Thursday, May 6, 2010
Yes, Words Do Matter!
Victor Davis Hanson "Bottom line: Words matter. While we may think the “reset button”/“I’m not Bush” Obama rhetoric will win hearts and minds abroad, and give us new parameters of operations, our enemies may well look far more to words than to deeds — and see in them a radical loss of our deterrence ability. So the Hasans, Abdulmutallabs, and Shahzads of the world interpret our new philological magnanimity as weakness, regardless of whether it is or not. And that seems to me very dangerous indeed. Maybe the president can drop the “tea-bagger” slurs and forget Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, and instead warn radical Islamists to knock it off — or else."
Failure-in-Chief
Newt Gingrich "The controversies over the Arizona immigration plan and the Obama Administration’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf may not seem related, but they have a key common characteristic: both originate in the failure of Washington. In both cases, President Obama faces a real danger of a political backlash from which he will be unable to recover. " Then this: “Countries and Terror Groups That Were Absolutely Terrified of Bush Now Think Obama Might Apologize to Them”… GOP Rep. Peter King
TEA PARTY PERCEPTIONS
Neal Boortz "Have you noticed how the ObamaMedia has managed to pull this one off? They have managed to marginalize the Tea Party movement and put it on the defensive .. Tea Partiers are having to spend far too much time trying to explain to bed-wetting liberals that they are not racists. In a sense, the Tea Partiers are guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of the ObamaMedia - it will be assumed that if you are a Tea Partier, you are a racist. That is, unless you can prove otherwise... and to a liberal there is no way for anyone with a conservative point of view to prove they are not racist." And this: JUST IGNORE THE "R" WORD . So much for the post-racial president.
Was the Times Square bomb a test?
Neil Braithwaite "But I guess the most important question has already been answered - for American citizens and Islamic terrorists: Can a car bomb be successfully planted at will in a large, densely populated city in the United States in 2010?" Neil Braithwaite writes political commentary and satire and is a regular contributor to PoliticalDerby.com.
Reviving the White House Press Corpse
American Thinker "When Lester Kinsolving, WorldNetDaily reporter and member of the White House press corps, recently asked Robert Gibbs why President Obama has not held an open press conference since July of 2009, Gibbs launched into this lengthy, mocking tirade . It would have been no shocker if Gibb's blast had concluded with the admission that Obama was giving the press corps an extended time-out. "
Rep. Andre Carson: Tea Party Protesters Are ‘One of the Largest Threats to our Internal Security’by Larry O'Connor
Big Government "I could have sworn the guy who just tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square was Muslim…"
Lost 1995 Obama interview surfaces: the young 'civil rights lawyer' predicted the economic fall of America and--wait for it--decried racial politics
Doug Ross Journal "Economics is not a zero-sum game. America has, within the last two centuries, raised the world out of the miasma of colonial technology into an era powered by computers, medical miracles and instantaneous global communications. America represents the most magnificent society ever seen on the planet, not because it's stealing food out of the mouths of the poor, but because it provides the most opportunities. And that structure is facilitated by the Constitution, despite its recent perversions and breaches by the Statist Democrats."
Is There a Pattern Here or What?
Victor Davis Hanson "One, we are doing our darnedest to playact that radical Muslims who are trying to kill us are not trying to kill us; and two, we are not seeing a lot of peaceful blowback from the virtual closing of Guantanamo, the virtual trial of KSM, the reach out in the Al Arabiya interview, the "reset" rhetoric, the Cairo speech, and the apology tour — 2009 saw the most terrorism attempts since 2001."
Students sent home for wearing American flag on Cinco de Mayo
Thomas Lifson in AT: "This is the sort of squelching of patriotism that might be implemented by a conquering power imposing its will on colonial subjects. It is entirely consistent with the agenda of "reconquista" - where Mexico takes back the Southwest United States through massive immigration, ultimately severing it from the United States." Geography lesson: Morgan Hill is in Pelosi Country.
A Real Leak of CIA Identities
Clarice Feldman in AT: "Covertly taken photos of CIA interrogators that were shown by defense attorneys to al Qaeda inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison represent a more serious security breach than the 2003 outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame, the agency's former general counsel said Wednesday."
Getting the Times Square Bomber’s Confession
Andrew C. McCarthy "The Obama administration strongly prefers the law-enforcement model, and that is how the Times Square case is being handled. Though I believe the military process should be our default choice during wartime, the administration should be cut some slack in this case. There are things to criticize, and the case bears close watching. Knee-jerk derision, though, would be a mistake." This is hard when my default reaction tends toward knee-jerk.
