Archive for November, 2011

The Two Months War

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

The Two Months War

By Andrew Cline on 11.17.11 @ 6:09AM

Occupy Wall Street’s failed reversal of American society.

In the last few weeks it’s seemed as though one could learn more about the Occupy Wall Street movement from the police blotter than from anywhere else. As the arrests piled up, many protesters who found themselves on the business end of a baton or a set of plastic handcuffs ranted about the perils of living in a “police state,” which is beautifully ironic. A group organized for the very purpose of demanding that the government assume greater control over our lives shook itself apart in violent spasms of rebellion against the government’s effort to enforce the most basic rules of society.

The intellectual incoherence of the Occupy Wall Street movement…

The rest of the story…  The American Spectator : The Two Months War.

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The Imaginarium of Barack Obama

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

by Victor Davis Hanson

The presidency of Barack Obama is full of funny things that need not follow any sort of logic. Images and ideas just pop in and out, without worry of inconsistency, contradiction or hypocrisy. It’s a fascinating mish-mash of strange heroes and bogeymen, this imaginarium of our president.

In the imaginarium, there are no revolving doors, earmarks, or lobbyists. So Peter Orszag did not go from being OMB director to a Citigroup fat-cat. Once chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel did not make $16 million for his well-known banking expertise. The more you damn the pernicious role of lobbyists and the polluting role of big money, the more you must hire and seek out both. Public financing of campaigns is wonderful for everyone else who lacks the integrity of Barack Obama who understandably must renounce such unfair impositions.

Those who now vote against raising the large Obama debt ceiling are political hucksters and opportunists; those who not long ago voted against raising the smaller Bush debt ceiling were principled statesmen. “Unpatriotic” presidents borrow $4 trillion in eight years; patriotic ones we’ve been waiting for can trump that in three…

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Bono Interview: Grace Over Karma

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Bono: My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love. What does that mean? What it means for me: a study of the life of Christ. Love here describes itself as a child born in straw poverty, the most vulnerable situation of all, without honor. I don’t let my religious world get too complicated. I just kind of go: Well, I think I know what God is. God is love, and as much as I respond [sighs] in allowing myself to be transformed by that love and acting in that love, that’s my religion. Where things get complicated for me, is when I try to live this love. Now that’s not so easy.

The rest of the story…  Bono Interview: Grace Over Karma.

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