Celebrating 9/11
Excerpt: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney cruised, as expected, to an easy victory in Tuesday’s New Hampshire South Carolina
Excerpt: The results in Tuesday’s New Hampshire
Romney goes for the knockout punch in South Carolina
Excerpt: Mitt Romney is going for the kill in South Carolina
The Jan. 21 primary could crown Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee, making the former Massachusetts South Carolina
Video: Romney’s victory speech
Excerpt: Romney was the tea-party candidate, and not by a narrow margin either. (Fifty-one percent of voters called themselves TP supporters; among that group, Romney beat Paul by 18 points.) He also won Republicans by more than 30 points and finished a close second to Paul among independents. The only demographic in which he got crushed was Democrats. The leader in that group: Huntsman, of course, with 41 percent.
Exposing Romney's Fatal Flaw: How Conservatives Can Still Win
Excerpt: The biggest threat to conservatives opposed to Mitt Romney right now is not anything that's happening in the debates, or on the ground. It's the narrative that the primary is, or soon will be over and Romney has everything locked up. He doesn't and the longer this thing goes on, the weaker he gets.
The Bain Capital Bonfire
Excerpt: About the best that can be said about the Republican attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital is that President Obama is going to do the same thing eventually, so GOP primary voters might as well know what's coming. Yet that hardly absolves Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and others for their crude and damaging caricatures of modern business and capitalism. Bain's business model is little more than "rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company," says Mr. Gingrich, whose previous insights into free enterprise include years of defending the taxpayer-fed business of corn ethanol.
Right-wing rips Gingrich, Perry for attacks on Romney, capitalism
Excerpt: Yet in slamming Romney as a corporate raider, the two candidates fighting for their party’s right-wing may have done what Romney never seemed capable of: rallying conservatives around the former Massachusetts
Never has a winner looked so beaten By John Podhoretz
Excerpt: But Republicans will vote for Romney in the primaries. Voters tend to take their responsibility seriously, and they want to vote for someone who is a serious candidate. And because every other plausible major candidate refused to run in 2011, Romney has been the only serious candidate in the race. But nobody loves him. No one is inspired by him. He cuts an impressive figure and is clearly very intelligent, but he is a man without an ideological core.
2 veteran Calif.
Excerpt: Two veteran California
Excerpt: According to debkafile's Iranian sources, Tehran is preparing an underground test of a one-kiloton nuclear device during 2012, much like the test carried out by North Korea Iran 's fortified, subterranean Fordo site near Qom
A Fabian Socialist Dream Come True: The gradual revolution of the Fabian Socialists is quickly becoming a reality in America
Excerpt: The Fabian Society began in England Britain
Excerpt: The Greek government is being denounced by the National Confederation of Disabled People after it added pedophiles, exhibitionists, and kleptomaniacs to the list of disabled people entitled to state benefits. (Update: Their inclusion on the list will not be used to provide benefits. Yet.) They have joined pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists as persons entitled to ask for government assistance. (When you destroy individual responsibility in favor of the state, everyone is a victim, entitled to live at someone’s expense. ~Bob.)
Excerpts: One of the ways Massachusetts
Occupy Baltimore
Excerpt: Occupy Baltimore
Union Square
where a 65-year-old widow has made her home for nearly six years. As many as 100 protesters gathered outside Lila Kara's house, where faded American flags occupy a curbside flower bed, to block the Baltimore City Sheriff's Office from evicting the Bolivian immigrant — at least for a day. (Good news. Everyone stop paying your mortgage and the Occupy twits will keep you in your home. ~Bob.)
Convention Wisdom
Excerpt: For two decades, American cities have used public dollars to build convention center space beyond what demand warranted. The result has been a gigantic nationwide surplus of empty meeting facilities, struggling convention centers and vacant hotel rooms. Given the glut, you'd think that cities would stop. Instead, many are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to expand convention centers and open yet more dazzling hotels, arguing that whatever convention business remains will flow to the places with the fanciest amenities. If this dubious rationale proves wrong and the facilities fail, the only result will be that taxpayers will wind up on the hook, as usual, says Steven Malagna, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Over the course of several decades politicians—both Democrat and Republican—encouraged banks and mortgage companies to ease lending standards in hopes of making housing more affordable for the poor. They also urged the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and the Federal National Mortgage Association) to purchase the resulting low-quality loans from lending institutions. This freed up money, enabling banks to make more loans than would have otherwise been possible. These actions, along with low short-term interest rates set by the Federal Reserve and tax advantages for home buyers, sparked a housing boom. Home prices soared and investors flocked to purchase mortgage-backed derivatives. Speculation became rampant, and houses were bought simply to resell, or “flip,” when prices rose. Eventually, the bubble burst. (Excellent, clear explanation of what created the fiscal mess we are in—or at least part of it. This is part of the vote-buying by both parties that has put us on the road to fiscal collapse, followed by political and social collapse. But politicians cannot admit that upward mobility requires long cultural and educational change. You cannot legislate the poor into a middle class lifestyle any more than you can legislate me into the life style enjoyed by Soros, Gates, Buffet, Kerry and the Obamas. OWS cannot understand why they cannot live like CEOs with a 20 hour a week job and a degree in Peace Studies. People without a high school diploma, and limited skills, work ethic and experience cannot understand why they can’t have a house like an MBA making six figures. They all expect the government to fix that for them, and will vote for politicians who promise the impossible. ~Bob.)
