Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on Obama’s first 100 days:
At home, in everything from his economic policy to his energy policy to his just-announced science policy, President Obama has successfully moved the country from a traditional American model of entrepreneurship and private initiative to a European model of regulation and government control.
Abroad, he [...]
Archive for April, 2009
…and I believe in the Tooth Fairy
Posted in "Global Warming" on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This explains a lot about the faith of our rookie president. Via Impromptus, this quotation from He who Bows and Scrapes when Abroad:
“When it comes to climate change, George Bush didn’t believe in climate change. I do believe in climate change, I think it’s important.”
An unfortunate choice of words, perhaps? After [...]
“God hates fags”
Posted in Hypocrites, Idiotarians on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Actually, I think I prefer “God hates fangs.” But for some folks from Westboro (Kansas) Baptist Church, God really, really hates homosexuals, schools named after alleged homosexuals, and, for that matter, pretty much all of America.
Just yesterday they protested at Walt Whitman high school in upscale Bethesda, Maryland. Why, you ask? [...]
The self-flagellation continues
Posted in War and Peace on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Obamatons are about to release up to 2,000 photos of alleged prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. The story in the Telegraph (UK) gives some background on the infighting in the administration.
This is a clear cave-in to the rabid Left. Of which Barack Hussein Obama, it is becoming clear, is [...]
Backbone
Posted in Culture on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t pay much attention to the various beauty contests, but the mini-brouhaha over Carrie Prejean, Miss California, provides a rare glimpse of a celebrity who has some backbone. Carrie Prejean, in simple terms, is a Christian. And, as a Christian, she believes that marriage is only valid between a man [...]
Who are you gonna believe?
Posted in Immigration on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“…crossing the border is not a crime per se.”
— Janet Napolitano, via Michelle Malkin
Curious. 8 USC 1325, the codified law of the land, considers it to be a crime.
Napolitano is the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, so she must know whereof she speaks. No? About as well [...]
Not a subsidy
Posted in Culture, economy on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Marc Fisher has a lament over the demise of locally-owned and -operated bookstores. While he freely admits to using Amazon, he also makes the usual arguments about the “intangible benefits” of local bookstores.
Marc is not wrong about going to a local bookstore for those intangibles. But those of us with limited [...]
Obama numerology
Posted in economy on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two numbers for consideration: 3.6 trillion; 100 million. The first is the Obamatons’ budget estimate for fiscal year 2010. The second is the Great One’s flim-flam to show what he is going to do about reducing the deficit that his budget will cause.
Let’s focus for a moment on the 100 million [...]
Czars not in charge
Posted in Governance on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Looks as though I was right back in January, when I wrote “Influential Advisors May Compete with Cabinet”:
Well, the unqualified Obama did win the White Guilt election, and will be our next president. And he’s going to make a dog’s breakfast of it, if his staffing preferences are any indication. Not that he does not [...]
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
Posted in International on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Brought to us by the moral midgets who gave us the Inquisition and Franco, and who have been pissed at the world since the Spanish Armada couldn’t find its way to England in 1588, Spain’s attorney general has apparently decided that you can’t really prosecute people for policy decisions.
The story in the [...]
Jesus denied
Posted in Christianity on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We know enough about the God-D***-America faith of Barack Hussein Obama. What he believes in his heart of hearts is known but to God, of course. But by his actions we may surmise that his principal deity is himself. What continues to grate is Obama’s insistence of surrounding himself [...]
A Matthew 6 problem
Posted in Culture on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew 6 serves as a brusque reminder to us that it’s not always, or even usually, about us. That God truly cares not how we parade about, extolling our own virtues, worrying about things of this earth.
Matthew 6 is usually what comes to my mind when someone starts a lecture on how we [...]
Didn’t hamper the op too badly
Posted in War and Peace on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The best you can say about Obama’s role in the successful operation to free Captain Richard Phillips is that he didn’t remain in the way.
That’s right: remain in the way. Armed action should have been taken as soon as the Navy was on-scene with snipers. Which would have been at [...]
Sweet Caroline, again
Posted in Christianity on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What are the qualifications to be the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican? Well, firstly, it helps to be Catholic. It really would not do to send a Protestant, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, or atheist. Would it?
Now, here’s a trick question: what is the difference between a cradle Catholic who [...]
“hot-selling sports car”
Posted in Culture on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Caution: don’t read the Wall Street Journal and expect to get good information on cars. Today has a nice but fanciful article by a guy who clearly doesn’t know much about cars. And also kept the copy from any editor who knows anything about cars. Here’s the money [...]
effete diffidence
Posted in Obama on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Krikorian, writes briefly but coherently about the current piracy outrage by Somalis. What to do? Thomas Jefferson knew that unless we used force on the Barbary pirates, they would never stop harassing our ships.
Unfortunately for us, Barack Hussein Obama is no Thomas Jefferson. It is rather unlikely [...]
Dhimmi-in-Chief
Posted in Islam on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the fawning press, of which the WaPo is a leading example, we get this glowing story, that begins with “President Obama reached out to the Muslim world today…”
The money quotations are these two:
The United States “is not and never will be at war with Islam”
“Our partnership with the Muslim world is critical in rolling [...]
D.C. still is not a state
Posted in Constitution on April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“I don’t think members are in the least bit affected in their votes on the question of its constitutionality. People vote their politics in the House and in the Senate.”
— E.H. Norton, nonvoting representative from the District of Columbia on the subject of a voting representative in the House for DC.
This [...]
The triumph of hope over experience
Posted in War and Peace on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a classic example of the triumph of hope over experience. It is Obama’s attempt to disarm America in the hope that others will follow our noble example. In his global victory tour, he made this pronouncement in Prague (via WaPo):
“I state clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek the peace [...]
America-basher
Posted in America, International on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not only has Obama shown subservience to the Saudi king, he has blamed his own country for the Europeans not pitching in. As reported in the Telegraph (UK), here’s what The Great One said:
Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times [...]
62¢ worth of lies
Posted in Obama on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I can make a firm pledge . . . no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.”
– B.H. Obama, September 12, 2008.
April 1, 2009: The federal tax on cigarettes goes up 62¢ to $1.01 per pack. Ouch. Too bad if you smoke, but [...]
