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Wednesday, October 10. 2012It's just not fairMan, does this tick me off. We proffered, on Monday, the theory that the media made a big deal about Obama losing the debate so as not to admit that Romney positively won with overwhelming presence, presence of mind, and firepower against a perfectly acceptable Obama presentation. To focus on Obama's loss is to diminish Romney's success - that's what we said. When winning a tennis match because your opponent had a broken arm, you deserve no credit - but Obama had no broken arm. Just one more good Maggie's insight, utterly ignored by the world outside our farm and our friendly coterie of readers. Today, Ann Althouse posts the same theory. What happens? She gets linked by Insty and then para-quoted by Rush on the radio. Dang! Rush doesn't even know we exist! I know it's small of me to even care, but, darn it, life isn't fair. (And no, I don't think Ann reads Maggie's. Wish she did because she's likeable enough.) Affirmative Action, Politics, and the SupremesForty years ago, affirmative action (designed for Americans With Some African Genetics) was instituted on a temporary basis in an effort to make up for years of presumed socio-economic marginalization, or as compensation for a history of American slavery, or as a political maneuver, or something. As a concept, it seems unconstitutional on its face. Today, it seems like insidious nonsense (eg, Is Obama more a black man or a white man? Or does the one-drop rule apply?). As you know, the Supremes took up a Texas affirmative action case today. The progressives on the Court are likely to desire to continue this unconstitutional entitlement for another 40 years or, God knows, forever. Why? Who knows? A reflex to condescension? Justice Kennedy is probably the swing vote. Here's Justice Kennedy and Affirmative Action. I think affirmative action is insulting and condescending. Some related items: Fire Dept of NYC required by judge to alter entry exam until racially balanced. I've seen plenty of Irish, Italian, and Hispanic NYC firemen, some black guys, but never an Asian fireman (are Indians also Asians? At some point, one can begin to sound like a Nazi with all of this genetic obesession). At American Thinker, Enough with Affirmative Action Presidents Ann Coulter: ‘Civil rights are for blacks -- what have we done to the immigrants?' NAACP goes after admissions policies at NYC's three elite high schools (once majority Jewish, now overwhelmingly Asian): NAACP Tries to Kill the Golden Goose. Because of all of the bright and ambitious new Asians, the gene counters are beginning to categorize Asians as "White." It's all insane because we're all the same species of ape: Homo semi-sapiens. It must be clear that I hate the idea of racial or ethnic discrimination in academia or in employment of any sort, but it doesn't happen these days because people will hire anybody who can get the job done. However, I think there are two subtle factors which might be holding back opportunities for Americans with African genes: 1, you can't be sure they aren't affirmative action applicants and, 2, if they don't work out in a position, there can be hell to pay to get rid of them because of their privileged situation. Just ask any HR department about this. Firing Barack Obama for poor performance would go a long way towards integrating Americans with Some African Genes into the normal mainstream of American life. The Peter Principle knows neither skin tone nor gender.
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Mark your calendar - The Nov. 28th comet
Comet brightness prediction, as evidenced by comets Kohoutek in '73 and Hale-Bopp in '96, both of which failed to live up to expectations, is a very imprecise science at best. Many comets have large 'outbursts' at great distance but tend to wane as they get closer to Earth. But both of the upcoming ones mentioned in the article look promising. And from a different article:
We'll keep our fingers crossed. Weds. morning linksPic above via Weather.com Harvard students celebrate 'Incest-Fest' Is this high school or college? Scotland's vitality was once the envy of the world Protestants No Longer Hold Majority in the US 7 Habits of Highly Frugal People Is This What Global Cooling Looks Like? 102-Year-Old Woman Still Drives Her 82-Year-Old Car Ann Romney: We Never Expected Media To Play Fair Mitt Romney traveled to the Virginia Military Institute yesterday — and took just 15 short minutes to shred the Obama-era first-term foreign-policy legacy. Feds Paid $40 Million to Claire McCaskill’s Husband’s Businesses Plant that got $150M in taxpayer money to make Volt batteries furloughs workers The Unmentionable Ethnicity: English-American Bankrupt green loan loser Abound Solar now under investigation in Colorado Al Gore No Longer Investing in Green Tech Hey, how come Jay Carney’s not holding televised press briefings anymore? Wynn On Obama: "I'll Be Damned If I Want To Have Him Lecture Me" Obama 'believed he had BEATEN Romney' in Denver debate - after ignoring advice of top aides on preparation Old Interview Sheds New Light on Obama's Debate Flop
