Wednesday, September 21. 2011
 Prager: Why Young Americans Can’t Think Morally - Moral standards have been replaced by feelings.
Related: This just in… sin is a medical problem…
Pop music: The Boredom of Whoredom
Via Insty, What I Learned At Dartmouth
Scot Speech To Be Controlled Everywhere
Morrissey: Has Obama quit already? Judging by his plans for job creation and deficit reduction, the president has given up on policy accomplishments in favor of playing politics
Schoen: Obama Setting Trap for Republicans With His Tax Plan
White House: No, We're Not Really Serious About Passing These Jobs And Tax Ideas
The Geography of Obama’s Tanking Approval Ratings
'We Were Impressed' - To the New York Times, opinion polls test whether the public passes muster.
Obama's Luck Goes from Poor to Horrible, or, Political Comedy Is Never Having to Say, "I'm Funny"
Buchanan: Whose Country Is It, Anyway?
European model imploding
Americans Say Federal Gov't Wastes Over Half of Every Dollar
Taxing the billionaires:
Very wealthy people such a Mr. Buffett tend to earn their money in one of three ways: as investors, as entrepreneurs, or as executives in large enterprises. In each case, salary is a relatively small part of total compensation: Rather than getting a regular paycheck, investors, entrepreneurs, and top executives most often are rewarded with an ownership stake in their firms. As they work to increase the value of the business, they enrich themselves as well. This is a desirable arrangement to the extent that it aligns the financial interests of a company’s management with those of its shareholders.
The Myth of Middle-Class Stagnation. Graph from the article:
Man Who Shot Grizzly Bear Defending His Family is Fined
Not that we would have been pussies and used the pesticide anyway.
Tuesday, September 20. 2011
President Obama's path to reducing deficits is being laughed off as playing politics with demagoguery while deficits widen. But, according to Obama, "this is not class warfare; it's math."
As the Associated Press Fact Check points out:
This year, households making more than $1 million will pay an average of 29.1 percent of their income in federal taxes, including income taxes and payroll taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank.
Households making between $50,000 and $75,000 will pay 15 percent of their income in federal taxes.
Lower-income households will pay less. For example, households making between $40,000 and $50,000 will pay an average of 12.5 percent of their income in federal taxes. Households making between $20,000 and $30,000 will pay 5.7 percent.
That doesn't include the higher charges paid by middle-class and wealthier retirees for Part B Medicare, nor the lesser amounts received by them from Social Security relative to prior incomes or contributions.
One of the areas targeted by the tax-more crowd is capital gains. There's no recognition of the extra risks involved in investing, that much of the gains represent inflation, or that much or all of the amounts invested were already taxed.
Then, there's the false assertion that the middle class suffered most during the better pre-recession period.
No. In the seven years from 2001-2007 (inclusive), not only did the middle class get at least its fair share of overall income growth, the income gap between the rich and the middle class actually got smaller. In an apparent paradox, the same Census Bureau database that told us that median household income was essentially unchanged in 2007 versus 2000 also tells us that the middle class enjoyed a higher income growth rate than did either the overall economy or the rich—and therefore that their income gap versus the rich had actually decreased.
President Obama may be appealing to his base, largely made up of those who pay little or no taxes already, but is cementing the attitude of those who are productive who see him as further undermining and stalling economic recovery.
The International Monetary Fund just downgraded the economic outlook for the US (and Europe). Yeah, higher taxes should fix that, huh?
No, you are way worse than that, David. You were played, dude, because you wanted to be played. Had you done the job that you are well-paid to do, that would not have happened. His pressed pants, his skin color, his Harvard Law, and his glibness took you in. No real street newsman would have been conned that easily by an obvious street hustler:
I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap.
You still are, David. You live in a rainbow pony cocoon, a land of wishful thinking. It is pathetic and irresponsible. A journalist without skepticism, a healthy dose of cynicism, and a healthy dose of whiskey, is not worth a damn.
You, David, are a pussy journalist. You drink milk with dinner. That's why you work at the Times.
 Oktoberfest begins this week
Why wait til Oktober?
Autistic and seeking a place in an adult world
Quiet's dangerous.
The Big Business of Vaginas
Taki: The Day I Left the Left
Winning lethal encounters
Ice: This is bad news for the people of Greenland who would love to be rid of all that ice that covers valuable resources that Greenlanders could exploit.
