REFLECTIONS

During the 80’s Newsweek and NOW praised China’s One Child Policy.   I remember that well because I was leaving the liberalism I was raised with and that praise helped me realize the way of the left is the wrong way.   The left’s secret love of totalitarianism led to where it always leads, the slaughter of the innocent.   [...]

Michael Eisner was given the name genius for bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars to the Walt Disney Co. and bringing it back from the edge of a hostile takeover.  How did he do it,  by coming up with new ideas, and new talents, new movies?  Not so much.  There were two actual geniuses, Howard [...]

As always Professor Hanson knows exactly what ails our native state.  Anyone know how to start a draft Hanson for Governor committee. 
This recession has really brought out the dichotomies: We spend billions of scarce cash on imported food, fuel, and manufactured goods, but have acres of idle farmlands, vast untapped deposits of natural gas and [...]

Okay let me see if I have this straight the people who support a president who can’t talk to 6th graders without a teleprompter are outraged because Gov. Palin wrote speech notes on her hand?  Is that the situtation?  Casue that is so crazy I didn’t even think liberals were capable of it.
Liberals everytime you think they [...]

Considering how little good my endorsement did Duncan Hunter, Chuck DeVore should probably sue me for this.  Nevertheless I am officially endorsing State Assemblyman Devore for the Republican Nomination to challenge Senator Bimbo Boxer in November. 
Assemblyman DeVore has managed to stay fiscally conservative at that least fiscally conservative place, the California state assembly.  He is committed to border [...]

I hope conservatives won’t feel compelled to root for Johnny Weir out of their disdain for animal rights groups.  Weir tried his best to offend Republicans, or rather the imaginary boogeyman Republicans.  He dressed in high heels and wore feather boas.  And just to emphasize how outrageous he is to Republicans he said; “I know [...]

Obama has doubled spending on certain government agencies and now stands athwart his spending yelling “halt.”  That’s like an alcoholic working himself up to a qt of Tequilla  a day and then saying okay that is just that a qt a day that’s all. 
Is it Nov. Yet?

There is only one possible response to President Obama’s call for a spending freeze.  I am surprised Mark Steyn hasn’t made it.  Sing Out Louise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFRSawe33sA

Roger Simon  http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/01/21/scary-times-in-obama-high/ makes the point that I made in my New Year’s Predictions:
But he is the President and he can take executive actions. And with those actions, like a wounded animal, he may pull all of us down with him. I am deeply afraid of that because Barack Obama has never had to deal with [...]

If Nationals weren’t going on I would have blogged about Mort Zuckerman’s inside out idea of what “improving world opinion” means.  Fortunately The Anchoress did it for me.  http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/01/21/unexpected-again/
Go read it, while I root for Davis and White to crush Ben and that Barbie doll he skates with. 

For a year President Obama has blamed President Bush for every mistake Obama has made.  President Bush has been demonized by the Democrats far worse than any of the murderous thugs who killed 3,000 people on 9/11.  Just yesterday at the Coakley rally President Bush was demonized and pilloried.  There was no love for Coakley, [...]

Took some time off from watching skating to return some children’s motrin to the store.  Here is the list of all the over the counter medicines that have been recalled.  http://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/
Scary few minutes this morning.  I had given BurkeanSon some of the children’s motrin that had been recalled.  But the medicine makes people sick at [...]

Victor Davis Hanson takes a hard look at all the verbotten subjects in the land of free speech.  http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/truths-we-dare-not-speak/. 
When I remember how General Petraeus was treated by the Democrats in 07 I am still livid.  When I think that two of the Senators that called Gen. Petraeus a liar are now Sec. of Sate and [...]

We all would like to think we would hide a young girl from the Nazis.  But risking death is so much easier in the abstract.  For Miep Gies it was real life and death choice, and she chose the noble choice we all hope we would make.   The girl she hid died at 15.  But [...]

Well I think so.  But I was rather surprised to find this definition of racism on Ann Althouse’s blog
If by “racist” you mean somebody who would use other people’s feelings about race in a purely instrumental way to amass political power, then Harry Reid is a racist.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-harry-reid-racist-it-depends-on-what.html
If that is the definition of racism then all [...]

Mark Steyn likes saying I told you so even more than I.   Emphasis mine of course  http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/president-227600-obama-war.html
According to one poll, 58 percent of Americans are in favor of waterboarding young Umar Farouk. Well, you should have thought about that before you made a community organizer president of the world’s superpower. The election of Barack Obama [...]

In the first winter Jimmy Carter was President the weather was exactly like right now. While the rest of the country was freezing and being buried by snow, southern California was hot and dry.  The Temperatures were near the 80’s and air so bone dry you skin starts to crackle.   I remember it well because it came [...]