On Drowning: Not So Much

clipped from www.worldclimatereport.com Literally hundreds of articles could appear tomorrow re-confirming their results, the IPCC could continue to report emphatically that Antarctica is not warming (and may well be cooling), and somehow, this will all translate into claims that “Antarctica is warming and melting.” The truth from Antarctica is hard for the greenhouse crusade to accept (although certainly they try hard to fit it in), and in the long run, the truth from Antarctica might melt away the flimsy, well-publicized claims about global climate change—especially the concerns of a rapid sea level rise.

Please read Svensmark's latest Cosmoclimatology overview to learn how useless the GorEneMedia really is. The paper also explains the phenomenon of Antarctic cooling.

What Is A New New Deal?

clipped from article.nationalreview.com The New Deal is 75 years young this month. A host of commentators have invoked the current mortgage credit crisis as justification for a sweeping intrusion of the government into the economy, not just into the credit markets. American Prospect editor Harold Myerson says, “Bring on the new New Deal.” For all this talk of newness, you might be surprised at how old the idea is. Liberals were calling for a “new New Deal” when the first New Deal was barely out of diapers. That’s one reason FDR launched a “second New Deal” from 1935-1937. In 1944, he attempted to jump-start a third New Deal with his “second Bill of Rights.” Even the New Deal wasn’t as new as many claimed (as I argue in my book, Liberal Fascism). FDR himself sold the New Deal as a continuation of the war socialism of the Wilson administration, in which FDR had served. For example, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the signature public-works project of the New Deal, had its roots in a World War I power project.

Behind The Block

clipped from instapundit.com MICKEY KAUS: "McCain may or may not be blocking Heath Shuler's immigration-enforcement bill--Shuler says yes, Brian Faughnan argues no, and McCain's camp denies it. But shouldn't McCain at least have to take a position on the bill, if he's such a secure-the-borders-first man? . . . The dirty secret, of course, is that the Dem leadership isn't blocking the bill because its unpopular with House Democrats. They're blocking it because it's popular with House Democrats, who'd love to have a tough-on-illegals bill to vote for before the 2008 election. "

Spartacus And Fitna

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com Death threats by proponents of the religion of peace have led to the removal of the Geert Wilders film "Fitna" from LiveLeak's servers that we linked to yesterday. In a kind of "I am Spartacus" response, numerous sites have reposted the video. Victor Trombettas, for example, has posted it here on his blog's YouTube account; Pat Dollard has posted it here on his site with the vow that he "will NEVER bow to your ******** yappity yapping"; Michelle Malkin has posted it here; Hot Air has posted it here; Rusty Shackleford has posted it here. As of this moment, it is still posted on Google here. Download your own copy here.

Powerline has the video up for now. Follow the main link to the post. It's graphic in some spots so careful with the kids...

VDH Rocks Again II: The New McGovern

clipped from corner.nationalreview.com Watching the parade of apologists for Rev. Wright’s hatred—“garlic noses”; “KKK of A;” “God Damn America;” “Condamnesia;” the U.S. deserved 9/11; America is no different from al-Qaeda; we caused the AIDs virus; Israel is a “dirty word” and sought an Arab and black ethnic bomb, etc—is, well, depressing. Instead of offering distance from Wright, far too many African-American professors and pastors interviewed on the cable stations the last few nights instead praised his brilliance and inspiration. At best, there was a feeble ‘you just don’t get it’ about the venting and wink-and-nod culture of the black church. This disastrous regression in race relations is the natural dividend of liberal identity politics, most recently brought to the fore by the wife of the first “black President”, the first “transracial” black Presidential candidate, and the “prophet” and “healer” Reverend Wright. Barack Obama is on his way to a McGovern candidacy.

VDH Rocks Again

clipped from corner.nationalreview.com Would somebody do the calculus? Is "the brilliant" (and I do mean brilliant) Rev. Wright's current purported $1.6 million 10,000 sq. ft. mansion (cum elevator and butler's pantry) under construction in a gated Chicago community a better reflection of his hated black "middle classism," or is the Obamas' $1.65 million stately domicile more indicative of Michelle's former lack of pride in America? Perhaps kindred populist John Edwards of two Americas and 30,000 sq.ft fame can adjudicate.

