Ya think the New York Time's Frank Rich penned anything like this column when the Democrats took back the Congress in 2006, or when they lengthened their lead in 2008?
Don't waste your time doing a Google search, the answer is no.
Can you say "sour grapes"?
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Until the Sun Goes Down...cont.
It seems that in 2010 at least 144 companies left the Golden State for a more hospitable business climate...and I'm not talking about sunshine.
Muskogee, Oklahoma perhaps?
The Great Reckoning continues.
Muskogee, Oklahoma perhaps?
The Great Reckoning continues.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Why DO They Love Sarah?
After being derided in the Main Stream Media for a slip-of-the-tongue in which she said North, instead of South, Korea was an ally of the US, Sarah Palin demonstrates, again, why she is a darling of so many on the Right.
While many, if not all, conservatives would be explaining away, back-pedalling from, or apologizing for a similar gaffe, and thereby exasperating the conservative base, Palin, as she says, does not retreat, instead she reloads.
Consider her Facebook entry in the wake of the hubbub titled "A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States":
While many, if not all, conservatives would be explaining away, back-pedalling from, or apologizing for a similar gaffe, and thereby exasperating the conservative base, Palin, as she says, does not retreat, instead she reloads.
Consider her Facebook entry in the wake of the hubbub titled "A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States":
My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…If you're one of those conservatives who is uncomfortable with the likes of Sarah Palin, then I doubt you'll be able to understand, or appreciate, the appeal to so many of just such a response as hers. And I also doubt, as such, you'll ever be able to create, deliver, and sustain a governing majority.
Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.
Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline. The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us.
If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck’s radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime. The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? (And for that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of “Dancing with the Stars” to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking.)
“Hope springs eternal” as the poet says. Let’s hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America’s free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Le Mot Juste
The American Spectator's Bob Tyrrell issues a sincere mea culpa for the other day challenging those across this liberty-loving land increasingly upset with the TSA's new airport security line procedures.
But that's not what this is about. Rather, it's about a great line he uses to describe the Left's routine and numerous hypocrisies. To highlight their workaday phoniness, I, like many others, typically refer to them simply as Limousine Liberals. Another, older, but less used, moniker is Champagne Socialists.
Tyrell provides an altogether catchy new phrase when, after conceding that the lack of targeted profiling is the most serious shortcoming of the TSA's procedures, he let's loose with this: "This hang-up about profiling is at the root of our problem. It is a false piety practiced by the ancien régime."
"A false piety practised by the ancien régime." Just think of the number of liberal bromides that phrase would accurately capture.
But that's not what this is about. Rather, it's about a great line he uses to describe the Left's routine and numerous hypocrisies. To highlight their workaday phoniness, I, like many others, typically refer to them simply as Limousine Liberals. Another, older, but less used, moniker is Champagne Socialists.
Tyrell provides an altogether catchy new phrase when, after conceding that the lack of targeted profiling is the most serious shortcoming of the TSA's procedures, he let's loose with this: "This hang-up about profiling is at the root of our problem. It is a false piety practiced by the ancien régime."
"A false piety practised by the ancien régime." Just think of the number of liberal bromides that phrase would accurately capture.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Thankful for American Exceptionalism
It's Thanksgiving eve and I had planned a post encouraging gratitude not only for America, but also for oft- maligned American Exceptionalism. But I get up this morning, log on to The American Spectator, and find that Mark Tooley beat me to it.
Oh well, might I elaborate a bit anyway?
The Left has long been uncomfortable with, if not outright hostile to, any notion that even suggested the uniqueness of America. President Obama's own publicly expressed ambivalence about American Exceptionalism is certainly not the first time the idea has been questioned. (Although it is probably the first time such has been heard from a sitting US president.) But with this position, they are not only at odds with most of their fellow citizens, as Tooley points out, they are also guilty of a glaring inconsistency in their thinking.
A reflexive pride in one's self and one's own is not only natural and understandable, it is also critical to sound emotional health. The Left, which has lectured us for a couple of generations now about the importance of high self-esteem in individuals, forgets this point, however, when it comes to their country. Here, it seems no amount of criticism is too much. For them, serially confessing and atoning for sins real or imagined, current or more than two-hundred years old, serves a very useful public function. It eliminates, or at least mitigates against an over-reaching national pride, or, as they like to say, the temptation to hubris.
Fair enough, I suppose, to a point. As Tooley notes, and I would like to highlight, the appeal to, as opposed to the denial of, American Exceptionalism also serves a very important public function. Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., to cite just two examples, had precisely the exceptional nature of America in mind when they reminded us to seek "the better angels of our nature" and called the nation to "rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed." Because we thought of ourselves as different, their appeals carried with them the potential to shame us. Had we thought of our country as fundamentally the same as any other in human history, that shaming would have gained very little purchase on the soul of America.
Which leads to a related, but important point about the irony of the Left's position. It is because the public still embraces American Exceptionalism, and apparently stubbornly so, that the Left's abiding challenge to it continues to have any resonance at all. As soon as we, as a country, take the Left seriously and start thinking of our nation as no different, and no better, than any other, then we will begin to behave as such, and feel justified in doing so. That sad day will ill-serve both ourselves and the world.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Oh well, might I elaborate a bit anyway?
The Left has long been uncomfortable with, if not outright hostile to, any notion that even suggested the uniqueness of America. President Obama's own publicly expressed ambivalence about American Exceptionalism is certainly not the first time the idea has been questioned. (Although it is probably the first time such has been heard from a sitting US president.) But with this position, they are not only at odds with most of their fellow citizens, as Tooley points out, they are also guilty of a glaring inconsistency in their thinking.
A reflexive pride in one's self and one's own is not only natural and understandable, it is also critical to sound emotional health. The Left, which has lectured us for a couple of generations now about the importance of high self-esteem in individuals, forgets this point, however, when it comes to their country. Here, it seems no amount of criticism is too much. For them, serially confessing and atoning for sins real or imagined, current or more than two-hundred years old, serves a very useful public function. It eliminates, or at least mitigates against an over-reaching national pride, or, as they like to say, the temptation to hubris.
Fair enough, I suppose, to a point. As Tooley notes, and I would like to highlight, the appeal to, as opposed to the denial of, American Exceptionalism also serves a very important public function. Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., to cite just two examples, had precisely the exceptional nature of America in mind when they reminded us to seek "the better angels of our nature" and called the nation to "rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed." Because we thought of ourselves as different, their appeals carried with them the potential to shame us. Had we thought of our country as fundamentally the same as any other in human history, that shaming would have gained very little purchase on the soul of America.
Which leads to a related, but important point about the irony of the Left's position. It is because the public still embraces American Exceptionalism, and apparently stubbornly so, that the Left's abiding challenge to it continues to have any resonance at all. As soon as we, as a country, take the Left seriously and start thinking of our nation as no different, and no better, than any other, then we will begin to behave as such, and feel justified in doing so. That sad day will ill-serve both ourselves and the world.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
The Right to be Happy
Ever wonder why so many lefties seem perpetually unhappy? And why, as polling data confirms, conservatives appear just the opposite? Dennis Prager offers at least four reasons.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Limp Excuses
The Administration is fighting back. Consider this headline: "White House: Terrorists Have Discussed Use of Prosthetics to Conceal Explosives"
Explosives hidden in prosthetics attached to elderly, white, females?
Explosives hidden in prosthetics attached to elderly, white, females?
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