Here’s a fascinating story from the Wall Street Journal: “Securities Firms Tackle Pay Issue; Limits on Compensation Are Considered to Head Off a Public Outcry.”
Well, yes. By all means, let’s “head off a public outcry.” How about doing the right thing and living up to the free [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Free market for thee, not for me
Posted in Liberty, economy on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sarah Palin, American
Posted in Politics on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Michael Novak at NRO, a splendid defense of Sarah Palin: a true American. Not that the others are not Americans. Just that Gov. Palin reminds us of what is best about America, what made us the dynamic engine of freedom and prosperity.
His concluding summary is succinct:
These are the choices [...]
Obama: U.S. and Nazis Similar
Posted in Obama on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted at the Ashbrook Center’s No Left Turns, this by Ken Thomas:[Obama, 2001 radio interview]
There’s a lot of change going on outside of the Court, that, you know, the judges have to essentially take judicial notice of. I mean you’ve got World War II. You’ve got the doctrines of Naziism, that we are fighting against, [...]
Virginia Yankee
Posted in America, Culture on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a Virginia Yankee. Meaning, I’m a Yankee (from New York City; it doesn’t get any Yankee-er than that) who has settled in Virginia. I truly love my adopted state, and forgive them that unpleasantness during the Civil War.
Or, as some older natives of the Old Dominion would say it, [...]
Gifts
Posted in Politics, protect life on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Every human being is a gift from God. Yes, I know: on so many of those gifts, we need to mark them “return to sender.” And promptly get them out of our lives. But those are human beings who have chosen evil. Not the innocent.
Among the [...]
“I am not running for president in 2008”
Posted in Obama, Politics on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another untruth from The Great One: “I am not running for president in 2008.” From City Journal:
Here’s Obama in his own words to the Chicago Sun-Times on November 4, 2004: “I was elected yesterday. . . . I have never set foot in the U.S. Senate. I’ve never worked in Washington. And [...]
And most Jews still love him
Posted in Islam, Obama, Politics on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
American Jews will, like sheep, go to the polls and provide overwhelming support for Barack Hussein Obama. They’ll vote for a man who, like most radical leftists, has some rather curious assoicates of the pro-Arab terror kind. Not to mention having been a long-standing member and supporter of a black supremacist, [...]
The Wright Stuff
Posted in Obama on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finally, someone has the sand to speak truth to power, as lefties love to say.
The truth? Barack Hussein Obama not only tolerated a hate-spewing dog like Jeremiah Wright, he brought up his children in that “church.” Obama only disassociated himself from Wright when it became politically necessary. [...]
it ain’t over ’till it’s over
Posted in Politics on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Obama hasn’t sealed the deal just yet. Despite the best efforts of some in the mainstream media to have us believe that it’s all over (e.g. front-page stories about McCain’s “struggles”). And, in the WaPo this a.m., another front-pager about how McCain is “down by 8″ according to their (WaPo) poll.
Most [...]
what to expect
Posted in Obama, Politics on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The editors of National Review Online have done us the service of reminding us what Barack Hussein Obama is all about. Specifically, what we might expect from an Obama administration.
The Cliff’s Notes version of the editorial, listing the principal actions we may expect:
Hoisting the White Flag
Raising Taxes to Pay for New Spending
Enacting Another Pointless [...]
What’s he supposed to do now?
Posted in Obama on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Hussein Obama is best at boosting himself. He lies down with dogs, and, miraculously, arises without fleas. At least so far as the mainstream media is willing to show them.
He is a socialist-leaning tax-and-spend liberal, yet sells himself as “post-partisan.” He has been a decades-long [...]
Associations, cont’d
Posted in Obama, Politics on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just a reminder, yet again, of Barack Obama’s associations. Obama is a sleazoid Chicago politician pretending to be post-racial and post-partisan. A healer, who will stop the Ocean’s rising (if that’s what they’re doing; facts don’t matter overmuch when you’re The One).
From Victor Davis Hanson, a few words on of those [...]
It’s not their fault they’re racists
Posted in Racism on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From a typical commentator for the WaPo, which is to say guilty white liberal, we’re told, in many words, that blacks can’t be racists. From the post, Reverse Racism, this explanation of why racism is not racism:
…racial solidarity among minority groups is the same thing as racial prejudice. When you’re outnumbered, it’s only [...]
In the Obama tank
Posted in Politics, economy on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a “news” story, the WaPo is solidly in the tank for the Obamarama Express to Hell. The campaign grip and grin by Obama with Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher has somewhat derailed the Express. Joe committed the cardinal sin of, as lefties love to recite, “speaking truth to power.”
The truth? Obama [...]
I am Joe
Posted in Liberty, Politics on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While we’re on the subject of just an ordinary Joe, Joe the Plumber was on Fox, and gave a better explanation of why we should vote Republican than the McCain campaign has.
Why? Simple. So we get to keep more of what we earn. And so we thus will have more incentive [...]