Chicago's Susan Crown, Influential Obama '08 Supporter, Campaigns for Romney '12 Black actress does the unthinkable, endorses Romney Obama plays the Mormon card in Ohio Economic sanctions alone cannot cripple Iranian nuclear program, experts say Gulf of Tonkin: The Record Set Straight - fascinating video interview with Adm. Vesey Nazi Propaganda Makes a Comeback on Twitter Ramirez toon below via IBD Tuesday, October 9. 2012Ya gotta laugh about the Big Bird campaignYa gotta laugh about this PBS/Big Bird thing. FYI, the actor who plays Big Bird is paid $315,000/year. The boss of Sesame Street is paid $990,000/year. And who’s funding this? Well, in part, taxpayers: the federal government gave the CPB a grant of $444.1 million in 2012. Sesame Street, a non-profit arm of PBS, makes over $200 million in profit each year. I think the show is retarded but, regardless, why does it need my money? Furthermore, I think the idea of government support of media is profoundly un-American. The nation and the world are going to hell, and Obama is advertising about Big Bird. Romney only brought it up as an example of something we ought not to be borrowing money from China to support. Even Chris Matthews calls the Big Bird focus "Mickey Mouse" politics. Back in 2008, Obama said that, “if you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.” Big Bird is the epitome of Small Things. Photo from People's Cube
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"The good old days" (part MMMCLXVII)
I remember it well. $4 gas: Get used to it — CNN Money And just why do I remember it well? Because a Republican was in the White House at the time so the MSM went nuts over the escalating gas prices and every third article was about high gas prices and if only we had a reasonable person in the White House gas prices would be lower — and accompanying the articles came a bunch of cartoons and photochops and GIF animations on the subject which I faithfully collected in my Art Gallery and have occasionally looked at over the years. That's why I remember it well. I cheated. In honor of those glorious days of yesteryear, I have forthwith ported over said Gallery collection for your whimsical sighing over happier times gone by, back in the good old days when gas was a mere $3 a gallon. Continue reading ""The good old days" (part MMMCLXVII)" Tuesday morning linksMovie: Review of The Master Administrative bloat at Ohio State, where the ratio of full-time non-instructional staff to full-time faculty is more than 6-to-1 More medicalization attempts of climate skeptics by psychiatry professionals Why Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity Is Obesity a Disease or a Moral Failing? And what are we to make of the fact that an affliction of the rich is now predominantly a problem of the poor? Eratosthenes: Goodperson Fever
Congress members back legislation that could benefit themselves, relatives Debate not wanted: Colleges Closing Doors to Conservative Ideas Goodbye To The Army And Marines: Political Correctness Has Taken Over Unintended Consequences of Obamacare - Hiring part-timers The Impact of Federal Regulations on U.S. Manufacturing How Bork won in the end From Zero Interest Rate To Zero Retirement: How The Fed Doomed Elderly Americans To Endless Work Iran’s Charity Loophole - House Dems push for Iran sanctions exemptions
Kenneth Cole: ‘Why send money to Obama when you can buy our shoes?’ Humorless Libs freak out Battleground Poll: Romney Up 16 with Independents, Up 13 In Enthusiasm Romney offers powerful alternative to apologizing for America:
Rumor: GOP Wants to Ban Tampons Four Years Under Obama Wipes Away 30 Years of Black American Gains CURL: The dismantling of Barack Obama Obama’s Plan for Ohio - Making suburban taxpayers prop up failing Democratic cities. Out of touch: Obama lives in left-wing bubble Monday, October 8. 2012Pew pollRomney erases eight-point deficit, now leads by four among likely voters. Is that a temporary bounce? Or is it that people just hadn't seen unfiltered Romney and were happy to see a credible, appealing alternative to the Obama administration? At the least, it tells me that many people are openminded about considering Romney. Contrary to many or most news reports, I don't think that Obama "lost" the debate. To emphasize that is to minimize Romney's positive accomplishment. I think Romney "won," won by being a more impressive, knowledgeable, and serious figure. By the way, where are all the Obama bumper stickers this year?
