In This Dimension

Does Obama realize he has a Job?

Does our President understand, do you think, that he actually has to work? Read, meet, spend time in the office? Manage a war?

You  know.. WORK!?

Does he realize he’s American’s President?

He’s played more golf in 9 months than Bush did in 3 years.

He’s done 5 talk shows on one Sunday…

He has time to go on TV comedy shows like Letterman – he of the how-many-female-aides-can-I-have-an-affair-with-before-I-get-caught-and-since-I’m-a-celebrity-will-anyone-care fame.

He has time to take his wife to dinner in NYC (the White House Chef isn’t good enough for these two rubes from Chicago?) on the taxpayer’s dime – while we are sinking in joblessness and debt thanks to[…]

The Problem with Rush

Don’t get me wrong – I am not a Rush basher.

To the contrary, Rush has done some very good things for the country. The only ones who lack this understanding are those trying to turn America into something it is not and never has been (and one hopes never will be), and those believing (unwilling to listen or to think for themselves) the stereotype fashioned by a media unable to compete with Rush in historical knowledge, popularity, ratings, ideas and the ability to articulate them to America.

So – what’s the “problem”?

He can do so much more – right from the[…]

Are Individual Responsibility, Liberty and Freedom Dead in America as currently structured?

Do those who believe in traditional American traits of personal and individual responsibility, freedom, liberty and achievement just need to move? Are things better elsewhere?

The issue isn’t whether it’s better elsewhere, but rather the degree of change that is coming to America and the drastic changing of expectations.

A New Zealand, for example, already is fairly socialistic with regard to the US. BUT - people live on expectations, and expectations there are pretty set — here they are in enormous flux.

Absent changes in expectations people don’t get confused, angry, violent - they get what they get and they know what that[…]

Obama Hasn’t Closed the Health-Care Sale

WSJ OpEd today on the Dems closing the healthcare bill….

While interesting and thought provoking and garnering lots (lots!) of comments, the columnist misses the main issue.

The thrust is that the voters basically won’t let Congress pass this monstrosity because of the downstream costs, and the Congress will figure out the surest way to unemployment is to vote for this anti-American, anti-liberty bill.

What is missed by the columnist is that the voters won’t be paying enough attention to know this until too late. Until it begins hitting their pocket books the voters are going to just listen to the media and[…]

21st Century Great Powers - Who, Who Not, and Why

As the world’s Great Powers re-orient themselves following the major geopolitical occurrences of the post-Soviet world – the rise of Islamists and the utter and complete failure of America and the West to deal with this rise — it is interesting to watch the strategies of the once-and future Great Powers. What Powers will be willing to take what measures appropriate to the threats they perceive to a world order that benefits themselves? Which Powers will not – and so fade from the stage as no longer important to the functioning of the planet and its peoples?

Who are the Great[…]

America Needs an Independent as President

It is becoming clearer daily that America needs an Independent as President in the next cycle.

Badly.

The GOP, captive to the religious right and their disastrous stand on abortion basically has ceded the future of America to the farthest-left ideologues ever to govern America.

NOTHING is more important to the GOP than abortion – not national security, intelligence collection and analysis, defense, education, capitalism, wealth creation, employment, tax policy, the future of the country… NOTHING.

How stupid is that?

In fact, a strong case can be made that the cultural and electoral decline of America can be placed squarely at the feet of Conservatives and[…]

Don’t the Chinese already HAVE all our Money?

MORE is required to get them more oil?????

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WSJ Aug 18, 2009

Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling

Too bad it’s not in U.S. waters.

You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil.

The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued[…]

Anne Wortham

Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University ’s Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological  Association and the American Philosophical  Association.

She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.

In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer’s television series, “A World of Ideas.” The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A[…]

Conservative vs. Liberal

If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.

If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.

If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy.

A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.

If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.

A liberal wonders who is going[…]

Get really nasty or go home NOW

The Financial Times today has a column that at first sounds reasonable, but on reading, presents untenable arguments, ignoring the larger issue of the enormous rise of Islamism globally, and the Western thought that Islamism can be dealt with and assimilated to Western values.

It cannot.

The fight in Afghanistan is not about Afghanistan… it’s about the future of Western Civilization, of liberty, freedom, women’s and children’s rights, environmental rights, freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and the Rule of Law.

Really, Afghanistan is about basically everything we in the West have fought for for centuries.

Are we still willing to fight for our freedoms and liberties?

Or not?

Wars[…]