I never thought I would be saying this, but I feel like I need to take a hiatus from blogging. For the last two years I have been blogging everyday at a pace that I am now just burned. I love blogging about politics and everything that goes with it because I am a political junkie and I do plan to run one day for office. I could never acknowledge when would be the right time for me to stop blogging and if there ever really was a right time. The blogging has been such a joy for me and I have got to interact with many wonderful people. Over the last two years when I started the blog back in May of 2008, I didn't know who I really was and now after two years I think I do know myself a lot better through my blogging.

I only started to become a conservative in the latter part of 2007 and through the two years that I have been blogging in June of 2010, I can proudly say I am a Hannity/Levin conservative. I say that I am a Hannity/Levin conservative because through Sean Hannity and Mark Levin I developed my thinking and they have had a big influence on my life and with blogging and listening to them I have become the conservative that I am today.

This decision does not come easy for me as I have been deliberating on what to do for a long time. I had continued to blog until today because I could not stop and there are many reasons why and they actually still stand true still to this today. I started because I love politics and wanted to discuss it on a conservative website and inform readers of the political events that are happening all across this great and wonderful country. Once I recognized who Obama was and is to this today, I could not stop blogging. I needed to cover and expose Obama and his cronies and the rest of the Democrat Party for who they were; nothing but people hell-bent on destroying the United States of America.

I still don't know if I'm making the right decision, but maybe I will return, maybe I will not, I just do not know at this time. The only thing keeping me going is the fact that I'm afraid that if I don't expose the Democrats and Obama many people might know the information that is important to know. I'm not trying to sound arrogant, but from the plethora of information that I link to on this blog, many other blogs do not have that information. It pains me to stop and cease to provide my wonderful readers of great information, but, I have to do what is important and what is important right is for me to take a little break and I might come back or occasionally post here and there, but maybe not. I believe I will either come back full-time or nothing at all.

Blogging on Townhall has been a wonderful journey and learning experience for me and I hope you all have enjoyed it too as much as I did. We conservatives will be back whether it is this year or next, I believe that will be back, but we must never give up and continue fighting because this country is exceptional and not how our president thinks of American exceptionalism. If we do not continue fighting for our founding principles of this country; this country will cease to exist and we cannot let that happen. This country is worth fighting for and I will not stop fighting for it as should none of you.

I do have suggestions before I part and it is some suggestions of where I get all my information because I do not want all of my readers to be handicapped by not arming themselves with all the important information to know.

For Political News/Other News:
The Hill
Politico
CQ Politics
Roll Call
Drudge
National Journal
CNS News
CBS News Hotsheet
Jake Tapper Blog
Breitbart
Real Clear Politics
Senatus
Washington Times
Breitbart
Bloomberg
The Daily Caller

For Conservative/Libertarian Information:
American Enterprise Institute
Heritage Foundation
National Review Online
Weekly Standard
Washington Examiner
American Thinker
American Spectator
WSJ Op-Ed Page
Big Hollywood
Big Journalism
Big Government
Hoover Institute
Claremont
City Journal
Manhattan Institute
Newsbusters
Pajamas Media
Human Events
National Affairs
Cato
Reason


Blogs that I Follow that I feel are Wonderful:
The Corner (National Review Online)
Hot Air
Gateway Pundit
HotAirPundit
Patterico
Legal Insurrection
Volokh Conspiracy
Powerline
Jammie Wearing Fool
The American Blog (AEI)
The Right Scoop


Polling Organizations and Analysts that are to my Experience Most Accurate:
Charlie Cook
Pollster
Stuart Rothenberg
Larry Sabato
Rasmussen
Gallup
Public Policy Polling
Pew

Sites on the Fight Against Terrorism:
Long War Journal
Defend Democracy
Critical Threats
Understanding War
Steve Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism
Counterterrorism blog
Jihad Watch

Writers/Columnists worth Reading:
Byron York
Andrew C. McCarthy
Thomas Sowell
Michelle Malkin
Jonah Goldberg
Michael Barone
Mark Steyn
John Bolton
Marc Thiessen
Charles Krauthammer
Cal Thomas
Thomas Joscelyn
Bill Roggio
Clifford D. May
Ann Coulter
John Stossel
Walter Williams
Mona Charen
David Limbaugh
Randall Hoven
Robert Samuelson
Jay Cost
Jim Geraghty
John Hawkins
Victor D. Hanson


Thank you once again for reading my blog and all the comments and discussions that we have had on my blog and I hope we meet again in the future. Keep up the fight and never give up.

