In This Dimension

Thursday, June 18, 2009, 7:12 PM

AP- WASHINGTON D.C. - In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, the group Americans for Freedom of Information has released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College.  Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school.  The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California.  The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro)[…]

In the event you are curious about what is happening in Honduras – and if you aren’t you ought to be - here’s the deal:

President Zelaya tried to rewrite the Honduran Constitution all by himself. While the Honduran Constitution provides for rewrites, such a constitutional convention can only be called by national referendum approved by Congress. In an effort to mimic Hugo Chavez in overturning democracy, Zelaya decided to ram through a referendum on his own and had ballots shipped-in from the Venezuelan dictator.

The Honduran Supreme Court ruled this unconstitutional and instructed the military not to carry out the voting logistics[…]

Well, now.

Turns out that the Congressional Budget Office has provided their estimate of the cost of Obama’s healthcare:

$1,000,000,000,000. One trillion dollars.

But - we knew it’d be expensive, right? So how many people will it cover?

16,000,000. Sixteen million.

So - if my math’s right, that’s about, oh, $62,500 dollars PER PERSON COVERED.

And, remember - the CBO is now run by Democrats….

And, if there really are 46,000,000 people out there not covered, then this nice little Democrat idea would cost only, umm…. about 3 trillion dollars of YOUR tax money.

And don’t forget - Medicaid was supposed to cost only a bit - but now[…]

Europe, whose policies the Left for unfathomable reasons worships, recently (no longer) was an open, bustling marketplace of ideas and commerce, of freedom and social safety nets, of tolerance and history. It is nearly impossible to think of any technology, philosophy, invention or idea in-use in the world today that did not come about from Europeans or European societies, like America. From Communism to Capitalism, from Individual Rights to Freedom of Speech to Fascism, from the bicycle to the train, the plane, the transistor, the microchip, the computer, the telephone and the internet, Europeans have created the modern industrial and[…]

Important enough to post in case you decide not to go to the link…

Understanding the Age of Obama

By Victor Davis Hanson

Are you confused by all that has changed since President Barack Obama took office in January? If so, you’re not alone. Perhaps, though, this handy guide to Age of Obama “logic” might be of some assistance.

1. The Budget. Wanting to cut $17 billion from the budget, as President Obama has promised, is proof of financial responsibility. Borrowing $1.84 trillion this year for new programs is “stimulus.” The old phrase “out-of-control spending” is inoperative.

2. Unemployment. The number of jobs theoretically[…]

Joining IG Walprin, sacked for an honest investigation of an Obama supporter, two more IGs have been terminated by the Adminstration.

Do Democrats just not care at all about integrity, accountability, the Rule of Law or the future of this country?

Answer: Quite obviously not. They aren’t even pretending to care any longer. Lord Acton was absolutely correct - and Obama and his team continue to prove it:

“All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Good to know that the media have decided to quit trying to pretend they aren’t biased, that the charges of media bias not only are true, but true beyond even Rush Limbaugh’s wildest imagination.

NBC’s Tom Brokaw now is a White House Fellow, working for Obama. He just interviewed Obama on June 5th - not even two weeks ago! I’m sure THAT report was un-biased, aren’t you?

(Of course, this is the same guy who wrote “The Greatest Generation” about the generation who raised the Baby Boomers, so he’s been 180 degrees out from reality for quite some time. I mean, seriously, look[…]

Some reading this blog have commented to me that perhaps overstatement of objections may rule the day on occasion - that I see things darker than they are. Would that were the case.

Today, two major items:

1. Obama has fired an Inspector General for doing his job simply because the result of that job put an Obama benefactor in the doghouse.  The guy, Kevin Johnson, former NBA athlete and big-time Obama supporter, ran a California non-profit named St HOPE. He took $850K in grant money from AmeriCorps for tutoring inner-city students, redeveloping several city buildings, and working on theater and art programs. Instead he[…]

Here’s a good question for the Obamafia:

The WTO was engineered to ensure that companies whose governments subsidized them could not unfairly compete against privately-owned companies (basically so that European companies could not beat American private enterprise through government subsidies).

QUESTION:

Now that the US Administration owns a significant part of Chrysler — is that ownership a violation of the WTO accords?

(http://detnews.com/article/20090513/OPINION01/905130323/1008/Uncle-Sam-throws-wrench )

ANSWER:

Of course it is.

The government owns 8% the company (and unconstitutionally took a majority stake to give to its favorite special interest - the UAW… your tax dollars at work subsidizing a failed union model to buy votes… nope, no corruption[…]

A columnist in today’s WSJ writes of the problems and way forward for Pakistan, the SWAT area of which is arguably the penultimate theater in any war on terror that is serious, Saudi Arabia being the logical ultimate theater.

Any war on terror that is serious in the way WW2 was serious - a fight to the death against tyrannical threats to liberty and freedom, which very much is what Islamism vs The West really is - that does not BEGIN with the immediate destruction of Saudi Arabia and its funding of global Islamist terror is not serious.

And, of course, having[…]