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As Dick Morris and pollster John Zogby have shown, ObamaCare is not getting a warm reception from young Americans. In the most recent poll by Zogby, only 25 percent of Americans under 30 support ObamaCare and the “public option.” Among adults 30-49, only 28 percent now support the idea.

This sets things up nicely to undo the “new Democratic majority” that Pelosi and Reid have been crowing about ever since Obama defeated John McCain over a year ago. That “new Democratic majority” relied heavily on young people.

Let’s just hope, when President Obama reads these poll results, he does lock America’s youngest voters up in steel buildings and ship them over to Afghanistan for his ill-advised so-called “civilian surge.”

The long-standing former CNN financial analyst, Lou Dobbs, is pondering a run for US Senate from New Jersey as a Republican in 2010. If he runs, it would be in opposition to the U.S. Senate’s only Hispanic member, Democrat Robert Menendez.

Dobbs gained notice for his strong views against illegal immigration and amnesty while a broadcast figure on CNN, but has been softening his views since announcing his intent to run for the Senate seat in New Jersey; sounds like he’d make a perfect politician, if not exactly a conservative. Sounds like someone took some pond pumps to him.

Dobbs has also admitted he’s considered a presidential run, perhaps as early as 2012. That would make him precisely as qualified at the federal level as President Obama was when he ran for the White House.

The grand experiment by NBC – moving late night king Jay Leno into prime time in order to cut back on costly dramas and save money – is now officially a failure. Sure, the network probably won’t change course this season; mainly because they would need five hours of prime time programming to take the place of Leno, and the network has very few hits waiting in the wings. This season.

But if the sale of NBC to Comcast goes through, as expected, perhaps things will change; if NBC orders an unusually high number of dramas to pilot this spring, you can bet Jay won’t be in prime time five nights a week next fall. Go, Comcast! Send this idiots who killed NBC on some permanent Orlando vacations.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday this weekend, former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee admitted he may sit out the 2012 race for president, due in part to his weekly Fox News Channel show. This is great news for real conservatives, since Huckabee is no more conservative than John McCain was, even though he was younger, more Christian and more pro-life.

While his word is likely to be less reliable than good insurance quotes, for now the nation can breathe a sigh of relief and hope that a real conservative, like Sarah Palin or Bobby Jindal, rise to the top in 2012.

A CBS News/Vanity Fair poll listed radio host Rush Limbaugh as the nation’s most influential conservative voice, according to results released Sunday. Limbaugh was named by 26 percent of respondents, followed by Glenn Beck with 11 percent and politicians Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney at 10 percent each.

That Limbaugh is the nation’s leading conservative voice should come as no shock, given its a position he held – poll data or not – since the early 1990s. The only true shock is that CBS News is actually acknowledging the radio host’s existence without attempting to tie him to an appetite suppressant scandal or something like that. Refreshing! Thanks for telling us what we already knew, CBS!

The latest scandal to emerge in the great global warming hoax comes to us from the University of East Anglia, where climate scientists have now admitted that much of the original data upon which they have based their claims of global warming were unceremoniously dumped, recycled or otherwise trashed… way back in the 1980s!

London’s Times Online writes fearlessly about this scandal, which draws into question yet other chunk of research that cannot be verified when used to support the ever-more-shaky global warming hypothesis upon which the cap-and-trade swindle is being based.

Whether blaming the internal combustion engine or spa filters, it seems no matter how many “green weeks” NBC, The CW and other networks have each year, Algore and his zittoheads are being proven fools and flim-flam artists extraordinaire more and more as time marches on… need I mention this was one of the colder summers on record in decades?

I’m not someone who changes my antivirus program every single year; I prefer to find a solution I like and stick with it until it becomes obvious there’s something better on the market. For the past couple years, Kaspersky has been my preferred solution, but that may be changing next time my license comes due.

When it comes to antivirus software, I’m willing to spend a bit more of a superior technology is in play; that’s why I chose Kaspersky a couple years ago. But it’s the most expensive solution on the market, and I only get one license for it. Sure, it’s the best on the market. But perhaps that’s not the case anymore.

Sun Belt Software has released a new technology called Vipre Antivirus, and for about half the price of Kaspersky, it offers an unlimited home site license – meaning as long as it’s a home computer, I could put it on both my wife’s desktop and laptop, as well as my desktop and laptop, all for one low price. That’s quick attractive. No one else offers that. Sure, a single-user license is still cheaper at $29.99; but for $49.99, to cover all four of my household computers? That’s a huge savings. HUGE!

