Tonight, the two largest bloggers at Townhall.com go after audience share in Los Angeles head to head. Here's why you should be checking out the FM talker in LA tonight...

Police in the "The Python ate The Kid" story from Florida are considering pressing charges. But wait there's more to this story than anyone knew yesterday...

Should girls get paid NOT to get pregnant? I say both YES and NO... listen in, I'll explain why and how...

A prominent columnist for the Los Angeles Times says that men are more empathetic with Mark Sanford than outraged. Oh yeah, the columnist is a woman...

And finally... Debbie Rowe--the reportedly non-mother mother for Michael Jackson's non-children is reportedly desiring custody of her former womb-mates... Yet should she get them?

This is just a sneak peek on the incredible fun we will have tonight on 99.5 KKLA-FM in Los Angeles so join us...

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UPDATE: The New York Times, a while ago, did so as well, here's what they said about us then...

I warned you during the campaign. Senator McCain tried his best to explain that Obama was lying. Pundits said he was lying. Talk radio said he was lying. Prominent columnists some from even center and left in American politics explained that it didn't add up.

Basically the most repeated lie that Obama reiterated over and over and over again was all bupkiss--start to finish.

He pledged, as documented by some quarter of a million news articles on Google, and in video vaults of every network in America, that he would not raise taxes on anyone that made under $200,000.

Now his press secretary Gibbs, adviser Axlerod, and hosts of other administration will have to stammer and stutter their way through this question as Gibbs did today.


He lied, we knew he was lying--those of us with our eyes open--and now every person that believed him will be stuck paying for the ultra-left, spend till the government collapses, policies that the nation is only six-months in to.

Listen to this clip... the press corp actually LAUGHS at Gibbs--who knows as well as he does that the sun is coming up tomorrow--that he will face, much, much more of this for such a specific lie on a campaign promise.

And for the first time I'm beginning to actually believe Messiah WILL be out of office if normal election cycles ensue given a lie of this magnitude. It certainly tossed George H.W. Bush after only one term.

And given the way Obama took a bad economy and has flushed it further down the sewer, this will only add to the pain the average American family (making under $200,000) will feel the sting of.

Just for kicks check out the lie in action from the campaign trail, and NOT JUST the one related to the $250,000 earners. Check out the outrageous claims he makes about the Reagan tax rates, and the amount of tax relief he's going to make a reality. Just astounding:


Obama's officially in major trouble for term two... and that ain't a bad thing!

Here's Ed's description:

Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kevin McCullough joins us again to discuss the intersection of faith and politics. Kevin and I will talk about today’s decision on Ricci and how that will impact the confirmation process of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Did Obama “interfere” in Honduras like he swore not to do in Iran? Kevin wants Mark Sanford to resign as governor; I’ll debate him on that point, and we’ll also discuss Eliot Spitzer’s take on the situation. Plus, should animals have “rights” and standing to bring lawsuits?

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Elliot Spitzer should resist the temptation to speak when the urge strikes him in the near future. He continually proves to be a bigger, more embarrassing version of himself nearly every time he does.

Most recently, and evidently tiring of the comparison to South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, Spitzer is essentially claiming he's better than the Governor, because he didn't "fall in love" with the two bit hookers he partied with...

From the NY Post Page Six:

THERE'S a huge difference between what South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford Eliot Spitzer did. "I didn't fall in love with any of them," Spitzer was overheard telling LMDC executive director Avi Schick the other day at Solo in the Sony Building on Madi son, where they had the $24 prix-fixe lunch. And Spitzer didn't use any taxpayer money on his trysts, while Sanford is reimbursing the state about $12,000 for travel expenses to Buenos Aires. Schick had Vietnamese beef spring rolls and a grilled chicken salad.

Further illustrating why left and center left people have nearly no ability to ever discern actual moral shortfalls, and seemingly can only find visceral outrage at hypocrisy, Spitzer is a voice who's time came, went, and really went, a while ago. His desire for personal relevance aside the moron would be better to keep himself to himself.

Blink hard so as to not miss if you're in or near somewhere I'm headed to this week.

On Monday I speak 4 times at Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia at "The Summit." I will be dealing with the pertinent issues of what Obama's tax policy is doing to wreck the American economy... (on purpose), why the President and other prominent liberals are so dedicated to wrecking the institution of marriage, and both why & how President Obama is losing our fight against the Jihadists that are seeking our destruction... many from our own soil. We will also have a "just chill" Q & A with the students in the early evening.

Also on Monday, I will be checking in with Ed Morrissey per normal on HotAir.com, only this time "LIVE" from Virginia instead of my normal home studio in New York.

