Giant Burmese python caught in Florida
DC Boomtown–The New Versailles
French riots: Amiens buildings torched in clashes
Brown Targets Warren, Class-Warfare Rhetoric
The Democrats’ 2012 campaign: A bloody spectacle, almost too horrible to watch
Obama's Strange Dependence on Valerie Jarrett
'TAKE YOUR CAMPAIGN OF DIVISION AND ANGER AND HATE BACK TO CHICAGO' - Details here. A quote from Romney:
In 2008, Candidate Obama said, “if you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters.” He said, “if you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.” And that, he told us, is how, “You make a big election about small things.”
That was Candidate Obama describing the strategy that is the now the heart of his campaign.
VDH: ‘White’ on the Brain:
If the Obama labeling campaign is successful, voting for Romney will mean becoming socially unacceptable; it will be tantamount to embracing a Neanderthal sort of mindset that opposes Obama not on his disastrous economic policies but simply because of his race.
Sultan: The problem with being a moderate:
By constantly moving to the left, the left is exerting control of the political space, defining the Overton Window in terms of its own political leanings. Moderates become slow leftists and conservatives become slower leftists. The entire spectrum comes to be defined by the positions of the left. Everyone in the spectrum becomes a leftist of radical, moderate or conservative temperament.
"Shockingly, the discussion reflected a “deep distrust” of individuals’ ability to make their own decisions."
Why We Need Debate, Not Consensus, on Climate Change
The Real Issue in Climate
Leftist Planet - Why do so many travel guides make excuses for dictators?
Almost completely cut off from the maw of McDonald's, Madonna and other global corporate-cultural influences, Cuba retains a refreshing preserved quality. It's a space and place that serves as a beacon for the future -- universal education, health care and housing are rights people the world over want, need and deserve.
Why I'm leaving China (fixed - a very interesting article)
