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"Part of my leftism was a sales pitch"
sisu —
" I'm an intellectual to an extent, so I read things through, but I didn't think things through ," Hollywood apostate Roger L. Simon tells City Journal Editor Brian C. Anderson re the self-described "fast and loose politics" of his youth: Part of my leftism … was a sales pitch, not in the most crass sense, but in the sense that Hollywood is a very competitive place, as I'm sure everybody knows, and you have to distinguish yourself in some way, like the kid who raises his hand in school and says "Pick me, pick me." I was trying to be, if not the most left kid on the block, one of the more left kids on the block because I realized that the executive class there sort of envied ...
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
Hyscience —
(The chart puts Barack Obama at the epicenter of an incestuous stew of American radical leftism. Not only are his connections significant, they practically define who he is. Taken together, they constitute a who's who of the American radical left, and guiding all is the Cloward-Piven strategy.) > >
Although this article appeared in The American Thinker back on September 28, 2008, given the radical socialist policies and plans we're seeing from the Obama administration it's worthy of being revisited. The relevance of it's key points to what's coming out of the White House are ...
Mexico: Failure or Opportunity?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to talk with John Walters, who served as President Bush’s “drug czar” from 2001-09. As we all know, the escalating drug war has created a crisis in Mexico that threatens to violently destabilize the nation and so create a serious problem for the neighboring United States. The crisis appears intractable–indeed there are some in the US who have speculated that Mexico is on the brink of being a “failed state.” The Obama administration response appears to be one of manning the ramparts rather than attempting to find a solution. You might expect Mr. Walters to consequently offer a grim ...
"Democrats in unsafe seats need to think maybe they should not support big government or they will be voted out"
sisu —
We're photoshopping our signs and unfurling Old Glory for the Essex County Tea Party Rally to be held behind enemy lines in front of City Hall, Newburyport, Taxachusetts on Saturday afternoon from noon to 2. ( Linotype Balder™ Regular typeface)"I'm so excited that you will be joining us on Saturday. Do you have any friends that would be willing to make the drive up here with you?" emails Paul Breau, the man behind the plan to throw the first stop-the-power-grab " Grand Ole Tea Party " in our neck of the woods, Newburyport, MA, a small coastal community about 35 miles northeast of us here in Chelsea-by-the-Sea. Sponsored by the the Newburyport Republican ...
Roll over, George Washington, and tell Ben Franklin the news
sisu —
"And run down the streets all redneckèd" | Main April 28, 2009 Roll over, George Washington, and tell Ben Franklin the news Washinton_delaware3 "One of the most iconic and enduring images in American art," Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's " Washington Crossing the Delaware " (detail, above), " will be "out of sight until 2011 as the artwork gets a touchup and an ornate new frame and its gallery undergoes a renovation." (Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Oil on canvas, 149 x 255," Metropolitan Museum of Art ) George Washington @Twitter * : The best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interests . ...
From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 11: Mugged by Reality
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe —
The Pinocchio regime The grand
Body Snatcher (1) project of erasing race-ethnicity-religion-culture-gender
distinctions does not, of course, erase them. It merely, in the manner of a
babbling baby, starts calling da-da what was previously doo-doo, as if through
this onomatopaeic transfiguration shit could be turned into father.
This would
be ...
The Promise Breaker
GayPatriot —
As Jim Geraghty has pointed out on numerous occasions, all Barack Obama promises comes with expiration dates. We in the gay community have seen how quick he is to break (though the obsequious Joe Solmonese might say “slow to fulfill”) his campaign promise to repeal Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell (DADT), the ban on gays serving openly in the military and the Defense of Marriage Act.
Now, one of his closest advisers won’t rule out a middle class tax hike. Obama’s even willing to consider taxing employer-based health care plans, something which he excoriated his Republican opponent for supporting in last fall’s ...
Despite Failure of “Stimulus” to Work as Advertised,President Focuses on Regulatory Schemes, not Economic Recovery
GayPatriot —
Today, the Labor Department released figures showing unemployment hitting new highs, continuing to exceed the level the Obama Administration forecast it would have attained without the “stimulus”–and considerably higher (considerably, considerably) than Democrats promised if Congress passed the legislation which may well have ended Arlen Specter’s political career. (Hey, ya’ gotta find a silver lining somewhere.)
(Chart courtesy of Innocent Bystanders.)
No wonder the President’s support is taking a hit, particularly on the economy.
Apparently, Obama is more interested in ...