Obama up in 2012 contests

Barack Obama leads all of his potential Republican opponents in hypothetical 2012 match ups, and it's becoming increasingly clear from this monthly poll that there are two tiers of GOP candidates when it comes to electability.

Polling close to Obama are Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. The President leads Huckabee 46-44 and Romney 45-42. They both do a good job of consolidating the GOP vote and holding a solid advantage with independents.

Doing less well are Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, and Ron Paul. Obama has a 47-39 advantage over Gingrich, a 50-41 against Palin, and 46-36 edge matched against Paul.

One thing that's very interesting about these numbers is that Ron Paul is the most popular out of the whole group with independents. They see him favorably by a 35/25 margin. The only other White House hopeful on positive ground with them is Romney at a +2 spread and they're very negative on the rest: -5 for Huckabee, -16 for Gingrich and Palin, and -17 for Obama. All five of the possible GOP contenders lead Obama with independents, but Paul does so by the widest margin at 46-28.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/06/obama-up-in-2012-contests.html

Via Ben Smith:

Abbas meets the Jews

American Jewish leaders received broad reassurances from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas but sparred with him on details at an unusual meeting Wednesday night in Washington.

Abbas dined Wednesday with about 30 national Jewish leaders at an event hosted by the Center for Middle East Peace, with guests ranging from former Bush aide Elliott Abrams and two top officials of AIPAC to the head of the left-leaning J Street. Former National Security Advisers Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley also attended.

Abbas reassured the leaders that he — unlike Hamas — recognizes Israel's right to most of its territory.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0610/Abbas_meets_the_Jews.html?showall

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Via Daniel Foster:

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has called for a U.S. Attorney investigation into the mysterious candidacy of Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene because he thinks the mischief goes far beyond one wacky race. Clyburn (D-SC), Congress' highest ranking African American, told TPM in an interview today he believes at least two other Democratic candidates on Tuesday's primary ballot were planted by people with deep pockets and nefarious motives.

"The party's choice in the 1st Congressional district lost. The party's choice for U.S. Senate lost. Sounds like a pattern to me," Clyburn told TPM. He said Greene was one of three Democratic candidates in three separate races whom the state party didn't back or even recognize. All three candidates are African American.

One is Gregory Brown, who ran unsuccessfully against Clyburn in the 6th Congressional district. Another is Ben Frasier, who prevailed against state party-favored candidate Robert Burton in the 1st district. Greene, Brown and Frasier have something else in common -- they haven't filed any campaign finance reports with the Federal Elections Commission.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/clyburn_alvin_greene_not_only_suspicious_candidate.php

GOP Unveils 'Extender' Alternative

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Senate Republicans today introduced a 210-page alternative to the Democratic "extender" package that cuts the deficit by $55 billion over a decade, slashes spending by $113 billion, prevents Medicare physician-payment cuts for two-and-a-half years, and includes medical malpractice reforms. It includes all of the tax-break renewals in the Democratic proposal and would extend unemployment benefits through November. But it drops all of the tax increases in the Democrats' bill, the Build America Bonds program extension, and the $24 billion for state Medicaid funding. A vote could occur early next week, GOP aides said.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/co_20100610_2684.php

Economic Worries Are Central in Dutch Vote

By STEPHEN CASTLE and STEVEN ERLANGER

Published: June 9, 2010

THE HAGUE — In the first election in a euro-zone country since the European economic crisis, Dutch voters punished the incumbent party in parliamentary elections on Wednesday while seeming to split between opposite poles of the political spectrum.

With no party coming close to winning a majority in the 150-seat Parliament, the result is likely to mean a long and difficult negotiation over a new governing coalition that could contain three or four parties.

