Richard Bove on Kudlow: Who’s funding WikiLeaks? He raises this question, wonders if W-Leaks is basically market manipulation, a new form of inside trading. This in light specifically of new threat to expose a U.S. bank, with signs pointing to Bank of America. It would be an attack on the U.S. financial system.
Which name comes to mind as bankroller of W-Leaks? The man who hijacked the British money system a few years back, the Batman villain-Joker-like George Soros.
If you want to drum up controversy on the basis of one quote pulled out of the Pope’s book-length interview Light of the World, how about this one, found on page 152:
Homosexuality is incompatible with the priestly vocation.
Unlike the now-famous quotation about condom use, this sentence isn’t pulled out of context. The Pope isn’t merely speculating. He isn’t raising a possible objection or exception to his own argument. His point is clear.
Lexington Green at Chicago Boyz spreads the word about a South Loop Tea Party gathering tomorrow night at 7 — Blackie’s, 755 S. Clark — where Adam Andrzejewski is featured speaker, with emphasis on the Open the Books project, a.k.a. forensic audit of state etc. He launches a devastating critique of the recently failed Brady campaign, and in the process of Brady:
I supported Adam on this blog when he was running for the Republican nomination for governor. I had the pleasure of speaking to Adam recently, and I said, and I firmly believe, that had he been nominated, the energy and excitement that caused a GOP groundswell nationwide would have carried him to victory as well. Adam would have presented a real alternative. (As I also told him, he is the only person I have ever voted for, not counting Reagan in 1984, who I actually thought would do a good job, rather than simply voting against the Democrat.)
On the other hand, Green continues,
Brady ran a lifeless and low-risk campaign, a typical idea-free Illinois Republican campaign, that was completely at odds with the spirit of 2010. He stumbled to defeat in a year where victory was there for the grasping, with the Republicans picking Obamas old Senate seat and four Houses seats in Illinois. There are times when fortune really does favor the bold, and this year was one of them. As a result we in Illinois are stuck once again with the feckless and hopelessly wrongheaded Pat Quinn, while the state swirls down the drain, an Island of Blue in a Red Midwestern sea, a big, out of step, bankrupt state like New York or Calilfornia. Too bad.
So well said, that. Maybe I will meet him at Blackie’s. But that can’t be his name, can it? Lexington Green? (HT: the ever-helpful Instapundit)
Blithe Spirit 