Two videos to remind you that 1,000 days is a disgracefully long time for a nation to go without a budget
Bookworm on Jan 24 2012 | Filed under: Democrats
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Everything old is new again
Bookworm on Jan 17 2012 | Filed under: Democrats
I’m feeling nostalgic, and not in a good way. First, a little pointed humor from the 40s: (Hat tip: Patriot Post) Bob Hope reminds us that the OWSers are nothing new: And should we be bothered that tuberculosis, the scourge of the 19th century, has emerged in a non-treatable form? Yes, I know it’s currently [...]
Stay classy, Obama campaign!
Bookworm on Dec 13 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama
I get Obama campaign emails because I signed up for them. It’s always interesting to see what the opposition is doing. That’s why I got to enjoy this “classy” email from Obama’s 2012 campaign: Friend – Everyone’s got that special conservative in their life. Maybe it’s your dad, who forwards you every chain email about [...]
Chicago redux *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Nov 22 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
I can’t remember if I wrote it here, but I know that, in lunches with Don Quixote, I’ve discussed the parallels between the OWS protests and the Chicago convention in 1968. Rather than gather my slightly fragmented thoughts, I’ll just pass the baton to Bruce Kesler, who ably discusses the issue. UPDATE: Charles Martel’s reminiscences [...]
“Tea Party loves crazy more than they hate blacks.”
Bookworm on Nov 09 2011 | Filed under: Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich
This is what passes for humor on the Left: Get a “celebrity” who’s been in prison for rape, has bitten off people’s ears, kicked strangers in the groin, is a high school drop-out and — oh, yes — happens to be black, and have him pretend to be Herman Cain in a parody that calls [...]
Dying certitudes
Danny Lemieux on Aug 26 2011 | Filed under: Al Gore, Climate change, Democrats, Economics, Environmentalism, Socialism
On the heels of Bookworm’s excellent, hard-hitting essay on narcissism comes a nice coda on man-made global warming that is emblematic of Bookworm’s theme. Because of major discoveries involving the interaction of atmospheric aerosols and cosmic radiation, “climate models will have to be revised,” stated a communication from CERN that promises to completely overhaul scientific [...]
The housing collapse revisited
Danny Lemieux on Jun 09 2011 | Filed under: Democrats, Economics, Government
There are few issues that have been obfuscated as diligently by the media organs of the MSM Left as has been the housing crisis that led to our current economic depression. Why, of course they would do that: the Democrats are guilty as sin! We’ve observed on the pages of this very blog the attempts [...]
Democratic Exhaustion
Danny Lemieux on Apr 17 2011 | Filed under: Capitalism, Democrats, Economics, Government, Taxes, Tea Parties, Uncategorized
Is our democracy germinating the seeds of its own destruction? Alexis de Toqueville warned, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” That day has come. It is not yet gone. Democracy in ancient Athens lasted about 250 years. We in the United [...]
Jaws of victory
Danny Lemieux on Feb 10 2011 | Filed under: Afghanistan
Will Democrats once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Here’s a very encouraging report about the latest NATO (mostly American forces) offensive in Helmand province, one of the last redoubts of the Taliban. I don’t know how much play this will get in the Mass Media, as they generally don’t like to talk [...]
Democrat, Corruptocrat!
Danny Lemieux on Jan 29 2011 | Filed under: Conservative ideology, Democrats, Economics, Government, Liberal Fascism, Republicans
Democrats are the friends of big business, Conservatives are the friends of small business. Democrat government inevitably ratchets its way to corruptocracy. If you don’t agree with this, can we at least agree that Democrats favor highly regulated economies and societies and conservatives don’t? Let me explain with two examples. 1) The Wall Street Journal [...]
Democrat success stories
Danny Lemieux on Jan 24 2011 | Filed under: Democrats, Economics, Uncategorized
Incredibly, from the U.K.’s left-wing Guardian, comes a photo essay of what happens when Democrats are given the opportunity to put their economic and political theories to work: welcome to the future…. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jan/02/photography-detroit?/%3Fpicture=370173060&index=15#/?picture=370173054&index=0 h/t smalldeadanimals.com
Political violence: from whence does it emanate
Danny Lemieux on Jan 09 2011 | Filed under: Activism, Communism, Democrats, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Tea Parties, Uncategorized
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” – President Barack Hussein Obama I posted this as a comment to Book’s previous post, but have now posted it independently as a challenge to all of us Bookworm salon aficionados. Here’s the premise: virtually all the political violence that has happened in America [...]
How do we get out of this?
