FAST AND FURIOUS
Victims of F&F
RACE
A very interesting essay on race relations and voting in our country. Both are improving, notwithstanding the race hustlers. Holder is wrong and is the de facto race hustler. The good news is that is that things have improved and keep improving.
FORGERYGATE
Mark Steyn: Eternally shifting sands of Obama’s biography “And where’s the harm in it? Everybody does it – at least in the circles in which Obama hangs.” ”There is no evidence that Mrs. Warren, now the Democrats’ Senate candidate, is anything other than 100 percent white. She walks like a white, quacks like a white, looks whiter than white. She’s the whitest white since Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of Wite-Out. ” ”The recipes from “Elizabeth Warren – Cherokee” include a crab dish with tomato mayonnaise. Mrs. Warren’s fictional Cherokee ancestors in Oklahoma were renowned for their ability to spear the fast-moving Oklahoma crab. It’s in the state song: “Ooooooklahoma! Where the crabs come sweepin’ down the plain.”" the whole piece is hilarious. The Gatsby bit still has me chuckling.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Egypt: next 6 weeks a crapshoot, but military probably remains the power, regardless of who wins presidency and whether a constitution is written before June 30 and what might be in it. A mystery buried in an enigma on a moonless night.
RELATED: From Democracy to Sharia. Andy McCarthy checks in. ”…democracy is not a “process,” it is a culture. It cannot be installed by a “system.” Processes like popular elections and constitution-writing are democratic only when democracy’s principles have become ingrained in a society.” Therefore, the duck axiom applies: ‘if it walks like, talks like….’ it won’t be a democracy.
ELECTIONS
Bain vs. Bane
ENVIRONMENT
“Which would you rather have?“ Inhofe asked. “Would you rather spend $4 billion on Air Force Base solar panels, or would you rather have 28 new F-22s or 30 F-35s or modernized C-130s?” This question is in the context of our “leaders” who think that spending billions on climate change is the priority over modern weapons systems. Excellent essay.
POLITICS
Speaking of Bane, it is ‘Bipartasanship’ that is almost always a disaster. ”Since 2001, it has produced No Child Left Behind, a counterproductive federal intrusion in primary and secondary education; the McCain-Feingold speech rationing law (the Bipartisan) Campaign Reform Act); an unfunded prescription drug entitlement; troublemaking by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; government-directed capitalism from the Export-Import Bank; crony capitalism from energy subsidies; unseemly agriculture and transportation bills; bailouts of an unreformed Postal Service; housing subsidies; subsidies for state and local governments; and many other bipartisan deeds.” Comprimise is good only when the principle is worthy. There is no worthy goal in the preceding list; therefore, comprimise is a sellout, a capitulation and, as I look at the list, it is all for liberal goals, notwithstanding Republican sponsorship of, at least, prescription drug entitlement (although I bet they wanted it paid for-probably shouldn’t bet more than a dime.)
