High Ground Underground

We continue to gain insights into Obama's values (or lack thereof), as he has somehow found time to go on The View, but none to make a traditional presidential appearance at BSA's quadrennial jamboree in Virginia -- and not just any, but the Centennial. Nor the even more convenient centennial BSA march in Washington, D.C., right by the White House. The president is the honorary president of BSA, but that means about as much to him as the honorary "leader of the free world." Of course we shouldn't expect anything different -- he's just showing his solidarity with the anti-Scouting ACLU and gay activists. Again, playing to his base, just as with the Arizona bill. We'll see how far all that gets him and his party come Nov. when we declaw him by clipping his Congressional majority, so that he stops shredding the fabric of our society. The "great uniter." Right. No one plays the hand they're dealt (the race card) like Obama. And they were ...

Who would have thought that the South would rise again! States rights, again, but to enforce the federal law. Florida, Texas & Virginia (& others) have joined Arizona by filing briefs in support of the Arizona anti-illegal-immigration law. Solidarity!!! Viewed another way, the federal government (at least this administration) is seceding from the constitutional union.

Well, the cartoon exaggerates slightly – the Arabs invented only algebra, not all of math. After all, the Greeks knew something about geometry, etc. But other than that it’s quite accurate – Obama has directed that one of NASA’s prime priorities is to reach out to the Muslim world to help them feel better about their technological prowess. No doubt they’ll feel great about the condescension. Equality -- of Outcome This can be easily understood in light of the liberal/left preoccupation with equality and feeling good about oneself, whether deserved or not. For them, equal opportunity is not enough – they will not rest until there is equal outcome (socialism), and will enforce it if necessary. See also the Prager University link (above, right) on the “American Trinity” of values vs. the French trinity. Hence redistribution of wealth, apologizing for American status and attempting to lower it militarily (unilaterally), economically (at least the result, if not explicit intent), bri...

It would be nice if we had a commander-in-chief whom the troops (even avowed liberals like Gen. McChrystal) respected. But barring that, at least we have a litigator-in-chief who can, as he says, “kick some a**” -- in the courts and Chicago-style. And he’s got a strategy for a legal “surge” of new lawyers & government regulators that will result from the new 2,000-page regulatory bill – a whole new army of lawyers & SEIU members, to supplement the ACLU, the army of IRS agents to enforce the health care bill, etc. It would seem that Obama actually has created jobs – primarily in the government (he also took credit for the temporary census takers) and legal professions. That should do wonders for the economy and GDP, and towards becoming more like such economic bulwarks as Greece, California, LA,.... After all, if throwing a whole bunch of money at the recession hasn’t seemed to work, it must mean that we just haven’t thrown enough money at it. Never mind that that’s never ...

They've given him a pass for 45 days on the oil spill, too. As well as the Sestak deal -- more handiwork of that "Prince of Darkness," Rahm Emanuel. So much for another of his promises of change -- no more politics as usual. He seems to throw out occasional little token bones (verrry little ones) to try to pacify the center-right majority. Like a $100M cut drop in the bucket out of the trillion plus deficit -- like a bandaid when a tourniquet is needed (see a short video graphical depiction at http://www.wimp.com/budgetcuts/). Or the 1,200 "troops" on the border -- desk jobs, when at least 6,000 are requested and needed in the field. And he's politicized the Arizona illegal immigration bill to the hilt. Neither Holder nor Napalitano had read it but were very outspoken against it, though it basically is no more than existing federal law that they won't enforce. California & LA are not in the economic position to be boycotting anybody, or wasting ...

Follow the Prager University link to the right to the short video clip on "The Bigger the Government..." Bigger government is bad in many ways, and the Obama administration’s trend is clearly in that direction. 16,000 new IRS agents alone just to help enforce Obamacare. Other new beaurocrats to administer that and new regulatory commissions. For the first time in history, there are now more government union (SEIU) workers than private sector/manufacturing union members in the U.S. And the Obama administration seems bent on manufacturing (e.g., thru Congressional show trials/hearings) or worsening one crisis after another – a crisis du jour -- to provide the excuse for further government growth/intervention to address the problem. As that prince of darkness, Rahm Emanuel said, “You should never let a crisis go to waste” – it’s an opportunity to do what you ordinarily couldn’t. And we have yet to reverse any government bureaucracy – they only grow. Let's examine how b...

Obama's Foreign Affairs It must be reassuring to both our enemies and Americans that if they attack us or our allies with biological or chemical weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the Obama administration will not use nukes (our only viable WMD) against them. We wouldn't want to keep them guessing, or anything, after all. Obama's Space Program And just when I was hoping we could send Pelosi, Reid & Biden to the moon!