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The Gaffe that wasn'tAccording

Posted on March 26, 2009
The Gaffe that wasn'tAccording to this Telegraph opinion column, Obama was joking rather than gaffing when he thanked himself.No word on whether he was being "insensitive" when he told the St. Patrick's day guests not to get blindingly drunk.Also, apparently the White House has taken to moving the teleprompter back as camouflage.

The Glories of Rhetoric*Sigh*In

Posted on March 25, 2009
The Glories of Rhetoric*Sigh*In America, the height of political rhetoric is to conscript an advertising slogan into a talking point.But in England, there is still some flair.[Via NRO]

Everybody's getting in on the action.The

Posted on March 22, 2009
Everybody's getting in on the action.The Telegraph lists - and provides videotape on - Obama and Biden's Top 10 Gaffes.

"Sheesh, the guy is Jimmy Carter."Vanity

Posted on March 22, 2009
"Sheesh, the guy is Jimmy Carter."Vanity Fair writer Michael Wolff compares Obama to Jimmy Carter... with respect to his ability to communicate (and hectoring narcissism):You can see the fundamental mistake he?s making. Having been so successfully elected, he?s acting like people actually want to hear what he thinks...

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Could you imagine the media reaction

Posted on March 21, 2009
Could you imagine the media reaction if this had been said by Cheney?So, there was Biden, threatening local government about misapplying the manna from heaven provided through the "Porkulus Bill", and then when everything gets serious, he unloads pure comedy gold:JOSEPH BIDEN, Vice President of the United States: Because of the rules, the president and I can?t stop you from doing some things, but

Regulation and Financial ApocalypseMark

Posted on March 21, 2009
Regulation and Financial ApocalypseMark Perry has some interesting slides about the cause and future of the economic collapse. The supporting information comes from this slide show by Morgan Stanley.I found interesting this slide from a 1998 "State of the Nation's Housing Report" which identified regulatory pressures as causing lenders to revise their practices...

Liberals are funny when they forget

Posted on March 21, 2009
Liberals are funny when they forget that they are out in publicThey feel that they are the high priests of tolerance and so they claim an exemption from the PC rules that they insist everyone else follows. So, a mere days after playing on the "drunken Irishmen" trope - which went totally under the radar - Obama makes a self-deprecating comment about his bowling skill being in the "special

Peggy NoonanFrom the WSJ:These

Posted on March 20, 2009
Peggy NoonanFrom the WSJ:These are the two great issues, the economic crisis and our safety. In the face of them, what strikes one is the weightlessness of the Obama administration, the jumping from issue to issue and venue to venue from day to day. Isaiah Berlin famously suggested a leader is a fox or a hedgehog...

The Ruling ClassWhy should our

Posted on March 20, 2009
The Ruling ClassWhy should our representatives have to suffer the same taxes that we do?From the Wall Street Journal:On the same day the House whooped through a 90% surtax on some bonuses, Bloomberg News reported that Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, a House eminento from California, may have been improperly claiming residency in Maryland to get a tax break...

Great Stuff[Via Mark Shea]

Posted on March 20, 2009
Great Stuff[Via Mark Shea]

Look who is benefitting from bourgeousie

Posted on March 20, 2009
Look who is benefitting from bourgeousie justice and the special advantages given to white wealthy women.Sara Jane Olson released to serve parole in Minnesota:Culminating a case that has evoked history and strong emotions, former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson was released from state prison Tuesday and cleared to serve supervised parole in Minnesota after completing a

The "Not Ready for Prime-time Administration"Treasury

Posted on March 20, 2009
The "Not Ready for Prime-time Administration"Treasury Secretary Geithner and Congress were not "blind-sided" by the AIG bonuses.

Obama's Problems with CommunicationsFrom

Posted on March 20, 2009
Obama's Problems with CommunicationsFrom Politico.

Cynicism RulesDown below, I wondered

Posted on March 19, 2009
Cynicism RulesDown below, I wondered what the pay-off was for inserting the language permitting AIG to pay bonuses. Now it turns out that the person responsible for that language was Chris Dodd, who was notoriously in the pocket of the mortgage lenders...

