Duke Official Faces Pedophilia Charges
My only questions are: (1) whether
this guy was at Duke during the railroad against Duke's lacrosse team; and (2) whether he signed on to the petition of faculty members against students later proved to be innocent.
Michael Jackson Murdered?
I've resisted commenting on Michael Jackson's death because, well, aside from the tragedy of a 50-year-old man dying an extremely premature death, I'm not a big fan and I really don't care. Sure, I feel bad for those who loved him, as I do for the loved ones of anyone who dies, but the reaction of some reminds us that the word "fan" is shorthand for "fanatic."
Now, however, as
more questions are being raised about his death, I have become convinced that his death was murder, and that the perpetrators can be found among the Obamorons in the Democrat Party.
After all, word of Jackson's death supplanted news of Friday's vote in the House of Representatives for the largest tax increase in American history, and the most invasive effort ever to control the American economy.
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.
The Real Consequence Of Mark Sanford's Infidelity
The most immediately meaningful impact of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's admission of marital infidelity is that it displaces the media's attention from President Barry's ineptitude in addressing events in Iran.
It's a good excuse not to cover Barry's abject failure to support democratic values, even though I am of the firm belief that the actual winner of the Iranian presidential election is of little consequence on most major policies.
Jobs Killed By President Barry
While it's nearly impossible to know whether Federal economic policies "save or create" any jobs, at least in the private sector, it's pretty easy to tell when they
close a factory and kill jobs.
The people of Tampa thank you, President Barry and Congress, for your idiotic SCHIP taxes.
I guess these jobs will be tallied against those President Barry claims to have "created or saved."
Great Presidential Quotations In American Foreign Policy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address(1961):
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
At the Brandenburg Gate (1963):
Ich bin ein Berliner.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, at the Brandenburg Gate (1987):
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., on the stolen Iranian presidential election:
Er, uh, ...c'mon, guys, you're making me look bad!
The Strategy
With news that President Barry's health care "reform" proposals are in deep political trouble, the true agenda of the far Left is made more and more apparent.
It is beyond reasonable or serious debate that the current state of American health care is the result of government intrusions on the free market. Medicare socialized half the system --- the elderly consume more than half of all health care, for obvious reasons --- with promises (from, among others, Hubert H. Humphrey) that it would never cost more than $10 billion per year. Wouldn't it be nice if it only cost twice that amount? Medicaid is part of the not-so-Great Society, the War on Poverty. When can we expect the "exit strategy" that Democrats demand for every other "war"? Federal mandates that hospital treat all who appear at emergency rooms --- even those who don't need emergency treatment --- has imposed incredible costs.
So, what does the far Left want now? Well, "single-payer" --- more properly called "socialized medicine" --- is currently a non-starter. So what will happen?
Depend upon President Barry and his minions to advance proposals which will further screw up medical care in America, attempting to provoke a clarion call for completely socializing American medical care.
These people are nothing if not Machiavellian.
What A Pity
As a gag, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sent a
set of sculptured bull testicles to a Democrat state senator, who returned them with a terse note. The gift was in response to an earlier gag gift from the state senator to the Governator.
Apparently, the state senator has had his sense of humor surgically removed.
Along with --- like most Democrats --- the portion of the anatomy that the Governator's gift was intended to replace.
Coverage Of The Chrysler Proceedings
As usual,
SCOTUSBlog is providing yeoman's service in covering today's filings in the United States Supreme Court regarding the Obama Administration's extra-legal and probably unconstitutional efforts to deny Chrysler bondholders their property rights in an effort to pay off Obama supporters (
i.e., the UAW).
Whether the Supreme Court will actually take the cases is, of course, a mystery (only about one in a hundred petitions for a writ of
certiorari are granted), but if the court does, SCOTUSBlog recognizes that it constitutes the potential for "
the most significant Supreme Court ruling on the government’s power to deal with economic crisis since the Court struck down major parts of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. in 1935 and U.S. v. Butler in 1936."
Excellent!
As usual, Ann Coulter gets it
exactly right.
An excerpt, applying Liberal "logic":
I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
Following the moral precepts of liberals, I believe the correct position is: If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, then don't shoot one.
Quite An Authority
Back in the day, those of us who hold the so-called "mainstream" media in contempt would refer to our local journal as the "
Pot. News." Of course, a little while back, that journal merged with the
Manassas Journal-Messenger and became the
News & Messenger, and this little
bon mot fell into disuse.
Today, a
reminder why it still fits: the editorial discussing the upcoming Democrat primaries identifies one of the gubernatorial candidates as "
Jim Moran."
Now, I have little use for any Moran brother, but even I know that the one running for the Democrat nomination for Governor is the (relatively) good one, former Delegate
Brian Moran.
And this is an editorial board which would presume to recommend candidates with endorsements?
Kinda tells you why you should ignore the so-called "mainstream" media.
UPDATE: Well, now
they've corrected it. Without credit, of course.
The Return of Political Ambulance Chasing
Remember Columbine? Two dysfunctional punks kill a bunch of school mates, and the far Left demands gun control. Virginia Tech? A dysfunctional and probably mentally-deranged bozo kills dozens, and the far Left demands gun control? Matthew Shepard? A homosexual is killed, and the far Left demands so-called "hate" crimes legislation.
