Newt describes trillions in tax revenue if US lands were opened up for drilling and exploration.

Ron Paul: I called Rick Santorum a fake because he’s a fake.

Ron Paul: Conservatives are pleased with spending money overseas (They’re warmongers.)

SILENCE – NO APPLAUSE after Santorum defends earmarks. Ouch.

Earmark discussion brings out boos from the crowd.

AriFleischer: Newt is impressive tonight and he keeps making thoughtful points.

It sounds like Mitt stacked the audience again tonight.

Newt and Mitt and Rick have a great grasp on Syrian predicament… Ron Paul? Not so much.

It figures. After all of the protesting and rapes and vandalism and murders and arrests we now find out that income inequality is actually plummeting in the United States. It looks like the #occupy movement was all based on misinformation. Who could have guessed it?

Your whole movement was based on a lie.

But great job eating that pepper spray, kids.

Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters reported:

Since the first Occupy Wall Street protest, you haven’t been able to swing a dead cat in this country without hitting an Obama-loving media member carping and whining about income inequality.

Yet according to this chart created by the nation’s largest federation of trade unions the AFL-CIO, the difference between average CEO and average worker pay has been plummeting since the year 2000:

As you can see, the real explosion in income inequality happened in the ’90s as stock prices went through the rough during the tech bubble.

Yet from 2000 through 2009, this disparity actually declined by 50 percent.

To assist in furthering the point, NewsBusters member Gary Hall has added to the AFL-CIO’s chart:

Susan Poff and Robert Kamin won’t be enjoying the #occupy protests this year.
Their #occupier son strangled them after an argument about the #occupy movement and stuffed their bodies in the family car.

Highly respected: Susan Poff, left, and her husband Robert Kamin were allegedly murdered by their adopted 15-year-old son Moses at their home in Oakland, California. (Daily Mail)

The radical left #occupiers have put together quite a record of accomplishment:

- 9 deaths, 5 found dead in tents, One found dead after 2 days
- 2 murders (Not counting the protester who strangled his parents and stuffed them in a car)
- Tens of millions of dollars in damages, layoffs, vandalism, law breaking
- Multiple Rapes
- Thousands of arrests
- Public masturbation
- Feces
- Child molestation and baby abuse

But facts don’t matter. The liberal media is giddy for an #occupy resurgence.
Elizabeth Flock at the Washington Post reported:

Occupy is back? Movement gets a TV show, issues concrete demands, begins new protests

Over the last several months, much of the media has reported that the movement had run its course. “Today it looks like a lot of Occupiers have decided that two months is enough,” wrote CNBC from New York in November “Occupy movement is dead as a skunk,” conservative blog the Gateway Pundit cheered the following month. “Occupy protesters lose steam,”Christian Broadcasting Network wrote in January, as the last protesters in Washington’s McPherson Square were evicted. And last week, a question was posed on Yahoo Answers: “When did Occupy Wall Street lose its credibility?” That question has now been deleted.

But as the first signs of spring appear, Occupy Wall Street seems to be alive and kicking once again. Or at least starting to get there. Here’s a short of what’s been “occupied,” in the last two weeks alone.

It’s an Obama world.

In November 2011 Loretta Harper was awarded All Star of the Week for her dedication to the Obama Campaign.

Today Loretta Harper of Las Vegas was named a national co-chair of the Obama 2012 Campaign.

The Obama campaign appreciates her hard work.
Part of that work includes giving high school students credits for volunteering for democrat campaigns.
Write on Nevada reported:

We’ve had public schools teaching kids to literally sing President Obama’s praises, so why not take a more direct route and put those kids to work?

Loretta Harper of Las Vegas is a newly named national co-chair of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. …

Harper, 58, is a counselor at Desert Pines High School. She’s also a member of the Board of Directors of the Nevada State Educators Association.

During the 2008 Obama campaign, when he won Nevada on his way to the presidency, Harper said she got more than 100 students extra credit when they volunteered to help elect the Democrat. (Emphasis added.)

No word on if Harper, who makes $74,000 a year plus benefits, plans to expand outreach “efforts” like this nationwide now that she’s a co-chair of Obama’s re-election campaign, but if you’ve got ”free labor” available, why not take advantage?

As Write on Nevada clarified in their post, Harper gave students credit not extra credit for volunteering for democrats.

