How Dems promoted the late, not so great housing crisis. Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer et al. Frank in effect made his own heck-of-a-job recommendation for Fannie & Freddie, making his that old battle cry of the truly irresponsible, affordable housing.
Candidate Joe Walsh stood for the pledge of allegiance at a Grayslake debate Wed. 10/20 — over objections of the League of Women Voters moderator.
Have a look and listen to her explain her position. She had been asked from the floor. When she said no, the reported 300 people stood and did it anyhow.
Try this on for size, from James Bovard:
“To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. . . .
I disapprove of splitting the infinitive, but let that pass and read the rest here.
Aimed at the Teleprompter, we presume.
In an email message, not online, the OP Dem committeewoman sees “very scary consequences” from the coming election — “26 more days” — plus:
Concerns about the Democratic candidates have faded [they are not as worried about Giannoulias et al.] and the alternatives have become even more frightening as we have learned more and more
about the Republican challengers. [italics and boldface added]
She urges Dems
to see Brady’s positions on women’s issues (no abortion in the case of rape or even
for a woman’s health), lesbian and gay rights, creationism in the schools, animal rights, the economy etc.
When dismal economy threatens, go social-issues.
Oh and did I tell you he wants to lower the [job-killing] minimum wage? Illinois will revert back to the Stone Age if Brady gets elected!
As for Kirk,
See the top ten worst lies about his military record, the top ten worst votes supporting the Bush style
economy, etc.Having the Republicans retake the Senate will jeopardize and/or wipe out all the progress
we have made by getting Obama elected!
Sounds like a call to Republican arms to me.
Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture (Penguin, 2010), finds much not to like in Obama’s choice in listening pleasure. One of his faves, Obama told Rolling Stone magazine, is Lil Wayne, who, says Williams in Wall Street Journal
is emblematic of a hip-hop culture that is ignorant, misogynistic, casually criminal and often violent. A self-described gangster, he is a modern-day minstrel who embodies the most virulent racist stereotypes that generations of blacks have fought to overcome. His music is a vigorous endorsement of the pathologies that still haunt and cripple far too many in the black underclass.
Which (surprise) violates Obama’ previous assertions to the contrary:
. . . I cheered when Mr. Obama, then a little-known state senator, inserted himself into the cultural debate during the 2004 Democratic National Convention: “Children can’t achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white,” he declared.
And it’s why I cheered again last year when he told an NAACP gathering that, “Our kids can’t all aspire to be LeBron [James] or Lil Wayne. I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers.”
Well, as Rev. Jeremiah Wright would say, that’s politics for you. (Obama “made a bad decision [to disown Wright], but he’s still my child.”)
On the other hand, re: GW Bush as by CNN, April of ’05 whose Ipod playlist:
does reveal a rather narrow range of babyboomer tunes. Writing in the London Times, Caitlin Moran noted: “No black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles.”
[Joe Levy, deputy editor of Rolling Stone magazine] agreed, telling the New York Times: “What we’re talking about is a lot of great artists from the ’60s and ’70s and more modern artists who sound like great artists from the ’60s and ’70s.
“This is basically boomer rock ‘n’ roll and more recent music out of Nashville made for boomers. It’s safe, it’s reliable, it’s loving. What I mean to say is, it’s feel-good music. The Sex Pistols it’s not.”
Safe, reliable, loving? Or “vigorous endorsement of the pathologies that still haunt and cripple far too many in the black underclass”? Pay your money, take your choice.
From Discover the Networks:
One Nation Working Together (ONWT), a huge coalition of the American Left’s leading organizations, prepares to stage its own March on Washington on October 2. At its root, ONWT advocates a massive expansion of government, and an ever-greater infusion of taxpayer dollars into the public sector.
Which is the road to serfdom, as Hayek explained.
A look at the city that works, from City Journal‘s Heather Mac Donald:
The Daley dynasty in Chicago may be giving way to the Obama-Emanuel political machine, but one thing remains constant in the Windy City: youth violence and a collective refusal to acknowledge its root cause. On the one-year anniversary of the beating death of a Chicago teen by his fellow students, Chicago remains in denial about the driving factor behind such mayhem: the disappearance of the black two-parent family.
Yes. Daley fulminates. It’s not his nature to be suave or smooth. But it’s all about nagging crime victims and their neighbors to speak out while in danger to life and limb.
Or he bashes guns and by implication gun-owners — but couldn’t quite bash the 68–year-old woman who finally had enough and was scared to death and plugged a 12–year-old neighbor who broke her windows and cussed her out and threw bricks at her. (Asked about her, he mocked “the media” and complained that it was not “on topic” of that day’s good-news press conference. Go to 14:55 of this at WLS-AM.)
Sound and fury, your honor, signifying avoidance.
And who came out in defense of what one neighbor called “that bad little boy”? His grandmother. Who else, for probably a fatherless kid?
In every American city, the disproportionate black-illegitimacy rate is matched only by the disproportionate black crime rate. In Chicago, blacks, at least 35 percent of the population, commit 76 percent of all homicides; whites, about 28 percent of the population, commit 4 percent.
You can’t say that in a public forum, however, especially if you’re mayor. No. Strictly speaking, you can but won’t.
Demosthenes said it, 4th century B.C.
“There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.”
The man knew politicians.
On the other hand, Dr. Samuel Johnson said this in 18th century A.D.
“There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.”
I think they go together. Stay light on your feet, ladies and gentlemen. Satan prowls these precincts.
Blithe Spirit 