Gates: Islam is not the problem
Similar: Europe’s Moral Decadence Fuels Spread of Islamic Fundamentalism- The left has done its job well: Norwegian reporters, for fear of being accused of Islamophobia, are now actually loath to remind readers that there is such a thing as Islamic terrorism.
No historical link between CO2 and temperature
I'd call that settled science
Erdogan Has Good Reason To Be Crazy
Congress resists rush for an LGBT military - Obama Pentagon tries to impose homosexual service unilaterally
JFK’s Widow Blasted Times Over Cuba
The Chinese government’s ‘vacuum cleaner’ approach to espionage is worrying foreign governments, companies and overseas dissidents. They’re right to be concerned.
Is There a Good Reason Why It's Taking So Long to Rebuild the World Trade Center?
“We can’t just leave it up to the parents," Michelle Obama
Isn't she a parent?
Obama Rose Garden speech reveals route to victory in 2012
Barnes: Whip Unemployment Now? - The Obama presidency enters its pathetic phase.
Obama: Cut Medicare
Rahm Emanuel To Unions: [Redacted] You
Obama Wants Americans to “Pay Their Fair Share” Except For the 47% Who Pay No Taxes
FACT CHECK: Are Rich Taxed Less Than Secretaries?
No Pasaran:
I'm sure you've seen the endless drip of announcements and adulations. They give away Free cash money for free to put super-duper, earth transforming solar panels on you roof:
City, federal incentives make installing a solar panel a zero dollar investment
To whom, exactly is it of no cost?
Monday, September 19. 2011
 Regarding the jobless American economy, the esteemed Prof Krugman wants to borrow more from China, and spend it.
Obama wants to raise taxes, and then spend that money on government jobs, union work, and crony businesses. Vote-buying, in short - illegal on the individual level but quite legal on a larger scale. As our reader says, taking water out of one end of the pool and, after taking your cut, pouring the rest back into another side of the pool. How does tax-and-spend benefit anything except the government industry?
Does any of that make any rational sense? Or am I stupid?
Since the recession, we have had a government doing everything it can to suppress, leash, and stifle the animal spirits of American enterprise. Why are the predictable results always "unexpected"? Where would we be, now, without China's loans?
We miss Reagan's common sense. The Dems are blinded to reality by ideological sentiment. Money doesn't grow on trees.
From the CT Post:
...the state's aggregate public sector employee compensation grew a robust 54 percent from 2000 to 2007, and another 13 percent from 2007 to 2010. For the decade from 2000 to 2010, it grew from $10.5 billion to $18.2 billion, or a whopping 73 percent.
Average compensation per worker reflects this dramatic dichotomy. In 2000, a private sector worker earned about $3,600, or 8 percent, more than a public sector employee. By 2009, the relationship had reversed: the average public sector employee out-earned his private sector counterpart by almost $9,000 or 15 percent.
The stumper of a question is what can be done to resuscitate a private sector stooping ever lower with this ever-weightier monkey on its back.
Well, we might start by segregating the "Class Apart" from the citizenry. Government employees and citizens are certainly not "in this together."
No, indeed. It's them against us.
Sunday, September 18. 2011
From a medical malpractice defense lawyer: "I can pick any one of your charts at random and, in a little while, find a potential malpractice case in there. Why? Because few things in medical care work out perfectly, and they can easily find another doc in your specialty from an Ivy medical school to say, at $1500/hour plus expenses, that he would have done it a little differently. My advice? Move to Texas where they will appreciate you docs. Texas wants happy, caring doctors who do not view every patient as a potential lawsuit."
Pimp Your Ride - Why own what you can rent? And why not rent out what you own?
This should not apply to girlfriends or wives.
 What Lucky People Do Differently than Unlucky People
The politics of nostalgia: Crosby, Still, Nash & Pinch
Via Tiger: RICHARD RUSSELL: 12 TIPS FOR THE NEW NORMAL
Chicago:
"We will help you be a good steward for your health," Emanuel said Friday, "but if you choose not to, you'll pay that price and that is the price you'll have to pay."
All of your body is belong to us
Krauthammer: Playing ‘Medi-scare’ the ‘only hope’ for Democrats
Oh, come on, CBS, you can do better
The New Face of Organized Labor
Meteorologists of the world, unite!