Whoops!

clipped from campaignspot.nationalreview.com "As long as they keep using the supposed computers to attack us, the conflict is going to continue to flare," Chávez told reporters in Caracas Tuesday. In an attempt to discredit what else may be released from the computers in the future, Chávez suggested he may be falsely linked to the leaders of Al Qaeda and the FARC. "Don't be alarmed if from that computer they pull a photo of me with [Osama] bin Laden and Manuel Marulanda," he jibed. Only a fraction of what is on the computers – believed to contain thousands of files – has been released to the public. Following up on one of the comments on that Hot Air thread, I found the following in NRO's archives: On January 5, [2003] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's former personal pilot dropped a bombshell that has been ignored by just about every major U.S. news organization: The Venezuelan president, according to the pilot, gave al Qaeda a substantial sum of money following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Should this be the headline in all of the EneMedia? Yes. If it wasn't actually the EneMedia of course...

The Edge Of A Precipice

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It Would Remain

clipped from atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com Andrew Bostom wrote me, "The uncomfortable examination of Islamic doctrines and history is required in order to understand the enduring phenomenon of Muslim Jew hatred, which dates back to the origins of Islam. We can no longer view Muslim Jew hatred—including annihilationist strains of this apocalyptic hatred—as a “borrowed phenomenon”, seen primarily, let alone exclusively, through the prism of Nazism and the Holocaust, the tragic legacy of Judeophobic Christian traditions, or “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” from Czarist Russia. Wael al Zarad’s case illustrates the prevalence and depth of sacralized, “normative” Jew hatred in the contemporary Muslim world. Even if all non-Muslim Judeophobic themes were to disappear miraculously overnight from the Islamic world, the living legacy of anti-Jewish hatred, and violence rooted in Islam’s sacred texts—Koran, hadith, and sira—would remain intact.

Welcome to the Rev Wrong's kind of people.

So, Let's See...

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com So, let's see: Fitna says that a propensity to violence is inherent in Islam, a deeply controversial proposition. The film can't be shown anywhere because people are afraid of...something. So instead, the film is posted online, where millions of people view it. But after 24 hours or so, the film is taken down because threats of violence are made by...someone. I dunno, it's really puzzling. The one thing that everyone agrees on is that it's ridiculous to think that Muslims can be violent. So the headchopping threats must be coming from...someone else.

Samizdat

clipped from fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com Clamping down on what may be said in the open media will eventually drive the creation of a Samzidat. Samizdat (Russian: самиздат) was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or other media in Soviet-bloc countries. Copies were made a few at a time, and those who received a copy would be expected to make more copies. The emergence of a parallel information system in the Soviet Union was a direct result of the failure by normal channels to carry information under the threat of punishment the KGB. Today's KGB of course, is Islam and the Left. But censorship is ultimately counterproductive. There is nothing particularly excellent about Wilder's film. It won't win any prizes for either hatred or dramatics. Why should such a thing become famous? The answer of course is because ordinary, even mediocre speech has been censored openly in the Western world. It's not the ordinary speech which is singular but the censorship.

The Very Quality

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com There has been a lot of discussion about what Barack Obama knew about Jeremiah Wright's anti-American, racist beliefs, and when he knew it. It turns out, though, that there is no mystery at all: Obama's own autobiography, Dreams of My Father, answers the question. In Dreams of My Father, Obama describes the very first time he attended Trinity and heard Wright preach. What was Wright's theme? A racist attack on white people. I heard this on Hugh Hewitt's radio show today: It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere ... That's the world! On which hope sits. Obama describes himself being moved to tears by this sophomoric analysis of the world's problems. By his own account, Obama wasn't repelled by Wright's racism, it was the very quality that drew Obama to Wright's church!

