The New Commandments on the Barn Wall

Victor Davis Hanson   ..."8) Neanderthals need nerds. The cool gang banger who is knifed on Saturday night suddenly in extremis worships the surgeon who stiches up his liver and kidneys — a target whom he would otherwise have robbed earlier that Saturday afternoon. The thug who strips the copper wire from our streetlights nonetheless assumes a nerdish engineer will keep designing the wiring scheme that runs his car’s CD. For the good life to go on, each illiterate punk demands one corresponding graduate student at MIT to take care of him. When the former outnumber the latter, then civilization usually winds down."
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"I keep these commandments in mind daily. That way what would have seemed absurd in my youth is now as natural as the sun rising."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/16/96531

The wedges Obama is driving into America

The Catholic Betrayal of Religious Freedom; Liberal Catholics abandon their crown jewel.
"Thus “liberal Catholics” who refuse to grasp the threats to religious freedom posed by the Obama administration on so many fronts — the HHS mandate, the EEOC’s recently rejected attempt to strip the “ministerial exemption” from employment law, the State Department’s dumbing-down of religious freedom to a mere “freedom of worship” — are betraying the best of their own heritage." Also: Religious liberty versus ‘women’s health.’


Victor Davis Hanson: Are You ‘Them!’? "My God, man, how did Barack Obama & Co. conjure up so many demons?....
"This is proving to be a Manichean administration. It sees the world in terms dark and light, of us/them, and then must create the necessary binaries to divide and demonize — so strange given this was the narrative of the Obama campaign against Bush, not so strange given the Chicago origins."


Obama, the Great Divider:  "President Obama’s appearance, and the mixed reaction he received, illustrates a broader ideological divide not only in the Orange County community but perhaps nationally. As one protester said “He was billed as the great ‘uniter’ but he has become the great divider.” 

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/great-340813-nukes-homeowners.html?pic=1

Obama 2008 v. Obama 2012: An Amateur v. a Failure

Big Government "Gas prices are up over 80% on Obama’s watch, yet his approach to gasoline remains unchanged. Which means we continue to buy our gasoline from many of the same countries that can’t wait to see a nuclear weapon detonated in an American city. "
...."we’ve been shamed on the battlefield, where Obama pulled our soldiers out as a result of his election year promises to the 21st century counter culture."
...."The bottom line: Obama has been a disaster and he is beatable. Anything his campaign publishes to the contrary is just a facade."

Multi-Millionaire One-Percenter Bruce Springsteen Says Occupy Wall Street Inspiration For New Album…

Weasel Zippers

"Bruce Springsteen said this week that his new albumWrecking Ball was inspired by an “angry patriotism” that drew fuel from the Occupy movement.

Speaking to a group of journalists at the Theatre Marigny in Paris, Springsteen described how the financial crisis, income inequality, and other hot-button political issues informed Wrecking Ball, which paints a picture of an America that has failed the working class."

BS gets big tax breaks  "Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen have been making hit music for years and its no surprise that they've earned enough money to buy big mansions with acres of property, but what might surprise you is the huge tax breaks they, and others, are getting."

Farm Tax Breaks for N.J. Celebrities

Now we go from Springsteen's money to his music:  (And his good buddy, Pete Seeger)  "The politicization of American pop dates from the 1960s, but it grew out of a patient leftist political strategy that began in the mid-1930s with the Communist Party’s “Popular Front” effort to use popular culture to advance its cause."

...."Happily, some have embraced the Popular Front’s legacy in ways that Seeger probably didn’t anticipate and wouldn’t likely approve. In March, a crowd in Taipei, several hundred thousand–strong, sang “We Shall Overcome” and “Blowin’ in the Wind” as part of a protest against forcible annexation by mainland China—and the prospect of Communist Party rule."

Stupid Democrat Tricks

What happens when you invest people who have poor judgment with absolute authority? All this:


Daily Mail: Permission slips for school cookies  "Now Democratic Delegate Ralph Rodighiero of Logan County wants to regulate Christmas cookies at school — along with Halloween candy and peeps at Easter."  Via Boortz


POLITICO: Dems on Keystone pipeline: Only in America  ""This is a political ploy that they're making, it's a red herring, it's a red meat issue," Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield told POLITICO, pointing to an Energy Department analysis noting that very little, if any, of the oil would be exported." Via Boortz

 TheGatewayPundit:  #Occupy Goons Booted From CPAC After Interrupting Sarah Palin With Their Declaration of the Occupy Movement
"#Occupy goons interrupted Sarah Palin’s speech at CPAC yesterday to read their socialist declaration of the #Occupy movement. They were very impressed with themselves as they were booted from the hotel. The left must be very proud of their young brown shirts."

Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk  " "In Maryland, they force taxpayers to pay for abortions, but God forbid we want the same milk our grandparents drank." "
Terrorism of this sort will not be condoned.


Legal Insurrection:   More “fatuous, preening, liberal self-righteousness”
"And of course, a Prius is the epitome of simple living, with its high price tag and increased insurance costs."