But more importantly, it uses fewer system resources than anything else out on the market, while offering some new virus-preventing technologies that no one else – not even Kaspersky – has caught up to yet. As long as they offer hourly virus definition updates like Kaspersky, I believe Sun Belt Software’s Vipre Antivirus may become my new solution!

I’ll want to make sure once March rolls around, but I have a feeling it’s time to switch.

It’s not always a safe world out there, and trusting everyone until they give you a reason not to is a good character quality, perhaps, but a dangerous approach when protecting your personal and business data. That’s why data security is now so big a concern that sharp online-savvy universities like Lewis University now offers a master’s degree program in information security.

The best thing is that this is definitely a growth area in terms of employment, even in the midst of a down economy. Who wouldn’t want to be in a field where not only are there companies hiring, but there’s a vast shortage of properly-trained professionals? Isn’t that what everyone’s looking for? That’s why Information Security Colleges like Lewis University Online are filling the gap with their degrees in this in-demand field.

Check it out. Unless you’re not among the 10 percent unemployed and can’t imagine a better job than the one you already have, that is…

As the GOP candidate most in need of a good fat burner, Haley Barbour faces the William Howard Taft/Grover Cleveland dilemma: can a man who is solid on the issues but physically not very camera-friendly (e.g., very overweight) win a modern election in which having the right on-camera look is deemed equally important – if not more important – than experience, command of the issues and did I mention experience.

Barbour has governed Mississippi well, is a solid conservative and has been a party chair and a great leader since the time of Reagan; however, he’s just not that camera-friendly. Should it matter?

Well, no more than it ought to matter that he’d bee the white governor of a Deep South state running against the nation’s first black president; but it would matter, for better or worse.

Barbour is more temperate in his religion than Huckabee, more experienced and more conservative. But electable against Barack Obama? Not at the top of the ticket.

When he’s not perusing Outer Banks vacation rentals, Newt Gingrich is flirting with a GOP presidential run. He has long been a favorite of mine, but he recently fell out of favor with me when he backed an ACORN-loving, liberal Republican in the New York Congressional race, rather than a true conservative, Doug Hoffman. The race was tight and Gingrich’s support might have made a difference.

But in all honestly, Gingrich has been slipping a lot since leaving office as Speaker of the House; he has cozied up to liberals and Democrats to push forward global warming solutions in an effort he calls “green Republicanism” when he ought to be shouting “swindle and fraud” from the rooftops against the cap-and-trade scam that global warming alarmism is a backdrop for.

While Gingrich has had solid conservative credentials in the past, there is now room for a reasonable amount of skepticism as to its authenticity. Too bad.

In assessing, early on, the 2012 presidential field for the GOP, in the contest to face off with Barack Obama, the first name I’m going to tackle is a favorite of evangelicals and some party faithful. He’s been raising his profile and money, going as far as to accept credit cards from donors, but nothing’s official yet.

My problems with Huckabee as a banner-carrier, at this point, are manifold. First, if he runs again, he needs to remember he’s running to be commander in chief of the military and CEO of the country, not the national pastor. In 2008, Huckabee wore his religion on his sleeve even more obviously than did George W. Bush for two election cycles; it didn’t even sell to the party’s base.

But there’s a deeper problem with Huckabee, and that is that he’s not a conservative on most issues; he sees big government as simply misdirected by liberals, and would maintain a big government philosophy in office, simply redirecting the power of governmental power, as did GWB.

That’s the wrong direction for the party, which needs to re-embrace its constitution-loving, Reagan roots. Thus far, all Huckabee has proven himself to be is a “more Christian and pro-life” version of John McCain. And that, we don’t need.

In New York’s 23rd Congressional District, things just heated up. The endorsed GOP candidate, DeeDee Scozzafava, withdrew from the race over the weekend. Scozzafava faced criticism from the conservative wing of the GOP for being more leftist than the Democrat candidate, Bill Owens.

A strong push for choice by the Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman, had Hoffman running neck-and-neck with Owens while Scozzafava was still in the race, but no one knows who will benefit more from her withdrawal.

But even the best weight loss pills can’t improve on this result; New York’s 23rd District just went from having no choice – two leftist candidates – to having a real choice. No matter who wins, that’s better.