Dems Love Moral Hazard Roulette

clipped from corner.nationalreview.com McCain's position on the subprime situation was not quite categorical, but it was very sound. It stands in sharp contrast to the slush-fund proposals of his potential Democratic opponents. “I will not play election-year politics with the housing crisis,” said Mr McCain. “It’s not the job of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they’re big banks or small borrowers.” A reader, using rather strong language, reminds me of one problem with bailouts — they deprive responsible actors of their just rewards. Many people — particularly on the low end of the income spectrum — found themselves priced out of the housing market by the idiots who were bidding everything up to the sky. I've already had a few liberals comment to me that it's not enough just to say "Be responsible." But if you do anything more than that, you're hurting someone — at least the taxpayer, probably others as well.

The Gibberish This Time

clipped from corner.nationalreview.com A president who identifies with Malcolm X? A man who grew up alienated from ordinary American life and determined to avoid becoming a "sellout" by hanging with Marxist professors and radical feminists? Jeremiah Wright came along and offered himself as a substitute father figure, Obama overcame his alienation and embraced leftist organizing and Wright’s radical sermons in earnest. Obama finally grew up when he threw away his alienated radical pose and embraced the real radical thing instead. I was only half joking when I "defended" Jeremiah Wright by substituting his name for Franz Fanon in some post-modern claptrap. Fanon — the international version of Malcolm X — is famous for his paens to the healing psychic powers of anti-colonial violence. Now it turns out that Obama himself really did sit around reading Fanon, and the sort of gibberish Marxist professors write in praise of him.

And How I Wish My Grandfather Hadn't Sold That Homestead!

clipped from www.nextenergynews.com America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America’s Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western economies the trump card against OPEC’s short squeeze on oil supply and making Iranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted supply irrelevant.

My Grandfather's Church Lists To Port...

clipped from online.wsj.com Usually radio hosts have to offend sacred moral sensibilities to be thrown off the air. But when the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod canceled its popular, nationally syndicated radio program "Issues, Etc.," listeners were baffled. The Rev. Gerald Kieschnick, the synod's current president, has pushed church marketing over the Lutherans' historic confession of faith by repeatedly telling the laity, "This is not your grandfather's church." This isn't the first time the Missouri Synod has been divided between confessional Lutherans and those enamored with the latest religious fads. In the 1970s, alert confessional laity thwarted a top-down imposition of chic liberal theology in the church's seminaries. As synod bureaucrats support congregations that hide their Lutheran identity while terminating the strong witness of "Issues, Etc.," members of the denomination are asking if they can have their grandfather's church back.

Looks Like John Edwards House Hasn't Filled Up All Of One Of His Americas After All

clipped from gatewaypundit.blogspot.com Rev. Jeremiah Wright is about to roost in a 10,340 square foot $1.6 million dollar home. It's in a gated community no less-- You've got to keep the riffraff out, you know. FOX News reported: FOX News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community. While it is not uncommon for an accomplished clergyman to live in luxury, Wright’s retirement residence is raising some questions.

But this ought to finish off that job.

How big would 10,340 point print be? That's the size you'd need to spell out the word hypocrisy in big enough print to match this situation.

There Are Just A Few Things The Reverend Wrong Has Missed About Slavery...

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Millions of blood curdling things in fact.

Great Moments In Personal Finance ...

clipped from taxprof.typepad.com Several bloggers have note another curious fact about Barack Obama's tax returns:  despite over $1.6 million in Schedule C income, most of it from royalties on his book, he did not take the elemental tax planning step of establishing a SEP-IRA.  The tax magic is that you can shelter up to 25% of your self-employment income (up to $180,000 in 2007), and the investment earnings accumlate tax-free until withdrawn at retirement.  Greg Mankiw (Harvard) suggests possible reasons that Obama did not do this: Maybe he is getting bad tax advice. Or maybe he is expecting vastly higher tax rates in the future when the accumulated savings will need to be withdrawn and taxed. As Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee has written, "Future increases in tax rates potentially threaten to significantly reduce the value of your retirement savings and may even mean that you should not save in 401(k) accounts at all."

... soon to be applied to you and me...

