Conor P. Hickey not quite asking, “Whence comes such another?”

Our President is unprecedented. In order to stop illegal immigration, President Obama sics Eric Holder on border states. In order to finally kill Bin Laden, he makes his unprecedented Middle East apology tour and makes nice with the Brotherhood who are burning Christian churches in Eygpt, Iraq and elsewhere. In order to create jobs for folks, President Obama’s folks call the working folks at Tea Party rallies domestic terrorists. Unprecedented.

More like “I haven’t heard this song before.” (Seems to me, etc.)

Chicago Catholic News has had this up for a week

You gotta believe . . .

The bottom-line, fundamental reason I endorse markets over government direction of the economy – the essential reason I support extensive and vigorous private property rights and the consequent decentralization of decision-making that this institution brings – is that I cannot tolerate the mysticism that motivates too much reliance on government.

. . . in something, so why not holy mother state (Dorothy Day’s words)?

It’s magic:

Too many people, including otherwise very smart people, believe in secular magic. They believe that words written on paper by people, each of whom receive a majority of votes on certain days of the year of adult citizens living in certain geographic areas, and who utter ritualistic pronouncements under marble domes in buildings conventionally called “capitols,” are somehow endowed with greater understanding of society’s complexities and with superhuman capacities to care about the welfare of strangers. . . . .

Etc., from Don Boudreaux a few years back.

He keeps his cards so close to his vest, you’d think they were painted on, but he has advice for the legislative branch:

President Obama called Saturday for Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work together to pass legislation reviving the faltering U.S. economy.

Good idea! Has he any suggestions that enough of them might agree on?

Some people not about to take shit from an a-hole, homeless or not.

Something wrong with our politics, says the nation’s highest elected official, if not its leader. Oh? says C. Krauthammer, and more than oh.

When men were men and bishops were bishops: the Irish hierarchy in 1873 dishes on Catholic education, drunkenness, and the bad treatment afforded Pope Pius IX.

Yes!

Democrats won two state Senate seats in Tuesday’s historic recall elections, but failed to capture a third seat that would have given them control of the chamber.

By keeping a majority in the Senate, Republicans retained their monopoly on state government because they also hold the Assembly and governor’s office. Tuesday’s elections narrowed their majority – at least for now – from 19-14 to a razor-thin 17-16.

Coming up, more:

Republicans may be able to gain back some of the losses next week, when two Democrats face recall elections.

It’s getting union monopolists’ feet off the Wisconsin neck, is what it is.

Lawrence Kudlow does not shrug off yesterday’s gains but sees Bernanke’s position as a quick fix with no good ending.

. . . if I had my druthers, I would promote growth through flat-tax reform, a regulatory rollback, lower spending, and a steady King Dollar linked to gold. In other words, more incentives for private-sector entrepreneurs and small businesses.

But like many I suspect the Fed would have no problem presiding over a cheaper dollar, which over time is an inflationist policy a tax hike on the economy.

Case of stopped clock being right twice a day, I guess.

In that vein, from the late Frank Chodorov:

“Private capitalism makes a steam engine;
State capitalism makes pyramids.”

A word to the wise is sufficient — but never cuts it with the stupid.

The question is, is he dumb as a rock?

How many times have we heard it said that Mr. Obama is the smartest president ever? Even when he’s criticized, his failures are usually chalked up to his supposed brilliance. Liberals say he’s too cerebral for the Beltway rough-and-tumble; conservatives often seem to think his blunders, foreign and domestic, are all part of a cunning scheme to turn the U.S. into a combination of Finland, Cuba and Saudi Arabia.

I don’t buy it. I just think the president isn’t very bright.

How dare he? He won the last election, didn’t he?  On the other hand,

He makes predictions that prove false. He makes promises he cannot honor. He raises expectations he cannot meet. He reneges on commitments made in private. He surrenders positions staked in public. He is absent from issues in which he has a duty to be involved. He is overbearing when he ought to be absent. At the height of the financial panic of 1907, Teddy Roosevelt, who had done much to bring the panic about by inveighing against big business, at least had the good sense to stick to his bear hunt and let J.P. Morgan sort things out. Not so this president, who puts a new twist on an old put-down: Every time he opens his mouth, he subtracts from the sum total of financial capital.

Lemme think about it, ok?