Just yesterday Dana Perino was pointing out how the media blamed Bush for gas prices and now that gas prices are rising again the same media is giving Obama a pass.

She wasn’t just spouting off. It’s true…
The corrupt media hyped rising gas prices four times more for Bush than Obama.
The Business and Media Institute reported:

Rising gas prices used to be big news, but not so these days. Although the national average climbed to $3.56 on Feb. 20, setting a February record after going up nearly a month straight, there was far less coverage than in 2008. Broadcast networks repeatedly covered the rise under the Bush presidency. Gas prices bounced around eventually reaching $3.56-a-gallon on April 24, 2008.

The Business and Media Institute analyzed broadcast network news references to gas or fuel prices between Jan. 20 and Feb. 20, 2012 and from March 24 and April 24, 2008. BMI found that in the 2008 period there were more than 4 times as many gas prices stories, news briefs or news headlines on ABC, CBS and NBC as there were in 2012 (97 to 21).

Coverage during the time periods differed not only in quantity, but in tone as well. During Bush’s tenure, gas prices were a huge economic threat and cause of suffering. The networks also used the high gas prices to attack the administration. In 2012, the networks aired mostly matter-of-fact stories on the rising gas prices, and worried primarily that they would hinder the economic recovery, not that they are making people suffer.

Dismal broadcast network reports about “skyrocketing” gas prices filled the newscasts in 2008. There were reports about businesses closing, airlines struggling and truckers protesting — all because of the high prices. One ABC report said families were facing the “tough choice” between food or fuel. Others said that “wallets were running on empty” and consumers were told over and over that there was no relief in sight. But by the end of November 2008, prices had collapsed to $1.82.

More here.

On Monday a huge crowd turned out to support the county commissioners in prayer and song.

The Rowan North Carolina county commissioners defied a court ruling and vowed to continue Christian prayer at their meetings.
The New Republic reported, via Free Republic:

Commissioners in one North Carolina county plan to continue offering Christian prayers at public meetings, regardless of a letter from a civil liberties group citing a recent Supreme Court action upholding a federal court’s ban on the practice.

The Salisbury Post reported (http://bit.ly/xtafV5 ) that a huge crowd turned out for the Rowan County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday night to offer their support to the elected officials, who say they’ll defy a decision by the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals striking down so-called sectarian prayer, or prayer that’s explicitly linked to a particular religion, such as Christianity.

“If they tell county commissioners they can’t pray, soon they’re going to be in my church telling me I can’t pray in the name of Jesus,” said Terry Brown, a county resident who came to the meeting.

The appeals court’s ruling was in the case of the Forsyth County Board of Commissions. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by that board, letting the Fourth Circuit’s ruling stand. Since then, the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has contacted 25 and 30 government bodies in North Carolina in response to complaints from residents about sectarian prayer.

So far, Rowan County commissioners are the only local officials who say they’ll disregard the court’s decision, said Katy Parker, legal director of the state ACLU. The group has asked for a response from the commissioners to its concerns by March 5. Salisbury is located about 40 miles northeast of Charlotte.

Afghan demonstrators parade an effigy representing US President Barack Obama as they shout anti-US slogans during a protest against Koran desecration in Jalalabad on Wednesday. At least five Afghans were shot dead and dozens wounded in clashes between police and protesters, officials said, after reports that the Koran was burned at a US-run military base. (AFP /Noorullah Shirzada)

Eight Afghan protesters were killed in clashes with police over the burning of Korans at Bagram airbase. Protesters in Jalalabad torched an effigy of “black dog” Barack Obama.
The Taipei Times reported:

At least eight Afghans were shot dead and dozens wounded yesterday in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting over the burning of the Koran at a US-run military base, officials said.

In Kabul and in provinces to the east, north and south of the capital, furious Afghans took to the streets screaming “Death to America,” throwing rocks, and setting fire to shops and vehicles as gunshots rang out. In Jalalabad, students set fire to an effigy of US President Barack Obama and the US embassy in Kabul went into lockdown.

In Kabul, hundreds of people poured onto the Jalalabad road, throwing stones at US military base Camp Phoenix, where troops guarding the base fired into the air and black smoke rose from burning tires, a photographer said.

Afghanistan is a deeply religious country where slights against Islam have frequently provoked protests.

The US commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, apologized and ordered an investigation into the incident, admitting that religious materials, including Korans, “were inadvertently taken to an incineration facility.”