Justice David Souter is going to retire. Souter was nominated by President H.W. Bush but turned out to be part of the liberal wing of the Supreme Court. President Obama gets to pick his first member of the court. The President voted against both of Bush’s appointees, even Chief Justice Roberts (you know how he loves bipartisanship). Expect Obama to pick someone who isn’t fond of property rights, the Constitution as it’s written, and doesn’t mind infanticide.
Why would the White House let this guy talk about anything important? I’m still trying to figure out what Vice President Biden brings to the table. I can’t believe he’s a heartbeat from the presidency.
This is kind of funny. The main reason Specter switched parties was because he wasn’t going to be renominated by the Republicans. In other words this move was a desperate attempt at self preservation. Obviously it’s not the first time Specter has changed his party affiliation for election purposes.
Finally, progress… Since the end of the Clinton administration Republicans ran this country as Democrat lite. It was the dreaded third way of politics. If the country is going to go bankrupt on the backs of a corrupt government it might as well be the Democrats who have perfected the science of bad leadership. For the Republicans it was a worthy experiment, but they never had a majority large enough to overcome the Specter wing of the party.
The Democrats now have absolute power in Washington. Democrats now have more power than any party has had in my lifetime. Not to be intimidated they are willing to tax, spend, regulate, and subsidize like there’s no tomorrow. The Republicans were bad and the Democrats are worse. Where does that leave the voter in future elections? I’m not sure, things could start splinting up. The Northeast states are failing under heavy taxation and bad regulations. Perhaps a libertarian party could take shape that shares a classically liberal economic policy but doesn’t dwell on social issues. Or maybe they’ll end up like Michigan and people will keep moving South in droves.
Will the Republican party bounce back? Unfortunately the answer is yes, but perhaps a real alternative will come out of this wreckage. The Democrats haven’t changed anything. They’re spending more money than anyone could imagine two years ago. The American people won’t tolerate this for very long.
Prepare to hear the word pandemic a lot the next few days. At least until the press finds something else to cover.
The level of press the mainstream media has devoted to Obama is unprecedented. The lovefest began on day one and it’s never stopped.
The nonpartisan research group Center for Media and Public Affairs along with California’s Chapman University released a study that found the nightly newscasts devoted 27 hours, 44 minutes to Pres. Obama’s presidency in his first 50 days. That compares to 7 hours, 42 minutes for Pres. George W. Bush and 15 hours, 2 minutes for Pres. Bill Clinton during the first 50 days of their first terms.
Not only has Obama gotten more coverage, but that coverage has been more positive than his predecessors.
On the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts, 58% of all evaluations of the president and his policies have been favorable, while 42% were unfavorable. That compares with 33% positive in the comparable period of Bush’s tenure and 44% positive for Pres. Clinton.
Wow, the press loves Obama even more than Clinton. The first 50 days of the Bush administration occurred in rather peaceful times. The economy was entering a small economic recession, but nothing close to what we’re facing today. That being said it would make logical sense that Obama would face harsher criticism during these perilous times than Bush received. Well, the press is basically an arm of the White House, except for Fox.
The first half hour of Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier,” which the study says most closely resembles the network evening newscasts, devoted 10 hours 24 minutes to the Obama administration, nearly as much airtime as CBS gave him.
But Fox News stands apart from its competitors here – only 13% of comments* were considered favorable. On ABC, 57% of the comments were favorable, compared to 58% for CBS and 61% for NBC.
Fox is definitely less friendly to Obama. Basically the idea of “objective journalism” is over. Each network is slowly but surely moving towards a niche audience. Fox was the answer to market dominated by liberal news coverage. Now that Fox has exploited this market MSNBC has tailored their news to liberals. That leaves CNN, ABC, and CBS in the lurch. They were already tilted to the left. What do they do now?
A couple of nights ago I was trying to go asleep but the sound of a helicopter kept me awake. There’s nothing like a spotlight shining down on your residence to make sure the doors are locked. The next day I found out the rest of the story. This all took place just right down the street from where I live.