On Wednesday night at 6:30pm Baldwin and I are both slated to appear at the Times Square Tea Party. More details at TeaParty365.org. KT McFarland, David Webb, and others will be joining New Yorkers to send the message clear to the city, state, and federal authorities... NO MORE TAXES. LIVE in Times Square... you know... where the ball drops... though don't be on the lookout for Dick Clark.

Come Thursday morning I'm slated to catch up with Harris Faulkner at Fox News. 9am EST.

UPDATE: I also forgot that I will be filling in for Frank Pastore on 99.5 KKLA in Los Angeles Thursday, Friday and Monday... (Man those cross-continent flights are going to get old quick.)

And on Saturday I will leave NYC early, early, early on the holiday to make it to DC in time to rev up the Tea Party attendees at Upper Senate Park. I'm slated to be on in the 11am EST hour. Please come march with us for liberty, freedom, and the right to not be taxes to death.

I know the Los Angeles Times has been hurt with it's incredibly diminishing audience size, but with writers like Mark Z. Barabak chapter 11 just can't come quickly enough...

The headline says it all...

"I'm a liberal journalist with a bias against evangelical voters and their phony cultural purity. I want to pounce on anyone I can see as hypocritical (as opposed to actually immoral). And just to 'prove my point' here's some quotes from some left of center 'Christian' voices just for good measure."

Hey Captain Original... I'm filling on an L.A. Radio station in afternoon drive this coming Thursday and Friday. Why don't we have an actual substantive discussion about adultery, and how the two parties respond to it when it's leadership is caught transgressing?

That way instead of picking and choosing you can hear from a nationally recognized evangelical who is not cloudy on the issue of morality, clarity about faith, the mandate that Christians have to the political arena, and what that should look like.

Now THAT would be worth reading...

At the furthest extension, of the furthest hallway, at easily what could be compared to the green mile, in the "E" terminal at roughly 12:59pm, the following conversation actually took place between two people:

"Hey ya..." (Sweaty USAirways guy says walking up to counter attendant at a never before heard of "raw foods" "fast food" counter...)

"Ya huh..." (Says woman of considerable girth, ironically working behind counter featuring 6 specialty smoothies with Taurine to help accelerate the loss of human girth...)

"Ya... so de wop toh said da hep tey cause pays is gonna rain..." (Sweaty guy)

"Ya huh..." (Girth gal)

"Did yo says it becuz it was on da wap so?" (Sweaty guy)

"Dat wad de hep de said, cuz I saws it on de dumbest person in America show... (Girth Gal)

"Ya huh..." (Sweaty guy)

This moment of higher learning brought to you buy our nation's teachers unions...

Traditionally the difference in conservatives and liberals when it comes to moral compromise is that conservatives force the errant ones to do the right thing, liberals don't know what the right thing would even look like.

In Governor Mark Sanford's case, the conservatives of South Carolina must speak more pronouncedly to the current top man in their state.

His judgment is badly impaired and as such the good people who voted for him deserve the honor of him stepping aside.

He's saying for now... he won't.

"Resigning would be the easiest thing to do," he said.

Sanford spoke outside his coastal home on Sullivans Island. Wearing frayed khaki shorts and a t-shirt, he talked about "walking into the legislative term with a humble spirit."

"I have to go through that voyage over the next 18 months," he said, alluding to the number of months he has left in his second term. He is barred by state law from seeking a third and, at one time, had been rumored as a potential presidential contender in 2012.

Now, Sanford says he wants to repair the frayed trust in him and continue to serve the people of South Carolina.

The governor admitted last week to a yearlong affair with a woman in Argentina. He and his wife say they will try to reconcile. Some lawmakers are calling for him to resign because he used public money to see the mistress during one trip, and because he was out of touch with his staff during his recent weeklong tryst.

Sanford repeatedly said he did not use public money for the trip, so it was not clear why he has agreed to reimburse the state for some of the more-than $8,000 in taxpayer money spent on the Argentina leg of an economic development trip to South America last year.

When it comes to his critics — most notably state Sen. Jake Knotts, R-West Columbia — and their calls for him to step down, Sanford said he understands where they are coming from.

"I don't begrudge the Jakie Knottses of the world," Sanford said. "He's going to do what he's going to do. I gotta do my part."

As far as his wife, Sanford said they are working on their relationship.

"If there wasn't healing going on, I wouldn't be here," he said, pointing to his beach house, where he had dinner with his family Saturday night and where he took a run at sunrise on the sand with one of his sons.

