The football team of the University of Missouri poses for the camera. The big, burly, black men lock arms in solidarity against the thing they call “oppression,” “racial turmoil” and “systemic oppression.” Where? When? What kind? How Much? Who was hurt? Physically or just emotionally? About these questions the media don’t care. The footballers feel […Read On]
Barack Obama, Bush, Democracy, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
EXACTLY WHAT OBAMA IS DOING. To listen to “conservatives,” one would think George Bush and his murderous band of neoconservatives held a vastly different position to Obama’s on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process farce. Nothing of the sort. First, the Arab Spring is as much Bush’s wet dream as it is Obama’s. To wit, necons have […Read On]
Crime, Journalism, Media, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Race, Racism
Beware. Saint Shirley Sherrod is back. “The most celebrated public servant in the United States, and perhaps the world,” made a brief appearance with the Secretary of Agriculture, TOM VILSACK. He was modeling the proper obsequious mannerisms to be adopted, and concessions to be made, with an aggrieved minority: “I continue to take full responsibility […Read On]
Bush, Business, Democrats, Economy, Federalism, Law, Regulation
Charles Krauthammer points out that BHO’s financial-reform bill is a move toward a further increase in the overweening powers of the Executive branch, which will now be able to seize a firm it designates as systemically risky. Where was Krauthammer during the Bush administration? It invented the doctrine of an overreaching executive. Still, he is […Read On]