The New York Sun goes dark after today. Which is more than a shame, because it leaves New York City with only one broadsheet. And one that has become a shrill, unreliable harpy. You can read the Times if you wish; just fact-check every single “news” story.
Here are a few words from [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Setting Sun
Posted in Media on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Blame Game
Posted in Democrats on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Victor Davis Hanson, a concise summary of who is really to blame:Rep. Nancy Pelosi at the hour of national crisis proved why she may well be the worst House Speaker in the history of the Congress.
The more Sen. Dodd and Rep. Frank shout and demagogue in front of the cameras, the more desperate we [...]
Country First
Posted in Politics, economy on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ll take our marbles and go home. That seems to be the cry from the House Republicans who claimed that Nancy Pelosi “poisoned” the bailout bill. Wah. Wah.
What happened to “country first?” Apparently, for some Republicans, not if it allows their enemy, the Dread Pirate Speaker Pelosi, to claim credit for [...]
Here’s the “spend” part
Posted in Obama on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Tax and spend.” This has been the nature of Democrats for generations. Nothing has changed, except now we’ve got the current Democrat candidate claiming to “lower taxes for 95 per cent of working families.” Uh huh.
For starters, good luck on finding 95 per cent of working families actually paying [...]
“Just some guy in the neighborhood”
Posted in Obama on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Hussein Obama’s description of the unrepentant terrorist and anti-American hard leftist Bill Ayers. Ayers and Obama share some space on the political left and, worse, they are co-conspirators in turning Chicago Red. Unfortunately for that project, the Daley machine was too invested in making good, old-fashioned graft for that to happen.
Obama [...]
Running for Emperor?
Posted in Politics on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So far, one hour and ten minutes into the fray, I’d have to say it’s a draw. Obama is quick to come back when he thinks he’s been dissed, especially when his slender record is examined. But, getting past my partisan bias, the best I can say about Mac is that [...]
“enough to induce vomiting”
Posted in anti-Semitism on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kudos and thanks to Bill Donahue and the Catholic League on their disgust at liberal “Christian” groups entertaining the anti-Semitic thug who is president of Iran. From their news release, this is worth noting:
“To appease someone like Ahmadinejad is sickening, but for it to be done in the name of Christianity is enough [...]
“Present”
Posted in Politics on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s no wonder that Obama isn’t willing to suspend his campaign in order to fix the financial mess: all he’s ever done in his entire life is campaign, not govern. Voting “present” or voting with your party virtually all of the time isn’t governing. It isn’t risk-taking. It’s cowardice.
John McCain [...]
How about The One?
Posted in Media, Politics on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll with this headline:
WSJ/NBC Poll: Voters Doubt Palin’s Qualifications to Be President
The salient result? 49% of all respondents said the Alaska governor is not qualified [to be president] while 40% said she is. Do tell.
What might be the result if, instead of “Sarah Palin” [...]
Useful Idiots
Posted in Idiotarians, Iran, Islam on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On hearing a news snippet to the effect that some “Christians” were going to be honoring Iranian president Ahmadinejad, I thought, “No, that’s got to be wrong. No Christian would honor a man who would kill all of Jesus’ own people.”
Well, I was wrong. But right: No Christian would honor a man [...]
U.S. out of U.N…
Posted in International on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…and U.N. out of U.S. Meaning: is it not time we stopped pouring our taxpayers’ monies down this particular rat-hole? Way past time.
What brings this to mind, of course, is the umpteen-ring circus now unfolding in New York, where a large variety of scumbags have assembled to [...]
PDS
Posted in Republicans on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
PDS: Palin Derangement Syndrome. It’s been upon us for three weeks now, ever since John McCain’s bold announcement the day after The Great One’s Greek Coliseum Show. The symptoms are obvious: a complete inability for allegedly free-thinking women to accept that one of their own might not believe as [...]
And, now, in hindsight…
Posted in economy on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some things seem obvious in the rear view mirror. And, sometimes, we take the correct lesson from financial problems. Usually, we do not.
From NRO here’s a succinct summary of what appears to be a root cause of this past week’s meltdown in the financial markets (note: not economic; financial. [...]
Terrible concept
Posted in Politics on September 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kathleen Parker at NRO wrote “Obama boots Biden and taps Clinton; McCain dumps Palin and picks Romney. It’s a concept.”
It’s a terrible concept. Not least because, for all of your apparent infatuation with the Idea of Obama, it is he who should be booted.
I was a little surprised that the superdelegates, [...]
Why vote for Sarah?
