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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Not just a leftist, an audacious leftist
President Obama’s nomination of David Hamilton for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is, I suspect, the beginning of an avalanche of left-wing appellate court nominees. The next nominee may well be Maryland district court judge Andre Davis. Judge Davis has a reputation for making rulings favorable to criminal defendants and for having these rulings reversed, including by Clinton appointees to the Fourth Circuit. Is it wise politically for Obama »
More deceit from the New York Times
The claim that David Hamilton, President Obama’s first judicial nominee, is a “moderate” does not constitute the only howler in the New York Times article on Hamilton’s selection. Times-man Neil Lewis also tells us: By naming judges one at a time, Mr. Obama is taking a markedly different approach from former President George W. Bush, who held a ceremony on May 9, 2001, in the Rose Garden to present his »
“Free” Medical Care For Everyone Except…
Some news stories are so strange that it’s hard to believe you’re reading them correctly. This is an example: the Obama administration has a plan to save $540 million by shifting the cost of medical care for service personnel injured in the line of duty from the Veterans’ Administration to private insurance companies. Today, Obama tried to explain this bizarre proposal to the American Legion: The leader of the nation’s »
“Free” Medical Care For Everyone Except…
Some news stories are so strange that it’s hard to believe you’re reading them correctly. This is an example: the Obama administration has a plan to save $540 million by shifting the cost of medical care for service personnel injured in the line of duty from the Veterans’ Administration to private insurance companies. Today, Obama tried to explain this bizarre proposal to the American Legion: The leader of the nation’s »
Fit Only For Satire?
It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry over the AIG story. Maybe satire is the only reasonable response. Scott Ott comes through: As the furor over AIG executive bonuses threatened to bring the current economic recovery to a halt, President Barack Obama and Sen. Chris Dodd today threw fuel on the fire, announcing their “fierce outrage” upon hearing that the insurance giant had given each of their campaigns »
Fit Only For Satire?
It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry over the AIG story. Maybe satire is the only reasonable response. Scott Ott comes through: As the furor over AIG executive bonuses threatened to bring the current economic recovery to a halt, President Barack Obama and Sen. Chris Dodd today threw fuel on the fire, announcing their “fierce outrage” upon hearing that the insurance giant had given each of their campaigns »
Slow Joe on the Great Depression
Joe Biden opined last night that Barack Obama “has inherited the most difficult first 100 days of any president, I would argue, including Franklin Roosevelt.” Franklin Roosevelt? How about Abe Lincoln? Harry Truman? Ronald Reagan? But let’s stay with Roosevelt. Comparisons between the present economy and the Great Depression are overblown, to say the least, as this chart showing job losses in the Depression and six subsequent recessions reflects; click »
Smart Diplomacy
The impression is growing that President Obama’s White House staffers are not exactly sticklers for detail. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the President of Brazil, the world’s fifth-largest country and one of its most dynamic economies, is coming to America: His meet and greet with the U.S. president was bumped to Saturday, and when the White House announced his official visit, they misspelled his name. But when Brazilian President Luiz »
The Media Loves Conservatives…
…but only if they hate Republicans. That’s the theme of this excellent column by Kyle Smith in the New York Post. Smith begins: Dear Mainstream Media: I’m a conservative who believes that other conservatives are fat, drug-stuffed, money-grubbing warthogs like Rush Limbaugh, or scary inbred backwoods retards like Sarah Palin. So can I please be your go-to guy whenever you need a conservative viewpoint? When you assemble an op-ed page »
Talk With Hamas? Why Not?
Just before Barack Obama took office, he was handed a letter from ten notable Americans, mostly former officials like Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Paul Volcker. The letter urged Obama to stop shunning Hamas and open talks with them: “I see no reason not to talk to Hamas,” said Scowcroft, who was national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush. That’s a view that seems to be gaining steam around »
And so it begins
Barack Obama has selected a leftist, David Hamilton, to be his first nominee for the federal bench. Hamilton is Obama’s nominee for a spot on the Seventh CIrcuit Court of Appeals. Appropriately enough, Hamilton reportedly was once a former fund-raiser for the radical activist outfit ACORN, a key Obama ally. He is also a former leader of the Indiana chapter of the ACLU. Hamilton’s record as a federal district judge »
If You’ve Got Consistency, I’ve Got A Sword
The feeding frenzy over AIG’s bonuses has turned into theater of the absurd, capped by Senator Charles Grassley suggesting–not very seriously, one hopes–that AIG executives should consider committing suicide, Japanese fashion. I’m not sure whether there is actually anything wrong with the AIG bonuses or not; if the facts are as described by the Washington Post, this may be a standard employee compensation issue, not an executive greed-fest. The real »
The Bankers O Must Obey
My post Barack and Beijing, in edited form, is an op-ed in today’s New York Post under the title The Bankers O Must Obey. »
The Godfather, part IV
The Obama administration has taken on a thuggish mien from Obama’s first days in the White House. Nicholas Guariglia captures something of the essence of what is transpiring in “Welcome to Franicis Ford Coppola’s White House.” To take one example of Guariglia’s comparison of Obama’s White House to The Godfather, here is Guariglia on the press: The Obama-journalist relationship has been a one-sided love affair: the more they appease him, »
Breitbart breaks the code
My friend Andrew Breitbart is the Hollywood conservative who created Breitbart.com and Big Hollywood. Last week he went on Bill Maher’s HBO talk show Real Time together with the fast-talking academic hustler MIchael Eric Dyson. Andrew’s appearance is available on three video clips posted here. Andrew’s appearance is a modern version of Daniel in the lion’s den. So far as one can tell from the video, the audience consists entirely »
Breitbart breaks the code
My friend Andrew Breitbart is the Hollywood conservative who created Breitbart.com and Big Hollywood. Last week he went on Bill Maher’s HBO talk show Real Time together with the fast-talking academic hustler MIchael Eric Dyson. Andrew’s appearance is available on three video clips posted here. Andrew’s appearance is a modern version of Daniel in the lion’s den. So far as one can tell from the video, the audience consists entirely »
Remembering Nat “King” Cole
Today is the anniversary of the birth of the great Nat “King” Cole. Cole was born on St. Patricks’s Day, though until Daniel Mark Epstein did the research for his biography of Cole, we weren’t entirely sure that the year was 1919. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama and grew up in Chicago after his father moved the family there in 1923 to pursue a career in the ministry. Cole »
