Coming soon to a school near you?
Here’s an interesting article by commenter Geoffrey Britain. And it ties somewhat into this piece of news. Stop the Gramscian march through the schools!
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An alternate theory of Obama
We spend an awful lot of time wondering what’s really going on inside Obama’s mind. What motivates him? Is he a committed ideologue or a front for something else? This comment by SteveG regarding Obama and Holder’s decisions in the … Continue reading →
House Republicans reply: your move, Mr. President
In the chess game between the parties, Obama has proposed televised bipartisan health care talks, and the House Republicans have countered with a rather nice gambit of their own. Check. Your move, President Obama.
Continue reading →Dionne: “finish the kitchen”
I would like to point out to E.J. Dionne that his analogy falls flat when he approvingly quotes Rep. Jay Inslee comparing health care reform legislation to a kitchen renovation: …[Inslee] recounted all the grief he and his family went … Continue reading →
Krauthammer: on Obama’s internationalism
We’ve been so focused on Obama’s domestic decisions and their terrible effects that it’s easy to forget how bad his foreign policy has been. But Charles Krauthammer is determined to make us remember what he refers to as “the depths … Continue reading →
Is Holder about to be tossed?
In this post’s comment thread there was a discussion of whether President Obama is making some room under that crowded bus for his Attorney General Eric Holder. Jennifer Rubin has written a piece speculating that this might indeed be the … Continue reading →
Okay, Superbowl thread!
I don’t care about football. But I’ve got the TV on as I work, and if I’m rooting for anyone, it’s for the Saints, because I like underdogs. But it’s the ads that interest me. The theme: manhood, with a … Continue reading →
Narcissism, thy name is Obama
Two links for your perusal: this and this. Perhaps you will agree with me that they are very, very disturbing. It has always been clear that Obama has an unusual amount of egotism, even for a politician. But these incidents … Continue reading →
Emanual vs. Holder: it’s on Eric!
Jane Mayer’s puff piece on Eric Holder appeared recently in the New Yorker. Anyone who reads blogs or periodicals on the right, and who has followed the controversies involving Holder’s decisions about the KSM trial and the Christmas bomber—especially Andrew … Continue reading →
It’s the independents, stupid
Obama’s support is dropping among the independents of New Hampshire. This has become a general trend for Obama; the Scott Brown election polls and results showed the same precipitous decline among independents in Massachusetts, whose swing from Democratic to Republican … Continue reading →
Obama and the core of “corpsman”
It’s a small point; really very small in the larger scheme of things: President Obama mispronounced the title “Corpsman” several times at a prayer breakfast, saying “Corpse-man” instead of the proper “Core-man.” The usual suspects have criticized him for this … Continue reading →
Sullivan, Edwards, Palin and the Atlantic
I don’t link to Andrew Sullivan, and you may notice I ordinarily don’t discuss him. And I’m not going to do too much of either here, except to say I consider that something very sad and disturbing happened to his … Continue reading →