Posted in Big Mac and The Cuda on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, let’s talk about links
Posted in Big Mac and The Cuda on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s really too bad that John McCain doesn’t share some of the anti-illegal immigration sentiments expressed by Rush Limbaugh. Rush is a “seal the borders and enforce our laws” kind of guy. Would that McCain followed his lead.
But, here in the real world, John McCain is open to seeing the humanity of [...]
Patriotic idiocy
Posted in Politics on September 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Democrats are the party of higher taxes and more government. And total confusion as to what it means to be a patriot. Here’s Bloviatin’ Joe at his finest:
Joe Biden said Thursday that paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans.
“We want to take money and put it [...]
Does he really believe this?
Posted in Obama on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was just looking over an infamous speech from The Great One during this past primary campaign, and once again, marvel at the self-regard and pomposity. Here’s my favorite extract from this speech:
…generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we [...]
Quotation of the day
Posted in Obama on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas Sowell:
To find anything comparable to crowds’ euphoric reactions to Obama, you would have to go back to old newsreels of German crowds in the 1930s, with their adulation of their fuehrer, Adolf Hitler. With hindsight, we can look back on those people with pity, knowing now how many of them would be led to [...]
Obama the prescient?
Posted in Obama on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Obama has told us that he would never have gotten us into Iraq in the first place. And, as a bona-fide lefty, he would have voted against the authorization to go to war in 2002 had he been in the Senate. Fair enough.
But this is the basis for Obama’s [...]
Kurdistan
Posted in Iraq, Kurdistan, War and Peace on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Kurds are making life difficult for the fiction writers attempting to present Iraq as a unified nation. Iraq is (at least) three nations, if nations are to be organized around common ethnicity, religion, or language and culture.
You doubt that these are important? How then to explain little places such as [...]
Lefty toads
Posted in Democrats, Idiotarians on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Donna Brazile, Rep. Steve Cohen, Susan Sarandon — all have voiced this charming sentiment:
Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.
Rush Limbaugh’s article is all-too-nicely titled “Millions Insulted by Liberals’ Use of Jesus Christ/Pontius Pilate Line.” Do ya think?
This has got to get any Christian, Dem or Republican, to sit up [...]
9/11 or 9/10
Posted in Politics, War and Peace on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a day to remember the worst attack on American soil by a foreign enemy. In a show of respect, both major candidates are suspending political attacks for the day. That’s well and good, but it is clear that one candidate has a clear, post-9/11 vision. The other is [...]
Never forget; never surrender
Posted in Islam, Terrorism, War and Peace on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
9/11/01 was not the start of the war against us, but it was the point in history when many of us took notice. A wake-up call, if you will.
9/11 did not, however, “change everything.” From the very start of our recovery from those cowardly attacks, we were told to simply resume our lives, go [...]
Porcine politics
Posted in Obama on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Identity politics are coming back to haunt the Democrats. Remember when Bill Clinton, the First Black President, was accused of racism because he had the temerity to label ObamaMania as a “fairy tale?”
Well, Bubba was right. Unfortunately for Obama, his fairy godmother appears to have taken some long-awaited [...]
l’chaim
Posted in Abortion, Democrats on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
L’chaim. To life; the common toast in Hebrew. Why? Because the Torah favors life; God favors life. And in no uncertain terms. Deuteronomy 30:19:
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that [...]
Polls
Posted in Politics on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the WaPo website:
Sen. John McCain has wiped away many of Sen. Barack Obama’s pre-convention advantages, and the race for the White House is now basically deadlocked at 47 percent for Obama and 46 percent for McCain among registered voters, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Real Clear Politics, on the other hand, has [...]
False flag
Posted in Politics on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Hussein Obama is liberal. A Hyde-Park liberal, which means he’d be right at home in the salons of Cambridge Massachusetts or the upper West Side of Manhattan. Think Ann Arbor, not Saginaw. Think Scarsdale, not Newburgh in New York. Think San Francisco, not Bakersfield. You get [...]
Give me that hockey mom any day
Posted in Politics on September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Again, from the column by Dick Polman. Being a lefty, he ends with a swipe at his betters. In this case, another data point that demonstrates how effective Sarah Palin has been at scaring the snot out of Obama’s rooting section in the mainstream media:
The race obstacle is not necessarily [...]
Bradley Effect triumphant?
Posted in Politics, race on September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an interesting column by Dick Polman of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The subtext: if you are white, you are probably a racist if you don’t vote for Obama. The surface text? The Dread Bradley Effect has not been put in its grave.
In simple terms, Bradley attempts to explain how Tom Bradley [...]
