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Another Round Of Bigotry From The Left

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 9:35:53 PM

Obama was right: Another hateful, bigoted attack from … the New Yorker?

This makes the third bigoted attack from the Left on Obama.  Two weeks ago, it was Ralph Nader acting as the arbiter of black authenticity, and last week it was Jesse Jackson wanting to castrate Obama.  One side in this cycle certainly seems obsessed by identity politics, but so far it isn’t the Republicans.

Update: “Third bigoted attack” was tongue in cheek, people.  Get a clue.  The New Yorker is attacking conservatives, but Obama’s the one taking offense (and for good reason).  Obama warned that the Republicans would obsess over his ethnicity, but so far only the mainstream Left has made it an issue.



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Obama And More

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 9:08:31 PM
One increasingly gets the sense that there is virtually no issue, no core convictions, and very few people who will not be thrown under the bus, if doing so advances Obama’s political career. “Barack McGovern Clinton”

The world loves a softie, until they need the hard stuff. “It's Not Easy Being Hard”

What is done to free these people? Nothing. Everyone knows it will take the hardest of hard power to remove the oppressors in Zimbabwe, Burma, Sudan, and other godforsaken places where the bad guys have the guns and use them. Indeed, as the Zimbabwean opposition leader suggested (before quickly retracting) from his hideout in the Dutch embassy — Europe specializes in providing haven for those fleeing the evil that Europe does nothing about — the only solution is foreign intervention.

And who’s going to intervene? The only country that could is the country that in the last two decades led coalitions that liberated Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Having sacrificed much blood and treasure in its latest endeavor — the liberation of 25 million Iraqis from the most barbarous tyranny of all, and its replacement with what is beginning to emerge as the Arab world’s first democracy — and having earned near-universal condemnation for its pains, America has absolutely no appetite for such missions.
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Immigration

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:59:37 PM
Assimilation is the key to the historic success of American immigration, but for the bulk of new Latino immigrants — Mexican Americans — it’s not working this way.“Assimilation Crisis”

If we have a population of Americans of Mexican origin who are having trouble getting a firm grasp on the rungs of upward mobility, the last thing we should be doing is importing poorly educated Mexicans.

One nation under English is a necessary step toward true assimilation. “Rendered Mute”

Are those 12 million people “hiding in this country” because paranoid, xenophobic Americans fear people of different colors who speak other languages, as Obama implied? Or, are they hiding because they came here illegally? Does that matter?

By all means, let’s frame the immigration debate in humanitarian terms, but preaching unity will only get us so far. Grounding the soaring spirit of e pluribus unum is a terra-firma rule of law that has to be reckoned with. And it is helpful if all concerned can read and comprehend the law.
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Power-Mad Bureaucrats At The Environmental Protection Agency Remain Undaunted

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:41:34 PM
A new regulatory regime from our environmental bureaucrats would grind the economy to a halt. “The EPA’s Blueprint for Disaster”
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What The Mullahs Should Mull, Attack Israel, The Response Will Not Be A Security Council Resolution

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:11:45 PM
Israel has 200 one-megaton warheads — and Exodus 21:23. “What the Mullahs Should Mull”  The great unknown is this: How crazy is the Iranian regime?
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With Approval At 9%, Democrats Decide To Touch Off Bank Run

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 5:32:27 PM
Believing Congress' approval rate might hit double digits, Senator Chuck "The Camera Hunter" Schumer decided to bill taxpayers tens of billions of dollars by starting a bank run.

According to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, Congress has actually finally accomplished something–they’ve achieved the lowest approval rating in the history of the poll. Just 9 percent of the American people approve of the job Congress is doing.

But there’s a reason why this Congress is such a failure–it’s because they don’t care, are obsessed with irrelevant petty squabbling, and apparently have contempt for the American people. If they didn’t, out of simple respect for the people, all Democrat and Republican leadership in the House and the Senate would apologize and resign en masse.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said President Bush has been a drag on public perception of Congress.

“Any time you have a president who is down so, so far in poll numbers, it drags down city council members, it drags down any elected official — including us, and we recognize that,” Reid said, adding that he met Monday night with a group of pollsters and consultants, one of whom put Bush’s approval rating at 11 percent.

That’s significantly lower than other public tracking polls, which recently have registered Bush’s approval rating as hovering around 30 percent.

But Rebecca Fisher, spokeswoman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said “it’s embarrassing that Democrats won’t take responsibility for their own inaction and are trying to deflect their failures onto the president.

“Looks like Democrats are experiencing the downside to being the majority party,” she added.


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Dancing On Tony Snow’s Grave

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 4:59:41 PM

Will Kurtz Slam the L.A. Times Web Site for the Commenters Who Reveled in Tony Snow’s Death?

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A "Nation Of Whiners?" Well, Are We?

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 3:32:01 PM
It’s always awkward when presidents and candidates are embarrassed by the words and behavior of their own friends.

And such was the case when McCain supporter and surrogate speaker Phil Gramm stated earlier this week that America has become a nation of “whiners.”

But lost in the midst of this little fiasco was a question that begs an answer: is Phil Gramm right? Has the United States of America, on some level, become a nation of whiners?

