Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Unfriendly Fire From Left

  MSM item by Malcolm A. Kline (5/14/08)

In World War II and even into the Cold War, academics, journalists and politicians tempered their criticism of American foreign policy with a concern for U. S. troops serving in harms way. Sixty years later, men and women in U. S. military combat fatigues can count on no such sympathy from American elites.

Why We Vote

  Congress item by John Longenecker (5/14/08)

Every generation of constituents has to live with several generations of Congress infected with Potomac Fever

Toledo Free Press Article Gets University Employee Fired

  MSM item by Warner Todd Huston (5/14/08)

We are certainly used to seeing the MSM causing trouble for conservatives and this one is no different at least on that level. But the interesting thing here is that the trouble a social conservative discovered was as a result of what she wrote in the MSM as opposed to what was written about her by the MSM. It seems that the opinion editorial written by Crystal Dixon(1) for the Toledo Free Press got her fired by the University of Toledo(2) because… well, you know how universities are all about free expression and speech, right? Unfortunately for Dixon, though, hers wasn’t the proper, politically correct sort of speech that is officially approved of by the thugs at the University of Toledo.

Assimilation of Immigrants and the Imperative of Pride in America

  Immigration item by Paul M. Weyrich (5/14/08)

When my father came from Germany as a 19-year old the very first thing he did was to enroll in a class taught at a local public school to learn English. My aunt told me that he became proficient in English in only six weeks. He wanted to be an American and to do so he had to learn the language. Of course, he retained his German heritage.  However, assimilation was important to him, as it was to most immigrants.

This Means War

  Terrorism item by OffSite (5/14/08)

Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, is now in control of Lebanon.

Gunsmoke and The Rifleman

  MSM item by Bruce Walker (5/14/08)

My wife and I find almost nothing to watch on television.  Even Fox News is repetitive, covering the same stories that are easily available on the Internet in greater depth over and over again.  The political correctness that permeates all contemporary shows is just plain offensive.  The silliness of other new programming makes Romper Room seem sophisticated.  Perhaps, most of all, it is the self-absorption of the endless stream of models, pretty boys, and celebrities that makes watching most television less interesting than watching paint dry on walls.

Oil: $200 a barrel? Bring it on!

  GreeenIsm item by J. James Estrada (5/14/08)

When oil hits $200 a barrel, as is now being predicted, President Bush will have an open door to this executive order:  ANWR is now open for business!

Obama’s Excremental Economics

  Election 2008 item by Thomas Brewton (5/14/08)

As prolongation of the 1930s Depression and stagflation in the 1970s demonstrated, Senator Obama’s announced policies are a prescription for economic disaster.

Civil Wrongs in the Name of Civil Rights

  EdukShun item by Matt Barber (5/14/08)

The University of Toledo (UT) has sent a message - loud and clear - to potential employees and students: African-American Christians need not apply.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Today The Senate Announced They Have No Use For Us Stupid Americans!

  Congress item by Malcolm Hedges (5/13/08)

Today everything that was good for the Republic was voted down, everything bad for the Republic was passed.

Tithe: Salvation is Not by Math

  General item by Grant Swank (5/13/08)

His salvation was wrapped up in his faithful tithing. His salvation, basically, was math. If he tithed consistently, he kept his math sheet an A+.

‘The Train Wreck Called Obama - The Great Uniter?’

  Election 2008 item by JB Williams (5/13/08)

How did a freshman nobody senator from Chicago, with little more on his résumé than a 20 year membership in an anti-American church of racism, derail the Clinton juggernaut to become the undeniable front-runner for the Democrat Party Presidential nomination?

Teach Your Kid How to Sense BS

  EdukShun item by Doug Giles (5/13/08)

“One of the most salient features of our culture is there is so much bull----.” Harry G. Frankfurt, Princeton philosophy professor How many of you have met the book smart 4.0 magna cum laude lady who, in regard to street smarts, is a magna dumb loopy chick? What about the poor honey who is neither book nor street smart? What a shame, eh? My goal for my girls is for them to own the twain. My wife and I push our daughters to academic excellence; we insist that they strain their brains so they won’t sound like Paris Hilton when they open their mouths.