Yawn
Posted in Politics on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Colin Powell is a landsmann from The Bronx, so I forgive him for this endorsement. An honorable man, if a weak sister as Secretary of State and an overly political Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, his endorsement means…nothing.
General Powell is yesterday’s news. A racial component? Yes, [...]
St. Franklin
Posted in Obama, economy on October 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The the extent my parents had a patron saint, it was Saint Franklin Delano Roosevelt, four term president, father of the New Deal.
Life-long Democrats, my folks struggled through the Great Depression. They were convinced that it was all Herbert Hoover’s fault, and, by extension, all Republicans’ fault. The New Deal, [...]
“Spread the wealth”
Posted in Obama, Politics on October 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The mask slips. The other day, in an unscripted moment, The One let loose with his economic philosophy. It may be summarized in three words: Spread the wealth.
Could not be made simpler. An Obama administration would do its level best to level us all. [...]
ObamaSnob
Posted in Obama, Politics on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the true face of Barack Hussein Obama. Condescending to us mere mortals who continue to cling to our God and our guns. ObamaSnob, supremely confident in his moral and intellectual virtues. The superior man, a citizen of the world.
Obama the Arugula Lover has, however, some truly [...]
Gang of Three
Posted in Politics on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Much has been made, and rightly so, of Obama’s past close associations with crooks, terrorists, and racists. Very close associations.
By themselves, his long-term relationships with William Ayers (unrepentant bomber), Jeremiah Wright (white-hating “pastor”), Tony Rezko (Syrian crook), and voter-fraudulent ACORN (Obama was their lawyer and major donor) are sufficient cause. Obama [...]
Diversity in Arlington
Posted in Obama, Politics on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Living as I do in deep blue Arlington (Virginia), I sometimes think I’m living in an Oceana-like enclave of right-thinking folks, where seldom is heard a discouraging word about any of the things sacred to liberals. Such as the need to expiate white liberal guilt by voting for Obama.
It also appears to be the [...]
Go after him
Posted in Obama, Politics on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Linda Chavez makes this point as well as it can be made: McCain should go after the Obama-Jeremiah Wright connection. Because he is a man of honor, McCain has not attacked Obama’s long-time “spiritual advisor” and pastor. However, Ms Chavez writes,
Obama’s relationship with Wright is at the core of who [...]
Associations, cont’d
Posted in Politics on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As quoted by Mark Levin at The Corner, a classical take on Obama’s friendships and pastors and “just a guy who lives in the neighborhood:
“Those, then, are friends to whom the same things are good and evil; and those who are, moreover, friendly or unfriendly to the same people; for in that case they must [...]
It’s not a white flag of surrender…
Posted in Democrats, War and Peace on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps it’s some tasteful modern shade of white. A light Latte Ecru flag of surrender, perhaps? Today’s Democrats can’t bear to tell the truth: that we will surrender in order to bring our troops home from Iraq.
Well, Obama has lied, er, made a campaign promise, which is the same thing, to [...]
The Obama thugocracy
Posted in Liberty, Obama, Tyranny on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Barone, the godfather of political information, reminds us that so-called liberals have been waging war against free speech. And Barack Hussein Obama, perhaps channeling the tyranny of his Muslim and African fathers, is quite content to silence speech he disagrees with.
Its an academic thing, apparently. University “speech codes” do their level best [...]
Associations, cont’d
Posted in Obama, Politics on October 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps whistling in the graveyard, Victor Davis Hanson reminds us that it still may be possible to beat the charlatan known as Barack Obama:
There are simply too many ACORNs, Ayers, Khalidis, Pflegers, Wrights, et al. not to suggest a pattern unbecoming of a future President of the United States.
“Unbecoming” is too kind a word. [...]
Obamarama
Posted in Obama, Politics on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Clinton had it exactly right about the Obamarama phenomenon: what a fairy tale! Obama is not qualified to be president: he lacks relevant experience of any kind, he is too radical, his judgment in associates is, well, stinking like a corpse that’s been in the African sun for a week.
Kimberly Strassel, [...]
Who is this guy?
Posted in Obama, Terrorism on October 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Finally, the McCain campaign has decided to shed light on the Ayers-Obama axis of cluelessness. From being “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood” to the truth: Bill Ayers, unrepentant terrorist, founder of Barack Hussein Obama’s meteoric rise.
Obama, who has accomplished nothing in his career, has been joined [...]
Red Dawn redux
Posted in Culture, War and Peace on October 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Being a Cold warrior, the coldest sort (“kill ‘em all; let God sort ‘em out”), I naturally loved John Milius’ Red Dawn. That flick had it all: evil commie thugs; guns; ordinary, patriotic Americans defending their liberty with their lives. Did I mention guns?
That’s why we have a Second Amendment, boyos. [...]
Associations, cont’d
Posted in Obama, Politics on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Again from Thomas Sowell:
Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers, and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are people with whom he chose to ally himself for years, and with some of whom some serious money changed hands.
Obama is [...]
