Obamanation
The rapid transformation of this country into a European-style socialist democracy is certainly distressing. American life is on its way to becoming more difficult and less free, less innovative — in a word, less American. But it is the combination of that atrophy with the existence of nations seeking to duplicate the international accomplishment of…
One of the topics that came up on last night’s Violent Roundtable was the failure of mainstream commentators to leaven their mockery of conservative concern about President Obama’s in-school presentation with an acknowledgment of the objectionable suggested lesson plan that stoked the ire in the first place. Host Matt Allen suggested that bias leads such…
With the economy at best slowing its wobble (and reason to be wary even about that), the Obama administration has added requirements for “better gas mileage for cars and trucks and the first-ever rules on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions” to its list of desired drags thereon. Note this now-familiar feature: The proposal will cover vehicle…
Jonah Goldberg — eminently qualified for such a statement, as he is — suggests that the Obama-as-Hitler rhetoric is over the top, not the least because it underestimates the American people: … there’s a problem. Many folks claim to see in Obama the makings of an actual Hitler and in Obamaism a repeat of the…
As promised, the White House has released the prepared text of President Obama’s speech to school children today. Here’s the theme: Now I’ve given a lot of speeches about education. And I’ve talked a lot about responsibility. I’ve talked about your teachers’ responsibility for inspiring you, and pushing you to learn. I’ve talked about your…
Have you heard of the Van Jones controversy? No? You know, the thing with Obama’s environmental jobs “czar” and his kooky left-wing extremism? Huh. The spotlight got sufficiently intense that Mr. Jones had to resign; of course, the light didn’t emanate from mainstream sources — which typically promote themselves as just such seekers of truth…
So the national unemployment rate is 0.3% shy of 10%, and economists are debating when, not whether, it will achieve double-digits. In Rhode Island, which has been in double-digits for quite some time, already, the experts continue their reluctant predictive marches toward my initial gut estimate of 14-15%. And worst of all, usage of the…
I touched on the growing controversy surrounding President Obama’s address to school kids earlier in the week. As I said, I thought Obama’s speech would be pretty harmless and I expect that the speech will be filled with the usual platitudes and educational cheerleading. That’s fine and is the sort of feel-good thing we should…
Via Drudge, it seems President Obama is going to address all pre K to 6th grade students on September 8th. Hm. On the one hand, I’m guessing he’ll speak a lot of platitudes about working hard, opportunity, reaching for the stars, etc. In and of itself, probably pretty harmless. But the concept of sending out…
President Obama has put the government on track to realize nearly one trillion dollars per year of cumulative deficit for the next decade: In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America’s founding. And it says by…