During Thanksgiving at my son-in-law’s family, I got into a friendly discussion with his dad. He’s also named John, and you couldn’t find a nicer man. Except he’s an unreconstructed Yankee Confederate: ashamed of his southern heritage.
I, on the other hand, am, or, more accurately, was, a Yankee, born [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Confederate Yankee or Yankee Confederate
Posted in America on November 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fly me to that bailout
Posted in Idiotarians, economy on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the subject of the recent display of arrogance by the Detroit Three (the executives use of private jets to fly to Washington), Fay Vincent, former commissioner of baseball, reveals that he pretty much should stick to that subject. In a frivolous WSJ piece today, he reflects the “it’s no big deal” attitude towards [...]
All Monotheisms are Not Alike
Posted in Christianity, Islam on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Christianity Today, this extract using the ancient Apostles’ Creed as the basis for understanding how and why God is not the god worshiped by Muslims:
From How can we engage in conversation and still stick to our theological guns? I propose employing the Apostles’ Creed—a time-tested and easily digestible template of basic Christianity—to remind ourselves [...]
Yes, he is bringing back the WPA
Posted in Democrats, economy on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This past Valentine’s Day I posted something that was only mildly prophetic. It doesn’t take Nostradamus to have predicted that Obama would wish to re-create the New Deal.
This story in the WaPo, headlined “Obama Sets Expansive Goal for Jobs; Plan Aims to Create or Save 2.5 Million Positions by 2011″ [...]
Obamination
Posted in Idiotarians, Obama on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A picture is, as they say, worth a thousand words. From the Wall Street Journal, this lovely picture of Spike Lee, filmmaker extraordinaire. Notice the cross, with images of The Great One? And you thought the cross represented the death of Jesus Christ to die for our sins. [...]
The Party of Ted Stevens
Posted in Republicans on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Agresto has a cri de coeur up at NRO for the Republican Party. His thesis is that we must, somehow, return to the World That Was.
There is much truth about how soft and whiny Americans have become, at least in general. And, to be certain, it’s the Democrats who have [...]
Detroit Triangle
Posted in economy on November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As the Detroit 3 circle the drain, their executives have come to town, begging bowls outstretched, asking for yet more taxpayer dollars to bail them out. Again.
If Congress is so foolish as to agree, shame on them. Of course, how do you shame a collection of whores and charlatans? [...]
Obama and Lincoln
Posted in Obama, race on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If he doesn’t imagine himself to be Jesus Christ, he seems to imagine that he is a reincarnation of The Railsplitter. Except this Abe isn’t quite so honest.
From the Wall Street Journal, an essay by Lee Siegel, Obama’s Muse, on how Obama channels Abraham Lincoln…or fails at the attempt. [...]
“We don’t get fooled again”
Posted in economy on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Classic song by The Who, this. Key riff: “We don’t get fooled again.” Fast forward almost 30 years, and now we’ve got Chrysler bailout redux. On steroids, a government bailout this time for all three of the Makers of Crappy Cars, usually known [...]
to tell the truth…
Posted in Language on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are all linguistic slobs, me included. I’m not writing of grammatical slips, the inappropriate usages of “who” and “whom” or using “myself” for “me” or “I” for either of those. No, this is bigger. This is the confession made by many of us that, most of the time, [...]
Elmer C. Terry
Posted in America on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of Veterans Day, a post of mine from three years ago:
Elmer C. Terry just died, aged 86. His obit may be found in today’s Washington Post. Just another guy who served his country; the picture shows him as a young soldier in Pisa, Italy, during World War II.
Of course, noticing the dark hue [...]
Enemies
Posted in War and Peace on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From yesterday’s WSJ Best of the Web, a reminder that we have enemies who are not going to love us because we’ve elected a black man with an Arab-sounding name. Two charming examples:
• Sheik Abdallah Abu Jarbu, in a Friday sermon aired on Hamas TV: “Obama has won. Is he good or bad [...]
Why liberals hate the free market
Posted in Liberty, Politics on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From P.J. O’Rourke, an essay in the current Weekly Standard: “We Blew It.” It being the election. Or, rather, elections of 2006 and 2008. Plenty of recrimination there; read it, conservatives, and weep. And hope the climate improves.
From P.J., this essential thought about the free market:
The free [...]
Americans, all
Posted in Racism on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Juan Williams does all Americans a service by reminding us that Barack Obama’s victory has changed the calculus of black grievance politics. Up until now, it was a rare voice from the black community that did not play the victim card. One may at least now hope that racial pimps such as [...]
A racist win
Posted in Politics, Racism on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not a guilty white liberal. First, while I am a Person of Pallor, I’ve zero guilt about black slavery, Jim Crow, the Klan, or any other aspect of white-on-black racism. Zero guilt because my people were not here in America when most of this took place. And, of course, [...]
From Dear Leader
Posted in Tyranny on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Change is good. You will serve as I direct. You will enjoy it. It is for the greater good.
From the Orwellian-named “America Serves”:
The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace [...]
“interesting”
Posted in Politics on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From John Derbyshire:
I see nothing for conservatives to hope for in an Obama administration. We just have to stick it out. This shallow, ignorant, self-obsessed man, who held an actual job for just one year of his charmed life (low-grade editing for an obscure newsletter — he felt, he tells us in Dreams, “like a [...]
“righteous wind of socialism”
Posted in Obama, Tyranny on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Hussein Obama:
I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here, but we’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to struggle. We’re going to have to fight.
Chairman Mao:
The ill wind of opportunism is falling, the righteous wind of socialism is on the rise. By the end of this [...]
Energy independence?
Posted in Energy, Politics on November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The United States has one proven energy resource that is the equal of oil: coal. Equal, that is, to all of the oil reserves of OPEC. That’s great, right? Right? Wrong. Not if you are Barack Hussein Obama and his wingnut running mate, Joe Gaffaliscious [...]
Lonesome Obama Rhodes
Posted in Politics on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Marc Fisher’s column today was, as they say, “fair and balanced.” Too much so, at the cost of some truths about the two presidential candidates. My response to Marc, who remains a must-read:
Marc, you wrote “Neither of these bright men would make Lonesome Rhodes’s mistake and say awful things about us anywhere [...]
O-Toon
Posted in Obama, Politics on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This Election Day, many Americans will vote for a cartoon character. No, not Mickey Mouse — ACORN registered that rodent. The 2-D image that Americans may elect president is Barack Hussein Obama, the O-Toon.
Mark Steyn presents this thesis: that we may elect “a symbol, a logo, a two-dimensional image” rather than a [...]
