“[O]n Thursday, the administration tried to make [the MSM] complicit in an actual boycott of Fox. The Treasury Department made available Ken Feinberg, the executive pay czar, for interviews with the White House ‘pool’ news organizations — except Fox. The other networks admirably refused, saying they would not interview Feinberg unless Fox was permitted to [...]
Archive for October, 2009
29 Oct
The Kitty-Cat Who Roared
“President Obama keeps roaring out deadlines like a lion — only later to meow like a little kitty. Remember, for example, how he bellowed to cheering partisan crowds that he would close down the detainment facility at Guantanamo within a year? The clock ticks — and Guantanamo isn’t close to being shut down. It once [...]
29 Oct
The Gipper
“Our party must be the party of the individual. It must not sell out the individual to cater to the group. No greater challenge faces our society today than ensuring that each one of us can maintain his dignity and his identity in an increasingly complex, centralized society. Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition [...]
29 Oct
Pop Culture Exploits Matthew Shepard Tragedy to Create ‘Thought Crimes’
“Quick: when I say ‘Matthew Shepard,’ what do you think? A man killed because he was gay? Or just some poor sap in the wrong place at the wrong time? More on that in a minute. Hate crime legislation aimed at making it a federal crime to assault someone for being a homosexual passed the [...]
29 Oct
Money and Morality: A Two-Front Culture War
“Hard work and self-denial were part of our national character — actually our Christian heritage. In recent years, the ‘sound economic values’ have eroded. … But the problem, you see, is that values and the character they produce aren’t divisible. People will not exercise restraint in their economic dealings while casting off restraints in their [...]
29 Oct
Can Obama and Congress Order You to Buy Broccoli?
“Can President Barack Obama and Congress enact legislation that orders Americans to buy broccoli? If so, where did they get that authority? What provision in the Constitution empowers the federal government to order an individual to buy a product he does not want? This is not a question about nutrition. It is not a question [...]
29 Oct
American Idea (Walter E. Williams)
via: patriotpost “But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” –John Adams Americans are harder workers, more philanthropic, individualistic, self-reliant, anti-government than people in most other countries. We’ve turned what was an 18th-century Third World nation into the freest and most prosperous nation in [...]
27 Oct
Things to watch for during a “Declared National Emergency”
via: canadafreepress As I predicted—though I was unsure whether it would be the H1N1 virus or the collapse of the dollar—the Communist Puppet would use something to cement his total control over every aspect of our lives. From the day he took office, Obama and his puppet masters have been building a shadow Government with [...]
27 Oct
The Death of America!
How did it happen? How did our national government grow from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master with virtually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled. There are occasions when we have elevated men and political parties to power that promised to restore limited government and then proceeded, after their election, to [...]