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"Decline, Decay, Denial, Delusion, And Despair"The despairing but amusing and detailed post at Zero Hedge begins with this fine paragraph:
Read it all. He predicts decline, mostly due to American character weakness and degeneracy.
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Monday morning linksIt's Cristoforo Colombo Day here in the USA Celebrating Columbus, Brave and Bright - Imposing modern morality on the past is a form of historical illiteracy. "Virgin Birth" Seen in Wild Snakes (h/t Insty) 'Dilithium crystals' could cut Mars travel time to three months Sweden: Lunch lady slammed for food that is 'too good' Cosmetic surgery for Korean kids TigerHawk: In which I explain why "you didn't build that" so offended business people Facebook Breaks One Billion Users People Don’t Want More Government Spending, So Why Does It Always Rise? Related: Saco Taxpayers Outraged They Have To Pay For All The Crap They Voted For Last Year Jim Gorman: Too many rich Wall Streeters $1.4 trillion in state pension fights foreshadowed in Rhode Island (h/t Hot Air):
Employment Remains Worse Than During the Recession Kudlow: Is Ben Bernanke Generating the Mother of All Bubbles? Why he's falling apart - The foundations of Obama's campaign are not nearly as strong as they once seemed Full audio of 1998 ‘redistribution’ speech: Obama saw welfare recipients as ‘majority coalition’ Obama’s Aides Plot Comeback Biden can be pretty effective on stage (h/t Jacobson): Sunday, October 7. 2012Assault on free speechFrom Chicago Boyz on the easily-offended: What Century is This?
Be careful, Zbig. You are making me very angry with that kind of speech. Maybe we need to crack down on that kind of disturbing speech. Sunday afternoon linksPic: It's Oktoberfest. That's my beer and smokes from the deck of a Danube riverboat a couple of years ago. Just a boatride. Yes, that is the original Czech Budweiser Huckleberry Finn is just a boatride. Urban Coyotes Could be Setting the Stage for Larger Carnivores to Move Into Cities (h/t Jungle Man) Plenty of cougars around town already World Porridge Making Championships held in Carrbridge Update on the brothels of Amsterdam Does Fast Food Marketing Make Kids Fat? Dalio: Buy gold With what? Not Even Hillary Clinton Can Look Away From Christina Aguilera’s Ample Bosom "Not even"? Venetians want their independence back Electric Cars Hurt the Environment Balancing the Makers and Takers Sean Penn campaigns in Venezuela — for Hugo Chavez Declining interest rates = declining common sense New jobs report shows growth, but in low-skill, part-time jobs Chart below via Carpe
Image via Theo "I’m asking you to keep believing in me." Is this a religion? Romney, MSNBC, and the McGurk Effect Desperate Dems Hide Behind Big Bird Obama’s Boys on the Bus - The media pull out all the stops to reelect the president. Klavan: A Fantasy Election, an Imaginary Man - Barack Obama has always been less real than dream—a media dream:
McCarthy: Obama is a phoney "When the hermetic, perfect world created in 2008 came into being, the Lightbringer at its center was protected from the moment of his nomination in a kind of numinous cloud of cultural, media and elite opinion protection." It was boob bait. Axelrod understands boob bait. Ryan’s Impossible Debate Challenge New polls show Romney overtaking Obama in Colorado, nationally People just wanted to see a viable, credible alternative Steyn: Sesame Nation - Big Bird should leave the government nest. Big essay: Mort Zuckerman: Why the Country Is Unhappy Under Obama From Driscoll's Observation Can Become an Intervention — The Reverse Is Also True:
Is America Kindergarten?From Bidinotto (h/t Insty): Election 2012 and the Clash of Narratives - "Why Let the Rich Hoard All the Toys?" Besides going after the infantile zero-sum narrative on economics, he extols the miracle of growth and productivity - the growing pie. One quote:
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Saturday, October 6. 2012We're Not All That Impressed With This Romney ChapIt begins:
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Clutching at straws