Doctors Say Obamacare Is No Remedy for U.S.
Excerpt: America
Nearly two-thirds of doctors expect the quality of care in this country to decline, according to a new survey from consulting giant Deloitte. Just 27 percent think that the law will lower costs. And nearly seven of every 10 doctors believe that medicine is no longer attractive to America
Terrorists Kill Commerce Deputy of Iran
Excerpt: An Iranian university professor and deputy director at Natanz enrichment facility was killed in a terrorist bomb blast in a Northern Tehran neighborhood on Wednesday morning. The magnetic bomb which was planted by an unknown motorcyclist under the car of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, a professor at Tehran's technical university, also wounded two other Iranian nationals in Seyed Khandan neighborhood in Northern Tehran. (Another death that may save tens of thousands of American—or Israeli—lives. ~Bob.)
Would we not have killed anyone necessary to stop Nazi Germany from getting an A-Bomb? Terrorism is when you kill innocent folks to make a political point. Anyone creating nuclear weapons for terrorist states is not innocent. This is not terrorism, it is surgery to save thousands of innocent lives. ~Bob.
Excerpt: The latest proposal to reform Medicare is a bipartisan gesture, courtesy of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
Federal court blocks Oklahoma
Excerpt: An amendment that would ban Oklahoma Oklahoma
POLL: Do you approve of the job Gov. Walker is doing?
A correspondent sent me this. I forwarded, then another pointed out that it is old. But it can’t hurt to vote. ~Bob.
Tim Tebow and being all American
Excerpt: There is absolutely no doubt Tim Tebow has become an American phenomenon. A new word has entered the American lexicon, “Tebowing” which described a public prayer or giving thanks to God. Why has America America Korea
Testimony: DEA agents posing as pilots flew cocaine shipment through Dallas
Excerpt: US agents helped launder millions in drug proceeds 09 Jan 2012 Mexico's government allowed a group of undercover U.S. anti-drug agents and their Colombian informant to launder millions in cash for a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his Colombian cocaine supplier, according to documents made public Monday. The Mexican magazine Emeequis published portions of documents that describe how Drug Enforcement Administration agents, a Colombian trafficker-turned-informant and Mexican federal police officers in 2007 infiltrated the Beltran Leyva drug cartel and a cell of money launderers for Colombia 's Valle del Norte cartel in Mexico ... In his testimony, the DEA agent in charge of the operation says DEA agents posing as pilots flew at least one shipment of cocaine from Ecuador to Madrid through a Dallas airport. (This administration is losing the power to shock. ~Bob.)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Think about greed and racial discrimination. In 1947, when the Brooklyn Dodgers hired Jackie Robinson, why did racial discrimination by major league teams begin to drop like a hot potato? It wasn't feelings of guilt by white owners, affirmative action or anti-discrimination laws. It turned out that there was a huge pool of black baseball talent in the Negro leagues. It became too costly for teams to allow the Dodgers to gain a monopoly on this talent. Black players won the National League's Most Valuable Player award for seven consecutive seasons. Had other teams not stepped in to hire black players, allowing the Dodgers to hire them, it might have given the Dodgers a virtual monopoly on world championships.
Class Warfare and the Buffett Rule: Implementing a surtax on 'millionaires' would hurt just about everyone but the super rich like Warren
Excerpt: The political season has barely begun, and yet we already know that class warfare will be President Obama's key issue in the 2012 general election. It's even reared its ugly head in the Republican primaries, with the candidates trying to paint front-runner Mitt Romney as a cold-hearted capitalist and Rick Santorum proposing targeted tax breaks for the "working class" manufacturing sector.
