In This Dimension

Where Did the Financial Mess Originate?

This video must go viral.

It’s all facts.

It’s all searchable - and the links are in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH–o 

Fixing American Politics

Logically this isn’t as complex as many think. One of those problems over-analyzed, over-discussed, over-complicated by everyone with an oar in the political river.

Two-Party system. No reason exists to change this and lots of reasons exist not to. Adding new parties transforms a presidential system into a parliamentary system. Yet without the ability to have a government fall when failing a Vote of Confidence because of fixed presidential terms, a multi-party system based on coalitions cannot work. Changing this would entail many very transformative Constitutional amendments. Those are very hard to pass, and for good reasons. The fact that we won’t[…]

Prior Censorship by Pro-Obama OFFICIALS?

What Did The Media Know, and When Did They Know It?

Why don’t we - the voters - know anything about Sen. Barack Obama?

Here’s a Baby Boomer Liberal - the most liberal voter in the Senate, with less than a full term to his credit, a Baby Boomer with the now-standard view that self-esteem comes BEFORE actual accomplishment, who believes that we should elect him to the most important job in the world - without his ever having held a real job, let alone led any company or organization or government department.

And we know nothing about him. This is curious not only because of the constant press reports on the “lack of[…]

Do We Really Want European Social Welfare Policies?

The introduction of socialism in America was through the New Deal, a response to the financial meltdown of the Great Depression.

Take the bailouts of the financial industry today, and the nationalization of the home mortgage market, couple them with the probable election of Obama and a more-Democrat Congress (not democratic; Democrat), and - guess what? America becomes far more of a social welfare state than now.

Why is this a problem? Because in doing so , America, too, will become irrelevant on the world stage - another Canada. Another Belgium or France or Germany. Another “social” “democracy” with no ability to[…]

Is Biden for Real?

Many on the Right – the blogosphere, to be sure, but now also Rush and other major media sources  – are theorizing that Sen. Biden’s continuing gaffes (here, here, here , here for starters) are a conscious strategy to allow Biden to step down, and Hillary to step-up.

While this may be true, it seems unlikely.

Could Biden, DC’s Mr. Ego himself, really willingly participate in a strategy designed to portray him as working above his own pay grade? Or is he just not aware of it?

The latter, of course, would seem to be at-odds with the constant drumbeat that he is[…]

William Katz on the Culture War and Sarah Palin

From Powerline today, and excellent piece:

William Katz is our [Powerline's] occasional contributor and proprietor of Urgent Agenda. This morning he writes on Sarah Palin:

I have no idea who’ll win the presidential election. It is very close, and a single incident or misstep can change the result. Clearly, the convention bounces have faded. Obama seems to be regaining a part of his pre-convention standing, thanks to some folks on Wall Street who give the term “classless society” an entirely new meaning. Oh, and thanks also to the worst, and most embarrassing press bias I’ve seen in my lifetime. 

But I do think[…]

Fiscal Irresponsibility

New York Times, 11 September 2003:

“New agency proposed to oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae…

“The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.

“Under the plan… a new agency would be created… to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…

“The plan is an acknowledgement… that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac … is broken.

“ ‘The current regulator does not have the tools, or the mandate, to adequately regulate these enterprises,’ [Republican senator] Mr. Oxley said …

“ ‘The regulator has not only been outmanned, it has[…]

Wilmette (Chicago) Teacher Strike

On the 18th of September the Superintendent Wilmette (Chicago, Ill suburb) Public Schools, District 39, sent the letter below to the parents and guardians of the students in his District.

Without going into the ill-mannered practice of treating adults as children, as those in the “education profession” seem innately, and irritatingly, to do, the letter has been edited, modifying the original statements to factual ones (or to correct the grammar of the School Superintendent).

Enjoy.

 
September 18, 2008

Dear parents,

I understand that some children have been asking questions about the current contract negotiations between the Wilmette Education Association and the Board of Education, especially with increasing visibility[…]

When did the GOP become the party of Adlai Stevenson?

Stevenson, told on the campaign trail one night that the “thinking people supported him” responded, “Yes, but I need to win a majority.”

The GOP will never regain majority status until it understands the fundamental American problem: the extraordinary failure of our unionized … public … education … system (and here).  Ill-educated themselves, Boomer Republicans may be unable to understand this.

Absent an education, the American voter will continue to be quite ignorant.

Acknowledging the failure of American education, the GOP pushes school choice (the ‘pro-choice’ that Democrats abhor). Not recognizing the irony, the GOP insists on speaking to the voters, however, as though they were educated.

News[…]