Mainstreaming Today

clipped from corner.nationalreview.com John McCain might like to ponder this story: Excerpts from a conversation in a car during "Operation Badr," recorded covertly by police: Person 3: "What happens, what happens at the Parliament?" Person 1: "We go and kill everybody." Person 3: "And then what?" Informant: "And then read about it ..." Person 1: "We get victory." That's not in the Sunni Triangle, that's in Toronto: Young Muslims who've spent virtually their entire lives in the west. A couple of readers have pointed out that John McCain at least has the guts to refer to "radical Muslim extremists". But "extremism" surely means views out on the fringe: Thirty-six per cent of young Muslim men favor the death penalty for apostasy. That's 36 per cent not in Yemen or Waziristan but in the United Kingdom. By definition, thirty-six per cent can't be "extremist". It's mainstream.

Turns Out He DID Pay The Three Stooges

clipped from newsbusters.org Later, during the roundtable segment, George Will reacted with outrage to what hadn’t inflamed Stephanopoulos: “Let’s note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime -- something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed -- Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn’t pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.”

Surprises never cease I tell ya...

Wisps Of Smoke

clipped from pajamasmedia.com You tell me Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s horrendous remarks will take on a different meaning if I will but contextualize them and understand he has seen terrible things in his time, a burden shared by all African-Americans. A fair proposition; from Kant to Auden and beyond we learn we define by comparison and only by internalizing can we grasp true meaning. So I have done precisely that: looked inside myself to understand how hatred might need to be contextualized. I did not have to look far. I remembered how, as a boy, I sat at the Passover Seder with my sister’s Polish-born husband and the remnants of his family. The remnants of five families to be precise, for the 12 weary souls around that table were all that remained of what had once been 300. The others – their loved ones, their sons, their daughters, their hopes and dreams – were gone, their lives consumed by zyklon-b gas, their mortal remains wisps of smoke from a Büchenwald chimney.

Another RTWT.

Where Art Thou?

clipped from tank.nationalreview.com The rockets used in the Green Zone attacks “were Iranian-provided, Iranian-made rockets,” General Petraeus said. Can we dismiss this from the most successful US commander in Iraq since the conflict began? Further, is it wise to also dismiss the trend of Iranian command changes across the board to operational ground commanders? And, is it wise to forget that Muqtada al-Sadr announced his seclusion and withdrawal from command (at the behest of his Iranian masters)? In order to minimize or dismiss Iran’s guiding hand in the fighting in Iraq, one must do all of these things. And this is completely illogical. Completely. It's not entirely up to us whether or not we are in conflict with Iran. People, we are only one half of the equation. The other half has been decided, like it or not. But for goodness sakes, don't take General David Petraeus's word for it. Oh, no. Instead, cry out, "O Admiral Fallon, where art thou?" That should help.

The Concrete Situation

clipped from www.americanthinker.com Last March, Congress passed House Resolution 64, authored by Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and co-sponsored by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY).  The vote was 409-1, Ron Paul being the lone dissenter.  I was present for the debate on the Resolution.  After a pantheon of Democratic and Republican lawmakers offered impassioned speeches on Shoaib's behalf-and not incidentally in praise of Rep. Kirk -- the Republican and Democratic floor leaders (Gary Ackerman of New York and John Boozman of Arkansas respectively) both commented on the bi-partisan nature and strong solidarity of the afternoon. Barack Obama wants us to think that he has a special sensitivity to injustice and that his entire life has been about combating it.  Yet, in this one concrete situation he faced, he failed to act.  The fact that not one of the dozens of other lawmakers failed speaks volumes.  The fact that support was never contingent on ideology speaks volumes.

Even Dick Durban supported it? 409-1 in the House? But not Obama?

Wow. A pattern is appearing.

Amazingly...

clipped from hotair.com Update: I mentioned in the earlier post today that she’s lied about this at least three times so far on the stump. Just how far does it go? Fresh from tonight’s CBS Evening News…

... Hillary was not able to flush all the videos down the memory hole. The bottom video at the link is the best. Trust me, I don't have good things to say about See-BS very often but they got this one right.

Hillary Gets Religion?

clipped from www.pittsburghlive.com Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor made. "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

Only because she needed big ammo to deflect from her nuttiness on Tuzla. That and maybe she has finally figured out she's going to have to win without the black community...

