See how the governor can play Santa Claus to voters throughout the state, fiddling all the while as state’s deficits mount.

At the Republican National Committee Breakfast, Morrison Hotel, July 27:

Only in the last few weeks, I have been reading quite an article on the experiment of almost complete paternalism in a friendly European country. This country has a tremendous record for socialistic operation, following a socialistic philosophy, and the record shows that their rate of suicide has gone up almost unbelievably and I think they were almost the lowest nation in the world for that. Now, they have more than twice our rate.

Drunkenness has gone up. Lack of ambition is discernible on all sides.. Therefore, with that kind of example, let’s always remember Lincoln’s admonition. Let’s do in the federal Government only those things that people themselves cannot do at all, or cannot so well do in their individual capacities. [italics
added]

Important, important, important.

Let us now praise a writer who has Obama figured.

Think we are terminally distracted by cell phones, etc.? You or your kid won’t be at this school.

. . . that we know not the day nor the hour. As do most mass-murder or -catastrophe stories.

Like what Jesus said of the Second Coming: “Of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven.” Same for death, which like Sandburg’s fog crawls on cat feet.

Walk out the door, and there you go. Odds are immensely greater outside some doors than other, predictability varies immensely. Nonetheless, beyond ordinary or even extraordinary precautionary measures, there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

Oh my, was this perhaps the most important motivation for union leaders to oppose Gov. Walker of Wis.?

His law requires annual members’ vote in favor of remaining unionized, thus destabilizing . . . what? Leaders’ power. While requiring leaders to keep members happy.

Not enough Kenosha teachers were not happy, and poof! went their union.

Not quite, my hearties. She has a podium all to herself, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Justice in Society.

Justice has replaced patriotism as the last refuge of scoundrels, what?

Trouble in White House City.

U.S. Catholic, probably el supremo among liberal Catholic slicks (magazines), has this for a story in its current issue:

Environmentally conscious college students are changing the climate on Catholic campuses by pushing for more eco-friendly practices. And now their schools are following the course to help preserve the planet. [Italics added]

Really. Like peaches or blueberries, so they last through the winter, I guess. “The planet” won’t last through the coming global winter, or heat wave, whatever. It’s eco-talk by Al Gore followers. Yahoo for today’s students, I guess.

Hysteria? Not quite, but lemming-like behavior for those who know about Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science, compliments of the Heartland Institute, where Chicago’s finest think-tankers offer what’s good for what ails these students.

It has:

Whereas the reports of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warn of a dangerous human effect on climate, NIPCC concludes the human effect is likely to be small relative to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well as costs.

Hmmm.