Quit Coddling the Rich. Quit Coddling the Poor. Quit Coddling Everybody.
The Obama administration has gone on the offensive against for-profit colleges, but Ronald Trowbridge thinks it’s ignoring similar problems at non-profit schools
Mead on India: The Most Important Story You Will See All Day?
We need these Indians to be reading Maggie's
North Dakota Celebrates 60 Years of Oil; Future Looks Bright - ND Could Surpass CA and Alaska Soon
Bill Maher: “There’s a Term for People Who Hate Charity and Love Killing – Christian”
City Fines Christians $300 For Holding Bible Study In Their Home
Brilliant!
Bernie: Bad News on the Doorstep
Parker: Are Republicans stupid?
There are, of course, lots of ways to be smart and lots of ways to be dumb. We often talk about book smarts and street smarts, as though the two are mutually exclusive. We know from experience that brilliant book people can be nincompoops when it comes to common sense, while people lacking formal education can be brilliant problem-solvers.
We know these things, yet we seem to have fallen in love with the notion that only book smarts matter when it comes to the nation’s problems. At least Democrats have.
Photo is the Litchfield, CT Congregational Church, c. 1750. Architecturally, classic New England Congo churches are plain old-time boxy meeting houses, gussied up with a steeple and a portico.
Saturday, September 17. 2011
 The excellent New English Review is advertising for a Diversity Officer. They wonder how they have been able to function all these years without one.
The densest urban environment in the world is rather pleasant
Forbes: Want Less Inequality? Stop Subsidizing Schools And Universities
Mataconis: You Can Be Compassionate Without Supporting Big Government
Carville doubles down: Obama ‘not going to win re-election on the course he’s on right now’
Obama Spends $4,853,000 per Green Energy Job
Staggering racial preferences are in use at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
We oppose racial preferences at Maggie's. We believe that an Asian gal is no less worthy a human than a Hispanic gal - other qualities being equal. But I do understand - race is all about politics. Still, I don't quite get why, if you're half Hispanic (is Hispanic a race?), you're Hispanic. Are you Hispanic if you come from Spain? Or Argentina?
Liberals turn racist
Fixing the economy is as easy as pie
Obama: America sounds its barbaric yawn
Cronygate gets worse. I still think Gunwalker is the creepier scandal. Yo, MSM. We got good fresh scandals here. Where are Woodward and Bernstein?
Unexpectably miserable
A frustrated, incoherent president wants to blame you for the disaster his client-Statism has created
General Amos - Leading the Way For Seapower
George Will: At the Pentagon, the specter of a sequester
Peretz: Why Won’t Obama List Israelis Among the Victims of Terrorism?
Canada's Oil Sands Are a Jobs Gusher
IBD: The U.S. Bails Out A Profligate EU
Obama's Twitter Disaster
Funniest one I saw was a report that "Yesterday I saw three ATMs kill a job in an alley."
Paul Krugman Is Back Out From Under His Desk - He’s still a fool and a liar, though.
Envy:
I am middle class and I love to see the rich get richer. That's what they are trying to do. I am not trying to be rich so I have no envy of their accomplishing what I am not attempting. Bless the rich their good fortune; don't despise them for being able to do what you can't.
I'd be pleased to be rich, but I somehow never get around to doing anything about it other than buying Powerball tickets. My money manager pal tells me that most people stop worrying about money when they have $17-20 million. I'd make out OK with half of that if I scrimped on some things.
TSA Creator: The Whole Thing is a Fiasco. Screeners Should Be Privatized, Agency Dismantled
Reason Reviews Rehabilitating Lochner
Friday, September 16. 2011
Huge Gladiator School Found Buried in Austria
Oh, Come On, Men Aren't Finished - Women are joining men as partners in running the world, not replacing them.
I can drive to Russia from my house
A pub in NYC where you can still smoke
The Misery Index in Carter territory
Waxman blames greedy Jews
Samuelson: Europe's Banking Crisis
Going Galt: Boehner: “Job creators are on strike”
Also, They Gave a Recovery and Nobody Came - Some things even the Obama brain trust doesn’t want credit for.
Will the arrival of school choice in the Hoosier State shatter the government's education monopoly?
