In This Dimension

Not Really Rocket Science to Thinking People, nor a Surprise

This article, and the other linked within it, are good, quick reads for those who believe the current popular conception of Liberals and Conservatives.

Are “Liberals” smarter? Well, yes, they are smarter than “Progressives,” but they are certainly less-informed, and less well-educated and less charitable than Conservatives or Libertarians.

Don’t believe me? These are major polling companies doing the surveys and writing the reports.

The only folks who think Liberals are smart are, well… Liberals. And, of course, the operative word there is “think.” Smart people (Conservatives) KNOW that Liberals aren’t very smart.. it is, of course, why they are “liberal.”

Perhaps Liberals need to read[…]

The Unmasking of Barack Obama

The below was posted as noted. The world - if not the American Left - yet - has begun to figure out our childish president.

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Posted By Peter Wehner On November 30, 2009 @ 11:17 AM In Contentions

The overseas reviews for President Obama’s foreign policy are starting to pour in — and they’re not favorable. Bob Ainsworth, the British defense secretary, has blamed Obama for the decline in British public support for the war in Afghanistan. According to the Telegraph:

Mr. Ainsworth took the unprecedented step of publicly criticizing the U.S. President and his delays in sending more troops to bolster the mission[…]

Why Aren’t Politicians Smart?

Inarguably the largest problem in American government is this: Politicians are not smart people.

THIS is the underlying, foundational problem today – in America and in the world.

The ability to read the hell out of a teleprompter is not indicative of intelligence. Rather, it is indicative of a lack of intelligence, of the ability to think on one’s feet, to be able to state principles and articulate rationales, consequences, goals and objectives on one’s own.

Looking good in a 42-Long does not make one smart.

A failed politician who bores to death intelligent people by telling his every listener, “The… earth…. has ……[…]

Political Ads

A friend in California is irritated at the lack of anti-Messiah ads seen on TV out here. Of course, no Republican in his/her right mind would spend money in California at this time, so broadly mis-represented by San Francisco Democrats Barbara “Dim Bulb” Boxer, Dianne Feinstein and 9% Nancy. (And governed by a movie star unwilling to rein-in a Democrat legislature which has put us even farther underwater financially than his Democrat predecessor who was recalled for tanking our economy, not being able to keep the lights on - and being publicly corrupt . I guess Arnold checked his cojones in Maria Shriver’s jewelery box[…]

The 2nd Amendment - defending the 1st

.. which, of course, is why the 2nd Amendment exists - and why it is #2, and not #3 or #4, etc… because FREE SPEECH MUST BE DEFENDED. (No - Liberal speech codes are NOT free speech. Educated people understand this.)

Too bad the Baby Boomer Left doesn’t understand that. Thank YOU! Unionized Teachers!! AGAIN!!!

GOP Doesn’t Accept the Market - Nothing New Here

Thomas Frank writes in the WSJ today that “Suddenly Republicans are against market values?”

This isn’t news to folks paying attention.
 
The GOP hasn’t truly recognized the market since the early 1960s, if ever.

It was Carter who recognized the power of the market and the failure of government regulation in his  deregulation of the airlines – not exactly a GOP theorist.

It was the Democrats (Frank, Dodd, et al.,) who refused Bush’s attempt in 2003, and McCain’s in 2005, at regulating Fannie and Freddie - the lack of which GOP-sponsored regulation spawned the current economic mess.

So let’s stop pretending that the GOP always deregulates and the Democrats always regulate - it just[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Crushing Dissent the Democrats’ Way

The ad linked here is only on the web now. It needs wide circulation. It needs network buys.

The idea that half of America actually wants for President a man who has never held a job - who probably never even had a paper route or mowed a neighbor’s lawn for a buck - is appalling.

The idea that we have the opportunity for our first post-Baby Boomer President (a VERY GOOD THING), but that he is only recycling Muskie and McCarthy and McGovern and the utterly failed and discredited Carter, and who is the most Liberal voter in the Senate, truly[…]