The First Reason Is Terror

clipped from www.realclearpolitics.com The long-suffering Tibetans have been in the news. This happens perhaps once or twice a decade. In a more moral world, however, public opinion would be far more preoccupied with Tibetans than with Palestinians, would be as harsh on China as it is on Israel, and would be as fawning on Israel as it now is on China. But, alas, the world is, as it has always been, a largely mean-spirited and morally insensitive place, where might is far more highly regarded than right. Consider the facts: Tibet, at least 1,400 years old, is one of the world's oldest nations, has its own language, its own religion and even its own ethnicity. Over 1 million of its people have been killed by the Chinese, its culture has been systematically obliterated, 6,000 of its 6,200 monasteries have been looted and destroyed, and most of its monks have been tortured, murdered or exiled. Palestinians have none of these characteristics. So, the question is, why? The first reason is terror.

RTWT is an understatement on this one...

Did I Forget To Mention? (Part 92354)

clipped from article.nationalreview.com In one poll of black church members, more than one third said they believed AIDS was a form of genocide against blacks. Rev. Wright echoed this claim in one of his inflammatory sermons, “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.” A 1990 poll taken by the New York Times/CBS found that 10 percent of blacks in New York City thought the AIDS virus was “deliberately created in a laboratory in order to infect black people,” while another 19 percent thought the theory might possibly be true, a finding that was confirmed in a similar poll by Newsweek/Gallup in March 1990. And the paranoia among blacks has only gotten worse, according to a 2005 study by Rand Corporation and Oregon State University, which showed that half of African Americans surveyed believed that AIDS is man-made, more than one quarter said it was created in a government lab, and 12 percent claimed that the virus was spread by the CIA.

Yes. This is the epitome of rationality.

Did I mention my (white) friend Doug died of AIDS?

The "Lying" Buoys?

clipped from www.nationalpost.com The big problem with the Argo findings is that all the major climate computer models postulate that as much as 80-90% of global warming will result from the oceans warming rapidly then releasing their heat into the atmosphere. But if the oceans aren't warming, then (please whisper) perhaps the models are wrong. The supercomputer models also can't explain the interaction of clouds and climate. They have no idea whether clouds warm the world more by trapping heat in or cool it by reflecting heat back into space. Modellers are also perplexed by the findings of NASA's eight weather satellites that take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily over the entire surface of the Earth, versus approximately 7,000 random readings from Earth stations. In nearly 30 years of operation, the satellites have discovered a warming trend of just 0.14 C per decade, less than the models and well within the natural range of temperature variation.

Bringing Us All Together

clipped from www.realclearpolitics.com It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious. Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it. It makes a good story, but it won't stand up under scrutiny. Barack Obama's own account of his life shows that he consciously sought out people on the far left fringe. In college, "I chose my friends carefully," he said in his first book, "Dreams From My Father." These friends included "Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets" -- in Obama's own words -- as well as the "more politically active black students." He reached out from the left to the far left. That's bringing us all together?

Sowell for President!

Yes, I know. As the world's smartest man he's plenty smart enough not to run. But I seem to have found the real audacity of hope, eh?

Hypocrisy Watch

clipped from hotair.com If that’s not clear enough, let me ask readers what kind of coverage this would have provoked had it been conducted against the worshipers at a mosque. If a group of anti-terrorist protesters had broken into Friday prayers at a Chicago mosque to spray stage blood all over Muslims in protest of al-Qaeda and the Taliban — a little stronger connection than that between the Catholic Church and the war in Iraq — the newspapers would have trumpeted it as a hate crime against American Muslims, followed by weeks of human-interest, anecdotal accounts of how terrible America is to its Muslim citizens.

The REAL Third Way

clipped from proteinwisdom.com He states this because Obama’s constituency is the oppressed. People of all political positions have commented on whether Obama played the race card or commended himself well but it doesn’t seem that anyone has pointed out that, after some forty years of our Great Society experiment, his call to action about what America’s should be focused on is more fully realizing that experiment - and more can really only mean that we further expand entitlements somewhere above the something more than twenty percent of GNP that it is now. (Doesn’t it occur to anyone that, should we contemplate Kenya, the Sudan, and Darfur (along with many other places in the world), whether we should ask “Is anyone in America really oppressed?”) Isn’t it time, and really past time, to have a conversation about how the Great Society experiment has utterly failed? Isn’t it time to talk about the value of personal responsibility It is the ultimate irony perhaps to suggest to Mr. Obama that there is perhaps a Third Way.

