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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A Question of Citizenship
Trust Republicans to go too far. They take a good idea -- such as the notion that the federal government should enforce immigration laws, and states should be able to help -- and then drive it into the fringes. Witness a Fox News interview in which Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., declared, "We should change our Constitution and say if you come here illegally, and you have a child, that child is automatically not a citizen."
What Year Is This?
The calendar says this is 2010 -- I just looked -- but there are times when current events feel more like an historical re-enactment. It could be 1937 all over again: A president has been ushered into office on the wings of Hope and Change after a sweeping electoral triumph, and the clouds have started to lift. Vast new programs, however debatable or constitutional their merits, have been enacted.
Vigilante Law
SAN DIEGO -- A nation that does not see in law a right to life for its unborn children and a court that allows more than 50 million of them to be killed claiming a nonexistent "penumbra" in the Constitution is not about to acquire a moral -- much less a constitutional -- backbone when it comes to same-sex "marriage."
Proposition 8
It’s “Back to School” time again, with sales on school supplies and state tax holidays on clothes and notebooks. But parents may have a lot more to worry about this school year than looking for deals.
Black Murders Eight Whites; Media Blames Whites
After 50 years of being inundated with stories of white racism, and being taught in college that in this white-dominated society, only a white can be a racist, the American public has been properly brainwashed into accepting the otherwise incredible: A black man murdered eight white people at his place of work because they were white, and the media story is about the murderer's alleged experiences of racism.
Cheering Immaturity
A graduating senior at Hunter College High School in New York gave a speech that brought a standing ovation from his teachers and got his picture in the New York Times. I hope it doesn't go to his head, because what he said was so illogical that it was an indictment of the mush that is being taught at even our elite educational institutions.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Republicans Ask 'What Do I Do Now?'
Republicans are starting to think about how to answer the Robert Redford question. You know the scene. In the 1972 movie "The Candidate," the Redford character, having won the election, turns to his political consultant and asks, "What do I do now?" Many Republicans fear they will look as clueless as Redford.
Mysteries Solved, Lies Refuted
As far back as last March, when the Tea Party members gathered in Washington to voice their objection to ObamaCare, we all saw the way the liberals choreographed the event in order to make the patriots appear hostile to blacks. It was so simplistic, I assume that either Rahm Emanuel or David Axelrod came up with the plan. It consisted of having only the pinheads from the Black Congressional Caucus enter the House by the front steps while Nancy Pelosi and her white colleagues all snuck in using the tunnel.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Why Voters Should Tell Sacramento To Bag It
There are two kinds of people in California politics: those who want Sacramento to ban plastic grocery bags and those who just want state pols to pass a budget. The budget is after all -- what? -- only 39 days late.
A Democratic Panic Attack?
With the disappointingly soft jobs report for July and a faltering recovery overall, is Team Obama getting ready for some sort of new, liberal-left, Keynesian, big-bang stimulus package? Will it be desperate to "do something"?
Marriage and the Constitution
The federal same-sex marriage decision out of California sets into motion a sequence of events that will result in a Supreme Court earthquake two years from now. The Supreme Court can either vindicate traditional marriage, or forever redefine the most basic unit of human civilization. Sounds melodramatic, but unfortunately — it’s true.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Parting Shots
I have long been intrigued with the final words uttered by those on their actual or figurative deathbeds. The trouble, of course, is that you never know if the words were spontaneous or rehearsed, whether they were really spoken aloud or were conjured up after the fact by someone who hoped to gain for himself a piece of anonymous immortality by acting as a giving-up-the-ghost writer.
From The Comedy Store
BP's Tony Hayward left for Russia to drill in Siberia after Barack Obama got him sacked as CEO. It's part of his post-racial presidency. For every African-American he fires from the Agriculture Department he sends one Anglo-Saxon to Siberia.
Our Next Awful Apology
It has long been said that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth ever catches up to it. But the Holy Bible serves as age-old proof that the truth will eventually come out. The latest example of mankind’s embarrassing blunders has just been put on glaring display by our government.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Snakes
WASHINGTON -- "I hate snakes!" It's a great laugh line delivered by Indiana Jones on quests for rare archeological artifacts when he suddenly finds himself defenseless -- surrounded by vipers. Somehow he always manages to survive the experience. The scenes should serve as a primer for U.S. presidents promising to deliver great changes in U.S. domestic policy. They are often surprised by unanticipated enemies, unexpected foreign policy disasters and unforeseen national security challenges. Unlike Indiana Jones, not all of them survive the experience.
No Shady Banking Buddy Left Behind
First Lady Michelle Obama's latest overseas jaunt is getting all the headlines. But President Obama's money-grubbing junket to Chicago may cost taxpayers far more in the long run. With his Gaultier-clad wife sashaying around the Spanish seaside, the lonely fundraiser-in-chief returned to Illinois to take care of some birthday-week business. Job One: Filling the Senate campaign coffers of his corruption-tainted political protege Alexi Giannoulias.
Judge Walker's Clinic in the Power of Words To Deceive
Judge Vaughn R. Walker's opinion purporting to strike down California's Proposition 8 ballot initiative banning gay marriage is a screaming advertisement against the appointment and confirmation of renegade judicial activists like Elena Kagan.
The Washington War on Investment
Will higher tax penalties on investment really spur jobs and faster economic growth? Most commentators would say no. It's really a matter of economic common sense. But Tim Geithner says, Yes!
Case Closed: Embarrass Them
For now, the Iranian government has suspended the death by stoning sentence meted out to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old mother of two who was convicted of adultery. There is a lesson here.