First is CBS News, which has gone to what might be called a 'news blog' format. That is, the format small blog sites like Power Line switch to when they want to appear more relevant and 'newsy'. And check out the 'social media' influence in the right sidebar. Most Popular. Most Shared. Most Discussed. Follow us. Screw the news — we just want to hear what you have to say! And then ABC News gets into the act, also going with the 'lotsa big pictures' format, but at least they still carry some of that pesky 'news' stuff down at the bottom. But — speaking of 'social media' having an influence — check out the jaw-dropper that USA Today has become. If you have a tablet, notebook or smartphone, USA Today is the site for you! What do you mean, "web browser"? What's that? And notice what's missing from the bottom half of the page. Yep, that pesky news stuff. Why bother! It strikes me that there's a flaw in the logic of dumbing-down news sites to appeal to the "Ooh, lotsa pictures!" crowd. They're thinking they'll tap into this market, but my contention would be that the social media crowd doesn't read standard news sites to begin with, and, when it does, it reads the news off Google or Yahoo or MSN or AOL. The good news is, while half of those abandoning these three digital train wrecks will end up on the left-leaning CNN or NBC sites, the other half will end up on Fox News. So I'd call it a net plus for our side. And one thing I personally found interesting with these three particular sites going the social media route is their placement on my page of links. I have the links listed in the order I stop by every morning, first reading Fox to get the right-wing side of things, then CNN for the left side, then (formerly MSNBC) NBC News for the ultra-left. Then I look over the right- and left-wing Washington papers, then skim through the three lesser news sites: Fox CNN NBC I find it interesting that the three news sites I find least consequential are the three that decided not to be news sites anymore. Probably just a coincidence. Saturday morning linksCover image from The New Yorker's cover story (since when do they have cover stories?) Eastwood strikes again Neat stuff: Best Gear Is Licorice the Lady's Viagra? Jane Austen and self-help Snacking tourists fined after Rome declares 'War on the Sandwich' The History of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Helicopter Parents vs. Free Range Kids: Q&A with "America's Worst Mom" Lenore Skenazy Boy crazy - The United States is a new mecca for parents who choose their baby's sex Heather Gerken’s Progressive “Federalism All the Way Down”
John Stossel Exposes the Fraud of Government Job Training Programs Stay the hell away from alternative energy!” Al-Qaeda Is Alive and Well Does Archbishop Tutu Endorse Holocaust Conspiracies? A Yes Man Says No - Jerry Brown angers his labor-union friends with some expedient vetoes. A trillion-dollar tax increase FTC cracks down on energy-efficiency ads, including some by firms Obama touted Why the Networks Cut Exit Polls U.S. Soldiers Urged Not to Shoot Taliban at Night so Locals Can Sleep European Food Safety Authority Finds Controversial GM Study Wanting Intelligence officials angered by Obama administration cover up of intelligence on Iranian, al Qaeda surge in Egypt and Libya
Honest Joe strikes again! Biden: ‘Yes, we do want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars’ Romney seizes lead over Obama: poll Romney's debate victory spooked the mainstream media. This is why Republicans nominated him Noonan: Romney Deflates the President Romney Hits the Air Waves Biden: Yes, We Want to Raise Taxes by $1 Trillion Bummer: “Greatest Threat Facing Humanity” Not Mentioned During Debate At Drudge this morning:
UW Madison Students: 'Unfair' That Obama Couldn't Use Teleprompter in Debate Debate Ratings Show Obama Picked the Wrong Night to Flop From Taranto:
Friday, October 5. 2012Get Ready for Chicago RulesMitt Romney stuck a stick into a hornet's nest by ripping off Obama's mask. John McCain never dared do that, or chose not to. Get Ready for Chicago Rules - Mr. Romney has exposed the weaknesses in the president's re-election strategy. We can now expect nonstop vilification. Watch for things to get uglier and more dishonest than you can imagine. It's already begun. The ends justify the means.
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More Obama Crony Corruption ExposedTwo more of the Obama administration’s crony corruption cheats are crumbling. These are but two of the lower profile Obama crony enrichment schemes that will need to be eliminated should we get a Republican administration after next November, and indicative of schemes we must be sure to expose should any Republicans try their version of crony capitalism. I’ve often written about the scheme to tax tourists to the US to subsidize the highly profitable US tourism industry, companies like Disney. My exposes led to a 7,000 word expose in the Washington Post that scuttled the legislation, that is until President Obama and his heavily Democrat Congress took power after the 2008 elections. Then, the legislation was passed and signed. The leaders of this tourism travesty were heavy contributors to the Obama campaign. I last wrote about this boondoggle here (with links to earlier reporting.) The Washington Free Beacon has been keeping up with the story. Here’s its latest (with links to its earlier reporting).