The Trojan horse for trial lawyers in Obama’s jobs bill
The Fog of Mediscare
The state of our military? Increasingly decrepit
WaPo: Obama's Green Energy Loan Program a Bust - Five percent of jobs promised have been created.
More on Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Who Endorsed Obama Dissents! Resigns from American Physical Society Over Group's Promotion of Man-Made Global Warming
From Down Under:
...we will be the laughing stock of the world, seen jumping head first off a cliff into a shark infested sea, as we will have no way back, because we were sold a tax that has nothing to do with climate change, instead introduced purely for egotistic governance.
Thursday, September 15. 2011
Retriever is back from a trip to Turkey.
We love to visit Turkey.
RINOs Rhinos who have trouble getting laid
Let's have government run wireless.
Brilliant!
Obama jobs plan: Raise taxes on health care
Brilliant!
What about international altruism?
Feel- good nonsense, seems to me
The Hypocrisy of “Humanitarian Activists”
Feel-good nonsense, seems to me
Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project brings on Miss Rhode Island to talk about sea level rise
The only reason to watch
Report: Mortgage default warnings spiked in August, signaling potential new foreclosure wave
Editorial: 'Jobs Bill' Is About Politics, Not Jobs
Exactly right
Obama: If you love me, pass this bill!
What's love got to do with it?
Obama Approval Plummets on Jobs Plan
Democrats have problem with Obama Jobs package
Politics: Talkin' sh-t
Green scams jobs
Everybody knows it's a joke
Perry and the Profs - he picked the right fight
Is there a government in Mexico? Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users
Cabo is very pleasant
India's Mangled School Reforms - The country’s new voucher provisions won’t increase choice.
Brit crims: One in four riot suspects had 10 previous offences
Duh
Obama Tainted by Loan Guarantees to Solar Firms
That's my money they are throwing away
The Renewable Energy Boondoggle - The truth about wind and solar power
On Afghanistan, getting story right
Democrats Cultivate Fear, Anti-Evangelical Hostility, To Drive Jewish Vote
Do the Jews scare easily? I am not sure they do
Egyptian Islamist Militants Following Khomeini's Script
Texting Makes U Stupid
Report: ‘Romneycare’ a jobs killer
Stossel: Ponzi Ponzi Ponzi
Adding Taki to our blogroll - "eclectic"
Fun site
Solyndra Loan: Now Treasury Dept. Is Launching Investigation
Do they think we are retarded?
Pure to a fault - Our fear of chemicals and germs might be doing us harm
NYT: Serious’ Error Found in Carbon Savings for Biofuels
Big surprise, that. I have burned corn on the cob on the grill, by mistake. Never on purpose.
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Criminal Section
Jobs in Texas? Nobody told me.
The Pentagon has worried for months that a project backed by a prominent Democratic donor might interfere with military GPS. Now Congress wants to know if the White House pressured a general to change his testimony.
Crony capitalism, redux
Dems and business, perfect together. Especially Wall st.
Nobel guy rebels against AGW scam
As the international noose grows ever tighter about Israel’s throat, the learned classes of Diaspora Jewry are not asking themselves the right questions.
Praying in Paris streets outlawed
Vietnamese political prisoner Truong Van Suong dies in detention
Sowell:
Small businesses — hardware stores, gas stations or restaurants for example — are likewise unable to transfer themselves overseas. So they are far more likely to be unable to escape the higher tax rates that are supposedly being imposed on "millionaires and billionaires," as President Obama puts it. Moreover, small businesses are what create most of the new jobs.
Why then are so many politicians, journalists and others so gung-ho to raise tax rates in the upper brackets?
Obama Administration Gave $17.2 Billion in Stimulus Funds to Green Projects – Only $645 Million to Small Business
Will it be the Jews next? Image below via Moonbattery:
Wednesday, September 14. 2011
That's all he's got, for now - another stimulus. Youngman:
This is the campaign.
For the rest of 2011, at least, Obama and his team will speak of little else. This is the debate they want to have, and they are betting the president’s job on their belief they can win this debate.
This is sports strategy, not serious adult concern about the state of the country. Wehner asks Has Obama Learned Anything?
