According to top economic adviser Larry Summers, the depression is over. His basis for that claim? Less people are searching for “economic depression” on Google.
This is amazing to me. Barbara Boxer talks down to Harry Alford, the President of the Black Chamber of Commerce, as if he is 6 years old, and uses reports from the NAACP and 100 Black Men, both social groups, to try and persuade Mr. Alford’s opinion. But it’s OK, because Sen. Boxer is married to a veteran.
One of the major reasons for electing Barack Obama was to fix our standing in the international community. Remember how popular he was to foreign nations? It seemed that the only people in the world who didn’t want Obama to win were the racist American right-wingers.
Now the world has had a chance to see what the policies of an inexperienced far-left can do to a once prosperous country. While not 100% his fault, the policies of Barack Obama are not helping in any way. Talk of creating a 600,000 public sector jobs means nothing when the government is eliminating countless private sector jobs, and not just in the auto industry. Microsoft, for example, is preparing to move jobs overseas to avoid the raise in already high taxes. You can only tax the “evil” rich and their corporations so much before they leave.
Granted, I know that it is impossible to ask for a nominee in any position to be perfect, but can we at least get a Supreme Court nominee that actually understands the role of law? Is this to much to ask for?
“The media usually characterize (sic) the practice (waterboarding) as ‘simulated drowning’. That’s incorrect. To be effective, waterboarding is usually real drowning that simulates death.” – Judge Evan Wallach.
Although Judge Wallach is currently a federal judge in the court of International Trade, he is, at least according to his Wikipedia entry, “one of the nations foremost experts on war crimes and the law of war.” Most importantly to this posting, his quote is correct.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that waterboarding is “usually real drowning that simulates death.” But no word in the excerpt is more important than “usually”.
Here’s a link to a Wall Street Journal article about the great state of New York and how they are dealing with the economic crsis up north in Albany. Before you click, can you guess what it is?
Back during the campaign, John McCain and Sarah Palin blasted Barack Obama for his socialist policies, and were attacked for it. NY Governor David Patterson even went as far as to say that the term “socialist” was a code word to mean “black”.
Looking back on it, they weren’t to far off, where they?
Absolutely great video. Daniel Hannan, a member of the European Parliament, just smacked down UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on his visit to the parliament. Great to see a politician stand up and tell it like it is.
The problem with democracy, as former WABC Radio host Bob Grant says, is that it leads to “mob-ocracy.” When a mob is in control, it will at some point, become angry. The problem with an angry mob is that it tends to direct its anger at who ever those leading it tell them to be upset with. In today’s case, the mob is looking for the head of just about anyone who works at AIG.
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.” – John Locke
As of November 5th, 2008, the Grand Ol’ Blog has become the headquarters for La Resistance – the fight against the moderation of conservatism, and the ermergence of American socialism.