Thermal windows can often add quiet or temperature moderation. But, exaggerated claims for the economic payback of energy efficiency are getting increased Federal Trade Commission attention. What a surprise! Several of the leading offenders are significant Obama contributors who received significant subsidies from the Obama administration’s so-called stimulus and at least one is now a failing business. McClatchy news service:
For all the caterwauling by Democrats about Bain, there’s no indication of corruption. That finger, actually, points at the Obama administration. But, it is a fair question to candidate Romney what he will do to end crony capitalism within his administration. And, then, let's hold his administration to transparency.
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Friday morning linksTrash Cams May Monitor Discarded Federally Imposed Vegetables Three innings? Not bad 10 Things I Hate That Everybody Loves The girl’s guide to visiting the USS Makin Island To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets One man's heroic quest: Cataloging 350,000 medal-of-valor winners Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril - It could become illegal to resell your iPhone 4, car or family antiques "Jesus’ Wife" text fragment a fake Executive Pay: How Much Is Too Much? Doctor seeking Illinois Senate seat offers brutal diagnosis of ObamaCare in viral video California Governor extends $100 million Hollywood tax credit… now it’ll be cheaper for them to make movies about the evils of corporate welfare Why unions fear this film - Revealing truths about schools Airline to help upset voters leave the U.S. Left-Right Agreement on Affirmative Action? HHS: Bible publisher not a ‘religious employer’ The Road to Recovery - As Hayek taught, freedom and the rule of law drive prosperity. McArdle: The Benefits of Business Experience Glenn: With liberty and taxes for all The Price of Public Health Care Insurance Mallory Factor: How Public Unions Exploit the Ruse of 'Official Time' - Government employees get paid to spend time on the job working on union projects that they don't disclose to managers or the public. CNN hits hard on Libya: The only conclusion is that the White House tried to cover something up Undecided voters in focus group swing sharply toward Romney; Frank Luntz: ‘I’ve never seen anything like this’; CBS post-debate poll shows big win for Romney I can't believe this paragraph at Politico:
Romney spokesman - There will be a complete review of Obama DOJ under a Romney admin Coulter On Race Tape: "He Just Turns It On & Suddenly We Got Malcolm X" Obama: “Rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want.” Brokaw: If Romney Performed Like Obama Did Last Night 'It Would Have Been Over' HURT: Obama the debater: Making Jimmy Carter look awesome Mika Brzezinski on Debate: “I’m Sick to My Stomach” Stewart: Er, the president isn’t looking quite as brilliant as he used to
This administration lies whenever lying is expedient in a scheme it is trying to accomplish or an accusation it is trying to dodge. Torture Creep - Why are more Americans accepting Bush-era policies than ever before? Sensitive documents left behind at U.S. diplomatic post in Libya China moves to silence journalists who offered rare taste of transparency Report: Obama Admin Rejected Military Intervention in Benghazi During Attack In Syria, Assad crosses the red lines Thursday, October 4. 2012Gas: I'm filled up... (Update: YIPES!)Heck, in my area, I just paid $4.239, and that's for regular. How're prices in your neck of the woods? Update: YIPES! I just refilled the gas tank for a camping trip tomorrow, a day after than the above post, and the regular gas price jumped to $4.689 !!!!!!! And, reports say that the California price is expected to jump again. Looks like prices are high everywhere, with California now even topping Hawaii. But, Hawaii is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, with high transport costs. What's California's excuse? Ordinary maintenance of local refineries removes some capacity, which can't be filled in with gas from neighboring states due to California having its own different higher cost fuel composition standards. So, on top of California and some other states not allowing new refineries to be built, on top of gas prices driven up by mandating corn in it, and world food markets driven up by our diversion of corn into the gas tank, and the dollar being devalued by debt so it costs more to buy oil, California wants to be Hawaii! I know, many of you say, set California adrift. Thanks to envirocrazies, California is adrift, in high costs, high debt, shortages, middle class bailing out, companies leaving. -- Steven Hayward, another California resident, at Hot Air, hopes without real expectation that California voters will wisen up. This map, found by Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, neatly sums it up:
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There's no debate about the big debate
Leftie Chris Matthews: What was he doing out there? Leftie Bill Maher tweeted:
Romney was the adult in the room Powerline: It's Over:
Romney was having fun. The O just wanted to go home and turn on the TV. Sullivan: A disaster for the President Politico: Not debatable: Obama stumbled -
Juan Williams was "caroling"? Pajamas: Left and Right Come Together to Slam Obama’s Bomb of a Night (and Lehrer) - But was the president's bland, dispassionate performance actually part of a campaign strategy? For the pity vote? Podhoretz: Massacre leaves liberals in tears Dejected Libs Ed Schultz & Rachel Maddow on Obama’s Debate Performance: ‘I’m Disappointed’ Commenter at Powerline: "Remind me if I ever become a community organizer not to debate a CEO." Commenter at Mediaite: About a hour into the debate, I almost felt bad for the President. He was completely outclassed and seemed intimidated by the Governor. Best comment line is from Insty: "The ego has landed." Best line from Romney: “I’ve been in business for 25 years. I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Romney said in the most devastating understatement of the night.
