The Nagging Persistence of Tribalism - Taki's Magazine
The most reasonable discussion and explanation for our American obsession with race and racism I have seen yet. I can't imagine how any intelligent person could disagree with this.
Then Jim Goad sums it up thus:
The sanest route would be to treat everyone fairly while conceding that life is unfair. Presume that anyone who ignores nature and thinks everything is 100% nurture is a natural-born idiot. And you should tolerate whomever you like, avoid whomever you dislike, but NEVER tolerate anyone who won’t tolerate you.
Taxes and Trust: The Achilles Heels of Obamacare and Obama
Pat Caddell has some advice for republicans in this election season. Emphasize taxes and trust as two areas where Obama has not only let us down, he has willfully lied to enact his agenda, as the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare makes clear. As Caddell writes:
These are the big stakes for the 2012 election: whether a deceptive president--and/or a deceptive presidential administration--should be rewarded with a second term.
The article is a bit long, but well worth it. Caddell is the democrat republicans should look to, since he learned the weaknesses of the statist left from the inside.
Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but most say that he has changed it for the worse. A new poll commissioned for The Hill found 56 percent of likely voters believe Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way, compared to 35 percent who believe the country has changed for the better under his leadership.
Many people today have no curiosity about the history of war, they just feel that we should stay out of them. Understanding war, how it begins and ends, is a very important area of study. There are few courses of study in this crucial body of knowledge available in academia today. Here is a serious post that explores the root causes of World War 2, and the role played by French antisemites in assuring Hitler's victory.
LaHood: Golly, I envy the Chinese government « Hot Air
Ray LaHood is a dummy in a cabinet full of less-than-impressive functionaries, but he is merely the latest democrat to speak of the fantastic freedom than Red China operates under. Freedom FROM the will of the people, that is. Even LaHood is not so foolish that he believes that the Chinese people are free. Right? Right?
As his incompetence makes the recession worse, Obama is in deep denial about it - a denial he would like the electorate to follow. Telling Americans that we should not "read too much into the unemployment numbers" does not change anything. Highlighting Romney's unemployment number as Massachusetts governor, which he got down to 4.6% while Obama's own number is 8.2% relies on the ignorance and lack of regard for the facts of his voters.
In any private enterprise, management exerts energy to minimize cost and waste. That is a necessary requirement for continued survival. Federal property and expense management has no such requirement, and therefore costs continually rise. In fact, since ever-increasing budgets and appropriations are the most imprtant aim of any bureaucracy, this is not surprising. What IS surprising, however, is the fact that the Left supports expanding the size and the scope of government and has little regard for reforming such massive waste.
Carney: 'I feel rotten' about accidental fracking vote :: WRAL.com
Genius democrat is so "green" that she pushed the green button. Now that the governor's veto has been overturned and frakking is legal in N.C. she is pissing and moaning because she did the right thing - by accident.
This is a hilarious video. Joe Williams, who was just fired from his position at Politico for his racist rants and tweets, is angry at those who caught him out and aired out some of his most egregious racist statements. He calls them "self-appointed watchdogs." I guess when journalists are appointed by the right it is somehow different than the self-appointed media of the left. With no apparent sense of irony, he made these comments on Al Gore's Current TV. Watch, and laugh. Video from Breitbart.com, natch.
Islamist threat to Timbuktu's ancient scientific texts - science-in-society - 03 July 2012 - New Scientist
Muslim raiders are doing the same thing they did in 1591 - destroying ancient art, texts, and shrines. Some of the materials in their crosshairs include medical and scientific books that, among other things, show the danger of tobacco. Once again we see the benighted and anti-intellectual yearnings of true believers in Islam come to life.
Jacob Hacker, The Architect of ObamaCare and the Public Option in making his case, admits that this idea is a covert route to a Single Payer System. Don't you just love how they'll "let us keep" our current options? How blatantly totalitarian!
Jack Lew: The individual mandate isn't a tax - Brett Norman - POLITICO.com Jack Lew, like the rest of the White House crime syndicate, is a pathological liar. Lies about Obamacare, Fast & Furious, and taxes, will be a necessity if The Won is to have a chance at reelection. Or at least, so THEY apparently believe.
Roberts switched views to uphold health care law - CBS News
This is some important reporting on the SCOTUS decision in the Obamacare case. If you want to understand how it happened, and get some serious insight in how the court operates, and some hints about how they will rule in the future, you must read this piece from CBS's Jan Crawford.
Ten Questions for Brandon Darby : The Other McCain
The real democrat effort to reelect The Won is being fought in the shadows. Read this for a sample of what is going on in the democrat dirty tricks department.
Economists Without Calculators - Robert Bryce - National Review Online
The Green fanatics are entitled to their opinions, but not their own facts, and they are surely not entitled to their own math. Green may be keen, but it does not scale - Wind and solar energy are not serious answers to any global energy scenario that a single human living today would welcome.
Elizabeth Warren and Deval Patrick met at her headquarters for him to deliver his endorsement yesterday. When the inevitable question of her fraudulent use of a phony Cherokee background for career advancement, Patrick declared that, speaking as governor for all the people of Massachusetts, while the question was proper, the answer was out of bounds - that the people of Massachusetts had no interest in the subject.
Personally, I love watching Elizabeth Warren bounce and squirm in the background as Patrick speaks. Who would vote for such a nebbish? Well, watch, and decide, for yourself.
And, for more grins and giggles at the expense of Ms. Warren, watch this gem of self glorification.
I find it hard to believe that this woman will make it past the primary or be otherwise replaced by her party. Failing that, I'd put my money on Brown for reelection.