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April 14, 2012

in which I respond to Steven Taylor at OTB

Asks Taylor, referring to revelations that Obama paid a lower tax rate than his secretary: Keith Koffler asks:  Did Obama Pay a Lower Rate Than His Secretary? He (as do his commenters and Protein Wisdom’s Jeff G.) treats this as some sort of Gotcha! Moment (or an example of hypocrisy or irony).  However, wouldn’t such a revelation actually underscore Obama’s argument regarding the so-called “Buffet Rule” i.e., that the tax

An inconvenient (set of) truth(s)

Obama has learned his lesson now, I’m sure: always keep to the prompter, or else make sure your people pre-vet for proper Journolist credentials the ink-stained maggots who presume to question you. (h/t Blake)

Backfired [Darleen Click]

And, to add to what I’ve already pointed out: The real threat that the Ann Romneys of the world represent to the statist Left (via Instapundit) I am the counterweight to the state. Therefore, I am dangerous. I am subversive simply by existing. My love for my children is a dominant force that works its way into their psyches and that trumps the state-run schools and the state complicit media

“Political Correctness is ruining America” [Darleen Click]

But that is precisely the point you RacistHomophobicIslamophobicSexistAblistPrivilegedBiblehumper … HOW DARE YOU STAND IN THE WAY of the bright, egalitarian, utopian future with your old-fashioned, risible Western Civ devotion to ideals Elizabeth Bierenday, a junior at Pilgrim High School in Warwick, was asked to create a mural for the school. She sketched a mural that showed the growth of a boy into adulthood. The last image showed a man with