Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?

Big Hollywood "We saw our government allow Iranian protesters, who peacefully challenged a rigged election, get shot in the street. Concurrently, we demanded that a tin-pot dictator be reinstated after his government got wise to his schemes and legally booted him. All of these little vignettes, as well as countless others over the last month or two, do not bold well for our little leftist friends. "

Text of Obama's education speech released

SF Examiner "But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying. Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future." I say amen to that.

Van Jones’ Resignation

by Victor Davis Hanson "Worse still, by its own admission, the Obama administration seems to have monitored Jones and selected him for his czardom precisely because of, not despite, his flamboyant past."

Malpractice; Personal History: A Day in the Life

American Progress "Replaying the scene hundreds of times in my head, I asked myself, "What would I do differently if I encountered the same circumstances again?" The answer was always the same: nothing." From a liberal site, but part of a fair, reasoned debate article. The complete article here:

Obama’s Health Care Speech a High-Stakes Political Game

Rich Baehr, Pajamas Media "Former Senator Bill Bradley audaciously suggested that to get a reform bill through, the left needs to accept tort reform, including special medical courts to hear malpractice cases. The liberal Brookings Institution has also endorsed the idea. No one knows how much of the care now provided reflects defensive medicine, related to protecting physicians and providers against legal liability. But it is not trivial. There is, unfortunately, zero chance of the Democrats turning their backs on a loyal and substantial campaign funding source — the trial lawyers."

Ayres to defile Purdue University

American Thinker "“I assume he was invited because of his competency in education,” Targ said, apparently unaccompanied by a laugh track. “It is unfortunate that people want to protest this. “If there is any hoopla, it will be extraneous. It was 40 years ago when he did this stuff.” Well, by that standard, may we Purdue graduates look forward down the road to Theodore Kaczynski giving a remote lecture on the dangers of TNT? "

Glenn Foden cartoon

Townhall

Why Parents Don’t Trust the Educator-in-Chief and His Comrades

CNS News "Obama served with Weather Underground terrorist and neighbor Bill Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge education initiative. Downplaying academic achievement in favor of left-wing radical activism in the public schools is rooted in Ayers’ pedagogical philosophy."

Van Jones goes down swinging

Powerline Blog "Jones was also a perfect symbol of the dereliction of the mainstream media in the Age of Obama. Those who rely on the New York Times for their news, for example, will learn of Jones's departure some time soon, but it will come as a great surprise to them, and well after the shouting is over. Whatever Jones said is already heard indistinctly, like a distant echo, in the Times's lame overnight report."

Does our president have a moral compass?

Powerline Blog "Obama portrays himself as a visionary, able to view the petty disputes that preoccupy the rest of the world from a higher plane, divorced from anything as banal as America's interest. That posture is offensive enough. But what if, like so many extreme leftists who came before him, he's just a man without a moral compass that points anywhere other than in direction of sharing the wealth and increasing government power? "

America's flawed sex offender laws

UK Guardian "The Jaycee Dugard case illustrates how America's sex offender registries hurt efforts to stop repeat sex crimes."

Peace between Israel and Palestine – a Task Too Difficult for Obama?

By Ana Ilie, Romania "...However, this would signify that the conflict started in 1967. The conflict has deeper roots, since the foundation of the Israeli state in 1948, if not from the arrival of the first Jewish people determined to reconstruct their country in the last years of the nineteenth century."

China alarmed by US money printing

UK Telegraph "The US Federal Reserve's policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and compel China to redesign its foreign reserve policy, according to a top member of the Communist hierarchy."

Tens of Thousands Protest Chávez in Venezuela

WSJ Online "Anti-Chávez protesters, many of them wearing white, filled the streets of Caracas, denouncing recent arrests of opposition members for alleged violence during protests and a new education law that critics fear could lead to indoctrination in schools." Buncha bleepin' nazis and astroturfers organized by Republicans. Oh, here's this: Stone film says U.S. demonises Chavez, other leaders. But wait! There's more! "Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film .