Danny Lemieux on Jan 04 2011 | Filed under: Economics, Government, Taxes, Uncategorized
The U.S. is already bankrupt
San Francisco sign threatens Fiorina and Whitman — by guest blogger Ms. GW *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Oct 29 2010 | Filed under: California, Democrats, Women
UPDATE from Bookworm: Poor Enrico’s. Because its name features prominently on the building, people are assuming it posted the sign. It did not. From Enrico’s facebook page: You may have received an email about a sign that says “FU (spelled out) Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina” asking you to call Enrico’s Restaurant to complain. Enrico’s [...]
Those wacky, extreme, ill-informed, violent, dishonest Democrat politicians *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Oct 28 2010 | Filed under: Democrats
[Re updates, I'm just slotting them in the appropriate categories, or creating new categories, as they come my way, without special fanfare.] My liberal friend — the same one who thinks that, politically, Tea Partiers are American Nazis — is also convinced that Tea Party candidates are nut jobs, more suited for an insane asylum [...]
Californians: Vote a straight Republican ticket
Bookworm on Oct 27 2010 | Filed under: California, Democrats, Elections, Republicans
My friend Sally Zelikovsky says it in the clearest words possible: Unless conservatives in California vote for the Republicans, we will have a Sacramento government made up entirely of San Francisco Democrats. If that horrible outcome sounds painfully obvious to you, you don’t know California. There are two dynamics in California that are a problem. [...]
Nancy’s sounding desperate
Bookworm on Jul 31 2010 | Filed under: Democrats
Nancy Pelosi may be mad at Robert Gibbs for admitting that the upcoming elections aren’t going to result in Democratic gains, but the fact is that she sounds pretty desperate herself in this email I got begging for funds: Midnight tonight is your last chance to contribute to the DCCC before one of the most [...]
Anne Rice and neo-paganism *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Jul 30 2010 | Filed under: Christians
My book club group met the other night to discuss William Manchester’s book A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age. The title is something of a misnomer. It’s only a “portrait of an age” if you want to read a thousand years of medieval history crammed [...]
Mickey Kaus would certainly be a fun Democratic candidate
Bookworm on May 14 2010 | Filed under: Congress
I met Mickey Kaus a few years ago at a blogger’s gathering. He is precisely as Jonah Goldberg describes him: middle aged, a little disheveled (albeit quite attractive), and hostile to BS. I don’t agree with his political views, but he is smart, honest with himself and others, and he’s not an axe-grinder. Democrats, Californians [...]
Andrew Breitbart takes aim at the “N-word” setup
Bookworm on Apr 03 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Democrats, Media matters
One of the things I love about Andrew Breitbart is that he’s willing to challenge the bluffs and cons emanating from the Left. While the Republican establishment was apologizing for the alleged claim that Tea Partiers hurled the “n-word,” Breitbart figured out that the absence of footage was significant — especially since the Black Caucus [...]
About the Democrats and “History”
Bookworm on Mar 23 2010 | Filed under: Democrats
As I’ve already noted in this blog, the Left’s obsession with history doesn’t go as far as considering whether it’s good history or bad history. In a superb article, Abe Greenwald makes precisely the same point: For amid the symbolic fanfare of giant gavels and the tactical gravitas of deployed Lincoln quotes, one important fact [...]
The topsy-turvey world of modern politics
Bookworm on Mar 22 2010 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Elections
As part of a longer rumination about the stability that the Cold War provided for our political system, James Taranto makes the following observations about yesterday’s House vote: Why did it happen? Last November voters sent what seemed to us a pretty clear message by rejecting Democratic candidates for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, [...]
End of the world as we know it Open Thread
Bookworm on Mar 21 2010 | Filed under: Abortion, Democrats, Health
I indulged myself today by staying assiduously away from the computer. If there was going to be a train crash, I didn’t want to see it happen. What’s really irksome isn’t that Stupak is the usual Demo ho (pardon my language), but that he was willing to sell his soul for the political equivalent of [...]
Wondering whether Stupak will be a vertebrate or an invertebrate — and Open Thread
Bookworm on Mar 20 2010 | Filed under: Abortion, Democrats, Health
Stupak’s going to make his much awaited statement while I’m off working out. So far, he’s had a spine and has distinguished himself from other Democrats by actually letting a principle guide him. I suspect, though, that his 11:00 press conference will be a weasely explanation of why he’s caved completely on his pro-Life stance. [...]
Victor Davis Hanson on the President’s and the Dem’s conduct with regard to the health care vote
Bookworm on Mar 19 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Health
Victor Davis Hanson sums everything up in one paragraph: The president is pushing legislation that a clear majority of the people dislike, and whose details neither he nor his supporters can explain in simple language. Its ends-justify-the-means passage will require legislative gymnastics that border on the unconstitutional, and in Orwellian fashion are designed to reassure [...]
