[Insert Mayan Calendar Joke Here] The Romney campaign doesn’t seem to know how to respond. For centuries, business leaders have been inept when writers, intellectuals and politicians attacked capitalism, and, so far, the Romney campaign is continuing that streak. One thing is for sure. As Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute has said again… Read More David Brooks Starts to Sound Like Jeff Goldstein
Via Hot Air: “The so called War on Drugs has not succeeded in making significant reductions in drug use, drug arrests or violence,” the Democrat wrote during the Reddit “ask me anything” chat. “We are pouring huge amounts of our public resources into this current effort that are bleeding our public treasury and unnecessarily undermining… Read More Cory Booker Utters the Truth We All Acknowledge But Cannot Act Upon
I’m sure this is just an outlying bureaucratic perversity… Cutting staff and reducing hours, that’s kinda what “Hope and Change” means, right?
…and Hot Air asks the obvious question “So what are we planning on replacing it with? I mean, there’s Mitt’s drill-down of various reforms, some of which are clearer than others. Are we going with that?
Ace links and discusses Zombie’s review of Proggie bellyfeeling goodthinker George Lakoff’s Little Blue Book. The essence of this elegantly fascist tome is that conservatives are mindless scum who do not deserve to be engaged in civil debate. In other words, what most died-in-the-wool, Portlandia-aspring progs already think. Which is why I will quote only… Read More Lakoff’s Paradox: Why Progressives Fail
Protein Wisdom has the skinny. Basically, they’re going to spend billions of state bond debts and federal grants to build high-speed rail. Of course, in order to get people on board with this, they’re going to throw a bunch of money at existing local light-rail infrastructure, because that will create jobs. By the way, Trains are… Read More California and Trains: A Match Made in the Smoke-Filled Rooms of Sacramento
Via A Checquerboard of Nights and Days, The Obama Campaign complained about FactCheck’s call about whether Romney “sent jobs overseas” while he was head of Bain Capital. They tell him he’s still wrong. For all these reasons, we respectfully reject the Obama campaign’s request that we amend our original story. We re-state our conclusion that… Read More FactCheck Spanks the Obama Campaign…
I didn’t mind The West Wing. Didn’t watch it a whole lot, but I didn’t mind it. The hero was a Democratic President, who was smart, sophisticated, and occasionally gutsy. The politics were blatant, but in a show about politics, they should have been. And Sorkin usually gave the Right its State of the Union Response.… Read More At the New York Post, Kyle Smith Affirms Everything I Could Have Expected About “The Newsroom.”
I’ve mentioned this before, but it bears incessant repetition: Kimberlin is not merely a terrorist who uses the law to silence his opponents — he’s a terrorist who uses the law to silence his opponents and is one degree removed from the official Democratic party hierarchy. Which begs the question: who else is under the protective… Read More Why Brett Kimberlin is Important
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