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste -- Drill Baby Drill!
Hit & Run —
Back in November, Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama's chief of staff notoriously said, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Decades of fiscal mismanagement and excessive government spending have finally created a "serious crisis" for the bankrupt Golden State. So California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be taking Emanuel's advice to heart. Specifically, the desperate scramble for funds to cover a $26 billion deficit has finally gotten Democratic state legislators to agree to open up California's coast for oil exploration for the first time in 40 years. As the AP reports: The deal to close ...
Health Care Reform Loses Its Mojo
Pajamas Media —
The president and the Democrats must now scramble for ways to get it passed. [image] For several weeks, every national poll has indicated that more Americans are now opposed to the various health care reform bills that have worked their way through the House and Senate than support them, and the gap has widened with each new poll ...
"Now that President Obama has made it safe to hate Fox"
sisu —
Earl_in_blind Tiny's main squeeze Earl Grey stopped by early morning for a nip . After we suggested the feral fellow not enter the house, he scurried into Tiny's hosta blind to reconnoiter before heading off for parts unknown." Obama has authorized 40,000 more troops to fight Fox News " deadpans Jay Leno in his latest monologue — available for your viewing pleasure at Weasel Zippers (via Infidels Are Cool ) — playing off the Leader of the Free World's recent full frontal assault on Fox News as Faux News," side by side with the President's deeply demoralizing dithering over when/whether to send in the Afghanistan reinforcements ...
They are Were Who They’ve Been Waiting For
¡No Pasarán! —
Don’t the emissions and transmissions of the White House sound historically familiar? No, not the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, the ugly days of nascent Communism forced on Germans, knowing full well that in their vanquishment and impoverishment, that no crisis should go to waste. As we approach the day of remembrance for the fall of the Berlin wall 20 years ago, we find the ghost of the methods and philosophies behind that repression rearing their ugly head with the election of the left in America. The baiting and taunting, and then the intimidation seem to have been drawn directly from the retrograde left’s cookbook, only to find another ...
Blogging Rules for Radicals: Chapters Four and Five
Pajamas Media —
Alinsky lists the qualities that make a good organizer and lays out techniques that will engage their subjects. (Read parts one , two , three , and four of this series.) [image]“Power makes the world go round.” “Ethics are elastic.” “The end justifies the means.” “Morality is a useful disguise.” “Altruism is a myth.” Just a few of the Tilt-a-Whirl moments in the second and third chapters of Rules for Radicals . In the fourth chapter, Saul Alinsky leads us off the ricocheting ride of radical “truths” and on to the application — a sort of grainy textured 8mm movie on the birth of a community organizer and the rebirth of those whose lives he touches. He ...
"Scott Brown used the internet to put the fear of God into the old-boy network"
sisu —
Scottt_brown_vote "Today the Massachusetts race for US Senator has the attention of the nation," headlines local WCVB-TV news anchor Bianca Delgarsa, and "The good news is the roads are mostly clear today, with a few showers and a dusting of snow outside Rte 128." It's time for Massachusetts citizens to vote and to get out the vote for Scott Brown, US Senator! Click here to find your polling location a make GOTV calls from home . " For a brief shining moment, late in the 2008 campaign, Democrats thought that they might own the Internet ," writes NYT columnist Russ Douthat (via Instapundit ), but a funny thing happened on the way to the January 19 ...
Rahm Emanuel’s Crisis Management Hurts His Party (Big Time)
GayPatriot —
Of all the losers in yesterday’s special Senate election in the Bay State, few have seen their governing strategies so thoroughly repudiated as White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. “You never want,” he said shortly after Obama’s election in November 2008, “a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.“
Yet, as David Boaz, Executive Director of the Cato Institute. put it:
But Obama and his team overinterpreted their victory. A desire for change didn’t translate into support for a sweeping statist agenda. Starting with his ...
Simon Johnson: Is the "Volcker Rule" More Than a Marketing Slogan?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
At the broadest level, Thursday's announcement from the White House was encouraging -- for the first time, the president endorsed potential new constraints on the scale and scope of our largest banks, and said he was ready for "a fight." After a long, tough argument, Paul Volcker appeared to have finally persuaded President Obama that the unconditional bailouts of 2008-2009 planted the seeds for another major economic crisis.
But how deep does this conversion go? On the "deep" side is the signal implicit in the fact that Volcker stood behind the president while Tim Geithner was further from the podium than any Treasury Secretary in living memory. Where you stand at major ...