Mr. Hinderaker finally gets to the important things
Cartoonish advice for the easily distracted
More cartoonish advice coming: Gore’s 24 Hours of Fantasy About To Begin - An effort to "expose" climate change skeptics will instead show that Gore is a charlatan. My questions for Mr. Gore:
1. Has the earth truly been warming lately?
2. If so, can it be proven that man caused that?
3. And if so, why does it matter?
4. What's the ideal climate for the earth? Isn't climate always in flux?
5. If you are really so worried, why do you have two giganto houses, a giganto power boat, travel in huge black SUVs, eat meat, and fly on private jets?
6. How much money have you made off this thing?
7. What is the upside of climate warming, like in the Medieval period?
8. Why aren't you worried frantic about the next ice age, or the next asteroid, the next nuclear war, or the next plague, instead?
Pennsylvania Judge Strikes Down Insurance-Buying Mandate in Obamacare
Another WH scandal: Emails: Obama White House Monitored Huge Loan to 'Connected' Firm
Cuba to drill six oil wells off Florida coast
Mead: Cuba: Not Yet Ready For Change
Socialist to run against Scott Brown
Israel: 360-Degree Hostility
China woos Caribbean nations
Detroit Sets Future on Two-Tier Wages; That Could Be Part of the American Manufacturing Renaissance
It took Don Rumsfeld this long?
The Obama economy: Poverty rate rises as incomes decline - Census
Cal Thomas: Obama Is Lost, Incapable of Changing Course:
Obama is like a lost man who refuses to ask for directions. That's because he has never worked in the real world with people who create real jobs. He operates on theories and an ideology that is incapable of achieving his goals.
For example, he speaks mostly of redistributing wealth, not creating wealth. He wants us to hate the wealth creators, rather than follow their example. The result has been a growing dependency on government, robbing too many of their liberty and opportunity.
Obama vs. Reagan - In historical match-up, Reaganomics trounces Obamanomics, 280,000 to 0.
DOJ Protects Teachers With Unacceptable English Skills
Surprising Facts about America’s Poor
Is Naval Aviation Culture Dead?
Why Is Iran’s Influence in the Arab World Declining? What is The New Regional Line-Up?
University of California: A Hostile Environment for Jewish Students
Tuesday, September 13. 2011
True, in my experience: What Job 'Training' Teaches? Bad Work Habits - A 1969 government study warned that teens in federal jobs programs 'regressed in their conception of what should reasonably be required in return for wages paid.'
Government "Job-training" provides jobs for the job trainers, and not much else.
 Bumper sticker from Jacobson -
Remarkable number of practical links at Theo
Testosterone drop helps men do dad-duty: study
10 Reasons why you should not have a cheat meal
It undoes a week of restraint
Cities as private enterprises
Why not?
"An Egyptian woman has applied for divorce after her husband's cooking skills proved to be better than her own, the local Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported on Monday."
Markets in Everything: First Commercial Jetpack
Every man his Superman. Icarus likes it.
Is God Above the Constitution?
Duh.
Only 40 Percent of Pell Grant Recipients Get Bachelor’s Degrees
Swing Voters Recoil From Unions, and Obama
Totten: Egypt’s Botched Revolution
Turkey sending 3 warships to eastern Mediterranean
Israel facing 'diplomatic tsunami' with Arab neighbors
Never mention Obamacare
People are sneezing in New York. Must be global warming.
Today's special elections: Dems are O so afraid they’ll win
Gore-a-Thon: ’24 Hours of Reality’
Not Jerry Lewis?
Yes, it is a Ponzi scheme
REVEALED: Obama's Jobs Plan To Raise $400 Billion In Taxes. At NRO, "Obviously, having proven unable to persuade his own party to raise those taxes by that much during his prime, the president will be unable to persuade Republicans to do so now.
Rick Perry: I am going to be honest with the American people
Moonbats Are Still Falling Out of Berkeley Trees
Strange fruit?
America needs a control group
Aren't the states supposed to be the laboratories of democracy?
In Euro Zone, Banking Fear Feeds on Itself
Capital Gains Taxes: Washington Post Omissions
Romney: Social Security Is Like a Criminal Fraud
He said it too, and everybody knows it
Betty Freidan, Global Warming Denier
Will 3rd government school bailout improve education?
Europe Slips As Greece Falls
Slo-mo train wreck
Huntsman is right about these things
From the Sixth Circuit: Good News, Bad News
You can’t make this stuff up, folks. That’s right: The people of Michigan, according to this court, violated the Equal Protection Clause when they demanded that their state treat all citizens equally—without regard to race, ethnicity, or sex—in government contracting, employment, and education, including university admissions. Unbelievable.