If someone is accusing you of something

Posted on March 19, 2009
If someone is accusing you of something you are not doing, then you can bet they're doing it.As Vox Day points out, we now know why the left wing has been ventilating about the "vast right wing conspiracy.From Politico:For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an

Get to know your President better5

Posted on March 18, 2009
Get to know your President better5 Myths about President Obama:I?ve concluded that much of the conventional wisdom about Obama is wrong. Here are five of the biggest misconceptions: 1. Obama is bold. Actually, he is overly cautious. It?s no coincidence the first bills he signed into law were the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and an expansion of the State Children?s Health Insurance Program, two

Playing on Ethnic StereotypesOh,

Posted on March 18, 2009
Playing on Ethnic StereotypesOh, since it's a St. Patrick's day party, it's ok to play on the stereotype of the Irish being unrestrained drunks?From the Sky News article on Obama's teleprompter blunder:Mr Obama joked about the free-flowing bar and warned his guests not to wear lampshades on their heads in front of the cameras...

The Milli-Vanilli PresidentBig

Posted on March 18, 2009
The Milli-Vanilli PresidentBig Hollywood shares this:I?ve been searching for the video of Obama accidentally reading Irish PM Brian Cowen?s speech yesterday. He even thanks himself at the end! Apparently his teleprompter went loopy.If this were GWB, the video would be everywhere, yet I can?t find a clip on the Internet of a public press conference that took place yesterday...

Before it goes down the memory

Posted on March 18, 2009
Before it goes down the memory holeNRO points out:But Frank, Hodes, and 244 other congressmen ? all Democrats ? voted last month for a stimulus package that explicitly allows TARP funds to be used for such bonuses. To be precise, President Obama?s $789 billion stimulus package contained the following provision, which deals specifically with executive compensation at AIG and other companies that

Quality in Fresno News ReportingNotice

Posted on March 17, 2009
Quality in Fresno News ReportingNotice how often Fresno newspapers and television stations get things wrong in this post about "9 Things the Media Messed Up About the Obama Stem Cell Story".The Fresno media may get the facts wrong, but, at least, they are dependably in the tank for liberal rightthink...

Because Conservatives can ReadWhile

Posted on March 17, 2009
Because Conservatives can ReadWhile liberal newspapers have been tanking, conservative papers have seen their readership grow.

This is from the White House Press

Posted on March 17, 2009
This is from the White House Press Secretary?White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs opines:Question: "One quick followup: Former Vice President Cheney was on State of the Union yesterday. He had a lot -- a lot of criticism of this White House."To boil it down, on national security, he said the president's policies were making the country less safe...

Final Jeopardy QuestionsSaint Artemius

Posted on March 17, 2009
Final Jeopardy QuestionsSaint Artemius and Saint Nicetas the Goth.Answer: who are two Arians included in the Catholic list of saints.And this is the - either really cool or really gross - uncorrupted hand of St. Nicetas the Goth.That's pretty amazing, given the fact that St...

They said that if I voted for McCain,

Posted on March 16, 2009
They said that if I voted for McCain, taxes on employer provided health care would be taxed.......and they were right!Obama administration plans to tax employer provided health care benefits despite attacking McCain for proposing to tax employer provided health care benefits.

Sometimes it's the SSPX and sometimes

Posted on March 16, 2009
Sometimes it's the SSPX and sometimes it's FoxnewsPope Benedict XVI observes:Sometimes one has the impression that our society needs at least one group for which there need not be any tolerance; which one can unperturbedly set upon with hatred. And who dared to touch them - in this case the Pope - lost himself the right to tolerance and was allowed without fear and restraint to be treated with

It's nice to hear this kind of

Posted on March 15, 2009
It's nice to hear this kind of thing from the foreign press.According to this Telegraph article, Sir Gus O'Donnel, England's most senior civil servant, is having trouble finding out who to talk to in the Obama administration because "there is nobody there":But yesterday, Sir Gus O'Donnell, Britain's most senior civil servant, exposed transatlantic tension when he protested that Downing Street was

Bankruptcy Law Reform NeededAccording

Posted on March 15, 2009
Bankruptcy Law Reform NeededAccording to the Empirical Legal Studies Blog, the data shows that it may be time rethink the Bankruptcy law reform:With the Dow below the 6,800 mark (as of 3:30 PM EST) for the first time since 1997, now is perhaps an appropriate time to turn our attention to bankruptcy scholarship...

First PrinciplesFrom Just Thomism:-I

Posted on March 15, 2009
First PrinciplesFrom Just Thomism:-I read a rational account of why an (obvious) evil is evil, and thought "when you get to the point of having to having to reason about this, you?re doomed." You can know who has power by seeing [who is] allowed to get angry in public, and who doesn?t have to establish the first principles he?s arguing from.

"Global Warming is a Fraud"The

Posted on March 14, 2009
"Global Warming is a Fraud"The debate is over, according to Al Gore, but it never really got started. Reason Online reports:March 9, New York?The participants at the final lunch of the International Climate Change Conference in New York were in a celebratory and pugnacious mood...

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Posted on March 14, 2009
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