The center-right Dutch Liberal Party had been expected to win the election after promising severe cuts in government spending. But it appeared to be tied with the center-left Labor Party, according to a final exit poll.

The anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim Freedom Party of Geert Wilders did very well and appeared to come in third, just ahead of the Christian Democrats, who led the last four governments.

While Labor made a late surge behind the former mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, the general mood of the voters was toward economic austerity and nationalism, providing major gains for the Liberals and the Freedom Party.

The strong showing of the populist Mr. Wilders, who combines far-right nationalism with leftist economic ideas, may lead to his party’s being asked to join a governing coalition for the first time. The party more than doubled its seats, winning an estimated 23 seats, up from 9 in 2006. He called the result “magnificent.”

Mr. Wilders, 46, says that Islam is the biggest threat facing his country. He faces criminal prosecution, accused of inciting hatred after he equated radical Islam with Nazism in a film and called for pages to be ripped out of the Koran. He also favors a ban on the Koran, on new mosques and on the wearing of full facial veils by Muslim women.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10dutch.html?src=mv

Army Fires Top Two Administrators Over Mismanagement of Arlington Cemetery

Published June 10, 2010

| FOXNews.com

Army Secretary John McHugh has fired the top two officials overseeing Arlington National Cemetery over allegations of mismanagement, including burying a service member's body on top of another, Fox News has confirmed.

McHugh will announce Thursday that he is replacing Arlington National's superintendent, John Metzler, and his deputy, Thurman Higgenbotham, who had reportedly illegally hacked into the computer files of a former Arlington employee.

In November, McHugh ordered an investigation into the allegations.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/10/army-fires-administrators-mismanagement-arlington-cemetery/

Via Ed Morrissey:

Via Ed Morrissey:

Expert: New Iran Sanctions Won't Work

Posted by Mark Knoller

Even as the White House trumpets the U.N. vote imposing the toughest sanctions to date against Iran, a former U.S. official and expert on sanctions say they "almost never succeed."

In a CBS News interview, economist C. Fred Bergsten says the chances the new sanctions will get Iran to capitulate on its nuclear program are "virtually zero."

"It's sad but true," said Bergsten, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter Administration and currently director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

His organization has made a comprehensive study of the use of sanctions to alter nations' behavior and he says they rarely do

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20007310-503544.html

Lawmakers seek to gut ethics office

By JONATHAN ALLEN & JOHN BRESNAHAN | 6/10/10 4:36 AM EDT

The Office of Congressional Ethics, a powerful symbol of Democrats’ promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, is in danger of having its power stripped after the midterm elections.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have led the charge, airing complaints about the aggressive, independent panel in a private session with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month, and they’ve drafted a resolution that, if approved, would severely curtail the panel’s power.

But there’s hot competition between the CBC and the official House ethics committee over who has less regard for the Office of Congressional Ethics, also known as the OCE. And the rest of the House doesn’t appear to be far behind in its disdain. Privately, Democratic and Republican lawmakers, and even some congressional leaders, acknowledge that there’s a strong sentiment to change rules that empower the office to publicize investigations and wreak havoc on lawmakers’ political lives.

“We might have to take a fresh look, at some point, at the authority of the OCE,” said North Carolina Democratic Rep. G.K. Butterfield, who is a member of both the CBC and the ethics committee.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38345.html

Iran Warns of ‘Reduced’ Ties With U.N. Inspectors

By ALAN COWELL

Published: June 10, 2010

PARIS — One day after the Security Council approved new sanctions against them, the authorities in Tehran threatened on Thursday to revise their relationship with the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, using familiar language that has in the past presaged moves to limit global oversight of Iran’s nuclear program.

State-run Press TV quoted Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the head of the National Security and Foreign Policy in the Iranian Parliament, as saying legislators would meet on Sunday to “push for legislation to reduce” Iran’s relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

He did not offer details of a likely response to Wednesday’s Security Council action, approved by 12 of the 15 members. Brazil and Turkey opposed the measures, and Lebanon abstained.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/world/middleeast/11react.html