Obama and Clinton have also both spent a good bit of this year lashing out at “corporate America,” and “fat cat executives” - - another sure indication of whining in America. Why would anybody who wasn’t a whiner be obsessed with the salary of a CEO? And why would anyone at all be offended that a corporation earned a profit?

Corporate profits keep millions of Americans employed and line the retirement portfolios of millions of investors, and executives who manage such corporations deserve the compensation that the corporations’ board of directors have determined as “fair.” But don’t try to tell that to the presidential candidates. There’s to much political gain to be enjoyed by promising to “reign-in executive pay,” and to “tax corporations” even further.

That’s a good start. Now let’s imagine McCain rebuking Obama more succinctly. When Obama laments “rich greedy corporations” (oil corporations or any other), how about challenging Obama on the relative merits of a corporation that continually loses money (can someone say “General Motors?”)? And when Obama vows to get tough on “greedy” and “unscrupulous” mortgage lenders, and to “protect homeowners,” what if somebody - - McCain or someone else - - stood up and sated the obvious: Americans need to be better stewards of their own money! Americans who borrowed more than they should have, should not now look to the government to “fix their problem.” Oh, and by the way, 95% of us homeowners are paying our bills on time, so let’s not limit the scope of opportunity for 95% of us, just so we can coddle the other 5%.

I’d love to hear some of these ideas from Mr. McCain. But they would likely beget more whining.


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Drama Blasted For Showing Images Of A Muslim Being Beheaded

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 3:11:21 PM
BBC drama depicts a Muslim being beheaded by a Christian

One viewer wrote on the corporation's website: 'If it had been another religion portrayed in that manner, the PC police would have been up in arms about the nastiness and their rights not to have their religion ridiculed - as it was Christians, it was apparently OK.'



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Obama Youth?

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 3:07:36 PM
Obama’s little-noticed proposal for a “civilian national security force”

At this same speech, he promised to withhold funds from school districts that don't make their junior high and high schoolers serve 50 hours a year. 100 hours for college students, provided their type of service is deemed acceptable by a sprawling new Federal bureaucracy.

And, of course, there's the creepy nature of his proposal, but nothing new there.


Back on July 2, Barack Obama read his "public service" address, and it contained this line that hasn't received much notice:

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set... We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded."



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A Teachable Moment

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 2:56:58 PM

Give them Pell grants!


Democrats clearly don’t understand the mechanisms of pricing.  Their rhetoric on speculators demonstrates this, as it misses the point.  Speculators matter only in shortage economies, as the future value of any commodity becomes more relevant in inverse proportion to its availability.  Even apart from that, speculators want to make money just as in any other commodity trading.  If they foresaw a glut of oil, they’d bet short on it just as quickly as they’re going long on oil now.

. . . Instead of demonizing “speculators” who can only foresee more shortages as America refuses to produce its own resources, perhaps Congress should unshackle domestic production instead

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Downhill?

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 2:52:13 PM

NYT notices Obama disgust on “Far Left”


How far Left do people have to be for the New York Times to call them “far Left”?  MoveOn?  International ANSWER?  Young Communists?  William Yardley discovers them in — surprise! — Portland, Oregon, and also discovers that the natives are restless after the last few weeks of Barack Obama flip-flops

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Climate Change

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 13, 2008 2:52:37 AM
The Wind Cries 'Bailout!' - Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens launched a media blitz this week to announce his plan for us "to escape the grip of foreign oil." Now he's got himself stuck between a crock and a wind farm. (Steven Milloy, FoxNews.com)

Kyoto's Long Goodbye - One of the mysteries of the universe is why President Bush bothers to charge the fixed bayonets of the global warming theocracy. On the other hand, his Administration's supposed "cowboy diplomacy" is succeeding in changing the way the world addresses climate change. Which is to say, he has forced the world to pay at least some attention to reality.

That was the larger meaning of the Group of Eight summit in Japan this week, even if it didn't make the papers. The headline was that the nations pledged to cut global greenhouse emissions by half by 2050. Yet for the first time, the G-8 also agreed that any meaningful climate program would have to involve industrializing nations like China and India. For the first time, too, the G-8 agreed that real progress will depend on technological advancements. And it agreed that the putative benefits had to justify any brakes on economic growth.

In other words, the G-8 signed on to what has been the White House approach since 2002. (Wall Street Journal)


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Unfairness Doctrine

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, July 12, 2008 7:29:49 PM
"People want to reintroduce the Fairness Doctrine to radio -- which is a crazy idea -- because they're upset there's one little corner of the landscape where cultural liberalism does not dominate. Why not have a Fairness Doctrine in American bookstores and universities then?"

Washington Times: Keep Free Speech Free

Politico: 'Fair Doctrine' Hypocrisy
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Of Late, Obama Seems To Be Promising A Third Bush Administration

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, July 12, 2008 7:10:06 PM
Almost everyone is talking about Barack Obama’s flip-flops, as the Senate’s most liberal member steadily moves to the political center and disowns firebrands like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Fr. Michael Pfleger.

But less noticed is that Obama is not just deflating John McCain’s efforts to hold him to his long liberal record, but also embracing much of the present agenda of an unpopular President Bush on a wide variety of fronts.
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