Category Archives: Ethics

Crashing A Trashy House

Ethics, Etiquette, Government, Justice, Politics, Pop-Culture, The Zeitgeist

What’s another couple of malfeasants at the Obama home?

The excerpt is from my new WND.COM column, “Crashing A Trashy House”:

“It took a little over a week. In no time at all, Congress convened to hold hearings into an event that has left Americans – or the few remaining souls not cyber stalking Tiger Woods – deeply shaken.

And no, the ‘dreadfuf’ event I am talking about is not the massacre perpetrated by the jihadi, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, at Fort Hood, where 43 military personnel paid a cruel price for the criminal negligence of their superiors.

No one will be convening on Capitol Hill to hear who was culpable for that savagery. Not any time soon.

The investigation into the killing of 13 soldiers and the wounding of 30 by the Muslim serviceman who was coddled by the military and intelligence establishments has been consigned to a commission of inquiry that will, indubitably, exercise great political dexterity in killing accountability. For now, Hasan has been airbrushed out of the story.

The hearings ongoing at the time of writing will probe a far more urgent matter than mass murder on a military base by a fifth columnist.

As I write, The House Homeland Security Committee is investigating the infiltration of the White House by Tareq and Michaele Salahi. The two reality TV ‘stars’ had crashed – or livened up – President Obama’s first White House state dinner on Tuesday, Nov. 24. By Thursday, Dec. 3, our generally dysfunctional representatives and their proxies had summonsed the players in that farce to an inquisition on The Hill. …

The complete column is “Crashing A Trashy House.”

By popular demand, my libertarian manifesto, Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With A Corrupt Society, is back in print. The Second Edition features bonus material. Get your copy or copies now!

Updated: Bachmann: Banks Gave Money To ACORN For Government Rating

Affirmative Action, Ann Coulter, Bush, Conservatism, Debt, Ethics, Private Property, Regulation, Republicans, Socialism, Welfare

Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican Congresswoman from Minnesota, inadvertently traces the “Minority Housing Meltdown”: The community reinvestment Act” (CRA), a creation of the federal Frankenstein, compelled private banks to make home loans to individuals with poor credit. Since no bank wants to make bad loans, this legislation in effect threatens banks to so do. Unless the bank lends to those unworthy of credit, it will not be allowed to do interstate business or expand its operations.

But, the benevolent government also offers the errant banks redemption. In order to get a positive Community Reinvestment Act rating, a bank may give over cash or in-kind donations to ACORN. A bank can also partner with ACORN to make loans to the pool of poor they represent.

By the way, where are the media stories about Super Mom Bachman who has raised five kids and 23 foster children? Maybe when the morons are through belaboring Michele Obama’s biceps, they can tell us more about Bachmann. (Here you are welcome to improvise with your own clichés of improbability.)

Fast forward toward the end of the YouTube clip for the Bachmann interview.

Update (Oct. 16): No ACORN essay is complete without mention of Bush’s crucial role in the mortgage meltdown. I have not studied the NRO Kurtz piece, but somehow I doubt it gives Bush the “credit” he is due in the diversity depression.

In 2003, Norman Singleton wrote this:

“Today the House passed, by voice vote, the American Dream Downpayment Act (HR 1276). This new welfare program forces taxpayers to subsidize the downpayments of ‘low income’ Americans. This new welfare program is a Bush Administration priority and was sponsored by Katherine Harris. The GOP is already touting how this will help with their outreach to minorities.”

Read Ron Paul’s rapid-fire response to the Bush affirmative action mortgage program.

Unless our token conservatives pay their “respects” to Bush, author of the “ownership society,” reborn conservatives—NRO, Weekly Standard—should not be lauded.

And by the by, the many poisonous pundits should atone again and again for being wrong at the time, and misleading the masses for Benito Bush. On second thought, why don’t they just go away?!

Take “snake-oil merchants like Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal,” who is Fox’s new Philosopher King. Moore obfuscated about the bailout (while making the obligatory noises about the merits of the free market he flouts). And Moore’s previous book was entitled Bullish on Bush: How the Ownership Society Is Making America Richer. If that’s not an indictment, nothing is. ‘Bush’s bailout society’ is an instantiation of the principles upon which ‘Bush’s ownership society’ was founded: credit for those who are not creditworthy.”

The only pundit who was vocal about the Bush economics was Michele Malkin. Not party hack Ann Coulter.

[Thanks, Stephen; I have been rather ill, but I hope to be back at my WND perch next week with renewed verve.]

Updated: They All Lie For Someone

Ethics, Healthcare, IMMIGRATION, Politics, Republicans

The excerpt is from my new WND.COM column, now on Taki’s “They All Lie For Someone”:

“Joe Wilson knows of what he speaks. South Carolina’s Republican Representative is what one of my readers has dubbed deliciously a ‘subject matter expert’ on providing federal health benefits to illegal aliens.

Wilson voted ‘Yea’ for the Bush ‘Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.’ Not only did this drug benefit add trillions to the Medicare shortfall, it translated into a bonanza for illegal immigrants. …

Thus when Wilson indecorously, but correctly, called Obama out for lying about the ins-and-outs of HR 3200, ‘America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,’ he was speaking as one of 204 Republicans to have endorsed Bush’s 2003 medical monstrosity. Clearly, Wilson and his colleagues know a thing or two about hiding goodies bilked from taxpayers in the 1011th Section of a hefty bill.”…

The complete column is “They All Lie For Someone,” on Taki’s Magazine every week-end.

Many thanks to Myron Pauli of Barely A Blog (and yes, he’s a relation of Wolfgang Pauli of the “Exclusion Principle” fame),for digging up Wilson’s record (and for the “delicious” appellation).

Update (Sept. 18): We have established that, in calling BO out, Wilson was indecorous but correct. The conclusion that ought to follow from my column is this: when the Republicans ascend to the throne again, they will do EXACTLY what BO is doing; becasue they have already done the same—lie through their teeth to protect their Capo di tutti capi and their soon-to-be-amnestied illegal constituents. It’s not about sticking with “our” liar; it about knowing that “our” liar, who just happens to be telling the truth right now for the sake of political expediency, will garrot us from behind when he’s on top again. Get it?!