Howard Was Right

Congressman accused of colluding with White House

2010-07-13T15:10:00Z

Controversy over job ‘offers’ for election favors boils over again - The controversy over allegations White House officials at least as high as Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel offered two congressional candidates jobs in return for campaign favors, which apparently would violate the law, is reheating – with a claim that one of the candidates colluded with the White House on what story to tell.

Fallen under the rule of lunatics

2010-07-12T16:40:00Z

In the past, if anyone asked whether the folks in charge in the nation’s capital were certifiable lunatics, or whether policy decisions were being made by superannuated college kids with no experience out in the real world, who apparently stayed up too late last night, smoking too much dope and listening to too much heavy metal, those questions could be safely dismissed as exaggerations for rhetorical effect.

Regime Uncertainty in the 1930s: A New Deal Insider’s Account

2010-07-10T16:54:00Z

In the mid-1990s, when I was engaged in the research that would eventually be published early in 1997 in an article titled “Regime Uncertainty” (a modestly revised version of which appears as chapter 1 of my Depression, War, and Cold War), I had not read Raymond Moley’s book After Seven Years, published in 1939. Mea culpa. I should have read it much earlier. I am embarrassed to admit that although I purchased a copy in a used-book store many years ago, it sat on my shelf unread until recently.

‘Obama, Holder blistered for ‘racism’?’

2010-07-08T16:53:00Z

WASHINGTON – Our “post-racial” president is actually our “most-racist” president, says the author of a blistering new book on race politics, “Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal – America’s Racial Obsession.”

Wash Post Forgets to Mention that Writer Is Obama Operative

2010-07-04T14:26:01Z

Ron Brynaert has a story over at his The Raw Story blog(1) that reveals yet another denizen of the Old Media that is trying to be both a “journalist” and an official operative of Barack Obama’s White House. She is Patricia McGinnis, an unpaid advisor at the White House and also one of the contributors to the Post’s “On Leadership” blog.

Why Obama socialists love Sweden, hate the Constitution

2010-07-03T15:30:00Z

...Back in the 1960s, leftists confronted with the argument that socialism necessarily subjects a society to totalitarian government control would point to Sweden as the example of “social democracy,” i.e., a democratic country that followed the socialist path. Now we hear the news that “the Kingdom of Sweden took a dramatic turn toward totalitarianism with the adoption of a sweeping new education ‘reform’ package that essentially prohibits homeschooling and forces all schools to teach the same government curriculum.” It also places restriction on religious education, so that religious schools “can’t make any children to pray or confess to the God, but they will still be allowed [to exist]. ...”

Worse Before Getting Better

2010-07-02T18:01:00Z

Good day to all and a very happy 4th of July. Before I plan to BBQ and launch fireworks in celebration of America’s 234 birthday, I will opine on the topics below. Read them, pass them on to others and fight to change everything for the better before it gets any worse.

Search engines spy for gov’t: ‘It would blow people’s minds’

2010-06-29T16:27:00Z

The European Parliament has adopted a proposal to collect citizens’ private search queries and store them for up to two years – framing the controversial plan as a measure to crack down on pedophiles.

Al-Qaeda/FARC connection: Running drugs to U.S.

2010-06-07T20:12:00Z

Three suspected al-Qaeda associates who were apprehended in West Africa by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents during an international anti-drug operation, were extradited to New York and appeared in federal court in Manhattan, according to reports obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police’s Terrorism and Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs committees.

China, Europe to Fuel Second US Recession

2010-05-24T18:22:00Z

The United States could easily experience a double-dip recession from repercussions in Europe and China, said Christopher Wood, equity strategist for CLSA Ltd. in Hong Kong.

Kagan a lesbian? Why it matters

2010-05-22T14:06:00Z

I don’t see how liberal media-types can write, what with those uncalloused, milky-soft little digits all bundled in bulky kid gloves and all. Oh, when the target of their “reporting” is a conservative politico, or even Tea Party Joe, off come the gloves. But when it’s one of their own – when circumstances require that a fellow liberal undergo a modicum of journalistic scrutiny – its simpatico most sublime. Out with the inquiry; in with the Huggies and tushie powder.

Feds: States’ growing gun-rights movement a threat

2010-05-21T15:36:01Z

The federal government is arguing in a gun-rights case pending in federal court in Montana that state plans to exempt in-state guns from various federal requirements themselves make the laws void, because the growing movement certainly would impact “interstate commerce.”

Kagan: Yes, government can ban books

2010-05-19T12:44:01Z

In the first case she argued before the Supreme Court as solicitor general, Elena Kagan, President Obama’s pick to join the court, argued that the federal government has the power to ban books it deems to be “political electioneering.”

Debt Crisis Could Bring Down the Euro, EU

2010-05-18T17:20:00Z

There isn’t any need to say “I told you so” for euro skeptics. They knew what few would admit about the European Union. The fractures in the union now apparent were there all along merely waiting for one crisis to make them self evident.

Obamacare hospitals killed: 60, with 200 on life support

2010-05-18T15:03:00Z

Reform law ‘thins the herd’ to line big health-care companies’ pockets - Buried in the recently passed health-care reform bill is a new law granting one of the nation’s largest corporate lobbyists what it has been targeting for years: Death to its competition, and, consequently, a heavy blow to patient choice.