The problems in not stepping aside are multiple-fold for his party, his conscience, and his family. Sanford sounds as though he's buying into this idea that he can keep his private life separate from his public life.

No state-wide elected executive really has the ability to do that and Presidents, the office he was hoping to be elected to, can not.

The whole theory of private life/public life not being able to conflict with each other is an absolute canard to being with.

When one makes a vow before God and man to love, cherish, and remain faithful to their spouse, they have sworn that oath to the highest possible authority and allegiance possible.

Putting your hand on the Bible and swearing an oath to your country is secondary to the divine.

The point being that if a man will deceive, cheat, lie to, sneak around on, and ultimately betray the one they are committed to, what is there to make anyone believe they couldn't be compromised similarly as it regards their commitment to a lesser oath.

At the end of the day there is an element that is unique with adultery that has always signaled a red flag to the intelligence and national security forces in our nation--the possibility of blackmail.

So does this mean that man has to be perfect to be president? No.

But it does mean that for the time he seeks to hold that leadership position he needs to keep it zipped and remain focused on his word, his integrity, and ultimately the oath he has sworn.

There are many things I disagree with the current President about... most of them quite vociferously. But one thing I will give him credit for, wooing, loving, and remaining faithful to his wife Michelle is honorable, doing it for the good of the nation, as well as for the good of his daughters is an example that many men--especially in America's inner cities--need to have modeled for them much more often.

But long story short Gov. Sanford needs to drop the pretense, do the hard work, go away into private life for an extended period of time and HEAL his family. Once that has happened, if they have healed and if his wife gives her blessing--and ONLY after those things--he could then re-enter public life as a remade man.

But if he never goes away, consider me skeptical of his regeneration. And consider me highly suspicious of a pressure to leverage forgiveness from his wife, before she is ready, or has any legitimate reason, to offer it.

Friendly fire is a hard thing to swallow particularly when the odds are stacked so definitively against you in pure numbers. And tonight eight Republican congressman for absolutely no good reason, voted in favor of the worst tax increase in American history, as well as the biggest regulatory penalties to ever hit the private business sector of the economy and thusly the most impacting legislation towards job reduction, recession inducing, personally bankrupting, not to mention wasteful to have ever been put forward for the vote.

That vote ended up being 219-212 in favor of passing this horrendous wreck of a bill that the congress had not even read.

Mark Kirk of Illinois, and Chris Smith of New Jersey were two of the eight.

What is particularly damning is that they evidently do not have sound reasons for doing so.

I've interviewed both men. Both have stood for traditional smaller government conservatism in the past.

Now Kirk is postulating a run for the United States Senate seat vacated by Obama's election to Presidency.

Kiss it goodbye Kirk. You're hopes for higher office right now are in the proverbial toilet and not looking good.

Disappointing... is vastly understating the feelings towards these eight horrific cowards.

This past Tuesday I had the chance to see a private screening of the film "The Stoning of Soraya M" with a stellar cast and an amazing look and feel.

It is one of the most memorable films I've ever viewed.

Though certainly no "big bucks" budget the foundation of the look, movement, pacing, and story-telling has you gripped from moment one.

It is without question one of the most important films to be released this year. It deserves heavy consideration in multiple award categories.

The biggest of which is the consideration for common sense in our world today. As you witness today's headlines where the Ayatollahs in Iran are now threatening great physical harm to their own people for not following their own Satanic will... and the Ayatollahs are entirely Satan's messengers do not be confused... this film demonstrates the corruption, the sinister evil, and the unrelenting environment and oppression that the Iranian people have been living under since the late 1970's.

Soraya--the lead character is wrongfully maligned. Witnesses are coerced. Trials become a mockery. And an innocent woman--as the title implies--is brutally executed, all for the whim of an abusive husband.

It is a tragedy in the epic Greek literary sense brought to full blown life on the screen before you. Yet it is also a microcosm of what the Ayatollahs in Iran, this minute are doing to their own people, even shooting innocent women in the street.

It is impossible not to be moved by this excellent, superb piece of film-making. It is further impossible not to see the parallels between the corrupt incest between the Satanic counsel of Islam and the weak-kneed leaders they control.

This film made my heart break, not just for the injustice done to one innocent woman--which was tragedy enough, but what is being done to an entire nation of innocent people through the same ruthless grip of wicked men, who perform perversion in how they so tightly control the right to life and death of the people of Iran.

You need to go see "The Stoning of Soraya M" this weekend. It will challenge you to think long and deep about the important elements in our lives, and prayerfully I hope it causes you to be more humbly grateful for the air you breathe of free air this very minute.

It will be a film that haunts you, and in this case that awareness will never be a bad thing!