There’s an interesting if rather left-leaning piece in today’s WaPo Outlook (shock of shocks…) and it recounts how the Supreme Court narrowly avoided thwarting the will of Saint Franklin and his push to socialize America.
The purpose of the screed is to make us all comfortable with the notion that biography is all that matters when [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Archie Bunker’s theory of representative government
Posted in Culture, Politics, Racism on May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From Best of the Web Today, this dialog from All in The Family:
Archie: What’s the matter with this? I call this representative government. You’ve got Salvatori, Feldman, O’Reilly, Nelson–that’s an Italian, a Jew, an Irishman and a regular American there. That’s what I call a balanced ticket.
Meathead: Why do you always have to label people [...]
a picture is worth…
Posted in Racism, Uncategorized on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s political ‘toon by Michael Ramirez. How could he possibly understand the empathy glands of a Latina…
“It’s all about ‘Buy American’”
Posted in economy on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Can’t blame a guy for trying. In this case, the mayor of Warren, Michigan, James R. Fouts, is trying to woo General Motors, soon to be a joint ObamaGovernment-United Auto Workers socialist enterprise, to move their corporate headquarters from Detroit to Warren. Sounds like a no-brainer, if only to get GM’s employees [...]
Galatians 3:28
Posted in Racism on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re about to be schooled in the Obama School of Identity Politics. His first selection for the Supreme Court may be a mediocre jurist who’s been overturned about half of the time, and may be a mean motor scooter, but, by the Prophets beard, she’s a two-fer: A woman, and a Latina. [...]
“a heavy slap in the face for President Obama”
Posted in War and Peace on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
David Pryce-Jones’ take on the Nork nuke is worth reading:
A Serious Menace
The news that North Korea has just exploded another nuclear device is a heavy slap in the face for President Obama. The explosion was underground, but as big as Hiroshima. Obama pleads for a world free from nuclear weapons, and holds out the prospect [...]
Nasty letter to follow
Posted in War and Peace on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Norks have detonated their second nuclear device. Chances are it was crude, and they almost certainly lack a credible delivery system. Yet. But make no mistake, they’re working on it. Dear Leader insists on it.
Our Dear Leader may have glommed on to the notion that tyrannical [...]
Good luck with that project
Posted in Religion on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Liberty University, the fundamentalist Baptist school founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Virginia, has disenfranchised the fledging College Democrats club at the school. From the Fox news story
Vice president of student affairs Mark Hine said in the e-mail sent to Diaz on May 15 that the Democratic party violates the [...]
Bush bad; me good
Posted in Terrorism, War and Peace on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
B.H. Obama gives a good speech. If by good one means slick, well-delivered (assuming he doesn’t have to wing it without his teleprompter crutch), and political. His speech on the War on Man-Made Disasters yesterday is of a piece with a man who has done nothing in his life except run [...]
I miss the Soviet Union
Posted in Tyranny on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
..not much, really. But they did have a grand national anthem. At once singable (unlike ours), and classical in a dark, brooding, Euro-cum-Slavic way. What brings this to mind is that I happened to hear the Red Army Men’s Chorus version, and it is truly, truly inspiring.
Until you get to the lyrics, [...]
‘Recklessness Cloaked in Righteousness’
Posted in War and Peace on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘Recklessness Cloaked in Righteousness’ is Dick Cheney’s close to a perfect summary of Barack Obama’s approach to the Islamist threat to the West. I write “approach” because in no way shape or form can Obama be construed as actually fighting for Western values.
No, friends. He’s not fighting, except to get the bien [...]
That’s just crazy talk (update)
Posted in "Global Warming" on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Jim Manzi at the Corner, this illustration of just how useful the stupid and counterproductive new CAFE standards actually are:
Keith Hennessey points to Department of Transportation analysis that projects (using the same climate model as I referenced in my Waxman-Markey post) that the impact of moving to these new mileage regulations should be that in [...]
Mormons and Tigers and Bears, oh my
Posted in Christianity, Mormonism on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Naomi Schaefer Riley’s column today has the ring of truth; well done. More importantly, as a member of a mixed marriage (Catholic-Baptist; one faith separated by 400 years of squabbling), I can attest that it is an absolute truth that one must tolerate those we love.
As for the “religious thermometer” with respect to [...]
Standing up
Posted in Idiotarians on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One does not go to a crack cocaine dealer or meth cooker to get tips on healthy living. Likewise, one should never, ever, ever accept insights about Republicans from the far-left Dan Balz, who never met a hopey-changey candidate he did not love. Balz, along with his pals at MoveOn and [...]
She’s an idiot
Posted in Idiotarians, Immigration on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via the Corner, this from our fearless and forthright homeland security secretary, Janet “Not a Crime Per Se” Napolitano:
“One of the things that we need to be sensitive to is the very real feeling among southern border states and in Mexico that if things are being done on the Mexican border, they should also be [...]
Still a Protestant nation
Posted in Abortion, Christianity on May 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Notre Dame’s invitation to the militantly pro-abortion Barack Obama has more than a few Catholics up in arms. For the simple reason that Notre Dame, as an explicitly Roman Catholic university, should not honor those who dishonor a basic Church teaching on the sanctity of human life.
Notre Dame isn’t a public university, or [...]
Everything else
Posted in Christianity on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
— C.S.Lewis, A Mind Awake.
Had I seen this before I became a Christian, I’d have scoffed. My training was in things you could build; things [...]
Advice from a turncoat?
Posted in Republicans on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christoper Buckley, son of WFB, Jr and no mean author himself, deserted the GOP and voted for Obama. It’s clear he’s got buyer’s remorse, and now admits that Obama’s policies are unsustainable. In Buckley’s words, “[Obama's] spending will bring this country to its knees.”
This would be a bad thing, unless, of [...]
Whose AG is he, exactly?
Posted in America, Liberty on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You might be forgiven for thinking that Eric Holder is the attorney general of a minor European nation, perhaps Belgium or Luxembourg. After all, someone in such a position would, of necessity, be obliged to cooperate with other minor European nations in matters relating to the prosecution of his citizens.
In what may be [...]
“dressed down in sneakers”
Posted in Hypocrites, Media on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michelle Obama may now be proud of her country: she’s helping the poor directly. In good hypocritical fashion, the Great One’s wife, according to the WaPo, “dressed down in sneakers” for an appearance at a local food bank. She is quoted thusly by her slavering admirers at the Obama Post:
This is [...]
