A long but interesting piece from Matt Continetti.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
How Ricci Was Almost Swept Under The Carpet
Stuart Taylor, on Judge Sotomayor’s judicial malpractice.
The Obama Shop
Yes, it is creepy. Sometimes I feel like a hostage in Jonestown.
Contempt For The Rule Of Law
By the Obama administration. Hey, why let a pesky constitution get in the way of a friendly leftist dictator? That could be a bad precedent for their own future.
[Late morning update]
Ten days that shook Honduras: a brief history.
Armed Revolution
What’s so funny about it? The Iranian people are demonstrating the need for a Second Amendment. The right to self defense should be a universal human right.
The “Chavez News Network”
A report from Roger Simon, on what’s happening in Honduras. And US reportage.
Girl With No Future
A gloomy dispatch from Michael Yon, in Afghanistan.
I Hope That He Fails
… in his attempt to take over a third of the economy. If that be treason, make the most of it. Henry Waxman is behaving like a fascist.
And there’s a good reason for that.
[Update a few minutes later]
The unraveling begins:
The Obama White House and their congressional allies have built expectations among their core supporters that this is the year to pass a government-takeover of American health care. With expectations set so high, most elected Democrats have concluded they have no choice but to set out on a forced march to try to do exactly that — despite unified Republican opposition. But a partisan bill means that Democrats own all of the messy and unattractive details too. The debate is no longer about vague concepts of “coverage” and “cost-control” but who pays and who is forced out of their job-based plans. The more people learn about these details, the less they will like them —which is why the Democratic committee chairmen are working desperately to shorten the time between a full public airing and a vote. They’re hoping there won’t be enough time for public opposition to put a halt to the proceedings.
Just keep giving them more rope, please, and prepare the gibbet for 2010.
[Update a couple minutes later]
And is the Sotomayor nomination in trouble with the public?
Rasmussen’s June 29–30 survey found that support for her confirmation has fallen 8 points, to 37%, while opposition has risen 10 points to 39%…
…Rasmussen also picked up a negative movement in her favorability ratings. In May, a few more voters checked the “very favorable” box (20%) than the “very unfavorable” one (17%). By late June, she was upside-down on this important measure, with only 14% very favorably disposed toward her and 24% very unfavorably disposed.
Another issue on which they may have the votes, but will pay for them November next year.
[Late morning update]
More and more people are becoming traitors to the state, it would seem:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –8. The President’s Approval Index rating has fallen six points since release of a disappointing jobs report last week (see trends)…
…Overall, 51% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance so far. Forty-eight percent (48%) now disapprove.
I think those numbers are going to get worse before they get better. If they get better. Let’s hope not.
Just keep reeling out the rope…
Good Luck With That
Wanted: honesty in the health-care debate.
President Barack Obama walked into the Oval Office with a veritable halo over his head. In the eyes of his backers, he could say or do no wrong because he had evidently descended directly from heaven to return celestial order to our fallen world. Oprah declared his tongue to be “dipped in the unvarnished truth.” Newsweek editor Evan Thomas averred that Obama “stands above the country and above the world as a sort of a God.”
But when it comes to health care reform, with every passing day, Obama seems less God and more demagogue, uttering not transcendental truths, but bald-faced lies. Here are the top five lies that His Awesomeness has told—the first two for no reason other than to get elected and the next three to sell socialized medicine to a wary nation.
Read the whole thing. Though it’s a little harsh. He’s sufficiently ignorant of economics and other matters that he may have persuaded himself to believe the nonsense.
Moonbat
As Thomas James notes, Bruce Gagnon is off his meds (again? still?).
When the space craft arrives near the moon it will fire a missile, at twice the speed of a bullet, from the spacecraft into the moon’s surface. NASA maintains that the “test” will displace several miles of lunar material in order to find out if water is present on the moon’s surface.
Funny, I didn’t know that lunar material came by the mile.
NASA has publicly maintained in recent years that all of their space missions are now “dual use” – meaning that each mission they launch is both civilian and military at the same time. Thus one must consider that this LCROSS moon bombing mission is likely testing the capability of Pentagon technologies to launch missiles from space that could hit targets on Earth.
NASA has never “maintained” such a thing, either publicly or privately. I’m not aware of any, let alone every, mission that is “both civilian and military at the same time.” It would be amusing to see Mr. Gagnon attempt to come up with a citable source for this psychotropic fantasy. And of course, even if the premise weren’t nonsense, the conclusion doesn’t follow from it. It is no technological challenge to hit targets on earth from space — this is exactly what ballistic missiles have been designed to do for half a century or so. Only someone fundamentally ignorant about history, technology and physics (and probably deranged as well) would delude himself that the Pentagon would need to test such technology on a body with no atmosphere.
Hate to break it to you, Bruce, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
But I will admit, I do expect the president to apologize to the moon for this aggressive act.