Now, we have the murder of a practitioner of the vilest form of abortion --- partial-birth abortion --- and before the identity of the suspect is even identified, the far Left is screaming that his motive must have arisen out of the fact that he is a Pro-Life extremist! The Virginia moonbatosphere is already all atwitter (not aTwitter) with the allegation. Newly-minted UVa grad Jamelle (a criminal justice major, perhaps?) already has two posts,
here and
here, and the Howling [Mad] Latina reveals her insight into the mind of a killer a thousand miles away
here.
These guys must be mind-readers, because I've nowhere seen the motive of this guy identified. Now, while the police could hardly be blamed for looking into this motive, had they not already had a suspect (as yet, unidentified) suspect in custody, moonbat bloggers drawing this conclusion in the lack of
any evidence are nakedly pursuing a political agenda, perhaps at the cost of the truth. Yet for all they know at this point, this abortionist was shot by the jealous paramour of his homosexual lover, but then I would be doing what they are: making allegations in the absence of any evidence whatsoever.
Meanwhile, back in the real world,
Pro-Life groups have
uniformly condemned the murder.
Isn't interesting that the "blame America first" crowd jumps in to blame a respectable political movement for the violence of an as-yet unidentified suspect, for an as-yet unidentified motive, while disclaiming all responsibility for giving aid and comfort to terrorists who --- guess what? --- blame America for all the world's ills.
Identity of causes is not identity of tactics.
RPV Convention Thoughts
Attended the Republican Party of Virginia State Convention in Richmond last night and today. Didn't participate in "bloggers row," but you can find many fine reports from those who did.
Good time, and much better-run that last year's fiasco. Most of our candidates --- Bill Bolling for Lieutenant Governor; Ken Cuccinelli for Attorney General --- won.
We got down a little later than expected (8:00), because we had to drop Jimmy off at someone's home so he could attend his Scout troop's spring creek cleanup today. Started out at the Jeffersoniad/New Media suite. Kinda odd: the beer and wine were free, but you had to pay for sodas. Then trooped over to the McDonnell/Bolling affair, stuck my head in the Brownlee suite and talked for a time with a few young Hampden-Sydney alums who were supporting his candidacy.
Best Hospitality Suite --- Americans for Prosperity's affair at the Hilton Garden.
Best Bar --- Fifth District Chairman Tucker Watkins' late-night gathering. First met Tucker last year, when someone dragged me to it, and we immediately hit it off. Tucker is a good ole' boy, and I've found that such a characteristic meshes well with my Pennsylvania Dutchman credentials. We picked up the conversation right where we left off. Helps that we have some mutual friends at the
alma mater.
Least Likely Attendee --- "Not Larry Sabato" himself, Ben Tribbett. He was a good sport about it when having his tail twisted.
Best Line of the Convention --- John Brownlee: "We remember when acorn was just a nut, and not a collection of nuts."
CORRECTION: Ron Josephson on Facebook informs me that I am incorrect, and that this line was uttered by David Foster. My apologies to Mr. Foster.
One of our candidates lost, however. I voted for Bill Stanley for State Chairman. Not that I have anything against Pat Mullins. I've known him since he was Fairfax County Chairman. He was and is a good guy, and I believe he'll do a fine job as State Party Chairman.
However, holding in contempt the manner of his initial elevation to the post, with the despicable removal of Jeff Frederick, I could not validate that with my vote, even though he had the support of many whom I respect. Hence, I would have voted, and did vote, for any credible candidate in his stead.
With that having been said, I am completely happy with the GOP ticket, and anticipate a GOP sweep statewide in November's election. While we had left before the announcements were officially made, one finds in the blogosphere that the losing candidates all were gracious in defeat, pledging their support for the ticket.
We shall see.
Judicial Hypocrisy
As most have by now heard, California's Supreme Court reaffirmed the people's sovereignty by today
rejecting a challenge to Proposition 8, an initiative on last November's ballot to reaffirm the definition of marriage as the union between one man and one woman.
Informed readers will recall that same-sex "marriage" was imposed upon the people of California by a 4-3 vote earlier last year.
Nevertheless, demonstrating that the far Left is nothing if not shameless, the vote was only 6-1. The lone dissenter was Carlos Moreno, who had been under consideration as President Barry's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Justice David Souter.
Ironically, Moreno --- who had been part of the majority imposing so-called same-sex "marriage" upon the people of California --- criticized today's ruling as representing a "drastic and far-reaching change."
Bold words from a man who just last year was redefining an institution which has never constituted what he imposed upon the people of California.
I'm not sure what's more shocking and dismaying in the age of President Barry: that this man was under apparently serious consideration for appointment to the United States Supreme Court, or that any judge on any court could make such an assertion with an apparently straight face.
Interestingly, just a few days ago, the
New York Times ran a puff piece on Moreno describing him as in the "dead center" of the California Supreme Court, and demonstrating "surprising humility."
Yeah. It's certainly "humble" to attempt to redefine perhaps the oldest institution of human civilization. Then again, the
Times called the California Supreme Court "a moderate to conservative court."
One cannot help but wonder about the color of the sky in their planet.
Obama Interview
More
evidence that President Barry doesn't have a clue.
Does This Really Surprise Anyone?
It's pretty pathetic that the far Left in this country is so opposed to actually defending it that they have decided
to declare a practice which results in no real permanent physical harm, but which achieves its desired result (the extraction of information), to be "torture."
On the other hand, it's hardly surprising that people who don't understand what the word "marriage" means would also have problems understanding "torture."
