So with regards to this story pointing out that, even prior to his going AWOL from Congress, Jesse Jackson Jr thought himself a reincarnated chariot driver and liked to perform naked martial arts kata at Turkish baths, I’ll offer this by way of defense: never once did Jackson Jr try to get his horse appointed to parliament, nor did he ever try to plant a junk-flapping Billy Jack round house
October 2012
October 16, 2012
“For Every Person Added to Labor Force, 10 Added to Those Not in Labor Force”
One step Forward!, 10 steps back. Rumor is, Obama will go aggressive against Romney tonight, a desperate candidate throwing red meat to his ideological base — the “47 %”, Bain Capital, tax returns, income disparity, and so on. This despite the fact that the debate is supposed to be half on foreign policy, and Obama surely will have enough on his plate there. Question is, what, if anything, has Romney
October 16, 2012
“Justice Stevens: Second Amendment is ‘no obstacle’ to banning automatic weapons”
…and that’s because to “liberal” Justices who practice a form of Living Constitutional textualism whereby the intent of the founders and framers can be ignored and the application of signifiers can legitimately be rewritten — that is, turned into new signs entirely, fundamentally altering the text and creating an entirely new text, one written by the interpreter — to meet new contexts or social goals, aren’t constrained by anything other
October 16, 2012
State Department sits on $2 billion-plus for embassy security [Darleen Click] UPDATED
Even the left-partisan editorializing cannot fully blunt what Politico reports Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) says the State Department is sitting on $2.2 billion that should be spent on upgrading security at U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide, but the Obama administration will not spend the funds. Issa made his comment during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” to discuss the recent attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left U.S. Ambassador Chris
October 16, 2012
Birds of a feather [Darleen Click]
How often is it claimed by Leftists that they have nothing in common with Nazis? In 1962, then President of Cuba, Fidel Castro recruited two former Nazi SS soldiers to help train his military at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to declassified documents released by Germany’s secret intelligence agency, the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst). Castro invited four SS officers to Havana, where he offered them quadruple the average salary
October 15, 2012
Something to chew on
Dennis D. sends along a comment he plucked from the Ulstermann site that is at once almost laughable paranoid and yet oddly plausible, surreal and terrifying simultaneously, bespeaking an Administration so committed to political theater — and so downright cynical and demanding of narrative control — that the story itself begins to make sense of some of the behavior of the WH and State (and some silence as to the
October 15, 2012
“Obama Claims ‘We Got Back Every Dime’ of Bailout Money on Same Day CBO Reports $24B Loss!”
Reality is but a construct. A human fiction built from an arbitrary code. He who controls the language controls perception. And he who controls perception gets to construct reality out of the language of his choosing. Or so the poststructuralists and anti-foundationists would have it. If we let them. Which we increasingly do. To borrow from Joshua, “strange game, professor Fish. The only winning move is not to play.”
October 15, 2012
Comic relief: Frank Rich analyzes constitutionalist conservatism; hilarity ensues
Frank Rich on the tea party. I know: it’s kind of like reading Michelle Obama on the subject of the founding fathers, but go with it. For the laughs. Because — and here’s the irony, as RI Red noted when he sent along the link — Rich is essentially correct in his conclusions, though he gets to them in the ways of self-delusion so crucial to any leftwing ideologue’s ability
October 15, 2012
How many lies does it take to get to the center of a Biden Pop?
Marc Thiessen, “The new Middle East coverup: Biden caught in Syria debate falsehood”: First there was the Libya coverup. Now, we have the Syria coverup. In last week’s vice presidential debate, Joe Biden asserted that the United States was working to isolate al-Qaeda in Syria by ensuring that aid was directed to moderate elements of the Syrian opposition. “We are working hand and glove with the Turks, with the Jordanians,