Updated: Two Weeks After Censoring 'South Park,' Comedy Central Debuts Cartoon Jesus Show
“No, we’re fearless and edgy. Really.” "FT Editor Joseph Bottum makes two predictions: 1) It will be far more blasphemous about Christianity than the Danish cartoons were about Islam. 2) There won’t be any riots over it."
Shocker: Major corporations may dump health insurance, pay penalties instead
Hot Air "Well, well, well. Remember when Barack Obama said that under ObamaCare, people would keep their existing health plans and doctors? Remember when any suggestion that companies would find it a lot less expensive to dump employer-based health care and pay the penalties instead were cast as “myths” and “scare tactics,” even though the math was extremely easy to see? Welcome to Hope and Change:"... Who'da ever thunk it?
The trouble with prosecuting treason
NY Post "Prosecutions for treason are rare in the United States, with fewer than four dozen such cases brought since our nation's founding. As noted in "The Heritage Guide to the Constitution," one reason is that constitutional standards associated with the definition and proof of treason are specific and quite high."
Constitution in decline
Washington Times "That's because the health care bill, like most major laws passed by Congress over the past hundred years, isn't really a law. Rather, Obamacare is a series of assignments to bureaucrats in the Department of Health and Human Services. It is emblematic of what scholars call the administrative state, where legislative, executive and judicial powers are delegated to unaccountable experts sequestered in a fourth branch of government. If we are seeking the most effective means of defending - and restoring - the Constitution, we must pay attention to the rise of the administrative state and the decline of constitutional government in the United States." Via Heritage Emphasis mine.
Letters: The illegal immigration hornet's nest
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER "Hello. Illegal is illegal. We do not hate Hispanics. We want Hispanics, like other countries immigrants, to be in America as legal citizens and speak the language. My son married a wonderful Hispanic girl and she has caring, extended family. Both sets of my grandparents arrived in this country through Ellis Island. They had sponsors and learned English to provide for their families. So to be here legally is not impossible – it takes work and determination."
The Politics of Contempt/ It's not "hope and change."
A Dysfunctional Supreme Court: Remedies and a Comparative Analysis
The Rutherford Institute " "The time has surely come for an independent judicial appointments commission to be established ... to take Supreme Court appointments out of the hands of politicians and beyond the reach of the political process..."--John W. Whitehead & John M. Beckett" The 221 page report here: Charleston Law Review
Thoughts on Gorism
Victor Davis Hanson "You see, professed liberal humanitarianism and old fashioned “get mine” breed cynicism among the populace. If one were to believe Al Gore that there is a danger of manmade global warming and we all need to cut back, one might well lose faith when one sees that Al Gore lives differently from the way in which he has convinced you to live. And if one sees that the advocates for forced equality most certainly don’t want to be forced to do anything they advocate, then what are we left with?"
Illegal Aliens: Law and Sovereignty in Arizona
Andrew C. McCarthy "Why “misguided” and “irresponsible”? The president elaborated that the Arizona law “threaten[s] to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans.” To be sure, Obama has notions of fairness, but they are his own, marinated in doctrinaire leftism. As for the American ideal that he ceaselessly invokes but clearly doesn’t get, our Constitution’s framers thought fundamental fairness would be fatally undermined by two things: the inability of the governed to consent to legal arrangements because it had become impossible to know what the law is, and the failure of central government to tend to its first responsibility: the nation’s security."
Beyond Schadenfreude: What George Will’s Crucifixion of Bill Maher Really Means
Big Hollywood "Maher’s accusations about race are not only odious, racist, and repugnant on their face, they are characteristic of the wholesale and relentless attempt by the left—and many in the media—to brand the Tea Party movement and, on a wider basis, any critic of the current administration as racially motivated. Those who watch Maher’s Real Time and enjoy his brand of political chatter would do well to examine its loose-lipped host for the very kind of bias he accuses the conservative movement of so blithely and so blanketly." The aforementioned analysis: George Will Skewers Bill Maher :"It must have been a gut-wrenching moment when you were actually challenged to back up your outlandish assertions and accusations against the right you make so freely on HBO".
Amnesty Will Legalize More Terrorists
Human Events "“Every aspect of our immigration system has been used by foreign terrorists to gain a safe haven in the United States,” Smith said. “A massive amnesty would not only fail to address this problem, it would overburden the system with millions of more individuals whose identities cannot be known or, as a practical matter, checked.”" Connie Hair is a freelance writer, a former speechwriter for Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and a former media and coalitions advisor to the Senate Republican Conference.
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