Ball Diamond Ball

Obama’s speeches til recent had a clear signature. Whose?

It’s true; I flounced, came unglued, went ’round the bend, head exploded, one flaming right wing flapping madly through the inferno, propelling me in helpless circles before the… oh screw it, you can go to LGF for their version.  Here’s mine:

Two days ago, I was on a thread where somebody mentioned that the economy was doomed unless the democrats got the House back in 2012 or some such thing.  By the way, if this level of detail is not sufficient for you, you may want to simply stop reading now.  I am not going to reproduce what happened at LGF over here, as it can be found over there at LGF.  At least I think so.

So I disagreed, and in another post brought up the Contract … Continue reading →

China should be nowhere near as powerful as they are.  China remains a brutal, oppressive regime with hopelessly flawed economic system which is only made to work through force and the grace of foreigners.  We have been foremost among nations allowing China to escape the consequences of market forces, while harming ourselves.

America’s sound finances and secure future have been recklessly hazarded by a series of leaders who believed or did not sufficiently refute goofy Marxist and Keynesian economic theories.

Tea Party Phase II, coming to a Democratic Party near you.

Obama’s policies have been bad for business, bad for the economy, bad for allies, bad for America.   Interestingly, the one thing he cares about, government, is ultimately the most wounded by his combination of calculated malice and incalculable incompetence.  From NASA to the Federal Reserve (not technically a part of government, but might as well be), not one institution will be viewed in as positive a light at Obama’s departure as it was when he arrived.  He will take with him the notion that American government is competent or benevolent.

Small-government conservatives are not anarchists, and this is why we loathe Ron Paul’s kooky cult.  So it does not align…

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Also, he is likely to … Continue reading →

For those who do not know, Little Green Footballs (LGF) is a forum blog run by Charles Johnson, and which was influential and well-respected.  I discovered it in the wake of that blog and Powerline Blog taking down Dan Rather for his flaming dishonesty in the Bush memo thing.  (MemoGate, RatherGate, FontGate, etc).   The Throbbing Memo is still an icon of web citizenry, and possibly the single most meaningful turning point in the shift in the media center of gravity from print and broadcast.  The MSM is still the dominant force, but they are no longer alone in the universe, and LGF was instrumental in making that a new reality.

LGF has changed from being mostly inhabited by center-to-rabid right-wingers (speaking!) to mostly inhabited by center-to-rabid left-wingers. … Continue reading →

or, Poor-Me-Theus Unsound

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the President’s Marxism heaving into view as if a pirate ship long-feared, sailing at last into view past the rocky headlands of polite discourse to the sheltered waters of our increasingly uneasy political hamlet. The President of the United States is surely not a Marxist, though, right? I mean, that’s just a bunch of overheated and frankly unfair rhetoric, taking advantage of unfavorable economic winds, to smear the good ship of State just because of the waters in which it finds itself, left there in turn by a rapacious predecessor. Tell the men in the tower to check again, and this time to bring their wives along, to straighten their addled heads. You know how men will … Continue reading →

Siebert said the failure to release F-16C/Ds will weaken Lockheed Martin’s plans to extend the production line for the fighter.

“While Congress has been notified of Oman and Iraq’s desire for F-16s, the Taiwan order for 66 aircraft is very important to the long-term viability of the F-16 production to include the U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Martin and the thousands of suppliers throughout the U.S.,” she said.
–From Defense News