According to police and eyewitness reports:
Michael J. Mitchell, 18, a student at the Sarasota Military Academy, was with a group of friends when Dan A. Azeff, also 18 and a student at Sarasota High School and Sarasota County Technical Institute, walked by with another group. Azeff wore a hat with the Confederate symbol and carried a Confederate flag measuring about 5 feet by 3 feet.
Mitchell and a friend questioned Azeff about the hat and flag, asking if he was a racist. Azeff told them no, he was just exercising free speech. The fight escalated and the groups exchanged racial slurs. Mitchell reportedly pulled out a handgun and shot Azeff once in the chest, then ran off.
Right off the set of Jerry Springer and onto the street of Sarasota. A white kid from Pennsylvania sporting a Confederate Flag gets shot by a black kid illegally carrying a handgun. The only thing missing was Geraldo Rivera. The article is kind of funny as the journalist spent more time trying to figure out why the kid is carrying a flag around than asking why an 18 year old is shooting people. Obviously it’s pretty stupid to be carrying around a Confederate battle flag that many people find offensive. It’s even worse when the person is ignorant about the history; however, should Cuban American’s be allowed to shoot every idiot wearing a Che Guevara shirt? This is a story about attempted murder not ignorant teenagers.
Earth Day has turned into one of the most insufferable made-up nonsense days since a misogynist criminal launched Kwanzaa on an unsuspecting public. Every solstice the godless must have their own days to counteract the religious ones: Kwanzaa for Christmas and Earth Day for Easter.
But let’s be honest; are not the days which celebrate Mother Earth and communist Black Separatism religious as well? It takes someone with great faith to believe in a living Earth that somehow toils and suffers under the suffocating weight of human beings and that cooperative farming is the answer to all of our economic needs (just ask Russian farmers about Utopian collective farming after the Russian Revolution).
And so every year Earth Day becomes more religious and more unbearable. It has become nothing more than an opportunity to bludgeon everyone with the environmentalist propaganda du jour. At one time it was Global Cooling. Now it’s Global Warming, which is giving way to Climate Change so that the propagandists are covered no matter what the weather’s doing.
I didn’t watch a lot of TV on Earth Day, but even in limited viewing I was subjected to the suffocating mantra of Global Warming, a theory presented as fact that has no basis in reality other than we’re told it does.
Global Warming is always presented as catastrophic. However, according to the geologic record, warming periods have been the best of times for earth’s species. Cooling periods, on the other hand, have been rather disastrous.
Global Warming has become a purely political issue, rather than openly debated science. Is it really “science” to scream “Global Warming!” each and every time there’s some kind of bad weather somewhere in the world? The earth’s four billion year history is one of constant bad weather, and believe me, things were a lot worse in the Ordovician period.
Global Warming is always blamed on man. We drive too much, we eat too much, we breathe too much… Good gravy, how I’m tired of being told by jet-setting millionaires that I need to ride a freaking bike everywhere while they burn fuel like Neil Armstrong on a moon mission so they can make appearances where they tell everyone how they need to ride bikes and compost their own crap.
Meanwhile, there’s this super-hot burning orb dominating our daytime sky that accounts for 98.6 percent of the solar system’s entire mass that sits idly by, wondering why it can’t get any press despite its best efforts. It’s strange that while earth goes through a warming phase, so do the other planets in the solar system, but I’m sure there’s no correlation whatsoever.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m all for cleaner air and water and for finding alternative fuels. I don’t like supporting the Saudis any more than anyone else does, and I want a clean environment. However, it is not the government’s business to subsidize the alternative fuels market while effectively punishing the oil industry (and everyone else in the process) in order to create a brand new world in which only the uber-rich can afford to heat and cool their homes.
The private sector has been working feverishly to produce alternatives, so far to no practical avail. I guarantee that whoever comes up with a cheap, clean, and efficient source for fuel will be rewarded handsomely. Technological progress in America – and by extension the world, which always benefits from private American ingenuity – is the direct result of a free market. Government-controlled markets create nothing but expensive, polluting, and inefficient processes and products while effectively lowering the standard of living.
