09.03.10
Sheriff Joe shows how you respond to totalitarian intimidation
This guy is a true hero. And Eric Holder and the Most Equal Comrade are loathsome scumbags.
09.01.10
It never was an actual nationality
Moshe Dann at The American Thinker reminds us, in an essay rich in historical detail, that there never has actually been a “Palestinian people.” Keep that in mind as the Most Equal Comrade convenes his kumbaya summit between Netanyahu and Abbas.
The moat in her own eye
Mona Charen has a Townhall column today that is worth reading for its treatment of its main theme, namely, the lamentable way America is still mired in preoccupation with race.
I’d like to riff off one of her secondary points here, though. In the course of developing her point, she mentions the recent dust-up over Dr. Laura Schlessinger. She – rightly – says that Dr. Laura made a huge error in judgement and taste and is now unsurprisingly having to end her radio show. What cheered me, though, and I say this as a conservative, is her characterization of Dr. Laura as sometimes “flippant and even cruel.” It’s about time somebody said it.
People who call Dr. Laura’s show are generally in desperate straits. Moreover, they generally know that they have goofed up, made poor moral choices, and found themselves where they are as a result. It’s also pretty clear from the ways in which the host treats them that she, in her championing of What’s Right above all else in the world, relishes the opportunity to rub their noses in their plight. She routinely tells people they are utter moral failures. She will stress how difficult it’s going to be for them to turn things around in their lives, Then she’ll pause for effect (As someone who does some radio, her deliberate use of dead air has always unnerved me) and stress it again. I’ve even heard her laugh at people’s plights. She has no room for even the slightest bit of compassion for, say, someone whose live-in lover of fifteen years has left. The couple wasn’t married, and in the doctor’s eyes, that trumps all other aspects of the situation.
Now, having said the foregoing, I sometimes find myself considering the possibility that the reason she comes off like such a buzz-saw of callousness is that, in this age of pervasive moral relativism, we find the asserting of absolutes too bracing for our consideration. In our postmodern culture, we tend to play patty-cake in situations where moral clarity is called for.
Dr. Laura’s overarching moral code is not the problem. For all her training and insight into others, she cannot see that she has a markedly undeveloped aspect to her own personality, that being the ability to cut one’s fellow human being a little slack for being human.
08.30.10
The power of shining a cyber-light in dark, smelly places
A former Air America employee had posted a $100,000 offer on Huffington Post for dirt on Glenn Beck, but HuffPo has removed it due to exposure of the sordid move by Free Republic.
08.28.10
Let’s get some accurate numbers
Zbigniew Marzurak at The American Thinker on the real figures regarding the defense outlay – in this fiscal year and in general – as a percentage of GDP and of the overall budget. Don’t buy this hooey about how it’s “bloated” and would be a great place to make big budget cuts.
The distant rumble of November thunder
The live stream-cast of Restoring Honor. Right now, the stage is rocking with some great gospel music. The Tweet feed on the right side of the page is mostly comprised of expressions of being thrilled at witnessing such an outpouring, but there is also a fair share of snark from lefties.
Governor Brewer isn’t going to take this lying down
The FHer regime’s report to the UN Human Rights Council, that is.
08.27.10
Our big chance not to be stupid
So a Republican National Senate Campaign Committee lawyer is heading to Alaska to help out Lisa Murkowski. Could there be a more unmistakable sign that the GOP establishment still insists on being the Stupid Party?
We’ve seen this so many times. W’s support of Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey. Newt’s support of Dede Scozafava over Hoffman in that special election in upstate New York last year.
A lot of lefty pundits lately are trumpeting a schism within the Pub party, and it’s mostly whistling past the graveyard since, schism or no, the Freedom-Haters are facing a bloodbath this fall. Still they have a point. Modern Pubs are of two types: those with Tea Party fire in their bellies, and Reasonable Gentlemen.
To any new BN readers out there, let me define my term “Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome.” It’s that mindset that says, “Well, yes, we have deep philosophical disagreements with our colleagues across the aisle, completely opposite policy prescriptions. But we know these guys. We run into them at lunch in the Capitol Hill mess, at social functions around Washington. Our kids go to the same schools. We’re all just Reasonable Gentlemen and Ladies earnestly keeping the nation’s best interest at heart. And politics is merely the art of the possible, so we presume some degree of compromise going into our work on any given issue.”