Very Interesting: Exit the moderates . . . and weep for the economy By Charles Gasparino
Very Interesting: Exit the moderates . . . and weep for the economy By Charles Gasparino
Excerpt: The announcement that Bill Daley will step down as President Obama’s chief of staff is further proof that as the 2012 election approaches, Obama is embracing his inner leftist on anything touching the economy. The administration has moved so far left that even one of the country’s most prominent Democrats can’t fit in. Embracing Wall Street protesters, massive government programs and tax hikes might seem like a losing formula for re-election, but Team Obama is betting it’s the best way — maybe the only way — to win.
Excerpt: The Illinois Illinois Illinois Illinois Illinois Illinois Illinois ’ credit rating, giving the Prairie State
Today in History: Jan. 10, 1967
Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke takes office as the first African-American ever to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate. Brooke, a Howard University graduate who earned a Bronze Star in World War II fighting in a segregated unit, would serve two terms in the Senate, where he was a leading proponent of affordable housing and became ranking member of the powerful Senate Banking Committee. He remains the only African-American to be reelected to the upper chamber of Congress.
Excerpt: Though not receiving nearly as much attention as other impending Supreme Court rulings, there is now a case before the court that may prove debilitating to the long-enjoyed election funds bounty given to the Democratic Party from its Big Labor supporters.
Bill Daley Ordered Investigation Into Obama Green Energy Loans – Two Months Later He’s Gone…
Excerpt: An interesting tidbit found within the various media reports regarding former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley’s rather sudden departure from the Obama White House – just two months earlier Daley had ordered a comprehensive review of all Department of Energy loan guarantees following the Solyndra scandal. Coincidence?
The Narrative of Perpetual Palestinian Victimhood by Shelby Steele
Excerpt: The Arab-Israeli conflict, is not really a conflict, it is a war – a war of the Arabs against the Jews. In many ways, this conflict has been a conflict between narratives. We who strongly support Israel
An Army officer sums up what makes Marines different
Excerpt: In the Marines, everyone–sergeant, mechanic, cannoneer, supply man, clerk, aviator, cook–is a rifleman first. The entire Corps, all 170,000 or so on the active rolls, plus the reserves, are all infantry. All speak the language of the rifle and bayonet, of muddy boots and long, hot marches. It’s never us and them, only us. That is the secret of the Corps.
Dead People Receive Ballots in NH Primary
Nothing wrong with this, just ask AG Holder. ~Bob.
TransCanada details Keystone XL’s job-creating potential
Excerpt: TransCanada Corp. has released a detailed job breakdown for the Keystone XL pipeline and said it will create 13,000 construction employment opportunities and 7,000 in manufacturing for Americans. The company has provided the job breakdown in response to critics who argue that the company’s job creation estimates for the project are too high and will only lead to ‘a few hundred’ temporary jobs. But the company has shot back with a detailed account of employment potential in the United States, right down to the number of oilers, labourers and welders needed for the US$7-billion project. (“We Can’t Wait” for jobs, Mr. President. ~Bob.)
Obama’s Postmodern Vision: Will we have another four years of his selective reading of the law? By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: There has been for months a popular parlor game of tallying instances in which President Obama seems to have either ignored or simply bypassed federal law. But what started out as a way of exposing occasional hypocrisy is now getting a little scary.
Excerpt: I know we’re all supposed to think that the primaries are poised to turn out a weak Republican nominee and that President Obama will swoop in this fall and carry the day with some brilliant pincer move that simultaneously dubs the Republican too extreme, too moderate, too boring, and too weird. And I suppose it’s possible that the president and his team will suddenly turn out to possess keen political skills they have been hiding somewhere for the past three years. But can we spend a moment pondering the approach that team Obama seems to be hatching so far?
DMV: 900 Dead People May Have Voted
Must be a lie. The Democrats assured us this was not a problem, that while you need an ID to buy booze, a gun, spray paint or Draino (in IL), you can vote whenever and as often as you want with no ID. ~Bob. Excerpt: The director of South Carolina's Department of Motor Vehicles has told the State Law Enforcement Division that more than 900 people who were recorded as having voted were actually dead. DMV Director Kevin Shwedo told legislators about the issue Wednesday as the U.S. Justice Department questions a new state law requiring people to show photographic identification when they vote in person.
Event more for media than CEOs?
Excerpt: Dozens of journalists packed into the East Room at the White House today for the president's remarks on "in-sourcing," at least 60 of them lining the press risers and walls. But what many couldn't see in press coverage of the event — held with roughly 120 executives to discuss bringing jobs back to America from overseas — were the dozens of empty seats in the audience. (Maybe they didn’t want to be props for a business and job-killing administration’s reelection campaign. ~Bob.)
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