Bookworm Beat 10/24/25: The No Kings meme edition
Yeah, the “No Kings” protests were last weekend, but they’re not over until all the memes are done. Plus, Zohran Mamdani, Islam, and other fun stuff.
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Tag: White House
Trump is no better or worse than other recent presidents
Hand-wringing about Trump’s personality and private life — when compared to most other recent Presidents — is akin to complaining that a leopard has spots. One of the things I hear from those who hate Trump personally is that he is worse than any other president who’s ever occupied the
Continue readingPeggy Noonan has some bon mots about the Obama adminstration’s incompetence
I seldom quote Peggy Noonan here because I think she’s usually a day late and a dollar short when it comes to discussing the current administration. It seems that, just as Baa-baa Waw-waw did, she drank deep of the Obama Kool-Aid. Noonan is an inside the Beltway gal and, just
Continue readingMore on the tenant from Hell currently occupying the White House
I re-posted the image I put up earlier, because it’s a perfect companion-piece to this Charles C.W. Cooke article: We are now firmly ensconced in the brutal Age of the Sequester, and things in America are grave. The federal government, we learned on Wednesday, is so strapped for cash that
Continue readingA picture is worth a thousand words — “Obama controls access to the White House” edition
As you look at this picture, please keep in mind that President Obama is a temporary guest in the White House, living their only because of the American people’s largesse. He is not a monarch whose family owns the White House. He is a tenant. Sadly, slightly more than 50%
Continue readingMonday morning information deluge
There’s a lot of interesting stuff out there that I want to share with you. First, I have to add myself to the zillion or so conservative commentators who are all over the fact that Barack Obama, showing once again that he has no learning curve, made another Open Mic
Continue readingThe story of Malia Obama’s Mexican vacation reveals double standards and a noodle-spined media
Over the weekend, I got a link to a story about Malia Obama heading off to Mexico for vacation with 12 friends and 25 Secret Service agents. The story is newsworthy because it implicates taxpayer concerns: Malia is going to a nation that the State Department warns is dangerous, and
Continue readingWhite House takes down petition asking it to stop pretending that Catholic institutions aren’t being forced to pay for ideologically offensive products
This morning, I linked to a very clever post that Bad Catholic put up, chastising the Obama administration for doing a sleight-of-hand, completely fake “compromise” regarding its demand that religious organizations fund birth control, sterilization and abortifacients. At the end of the post, Bad Catholic invites readers to sign a
Continue readingTotalitarian revolutions always end up eating their own *UPDATED*
One of the hallmarks of the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Nazi Revolution (because, although the ballot was used in 1932, it was a revolution), the Hussein Iraq takeover (which was also a form of revolution), and other totalitarian takeovers is that the paranoid leadership style inherent in totalitarianism
Continue readingPress Secretary Gibbs perfectly exemplifies nanny state thinking
At first, when I watched White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, I thought he was a buffoon. I then began to think that his gibberish was a rather clever approach to hiding unpalatable news. I’ve now realized that Gibbs is, above all, the perfect symbol of the Nanny State: he
Continue readingAP catches up with story about WH attempt to exclude Fox from the news cycle — and the nutroots respond accordingly
Twenty-four hours after the fact, the AP finally figured out that, maybe, just maybe, it’s worth reporting that the White House tried to freeze out a news organization that challenges it, and was stopped only because other news organizations realized that, if they let this one pass, they would forever
Continue readingFaith and politics
I was not thrilled by Bush’s Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, since I don’t want the White House involved in faith, but I recognized it as a pragmatic means to increasing the effectiveness of existing religious charities. I also wasn’t too concerned because I did not see it as
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