SANDERS: The puzzle of dealing with Islam
Boot: We Need Troops in Iraq
Insty:
POLL: Vast majority believe businesses and consumers are over-regulated. Ya think?
Stop Calling the Tea Party Extreme. It Isn't.
Regular, but informed, Americans, seems to me
Yes, It IS a Ponzi Scheme… There Are Only 1.75 Full-Time Private Sector Workers Per Social Security Recipient
Toon below borrowed from Lucianne:
The preamble to the Constitution lists several reasons for it, including providing for the common defense. It is the only one listed for which the federal government is uniquely essential.
Yet, while our defense expenditures are already being heavily trimmed, it is likely that they will be virtually gutted. Fifty percent of the budget cuts are supposed to come from 20% of our federal spending. Meanwhile, the threats abroad have not only not receded but are growing.
It is disgraceful that the Republican candidates for the nomination didn’t get into this, while spending two hours repeating clichés and arguing how much wall to have along the Mexican border. Yes, the domestic issues are pressing and very important, but to ignore the global threats, the denuding of our military capabilities, the added burdens on our already heavily burdened volunteers, and our responsibilities to defense is deplorable.
Read about what the Republican Chair of the House Armed Services Committee has to say. A sample:
I am afraid that once again, we are sliding back to a place we pledged never to return to, and are repeating the mistakes of a September 10th America. As we begin to emerge from a long, tough fight, this should be the time to reset and rebuild our military. Instead, we are lowering our gloves. At a time when our military is falling into disrepair, we have laid out over half a trillion dollars in projected cuts to Pentagon spending. I cannot understate how dangerous these defense cuts have become.
Apparently, the Republicans vying for the nomination can understate, indeed ignore it. I’m not feeling safer tonight.
Added: At the Washington Post, A pathetic discussion on national security
And, Jennifer Rubin, also at the Washington Post called the debate A foreign policy horror show : "It’s time to figure out if any of these guys and gal are up to the job of commander in chief."
Jonathan Tobin chimes in at Commentary's Contentions blog, The GOPs Foreign Policy Void: "...the Republicans are in danger of throwing away one of their party’s greatest strengths."
Monday, September 12. 2011
If 9/11 had really changed us, there’d be a 150-story building on the site of the World Trade Center today. It would have a classical memorial in the plaza with allegorical figures representing Sorrow and Resolve, and a fountain watched over by stern stone eagles. Instead there’s a pit, and arguments over the usual muted dolorous abstraction approved by the National Association of Grief Counselors. The Empire State Building took 18 months to build. During the Depression. We could do that again, but we don’t. And we don’t seem interested in asking why.
James Lileks, via Driscoll
The debate among Republicans over the 2012 presidential nominee seems to divide between those favoring management skills and those favoring inspiration.
Americans have oscillated between the two. Eisenhower = management; Kennedy = inspiration; Johnson = neither; Nixon = management; Ford = neither; Carter = neither; Reagan = inspiration; Bush (Senior) = management; Clinton = inspiration; Bush (Junior) = management; Obama = inspiration.
These aren’t “pure” characterizations, but rather what aroused the balance of electorability. It was the persona that was the characterization of the nominee.
This may, or not, be applicable to 2012, but I tend toward thinking it very well may be. If so, then, that may explain my leaning toward Romney (and Pawlenty before he dropped out).
On the other hand, one can as well posit that Obama = neither, in which case the oscillation would favor inspiration. That might favor Perry.
On the other hand, the theory may be worthless. The test of a theory is in its simple predictive power. 2012’s election will tell. Regardless, however, internecine battles -- as opposed to civil discussion and debate -- among Republicans will weaken the 2012 chances of defeating Obama. That is a proven theory.
Comments?
From the Comments thus far, let me make this clearer: I'm talking about the persona or characterization at election time, not what comes after.
Sunday, September 11. 2011
 Photo: The USS New York, built with WTC steel, arrives in NYC on Thursday
GW Bush at Flight 93 Memorial: "Evil Is Real, So Is Courage"
Video at Tiger: Growing Up In a Post 9/11 World
Chesler: What to Say to the Totalitarian Left on 9/11/11 - The definitive take-down for all who blame America first.
