Contributed by: filbert Monday, May 10 2010 @ 01:01 PM CST
Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey of Americans [*2] — Haven’t I been saying for a while that a particular trait of leftism/liberalism/”progressivism” is economic illiteracy? The proof is in this Zogby survey analysis.
SDSU beats ORU twice [*3]
Least Successful P.R. Campaign Ever? [*4] — “Notwithstanding relentless negative coverage in the press combined with positive reports on protests against the law, and condemnation by President Obama and many other prominent politicians, Rasmussen finds that nationally, 59% of voters favor a law like Arizona’s.”
Have people begun to totally tune out and discount anything what Obama and the Democrats say? If so, it’s about time . . .
Team Obama Says If There’s a Successful Terror Attack – The US Will Attack Pakistan [*5] — And, related to the immediately above: Does Pakistan take Obama seriously? Does anyone in this world, except hard-core partisan Democrats in the United States? Holder: Taliban Behind Times Square Attack (Won’t Discuss Why Team Obama Took Him Off Terror List) [*6]
Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 16 [*7] — “McClatchy was certainly there to take the statements of the congressmen on March 20 and turn them into a story within a matter of an hour or two. We have no reason to think that McClatchy reporters heard the alleged racial abuse first-hand. None has stepped forward to testify to it. There is no evidence that in McClatchy’s story that any reporter heard it. (McClatchy Investigative Editor James) Asher’s response appears nothing more than bravado and deception.”
Mostly, government should do nothing [*8]
The free market — “allowing” people to exchange goods and labor voluntarily — has given America the greatest level of wealth known to history. The socialists actually contend that’s bad, complaining that wealth is “unevenly distributed.”
So are energy and talent. Blame God.
Even the “poor” in America are vastly better off than 90 percent of the world, and vastly better off than our grandparents. Whereas in every experiment in which men with guns were allowed to grab the wealth and “redistribute it,” everyone ended up poorer — including the poor.
A limited government, concerning itself primarily with protecting our freedoms, has given us the greatest prosperity, the most effective division of labor, ever seen. Compulsion systems, on the other hand — like those of eastern Europe from 1917 and especially from 1940 to 1990 — have created widespread poverty, desperation, starvation and slavery.
Video: Principal apologizes for disciplining students who wore American-flag clothing on Cinco de Mayo [*9] — The truly appropriate apology from the principal–and now from the superintendent, as well–would include a prompt, immediate resignation. If not forthcoming, they should both be fired, as should any other administrator in the Morgan Hill, California school district who either had a hand in this sorry debacle, or failed to stop it. They have all demonstrated their lack of fitness to lead a school system in the United States, and should not be allowed to do so any more.
Media Narrative of the Day: Governor Palin’s Supporters Capable of Thinking for Themselves [*10] — As long as they’re disagreeing with Palin, anyway . . . sheesh . . .
The contradictions of José Guillen [*11]
R-Utah [*12] — “The game was redefined in a single place and time from “one of Republicans versus Democrats” (Romney’s reference) to that of “Small Government versus Big Government”. In isolation the Bennett defeat is insignificant, but it now raises the wider question of whether the ‘Smaller Government’ idea can catch on. If it does then it has the potential to redefine the political landscape in ways that are both a threat and opportunity to different communities.”
Lessons from the Gulf blowout [*13] — It would be accurate to say that–at least in part–this oil spill happened because special interests are preventing us from exploiting easier-to-reach oil reserves, like in Alaska’s North Slope, for instance . . . of course, saying that isn’t exactly politically correct now, is it?
The Shape of Things to Come? [*14]
I suspect viewpoint selection in news consumption is self-reinforcing, i.e. as people right of center begin to realize the MSM leans left they increasingly stop utilizing it. Since developing political opinions (there is, apparently, no cure for this condition, only palliative care), I rarely ever watch local Chicago TV news anymore, because it’s always like it was the 5 minutes I watched after last night’s Lakers game: glowing coverage of gun control efforts, a new nanny-state initiative, vague cluck-clucking about how the economy is forcing people to turn to crime, the identity politics crisis du jour, and all with subpar production values, even in a major metro area.
We can only hope.
Video: Tennessee’s under water, and nobody gives a dang? [*15]