“I like Obama’s voice. I like his narrative voice as well as his speaking voice. It’s pleasant to listen to for hours at a time.”
To each his own.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
TSA’s Forced Indignities
Unfortunately, it’s old news.
Hama Doesn’t Forget
…or forgive. Things are not going to end well in Syria.
[Update a few minutes later]
Are we going to do anything to people who kill Americans? Apparently not. The Bush administration never did — it would be pretty foolish to expect this gang to. We’ll bomb Daffy, but not do anything about people who are actually committing acts of war against us.
[Update a few more minutes later]
Iran is at war with us. Are we at war with Iran? In fact, they’ve been at war with us for over three decades, but we continue, administration in, administration out, to pretend otherwise.
[Update a while later]
Well, at least we’re flaming Syria on Facebook. That’ll learn ’em.
“Our Biggest Bridge To Nowhere”
Gene Healy doesn’t think much of the manned space program.
What In The Hell…?
Thompson, along with former Illinois governor Jim Edgar (R) and former Iowa governor Chet Culver (D) are part of a bipartisan coalition that has endorsed the National Popular Vote that would go into effect if states representing 270 electoral votes pass legislation.
The National Popular Vote bill has been signed into law in seven states — Maryland, Hawaii, Washington, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont and the District of Columbia — representing 29 percent of the necessary votes for the compact to go into effect.
I’m very disappointed that he seems so unaware of the purpose of the Electoral College, and is so willing to subvert the Constitution.
But he still would have been a better president than Barack Obama.
Caylee’s Law
Why it’s a really bad idea.
As the old saying goes, hard cases make bad law.
Lies From The AP
The news service is attempting to rewrite history (again):
The administration of former US President George W. Bush had hastily linked Saddam Hussein, the ousted Iraqi dictator, to the 9/11 attacks.
That was one of the justifications for the 2003 US-led invasion, but the argument has since been widely dismissed.
No one in the administration claimed that Saddam was involved in 911, despite ongoing leftist lies to the contrary at the time, for which AP and others were happy to (and apparently remain happy to) be stenographers. The administration claimed operational links between Saddam and Al Qaeda, which did in fact exist.
The irony, of course, is that the reporter perpetuates this historical lie in the service of accusing Leon Panetta of a “gaffe.”
An Even Scarier Jobs Chart
Remember the one I showed this weekend? Well check this one out:
I remember when James Carville demagogued Bill Clinton into office in 1992 with continuous lies that it was “the worst economy in fifty years.” Well, folks, this is the worst economy seventy years. And it won’t improve until we remove from office the people determined to keep wrecking it, who first took power five and a half years ago. There are a lot more scary charts at the link, if that’s not enough for you.
Stealing You Blind
…How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off You
A new book on corruption and rent seeking by my colleague at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Iain Murray, launches today.
[Update a few minutes later]
An explanatory editorial from the author.
…my new book, Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You, doesn’t just talk about the excesses of government pay. It looks at how the modern American state has rigged the rules to support itself at our expense. The Internal Revenue Service is allowed to ignore the Constitution. Regulations cost our economy more than the federal deficit without anyone batting an eyelid, as they turn ordinary Americans into criminals. Worst of all, our education system has ceased to educate our children and now only works to benefit the education establishment—unionized teachers and administrators.
And teach them to allow the statists to continue to rob us blind.
Worse Than The Nixon Justice Department
Yeah, I’d say that Holder is the new champion, when it comes to corruption and coverups.