“This, from an official Department of the Interior press release: ‘A Secretarial Order that [Ken] Salazar has signed renames the Minerals Management Service the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (“Bureau of Ocean Energy” or “BOE”)’… Except all was not well. At about the same time a robotic submarine was knocking the collection [...]
Archive for June, 2010
28 Jun
The Latest Thievery: Best Friends
via: Patriot Post By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) There’s a great moment in the 1993 movie “Searching for Bobby Fischer.” Ben Kingsley plays a coach for a 7-year-old chess prodigy named Josh. Kingsley wants the boy to stop playing chess in the park and devote himself completely to Kingsley’s tutelage. Josh’s mother doesn’t like the idea, [...]
28 Jun
There Is No ‘Good’ Communist
via: Patriot Post By Jeff Jacoby (Archive) · If José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who died on Friday at 87, had been an unrepentant Nazi for the last four decades, he would never have won international acclaim or received the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. Leading publishers would never have brought out his books, his [...]
28 Jun
McChrystalizing failure: Fault lies not with the Pentagon, but with the White House
via: Patriot Post “The Obama administration made clear that America’s expanded commitment in Afghanistan had a short shelf life — just 1 1/2 years. Under the current plan, the United States will remove its ‘surge’ of troops by July 2011, essentially restoring the status-quo ante and providing the Taliban with a date certain for when [...]
28 Jun
Degeneration of Democracy
via: Patriot Post By Thomas Sowell (Archive). When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics. Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they [...]
28 Jun
‘What Would Saul Alinsky Do?’
via: Patriot Post Remember the popular motto “What would Jesus do?” which was invoked by many Christians as a moral guidepost for daily living? President Barack Obama more likely adheres to “What would Saul Alinsky do?” as most recently evidenced by his apparent defiance of a federal court order on his moratorium on offshore drilling. [...]
28 Jun
Guns Save Lives
via: Patriot Post You know what the mainstream media think about guns and our freedom to carry them. Pierre Thomas of ABC: “When someone gets angry or when they snap, they are going to be able to have access to weapons.” Chris Matthews of MSNBC: “I wonder if in a free society violence is always [...]
28 Jun
Re: The Left
“[J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.” –John Adams Hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan begin this week [...]