Krauthammer: Romney ‘won by two touchdowns’:
My email from Barack at 12:42 am:
Wednesday, October 3. 2012Omigod! Left finally recognizes Hamas as horribleIt is a signal event when even some from the political left who has long sided with pro-Palestinian assertions wakes up and recognizes the horror that is Hamas. In 2005, Israel unilaterally removed its military and residents from Gaza, leaving behind the infrastructure and commercial ventures Israel and Israelis had built. Muslim Brotherhood's spawn, Hamas, then took control over Gaza away from the Palestinian Authorities Fatah. Since, Gazans and Hamas have destroyed that inheritance and live off the charity of others, mostly Western. The thousands of rockets fired into Israel are excused by Western apologists. But, the human rights abuses by Hamas against Gazans is finally being recognized by some in the anti-Israel camp. Let’s take a Lebanese blog, NOW:
The Middle East section of Human Rights Watch has long often carried the Palestinian meme as a major critic of Israel. Yet, Human Rights Watch’s latest report on Gaza is summed up in its release headline: “Gaza: Arbitrary Arrests, Torture, Unfair Trials.”
Human Rights Watch doesn’t let the Palestinian authorities in the West Bank get off lightly either:
Western funding, and Western apologists, keeps these two parasites on humanity existing, with little incentive to either decently treat those under their rule, stop siphoning away aid funds into leaders' foreign bank accounts, end hate propaganda among their residents, and cease attacks upon Israelis.
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Weds. morning linksGood News! Only Two Years Left Till The World Ends From Climate Change Al Gore: Can I buy the rights to your firestorm footage to use in my global warming presentations? Filmmaker: Nah, it’d be deliberately deceptive George Osborne’s CO2 tax will double UK electricity bills Dr. Ryan Maue releases new hurricane frequency data showing a negative trend in the last 30 years John Dewey Is a Fraud Professsors who bashed the Constitution on Constitution Day Media Watch: Stephanopoulos Calls 8 of 9 Debates for Dems How the Media Will Cover Wednesday's Presidential Debate They have already written their pieces Elizabeth Warren hat-tips Richard Lugar, who promptly endorses Scott Brown Benghazi attacks were threatened on Facebook Will: Why Americans Might Tolerate This Failed President The Obama strategy: A carnival campaign for the "low-knowledge voter" Good insight. It's not directed towards you. Push calls in Ohio ask 'How can you support a 'Mormon' who does not believe in Jesus Christ?' Exclusive: In heated ’07 speech, Obama lavishes praise on Wright, says feds ‘don’t care’ about New Orleans Government Union’s Pro-Obama ‘Garbage’ Attack Ad Backfires Official Victim Status for Arab-Americans? What? Ten lessons the U.S. should learn from Afghanistan's history No-one is going to write a check to the Palestine Authority. The question is: when will the world also grow weary of Egypt? Tuesday, October 2. 2012Big C update: Final entry* Greetings, all. Just got in yesterday afternoon. Again, my deepest thanks to everyone who helped out. Life is so precious. Re the five-year media blackout on negative news about ObamaGeorge Orwell, via Sultan:
Sultan was writing about Islam, but it applies to politics in the US in general right now. See A Guide to the Obama Administration’s Five Major Scandals for Mainstream Media Dummies. Any one of these would have had a Repub crucified on the front pages for months, leaving them battered and bloodied.
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