It basically amounts to rolling over, exposing your underbelly and inviting your mortal enemy to claw out your entrails. It sells out Americans’ freedom every time it’s practiced.
And now comes along a new type – and, in lots of cases, generation – of candidate, people with real and substantial experience in areas such as business or military service, people who indeed are not well-versed in the ways of Washington, with its system of gotcha and calling in favors and offering people cover for theri betrayal of principle with sound bites about “common ground.” The GOP establishment thinks – well, let’s be blunt here – that they’re a bunch of yay-hoos.
We’ll get our chance to demonstrate a massive show of force. Probably in both houses of Congress. But it’s our very last chance.
I’m going to take a little chance with my level of rhetoric here and say that I see Divine Providence sending us a clear message: Either go into this with a clear and comprehensive set of values and principles you’re willing to defend with the utmost fierceness, or you will be responsible, even more than the current regime, for the final undoing of the greatest esperiment in freedom in history.
UPDATE: It gets worse: The Alaska GOP phone-banked for Murkowski in the final days leading up to the primary.
08.26.10
California’s Freedom-Haters accomplish a twofer
Not a good time to be in the construction industry in the Golden State.
08.25.10
Damn it! This is why Arizona passed its immigration law
DHS is tossing out a big stack of illegal immigration cases.
We are so hosed.
“May have”
Legal Insurrection on the flawed assumptions and methodology of the CBO report on the stimulus.
You can’t make this stuff up – today’s edition
The Most Equal Comrade and his regime have submitted a report on the US’s performance in the human-rights realm to the UN Human Rights Council. That’s right – and it says that Arizona’s immigration law is a shortcoming in our human-rights record. Also infers that we torture detainees. Also touts affirmative action as a plus.
The Most Equal Comrade disdains freedom, dignity and common sense – that is, to the extent that he understands these things at all. He doesn’t have a patriotic bone in his body. He is a peril to Western civilization’s prospects for survival. He must go as soon as possible.
08.24.10
Ridiculous, surreal, scary and shameful
I think John Boehner has the right prescription: He calls on the Most Equal Comrade to fire his entire economic team.
It never takes long for the real story on these creeps to surface
You just knew it was only a matter of time until this came out.
I think of those America-haters lined along the streets of lower Manhattan Sunday, with their placards about “racist fear.” I think of columnists like Eugene Robinson trying to make 70 percent of America look like a frenzied mob on the fringe. I think about MSM bigwigs like Katie Couric prattling about the danger to “American values.”
Well, so it turns out this Faisal is an America-hating, Hamas-loving, Sharia zealot after all.
I’ve been thinking and writing a lot lately about the concept of disconnect. Wee see disconnect in every aspect, on every level, of American life these days. What makes for the proper attachment of the modifier “chillingly” before the adjective “surreal” in describing it is the fact that so many people with such ostensibly respectable credentials are throwing their disingenuousness – let’s be completely accurate here – their willingness to lie – in our faces. The above-mentioned arbiters of societal mood know damn well and have since this guy showed up on the radar screen that he was a radical Islamist.
And their “W’s State Department sent him on trips, too” meme doesn’t wash, either. As we’ve said many times here at BN, W and his administration were not consistent in their adherence to American principles. That’s why North Korea is still a threat. It’s why the fraud of climate change hasn’t died yet. And, of course, it’s a precipitating factor in the debt and deficit levels staring us in the face.
It’s some small comfort, I suppose, to know that when one’s hunches about some development on the national or world stage grow strong, one can be assured that facts will soon surface to back them up. The downside, though, is that countervailing lies still carry a lot of weight in these very strange times.
08.22.10
This one’s easy enough to smack them down on
How’s this for obscene? FHer apparatchiks are advising FHer Congresspeople not to bring up cost reduction when discussing FHer-care.
The main point on which they attempted to sell it to us (and never did, per poll numbers both before and since its passage) was that it was going to make the American health care system less expensive.
Well, okay, now that we know what they’re terrified of us bringing up, let’s bring it up – often and loudly.