Global Warmongers won’t be satisfied until all of us are living like Bedouins in mud huts who have to walk everywhere because they can no longer afford bicycles. Of course the political class will continue to live as high on the hog as they wish, vacationing at their dachas on the Baltic… um, Pacific.
So instead of actually doing something positive for the environment, we’ve gone down this utterly pointless Global Warming rabbit trail. Carbon emissions are the least of our environmental problems, yet that’s all anyone can talk about on Earth Day, making it a complete farce and an indoctrination tool for the “social justice” crowd. If we continue on this ridiculous Global Warming path, America will turn into nothing more than another polluted banana republic.
As I’ve stated before the creation of the Department of Homeland Security was unnecessary. President Bush should have never have pushed to create the department. Better information cooperation between the FBI and CIA should have been the lesson. Instead we have another buearcracy. Now that Obama is president he’s put a complete idiot in charge. Secretary Janet Napolitan has no business running the department. I expect the White House will soon be putting a muzzle on Napolitan.
In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted to justify her call for stricter border security on the premise that “suspected or known terrorists” have entered the U. S. across the Canadian border, including the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack.
All the 9/11 terrorists, of course, entered the United States directly from overseas. The notion that some arrived via Canada is a myth that briefly popped up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and was then quickly debunked. Informed of her error, Ms. Napolitano blustered: “I can’t talk to that. I can talk about the future. And here’s the future. The future is we have borders.”
What is she talking about? These are the ramblings of a person who has no business running a major department in the government. Certainly there has to be someone who is at least competent. I’ll settle for someone who is at least relatively informed about recent history.
Our new president once promised to unite the country. Any hope of that occurring has gone out the window. Over the past week team Obama has initiated a firestorm that must be stopped. Obama’s actions on interrogation techniques are dangerous, partisan, and ignorant. I have never addressed the “torture” issue directly here because it’s a non-starter. It’s the fueled delusion of a Bush hating mob on the left. To get some perspective let’s think back to 2001. The angry mob on the right demanded that Bush investigate the Chinese influence on the Clinton administration, especially in the area of weapons secrets. To be frank there were a whole list of things Bush could have investigated about the Clintons, but he didn’t for good reason. It doesn’t accomplish anything except serve as a distraction.
There will never be prosecutions over interrogations. Obama knows this, Bush knew this, and everyone who has any common sense knows that no laws were broken.
Contrary to the claim that the memos detail “brutal” techniques used by the CIA in its interrogation of detainees (including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed), what they mainly show is the lengths to which the Justice Department went not to cross the line into torture. “Torture is abhorrent both to American law and values and to international norms,” wrote then Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Steven Bradbury on the very first page of his May 10, 2005 memo. Regarding waterboarding, an August 2002 memo from then Assistant Attorney General (now federal Judge) Jay Bybee stresses that the CIA had informed him that “the procedures will be stopped if deemed medically necessary to prevent severe mental or physical harm.”
The memos also give the lie to a leaked 2007 report from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), based exclusively on the say-so of KSM and other “high-value” detainees, that “an improvised thick collar . . . was placed around their necks and used by their interrogators to slam them against the walls.”
As the Bybee memo notes, the “wall” was a “flexible false wall . . . constructed to create a loud sound”; that “it is the individual’s shoulder blades that hit the wall”; and that the purpose of the collar was “to help prevent whiplash.” If this is torture, the word has lost all meaning.
Obama is doing this because he’s still running against Bush. Obama was elected due to Bush, he blames the economy on Bush, and he goes around the world blaming Bush for everything. This isn’t the hopeful, unifying, or forward looking Barack Obama from 2008. He’s a divisive, stuck in the past, and borderline incompetent. What sense does it make to release our interrogation techniques? It’s woeful inept act by a president who doesn’t seem to get it.
Obama wants this issue to go to hearings where nothing will be done. The sole purpose is to keep this in the news, to keep Bush in the news, and to keep Obama’s approval rating from sinking like the Titanic. It’s time for this whole thing to be exposed. Since the president caved to the delusional mob the truth needs to get out about how these interrogations kept the nation safe, how key Democrats signed off on them, and why Obama has made a terrible mistake releasing the information.
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