Contributed by: filbert Thursday, May 27 2010 @ 04:14 PM CST
When you forgive outright and double down with the refusal to be vindictive, even if it means paying for Social Security, knowing that you’re buying so much air, the Lefty can be helped through depression, into acceptance[*2] of the fact that the Progressive Era has been nothing but the most expensive failure in human history.
Emphasis mine. But this is the central message that needs to be hammered home by the liberty community to the American public, in 2010 and beyond: What the “progressives” have tried for the past century has not worked. It’s time for something else. It’s time to give another try to something we know works: liberty, individual freedom and personal responsibility.
But Hillary will always have at least one party to talk to whatever happens to Kim Jong Il: China. Behind Pyongyang is Beijing. Both in 1950 and 2010, China pulled North Korea’s strings. It provided and provides Pyongyang with Great Power protection. It uses Pyongyang to advance its agenda against Japan and South Korea. Hillary’s confident declaration that North Korea is a problem which will solve itself no longer looks so certain when one looks slightly beyond the Korean peninsula. In that context it is not terribly clear Hillary is right when she declares “that time is on our side”. Once the problem is defined in terms of America’s relationship with China then the timescales become comparable to those of Cold War with the Soviet Union. Suppose it is Beijing that is displaying strategic patience and not Hillary? Beijing is not likely to gloat publicly. After all Napoleon also counseled, “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
I suspect that it is not wise to play the game on China’s terms . . . Appears only drilling mud flowing from well, BP says [*3]
Marxists Hugo Chavez & Fidel Castro Join Obama to Denounce Arizona Immigration Law [*4]
Jacks place eight on all-league squad, Price top coach [*5]
Ticket scandal will change perceptions of Perkins [*7]
Just how clueless are California’s Democratic State Legislators? [*8] — Almost as clueless as U.S. Senators and Representatives?
What “Exclusive?” [*9]
Getting People to Read Your Book [*10] — First, write a book . . .
Spaceflight and optimism [*11]
The Maddening Innards of the TARDIS [*12]
The near future is not amenable to fiction writers [*13]
The Book Industry Study Group sees eBook adoption growing [*14]
Continental Announces Its First 787 Route and It’s an Exciting One [*15]
The meaning of the tea party [*16]
A thug too far, part 5 [*17]
Mexico has spoken – hop to it Mr. Obama [*18]
Teaching the Pig to Dance: Fred Thompson Opens Up About Life, Politics, and ‘Law and Order’ [*19]
Is HuffPo Threatening Political Pressure in Gladney Case on Behalf of SEIU? [*20]
Drew Carey, Nick Gillespie Meet With Cleveland City Council This Morning [*21]
Professor: double-dip recession is a virtual certainty [*22]
Mercantilism in England [*23] — Definition of mercantilism, from the : “Adam Smith coined the term “mercantile system” to describe the system of political economy that sought to enrich the country by restraining imports and encouraging exports.”
Chicago: 80 Year Old Army Vet Shoots and Kills Armed Intruder [*24]
Top Democrats’ Actions Confirm FCC Has No Authority to Regulate Broadband [*25]
What Women Want [*26]
Study finds increased gov’t spending results in unemployment [*27]
Top Kill works – thank goodness! [*28]
So the Dow is up and everyhing is okay again, right? [*29]
Michelle Malkin: Todd Palin For Border Czar! [*30]
CNN poll: 82% oppose boycotts of Arizona over immigration-enforcement law [*31]
What Is Wrong With A Palin Hater Renting The House Next Door? [*32]
‘The First Amendment Protects Speech Even When It Is Rude and Offensive’ [*33] — It also, as a corollary, protects speech calling rude and offensive people “rude and offensive,” of course . . .
Bloggers Beware – They’re Coming After You! [*34] — Sadly for them, I’m a private citizen, saying what I want. See above re: the First Amendment. Also see the First Amendment itself. You know, the one that begins “Congress shall make no law . . .”?
The Classic Liberal Is a Good Blog [*35] — OK, McCain, I’ll link ’em:
The Classic Liberal [*36]
Obama says he, not BP, in charge of effort to stop disastrous oil leak in Gulf _ ‘It’s my job’ [*37] — Actually, Sir, since you and your “progressive” allies have so drastically expanded the Federal government’s reach and scope over the past hundred years or so, your job was to make sure that the oil spill didn’t happen in the first place. You failed. Everything else is excuse, coverup, and misdirection. You made your bed of responsibility, Sir. You get to lay in it. Would a “Tar Baby” joke here be completely, utterly inappropriate? Yeah, I guess it would.
Celebrating “Mama Grizzlies” [*39]
Under the Logic of the Left, Obama Used His Daughter as a Prop During His Press Conference[*40]
The Coming War on Bacon [*41]
Out of the Woods for ‘Ardi’: Early Human Habitat Was Savanna, Not Forest, Scientists Argue [*42]
Scientists Detect Huge Carbon ‘Burp’ That Helped End Last Ice Age [*43] — Maybe Mankind is Mother Gaia’s way of forestalling another Ice Age. Hmm???
Solar Panels Can Attract Breeding Water Insects … but Scientists Propose a Simple Fix [*44] — Unintended consequences . . .
This Just In: Gadsden Flag Now Officially “Offensive” In America [*45]
Obama: Um, I’m not sure if the MMS director was fired or resigned [*46] — Most incompetent President ever . . .
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: Greg Gutfeld’s ‘The Bible of Unspeakable Truths’ [*47]
Maybe Sarah Palin (or perhaps Willow?) should consider this to deal with her overly inquisitive new neighbor . . .