Nonsense ‘Survey’ Says Americans ‘Struggling in Life’

  Progressivism item by Warner Todd Huston (5/13/08)

How about I ask you if you “feel” like you make enough money each year? Let’s say you make $48,000 a year, OK? (That’s the median household income in the US) You’ll likely tell me, then that you “feel” you need more. Now, from this, can I conclude that you are “struggling in life” as a citizen of the USA? Not if you use actual data instead of “feelings” to determine what “struggling” means and not if you then try to add context to what we all have compared to what others in the world have, of course. But, this is exactly the sort of nonsensical “survey” that Reuters gravely warned us about this week. Without bothering with any statistics or context, Reuters excitedly reported that “Many Americans struggling in life, survey finds"(1), and decided that everyone is downtrodden and filled with “suffering” in the United States today. 

‘Is Obama Smarter Than a 5th Grade Jaywalker?’

  Election 2008 item by Doug Patton (5/13/08)

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has an indicted, Syrian-born Chicago shyster named Tony Rezko for a financial mentor. He has a screwball, race-baiting, America-hating pastor named Jeremiah Wright for a spiritual mentor. He has an unrepentant domestic terrorist named William Ayers for a political mentor. And he has one of the angriest wives ever to aspire to the position of First Lady.

THE NEXT CONSERVATISM To Be Published

  General item by Paul M. Weyrich (5/13/08)

I came to Washington 42 years ago. At the time liberalism was riding high. Senator Barry M. Goldwater had suffered a humiliating defeat. Democrats got commanding margins in both Houses of Congress. The media was overwhelmingly liberal. There were very few op-ed conservative writers. There was no talk radio as we know it today. Those of us who worked in the Congress didn’t even call ourselves conservatives that brand had been so disgraced.

Fish vs. Men in the Supreme Court

  GreeenIsm item by Thomas Bowden (5/13/08)

Irvine, CA--Forty percent of America’s energy comes from 550 electric power plants whose massive turbines and reactor cores are cooled with billions of gallons of water from nearby rivers, lakes, bays, and oceans.

Monday, May 12, 2008

‘Is There Any American Politician With Their Head Out Of Their Readends?’

  Election 2008 item by Malcolm Hedges (5/12/08)

Our three elitist Senator candidates have pretty much shown their lack of understanding of reality.

McCain and the La Raza card

  Republicrats item by OffSite (5/12/08)

The news this week that John McCain will attend the national convention of La Raza is beyond disturbing.

Daughter fails math test, so dad thrown in jail

  PoliceState item by OffSite (5/12/08)

A northern Kentucky man is in jail today - serving a 180-day sentence - because his 18-year-old daughter failed a math test and didn’t get her General Equivalency Diploma, or GED, as a previous court order required.

Sun-Times: To Heck With Clinton, Obama ‘Our First Woman President’

  Election 2008 item by Warner Todd Huston (5/12/08)

We can all painfully recall when back in 1998 New Yorker columnist Toni Morrison obsequiously called Bill Clinton our “first black president,"(1) can’t we? I suppose it isn’t surprising that Morrison is now supporting Barack Obama(2) since she is all about race, of course. It should be noted Obama is a tad blacker than Bill Clinton so the race mongers of the left are finally streaming to him after a slow start. Yes, the racemongers are a block sewn up by the Obama campaign at last. But this leaves the identity politics folks with a problem. What of the purported but fading “first woman president,” Hillary Clinton? Well, the Chicago Sun-Times is here to help us out with that, pulling a Morrison by calling Barack Obama “our first woman president."(3)

Slaves to the Welfare State

  Progressivism item by Thomas Brewton (5/12/08)

New Orleanians born and bred in the welfare-state seem honestly believe that they are not required to do anything to help themselves.

A Better Nuclear Mouse Trap

  General item by Geoff Metcalf (5/12/08)

Excessive courtesy must contain deceit.  --Chinese proverb.  Israel has reiterated (for the umpteenth time) they will not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran.

The Golden Age of Islam Extinguished

  Islam item by Aaron Velasquez (5/12/08)

During the Golden Age of Islam, Western Europe was experiencing the Dark Age. Arabs kept alight the flame of knowledge, rescuing Greek culture from obscurity and allowing it to reconnect with Europe as the Renaissance.

SPJ Suggests ‘Omitting Race’ in Crime Reporting

  MSM item by Warner Todd Huston (5/12/08)

The Society of Professional Journalists(1) has decided that it is best to leave a suspect’s race out of crime reporting except for “extraordinary” reasons. Of course, to the SPJ, “good reporting” means race info in a story about crime isn’t “useful to people in the community” even if the race of a suspect is part of a police report apparently. Despite their claim that they aren’t toeing the PC line, their explanation is filled with just the sort of reasoning based on PC thinking—one of which is that all whites are racists.