Nah, Really?
Headline on Sam Stein Huffpo article yesterday: “Obama Open To Economic Stimulus As Part Of Debt Reduction Deal” Note from alcoholic to his A.A. sponsor: “I’m Open To Cutting Back To Only Three Drinks A Day” Unfortunately, however, it’s not fair to suggest that spending addict Obama is analogous to a new member of A.A. […]
Zogby Poll: Most Americans (But Not Most Democrats Or Liberals) Oppose Race And Gender Preferences
By significant margins, a new Zogby Poll finds that most Americans continue to favor the “without regard” principle of colorblind equality. Notably, however, this majority does not include most liberals or Democrats, who are so far out of the mainstream on this issue that their feet aren’t even wet. Zogby’s major finding: “Only one-third (34%) […]
Obama Endorses The Principle Of “Without Regard” Equality! (At Least For Some Minorities)
In response to a question at his Wednesday press conference about whether he was “at all uncomfortable that there could be different rules in different states” regarding gay marriage, President Obama replied: I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons […]
Roger Clegg: Affirmative Action Causes Security Breach
Roger Clegg sends the following, which I post with permission: According to The Atlantic Wire, “A 2005 report from the Defense Science Board warned that in buying weapon circuitry overseas, ‘trojan horse’ chips could find their way into American weapons, potentially prompting missiles to detonate early or computers to shut down in the event of an […]
Europe’s (And The American Left’s) Failed Vision
Two grand (if not good) visions and resulting social policies have dominated and even defined modern Europe and been the envy of the American left: social welfare based on extensive economic redistribution and multiculturalism. Now it is becoming increasingly clear, even to the Europeans, that both have failed. First, the Germans: German Chancellor Angela Merkel […]
Predictions
Joe Biden has long been known for his uncanny powers of prediction. For example: Joe Biden, 9/3/09: “The stimulus is working, in fact it is working much better than expected!” 9/4/09: Unemployment jumps to 26 year high of 9/7% And then there was the famous “Summer of Recovery” (that was last summer, 2010, in case […]
Michael Barone Is Always Welcome At My Movie Party…
… or would be if I had a movie party. In any event in his typically astute Washington Examiner column yesterday Barone, blazing a trail that I blazed often but so long ago that it had become completely grown over and hidden from view, compared Obama to Chauncey Gardiner, the aloof and hapless character played […]
A Great Geitner Gaffe
Michael Kinsley once famously described a gaffe as a politician inadvertently saying what he actually meant — usually something that he believes, says in private, but is careful not to say in public. On Wednesday Geitner wasn’t careful. In an almost too-perfect expression of the Obama administration’s economic policy, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the […]
Liberals’ Faulty Nostalgia
In the Wall Street Journal yesterday Michael Barone took aim at The Surprising Roots of Liberal Nostalgia. “There’s a longing on the left,” he wrote, for the golden years of the 1940s, ’50s and early ’60s. Income distribution was significantly more egalitarian than it is today, and Americans had far more confidence in big government, […]
Could Roger Clegg Ensure Obama’s Re-election?
I can almost see it now: the President of the United States sitting in the Oval Office with his feet up on his (actually, our) desk (the Resolute Desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes), browsing through his copy of today’s Chronicle of Higher Education. Suddenly he slaps his forehead, […]
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