In This Dimension

Campaign Finance

No, this is not about all The One’s broken promises of public financing of his campaign, or the death-blow he has dealt to arguably the most important liberal accomplishment after Watergate: public campaign financing.

It’s about the - evidently - hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal money flowing into Obama’s campaign - and the fact that the media seem to be OK with these felonies.

What am I talking about? Go read this.

Why can’t the Left understand that breaking the laws when they hold the reins of information - the media (information is power) - allows the Right to do the same when[…]

Summary - where we are, how we got here and the choice we seem ready to make

Ignorance and Upheaval

Conrad Black

Posted: November 01, 2008, 12:38 PM by Ronald Nurwisah

Shocked by an ill-understood financial crisis, panicky American voters are poised to elect a staunch leftist on Tuesday to serve as their 44th president.

The U.S. presidential election campaign that is now finally ending (the 2012 campaign will begin on Thursday, and will probably cost $2-billion) has been so entangled with economic, racial and ethical questions, that it has obscured the most stark ideological differences between candidates since Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Senator Barack Obama, who has the most liberal voting record of any current U.S. senator, is[…]

Speaking Truth to Power

This column in National Review Online provides just a glimpse of what one journalist found regarding Obama’s background, strategy and tactics when he actually took the time to go and look.

Where have the other “journalists” been?

New Element Discovered

Something light in this heavy day…

 
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.
 
The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
 
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
 
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. It can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than[…]

Change You Can Believe In

Something to think about when you vote… This is social welfare, government redistribution for the sake of “fairness.” Sound familiar? Wall Street Journal 3 November 2008.

Argentina Impoverishes Itself Again
What happens when government meddles with private wealth.

By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY

“It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.”
                                                                 — Frederic Bastiat, “The Law,” 1850

Our subject today is not Barack Obama’s “change” plan to “share the wealth.” But readers who want to know what happens to a nation that legalizes plunder — as the[…]

Voting

Does anyone really want Obama in the White House when this happens again?

Really?

This is what we are voting on. Everything else will take care of itself within our normal system. This is outside of it.

A Look Back at the Obama Presidency from 2012 - three columns

Three columns in the NY Post worth reading. Each a “look back” at the Obama presidency from 2012.

Jonah Goldberg
Nicole Gelinas 
The scariest is this Ralph Peters’ column. Perhaps because it is the most likely.

(hat tip: Powerlineblog )

Obama: ‘They can build coal plants, but we’ll bankrupt them.’

And if you like killing jobs, here’s an entire industry on which Obama already has declared war: Coal. ‘They can build a coal plant if they want, but it [his new regulations] will bankrupt them…” Change the coal industry can believe in?

Change we need?

Let’s see - coal is only responsible for 48.5 percent of America’s electric power.

Taxing coal will increase the price of electricity - quite obviously. This, and any other taxes on basic utilities are enormously regressive.

So much for the “Progressive” party. Raise the price of electricity and the price of EVERYTHING increases.

And jobs? Coal production in the US[…]

McCain on SNL

If you missed this, go watch it now. It is very good. This one is OK, but the first is better.

Then ask yourself - with McCain and Palin both making fun of themselves on SNL, where were the Obamas? Too good for us? Too good for SNL? Too self-important? Can you imagine Michelle makig fun of herself? No? Neither can I. Not a First Lady anyone I know is looking forward to.

Or just totally lacking in a sense of humor… never a good sign in a leader.

(both skits have ad pre-rolls, FYI)

Ode to Keith Olbermann on SNL - Hilarious!

If you missed this, go watch now. It is hilarious - and dead-on.