He was once big on the Catholic argumentation scene, deciding not to decide the morality of abortion (for which he was chided by Andrew Greeley), a Commonweal Mag favorite, his wife Sidney [sic] Callahan an effective arguer vs. abortion (and a tough-minded charmer).
Now he has an idea whose time he thinks has come: Make fat people ashamed of themselves.
Clinton was a model of prevarication, particularly in a heated exchange with Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Pressed by Johnson on why the Obama Administration had initially led the public to believe that the September terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous uprising, a sputtering Clinton barked, “What difference at this point does it make?” (if you think this looks bad in print, check out the video)
She got quite testy on the point, in a let’s-move-on gambit.
The whole point being that her dept. is on the dock.
It’s always a pleasure to see Loudmouth Reich shown to be wrong, as here:
By DONALD J. BOUDREAUX
AND MARK J. PERRYA favorite “progressive” trope is that America’s middle class has stagnated economically since the 1970s. One version of this claim, made by Robert Reich, President Clinton’s labor secretary, is typical: “After three decades of flat wages during which almost all the gains of growth have gone to the very top,” he wrote in 2010, “the middle class no longer has the buying power to keep the economy going.”
This trope is spectacularly wrong.
Average hourly wage taken by itself has been flat since 1964. It’s the sort of talk-show grenade routinely heaved by the diminutive Reich. But Boudreaux and Perry fill in details that apparently have gone over the head of the voluble Reich.
Say it isn’t so.
From American Catholic about libertarians and abortion:
Thanks to the efforts of Ron Paul and other pro-life libertarians, I’ve found that it is no longer automatically assumed that libertarians are pro-abortion. This is as it should be.
From First Things:
Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 10:51 AM
- After Roe v. Wade, conceptions increased by 30 percent.
- The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect has reported that child abuse has increased more than 1,000 percent since Roe v. Wade.
- The cohort of 14-to-17-year-olds born after the Roe v.Wade decision was much more likely to commit homicides than the cohort of 14-to-17-year-olds born before Roe v. Wade.
Civilization declined, in other words.
“The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer people become.”
A Dept. of Justice lawyer. Object of boos: the recent Republican vice presidential candidate. A demonstration of the crude and the juvenile that seems to follow radical libs wherever they go.
Writing now, day after Inauguration 2 of the Black Messiah. “We are made for this moment,” says Sun-Times pages 2 & 3 (hard-copy) head, quoting the Black M. Egad. This, his 2nd coming to the inaugural pulpit, is the sum of our existence, the Great Reckoning? I may vomit.*
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* Opening line, “Man Who Came to Dinner, B’way play of ’40s, Monty Wooley in lead, his line.
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Obama “pushes for unity,” says S-T hard-copy subhead. Phew. If this is how he sounds when pushing for unity, how does he sound when drawing line in sand?
It’s a Natasha Korecki story, typically good starting with lede ‘graf. However, O. “made it clear” his “progressive [far-left] agenda,” with its “reforms” in this and that, etc. No. Rather “changes,” as in “hope and change,” which some of you may remember. To say “reform” is to baptize it. It’s to editorialize. Shame on you, Korecki, except of course that’s how everyone talks, unfortunately.
Great quote toward end of story, Charles Smith of Milwaukee, i-d’d as Afr-Am, will “probably never see a black president again, not in my lifetime,” strongly implying belief in after life.
Then the unsinkable Mark Brown, who had to read speech over twice “to better appreciate” what he’d heard O. say. Personal Journalism 101 here — I, I, me, me, my, my — as in Roger Ebert’s reviews over the years, all variations on the easily parodied “It works for me.”
More Mark: O. is a “constitutional law expert.” Oh, senior lecturer, aka glorified adjunct prof, at U. of Chi, on special appointment never offered tenure? Writer of what articles in juried journals? Wrote anything, ever? Shined at Harvard Law? (We don’t know, do we?) It’s a measure of Mark Brown carelessness here. Mark is a credit to his race when he does this.
The speech was “surprisingly brief,” says Steve Huntley, who knows how to hurt a guy without seeming to.
Blithe Spirit 