Courtesy reader “rickl,” I have received a heads-up on the following chilling prediction:
Enjoy your three-day weekend! One of the best things about it, besides the unseasonably warm and sunny weather in the Northeast part of the country, is that the stock market will be closed for at least two days and the banks for three. Would that the market were closed Monday as well.
CNBC has gotten to the point where the events it relates resemble a horror movie of the economic variety. Financial markets around the world reel, countries like Iceland are going bankrupt. Nobody seems to know what’s what, what’s next, or why all the moves by various governments have failed to reassure Wall Street, Main Street, and all the other streets on earth.
I’ve been wondering how 1929 would have gone if we’d had round the world twenty-four hour cable news coverage of the fall. Continue reading →
Somehow this election promise of Obama’s has slipped under the radar screen for most Americans: do away with the secret ballot in elections to determine whether a workplace will be unionized, exposing workers to more union intimidation and practically guaranteeing increasing power for unions.
The unions and the Democrats of course disagree with this interpretation of the effect of the law. Please read both linked articles and see which side you think has the better argument.
To me it’s not even close. Continue reading →
I hear it almost constantly now: McCain is pushing on Obama’s Ayers connection. He’s taking off the gloves and striking hard yada yada yada.
And yet when I glance at cable TV and see a talking head on the subject (the latest was GOP’s Tom Ridge), I hear an “attack” so disconnected from the real issue that it makes me wonder what’s really going on here. Continue reading →
Richard Fernandez on those who would be President.
And Victor Davis Hanson takes on the task of summarizing what’s wrong with Obama, from start to finish. Send it to your liberal friends and see if they’re still speaking to you afterwards. If they are, see if they can counter anything in it.
Here’s a great description of the show hearings going on right now in Congress:
Democrats have begun a search for the culprit in the financial collapse in a manner somewhat akin to the OJ Simpson search for Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman’s murderer.
Fannie and Freddie? Never heard of ’em. Continue reading →
First, a bit of liveblogging.
McCain is hitting Fannie and Freddie and the Dem role in at—he says Fannie/Freddie was “the catalyst”—but the points have to be so rushed that I wonder if people even know what he’s getting at.
Obama of course deflects onto “dereguation.” Can people sort this out in a sound bite? I doubt it. And Obama gets the last word on this.
[Hmmm—I think some of my hatred of the shallowness of debates is coming out here.]
The set is harsh and stark; rather ugly and hard on the eyes. Everyone looks uncomfortable, even the audience. Continue reading →
On the one hand CNN actually manages to present a piece about Obama and Ayers that makes some hard-hitting points.
On the other hand CNN continually pulls the most important punch. The significance of the Obama/Ayers connection (as I wrote some time ago, here) is that the two men worked together to promote a far Left agenda in our public schools. Bill Ayers’s terrorist activities in the 60s are only relevant insofar as he is still tied to the philosophy behind them. And Obama has lied about his role and his relationship with Ayers.
Notice also that an Obama shill is given many opportunities to speak, but not only is no McCain spokesperson part of the discussion, but none were even consulted for the piece.
[See this for background.]
I was contemplating just how it is that someone like Richard Fuld of Lehman can look himself in the mirror right now and not throw up. But I’ve got a hypothesis about people such as Fuld, who operate in the rarefied atmosphere of finance at its highest levels. Continue reading →
Just when you think the anti-Palin press has covered itself with enough shame, it sinks still lower. James Taranto has found a real howler: Continue reading →
Please, please, please read this. And then send it to everybody you know.