Mickey Kaus: What Obama Should Do With His Nobel Peace Prize — Turn it down! http://bit.ly/3eAKFy
Month: October 2009
Steven Benen says he didn’t ev…
Steven Benen says he didn’t even know Barak Obama was up for the Nobel Peace prize. Who did? It’s a horrible joke. http://bit.ly/asx0t
Barack Obama Has Done Nothing to Warrant Nobel Peace Prize
Just so I’m clear on this point, nothing Barack Obama has done during his 8 months in office is deserving of what is supposed to be the world’s most profound award for service to mankind. Clear enough?
Re: The Unambiguous Meaning of the Cross
Steve Benen finally gets something right when he says that the meaning of the cross the VFW put up in the New Mexico desert some 75 years ago is unambiguous. Too bad he doesn’t have a clue that the crystal-clear meaning is the purpose and meaning of the country he lives in. Doltish liberals like…
Geologist Leighton Steward say…
Geologist Leighton Steward says that CO2-reduction efforts are “tilting at windmills”. When will we decide to get the science right first?
Follies of Health Care Centralization
The Congressional Budget Office says that Senator Max Baucus’ draft of a health care reform bill including a public option for health insurance will reduce the federal budget deficit by $81B over 10 years. Not bad, if true, and that remains to be seen. Republican leader Mitch McConnell labeled the CBO report “irrelevant.” “What matters…
A Reason to Win in Afghanistan
As I just wrote, Islamic radicals need a place to call home, whether we approve of their stunted world view or not. Of course there’s more to consider, specifically that many Afghan women want U.S. and international troops to stay in the country until their safety and preferred lifestyle is assured. That’s the thorny ethical…
Troops to Remain in Afghanistan
President Obama hasn’t committed to an Afghan strategy yet, but for now troop levels will not be reduced substantially. From my admittedly limited perspective – I was only 2 years old when the North Vietnamese launched their Tet Offenseive – the recent attacks on American troops in Afghanistan are reminiscent of that earlier war. 10…
Dog Fighting Not Speech
The American legal system has allowed itself to be corrupted by giving too much creedence to the ridiculous, as with giving consideration to the idiotic notion that dog fighting videos might have free speech protection. Tapes of criminal activities are no more legitimate than the crimes themselves. A better argument might be that dog fighting…
It’s time for Californians to …
It’s time for Californians to put Nancy Pelosi out on the curb. Whether that’s her place or not, I won’t say. http://bit.ly/He6qI