Who longs to be a dictator. Anyway, he’s made clear on many occasions that he doesn’t feel constrained by that awful document. People like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi were exactly the power mongers the Founders had in mind when they came up with it.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Obama’s Competency Deficit
Some thoughts:
This administration has grand ambitions to grow government but little interest in running it. The result, according to polling, is the highest mistrust in government in years. And rightfully so. We’ve willy-nilly added bureaucracy, deepened the debt, perpetuated cronyism, slowed economic entrepreneurialism and gotten few, if any, of the promised benefits.
It’s not exactly a new problem, but more people are starting to notice it. Too bad they didn’t do so a year ago.
The Jew In The Box
Thoughts on the Jewish experience in contemporary Germany.
Losing The Gun Debate
It’s pretty simple really. One side actually wants to make schools safer, and the other side wants to take away our guns, despite all their lies about their intentions, and push measures that by their own admission wouldn’t have prevented the event that precipitated the push for the legislation. So it’s pretty hilarious when they deliberately mischaracterize their position as “reasonable,” and “common sense,” particularly when they don’t even understand how guns work.
A Sense Of Irony
The British foreign service used to say about many of the countries with which they had to deal was that their primary problem was the lack of a sense of irony. Apparently, it’s a deficiency shared by the president.
A Curriculum Of Propaganda
The entire educational establishment, from kindergarten through academia, needs to be dismantled.
Colorado Representative Diana DeGette
…is a gun-grabbing moron:
“What’s the efficacy of banning these magazine clips? I will tell you, these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now, they’re going to shoot them” says Rep DeGette. According to her, “the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will be shot and there won’t be any more available.”
These people shouldn’t be allowed to vote, let alone be elected to office.
Obama Incompetence
It’s not a new theme, but it is a new source: Joe Klein:
Yes, the President has faced a terrible economic crisis—and he has done well to limit the damage. He has also succeeded in avoiding disasters overseas. But, as a Democrat—as someone who believes in activist government—he has a vested interest in seeing that federal programs actually work efficiently. I don’t see much evidence that this is anywhere near the top of his priorities.
He only just figured that out? A little slow on the uptake, I guess.
SLS Delenda Est
Kill it to save human spaceflight:
Simply put, the SLS program should be canceled now to free up approximately $10 billion programmed for this decade. This money could then be redirected to continue the planned flight tests of the Orion spacecraft with the much lower-cost Falcon Heavy booster while making a robust investment in a first-generation space station in the vicinity of the Moon. An investment in such a cislunar station would provide—by the early 2020s—a multifunctional platform to act as a fuel depot, a workstation for robotic operations on the Moon and a habitat to protect against the more intense radiation environment outside of the Earth’s magnetic field. This station could even be used as a habitat during longer-duration human missions to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.
Expect to see a lot more editorials like this as time goes on, new systems appear, and budgets get tighter.
Attack On The Killer Tomatoes
Some thoughts on the war on Monsanto:
Monsanto is just too perfect an issue for a certain class of urbane lefty already inclined to food snobbery and to activism. It harmonizes with his inherent mistrust of corporations, confirms him in the superiority of his lifestyle choices, and accords with the deep strain of Rousseauian anti-modernism that runs through him. Never mind that a world without GMOs would be a hungrier world, a world in which the poor would have to pay something closer to the prices he happily bears for the peace of mind that comes from the politically correct consumption of roughage. As for the rest, well, let them eat cake. Locally sourced, sustainably produced, certified organic cake.
I did note on someone’s FB page the other day that the GMO hysteria is the modern version of “Let them eat cake.” I don’t want to hear one more word about the “Republican” “war on science.” These nutjobs probably think that Norman Borlaug committed crimes against humanity.