Noonan: We'll Never Get Over It, Nor Should We - Ten years later, remembering a day of horror and heroism:
They tell us to get over it, they say to move on, and they mean it well: We can't bring an air of tragedy into the future. But I will never get over it. To get over it is to get over the guy who stayed behind on a high floor with his friend who was in a wheelchair. To get over it is to get over the woman by herself with the sign in the darkness: "America You Are Not Alone." To get over it is to get over the guys who ran into the fire and not away from the fire.
Figures. Obama Blamed Climate of Poverty & Ignorance for 9-11 Attacks
Two Decades of Pursuing al Qaeda - When 9/11 happened, Judge Michael Mukasey—later U.S. attorney general—knew all about a free society's vulnerabilities to mass terrorism.
Prof. Jacobson's memories are similar to mine
Steyn:
And so we commemorate an act of war as a “tragic event,” and we retreat to equivocation, cultural self-loathing, and utterly fraudulent misrepresentation about the events of the day. In the weeks after 9/11, Americans were enjoined to ask “Why do they hate us?” A better question is: “Why do they despise us?” And the quickest way to figure out the answer is to visit the Peace Quilt and the Wish Tree, the Crescent of Embrace and the Hole of Bureaucratic Inertia.
Sultan:
Europeans and their colonial descendants may pen laws of war, but only they are constrained by them. In the real world outside the dinner parties of Washington D.C. and Brussels, there are no laws in war. Islamic law which has regulations for which foot to use when entering a bathroom (the left foot) and which side to sleep on (the right) has very few laws of war that cannot be nullified by necessity or even whim. On the battlefield, Islamic jurisprudence is boiled down to, Do what thou wilt in the cause of Allah, that is the whole of the law.
The Onion: Remembering 9/11 A Pleasure For Nation Compared To Remembering Past 10 Years
If Women's Medication Ads Gained Self-Awareness
An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
7 Cartoons from the Great Depression
Selling Bibles: The imagery of religion and war
Europe: From debt crisis to bank crisis
Borowitz: Homeland Security Studying Two-Hour Video from Wednesday Night
Prohibiting Employment Discrimination Against the Unemployed
U.S. Can't Afford to Pay to Print More Money
Surprise: Time Magazine Noted Non-Candidate Huckabee's "Lincoln Founded The Republican Party" Gaffe In 2008; Refuses To Note Obama's Exact-Same Gaffe In Joint Session
Another Reason to Hate Woodrow Wilson
PBS alters transcript to hide Obama gaffe
Cure For Asthma Found in Connecticut
Coyote: I Don’t Think This is Settled
Gunwalker Explodes: FBI Hid Weapon, Tax Dollars Subsidized Murder
... according to a witness, Obama told the House members, “This is the moment…that the world is waiting for,” adding: “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”
Krauthammer: People finally realizing Obama ‘is a mortal who is in over his head’
Dino: To us it looks like the fates have handed the GOP a once in a lifetime opportunity if they will only rise to the occasion.
Economists sort of like it but Employers Say Jobs Plan Won’t Lead to Hiring Spur
Bernie Goldberg: On MSNBC the other night we got a glimpse of the future, a sneak peek into what we can expect from some liberal journalists as the campaign for president heats up. Let’s just say the future, unfortunately, looks a lot like the past.
NY Post: The check may never be in the mail again
Nigel Farage: We’re led by college kids with no experience in the real world.” The guy is a terrific speaker.
Saturday, September 10. 2011
Huckabee: Rethink 'Blame America First' As The Way To Teach History
National Labor Relations Board Investigates Longshoremen Union for Strike Gone Wrong
S&L: New York Times Wants To Re-Define Obama
Sarah Palin may be the one liberals have been waiting for
Siena Poll: Turner Leads Weprin 50-44
EPA Sees Science As Obstacle To Regulation
Comprehensive List of Obama Tax Hikes- to date
Jennifer Rubin via Betsy on the O:
President Obama tonight seemed simultaneously angry and nervous as he rushed through a speech that was transparently not worthy of a joint session of Congress. His great idea: Cobble together a mish-mash of old ideas (infrastructure spending, a payroll tax cut) and pay for it later, by asking the debt commission to come up with additional deficit reductions later, preferably by hiking taxes on the rich. The second half of the speech was a heated campaign rally aimed at a cartoon version of his future opponent.
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