elena kagan – it could be worse
How does it add anything to a SCOTUS nominee’s qualifications when it is noted that a nominee’s life story is inspirational, a real American rags-to-riches success story, and so forth and so on? While the life experiences of Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor are certainly a made-for-TV movie waiting to happen, they have nothing to [...]
good stuff other people wrote
What I’m currently reading: The fallacy that continues to dog Project Cameron – John Rentoul (who wrote this killer Tony Blair bio I totally loved) says that David Cameron’s ideas are just as flawed as Gordon Brown’s. Sad part is that in this battle between the Conservative Party (Cameron) and Labour Party(Brown) one of these [...]
the state of the middle ground
America was not designed to be run by elitists – nor was it designed for pure mob rule. What we need to find here is some middle ground – a government that will be responsive to the needs of the people without being subject to the whims of daily polling and public opinion that is [...]
somebody’s not reading from the script
Watch Al Sharpton say something interesting on Fox News: In case you didn’t catch it, Al said that the American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected President Obama. But that’s not possible. How could such a committed capitalist free-marketeer as President Obama have any intention of implementing anything close to a socialist agenda? [...]
not likely
Our lovable Vice President Joe Biden talking to Larry King: I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in [...]
well…yeah
What Alan Bock said in the OC Register: It’s not that there isn’t a good deal of truth in such criticisms of the ways of a “Washington” he invoked more as an epithet than a place. But at what point does a president of the United States take responsibility for his part in feeding the [...]
that’s a scary proposition
CBS newsman Bob Schieffer says that “Real security is built on trust in the government.” He actually wrote that! Read it here. Trust in the government. That’s a scary proposition if you really think about it. The more bureaucracy you add to deal with a potential crisis, the more likely it is that the potential [...]
rules and other stupid things
Some new failed jihadist won’t be seeing his 72 virgins. Not yet anyway. How fortunate those people on that Northwest flight are that the guy didn’t quite have the procedure down for detonating the explosive and that their fellow passengers and airline crew members took the initiative to deal with the threat. This won’t always be the case. Someday the United States may [...]
grading on a curve
We certainly can’t say that the President of the United States lacks self-confidence. When asked to grade his performance as President, he gave himself a B+. Can’t imagine what kind of curve he was using to come up with that grade. Obviously our citizen king knows better than we do about, well, everything, so [...]
try something else
Let’s move on from the Barack Obama birth certificate controversy. Much more important things to worry about. Snopes.com debunks the rumors that President Obama is not a natural-born citizen, and thus ineligible to be President of the United States here. According to Snopes, the Certificate of Live Birth provided by the Obama campaign is not [...]
