Miscalculation

The Democrats are like Wile E. Coyote in the old Road Runner cartoon where Wile, after accidentally shrinking himself, finally catches the Road Runner and then asks what he’s supposed to do with such a (relatively) large bird.

The Democrats engineered anti-war sentiment to turn the country against the Republican party, starting in 2003; while George W. Bush still won the 2004 presidential election, the Democrat party was the winner both in 2006 and in 2008.

Now that they’ve won, though, they have no idea what they’re supposed to do with the two wars they inherited—and, for some reason, the anti-war sentiment has all but dried up.

Do you think that maybe it was all a political calculation?

Fine. They’re your wars now, Democrats.

Bailout

An article today on state teachers in Ohio retiring and then getting re-hired so that they can collect both a salary and retirement pay had this sub-headline in one of the local papers: “State Teacher Retirement System Seeks Taxpayer Bailout After Investment Losses”.

Gee, it’d sure be nice if my retirement plan—either my 401(k) or my employer-provided retirement plan—could get a taxpayer-funded bailout. After all the taxpayer-funded bailouts, who’s going to bailout the taxpayers?

 Are we seriously supposed to just count on the taxpayer-funded Social Security system for our retirement? Social Security is already paying out more than it’s taking in.

We are in deep doo-doo.

Irony

Does anyone else see the irony in the juxtaposition of this post on Obama’s pledge to mobilize the military to combat the oil’s assault on our shores with the post earlier this week on the forfeiture of a swath of Arizona to Mexican smugglers? Talk about an assault on our shores….

Rush to Judgment

This government will not content itself with administering and governing the masses politically, as all governments do today. It will also administer the masses economically, concentrating in the hands of the State the production and division of wealth, the cultivation of land. . . . All this will demand . . . the reign of scientific intelligence, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant, and elitist of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy . . . the world will be divided into a minority ruling in the name of knowledge, and an ignorant majority. And then, woe unto the mass of ignorant ones!

From Rush Limbaugh, describing the Obama administration? No, from “the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, Marx’s archrival in the First International, describ[ing] the political life of the future that Marx had in mind” [quoted on pages 108–109 of David Horowitz’s The Politics of Bad Faith.]

Bad Faith

In reading The Politics of Bad Faith, by David Horowitz, I have finally come to understand that the Radical Left’s protests against the war in Vietnam over forty years ago were motivated not by any high-minded aversion to war in general but, instead, by admiration and support of North Vietnam as a Communist nation and as a surrogate for the Soviet Union. And now the inmates are running the asylum. God help us all.

The Science is Settled?

This passage from pp. 235–236 of Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong, by Jonathan Wells, illustrates perfectly how the myth of Anthropogenic Global Warming was likewise perpetuated:

As we saw in Kevin Padian’s “cracked kettle” approach to biology, dogmatic Darwinists begin by imposing a narrow interpretation on the evidence and declaring it to be the only way to do science. Critics are then labeled unscientific; their articles are rejected by mainstream journals, whose editorial boards are dominated by the dogmatists; the critics are denied funding by government agencies, who send grant proposals to the dogmatists for “peer” review; and eventually the critics are hounded out of the scientific community altogether.
     In the process, evidence against the Darwinian view simply disappears, like witnesses against the Mob. Or the evidence is buried in specialized publications, where only a dedicated researcher can find it. Once critics have been silenced and counter-evidence has been buried, the dogmatists announce that there is no scientific debate about their theory, and no evidence against it. Using such tactics, defenders of Darwinian orthodoxy have managed to establish a near-monopoly over research grants, faculty appointments, and peer-reviewed journals in the United States.