===== By KARL ROVE President Obama’s 15-minute, 2,108-word second inaugural address followed the old wedding advice to offer “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” The “something old” was Mr. Obama’s habit of serving up straw men before triumphantly demolishing them. “No single person,” he harrumphed, “can train all the math and science teachers” or “build all the roads and networks and... Read more
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Our Hottest Year..
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, The LeftWhere are the numbers? ===== … When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says 2012 was the hottest year on record in the “contiguous United States,” trust the media to transcribe the statement accurately. A disaster for public understanding begins only when the media stop transcribing and start using their own brains. Said the New York Times climate blog, in an assertion that was... Read more
All In Favor of Equal Opportunity!
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, The Left, Unions, US CourtsLouisiana Judge Timothy Kelley sure is a fast writer. Only hours after the end of a two-day trial, the Balzac of the judiciary rolled out a 39-page opinion striking down the state’s pioneering voucher program as unconstitutional. Could it be that he knew how he was going to rule before the trial? The state district judge in Baton Rouge ruled that... Read more
Morsi as Master
November 27 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical Islam, The LeftCan a leopard change his spots? The MB has one goal: autocratic rule. Mr Obama ignores this to all of our peril. ===== … Mr. Obama told aides he was impressed with the Egyptian leader’s pragmatic confidence,” the Times reported. “He sensed an engineer’s precision with surprisingly little ideology. Most important, Mr. Obama told aides that he considered Mr. Morsi a straight... Read more
Never Blame a Woman
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Politically correct, The LeftDon’t hold your breath… ============== By JAMES TARANTO President Obama’s faux-chivalrous defense of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice got some backup Friday, when “a dozen female members of the House,” all Democrats and “the majority of them African American like Rice,” held a Capitol Hill press conference. They asserted, in the words of an Associated Press report, that “Republican senators’ angry criticism . .... Read more
Afghan Women Fear Rights Will Erode as U.S. Leaves
November 13 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Radical Islam, The LeftLiberal feminists are too busy finding fault with Republicans to pay attention to Afgan women… ========= By MARIA ABI-HABIB HERAT, Afghanistan—Rokhshana, a 14-year-girl, has been behind bars here since March. She is serving a yearlong adultery sentence after what she describes as rape by her adult cousin, who remains a free man. “I love my country, but there’s no justice here,” says Rokhshana at... Read more