QOTD 080324

clipped from instapundit.com I don't think that Bill Richardson is Judas. Of course, I don't think that Hillary is Jesus, either.

The (Old) New Heart Of Weakness

clipped from 67.192.120.151 Al Qaeda is still trying to spin Iraq into civil war, but whereas in 2005-2006 al Qaeda was succeeding, today al Qaeda is being shredded. An Iraqi officer near Sinjar told me that recently a group of perhaps twenty “jihadists,” many of them foreign, descended on a Nineveh village. The Iraqi officer said the terrorists killed some adults and two babies. One baby they murdered was 15 days old Until recently, such terror attacks inside Iraq could have coerced the village into sheltering Al Qaeda. Yet this time, the “jihadists” got an unexpected reception. Local men grabbed their rifles and poured fire on the demons, slaughtering them. Nineteen terrorists were destroyed. Times have changed for al Qaeda here. Too many Iraqis have decided they are not going to take it anymore. Al Qaeda in Iraq is still fighting, and they are tough and wily, but al Qaeda Central seems to realize there are easier targets elsewhere, perhaps in Europe, where many people demonstrate weakness in the face of terror

Read It For Yourself

clipped from www.weeklystandard.com Unlike, virtually every other reporter, he appears to have read it. "Before the war," he writes, "I believed that Saddam was a supporter of terrorist groups." The report on Saddam's terrorist ties released last week by the Joint Forces Command confirms this (not that you would know it from the scant press coverage of the study). The study, citing captured Iraqi documents, indicates that Saddam's regime supported various jihadist groups, including Ayman al-Zawahiri's, and including Kurdish Islamist groups, about whom I have reported. But read the study for yourself; it's actually quite an achievement of translation and analysis. As he indicates, Goldberg is not new to the subject. (It's telling that those who have written about Saddam Hussein's support for jihadist terror are encouraging people to read the actual report for themselves.)

Adolf's Response Eagerly Awaited By EneMedia

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Gen David Petraeus told the BBC he thought Tehran had trained, equipped and funded insurgents who fired the barrage of mortars and rockets. He said Iran was adding what he described as "lethal accelerants" to a very combustible mix. There has as yet been no response from Iran to the accusations.

Can you imagine our fifth column media warped back to WWII? They'd be eagerly filling the airwaves with Adolf's "response" to "unfair accusations" by the "nasty colonialists" Churchill and Roosevelt!

Hitchens Rocks Again

clipped from www.slate.com You often hear it said, of some political or other opportunist, that he would sell his own grandmother if it would suit his interests. But you seldom, if ever, see this notorious transaction actually being performed, which is why I am slightly surprised that Obama got away with it so easily. (Yet why do I say I am surprised? He still gets away with absolutely everything.) This flabbergasting process, made up of glibness and ruthlessness in equal proportions, rolls on unstoppably with a phalanx of reporters and men of the cloth as its accomplices. Look at the accepted choice of words for the ravings of Jeremiah Wright: controversial, incendiary, inflammatory. But is it "inflammatory" to say that AIDS and drugs are wrecking the black community because the white power structure wishes it? No. Nor is it "controversial." It is wicked and stupid and false to say such a thing. And it not unimportantly negates everything that Obama says he stands for

I'm Not Liberal, I'm A Progressive

clipped from www.iht.com Obama, in an interview, said that "a lot of these old labels don't apply anymore." He said he was a progressive and a pragmatist, eager to tackle the big issues like health care and convinced that the Democrats could rally independents and disaffected Republicans to their agenda.

He clearly hasn't read "Liberal Fascism" yet. This is an election cycle where he's going to be begging to have "liberal" back if he makes it into the general election.

Of course, he'll just flush it down the memory hole just like Hillary is about to find a way to do with Tuzla.

Did I mention that Hillary is a progressive too?