THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Obozo didn’t just inhale. He smoked marijuana extensively in high school and college. He also snorted cocaine when he could get it. But now that he’s president, he’s hypocritically continuing the federal drug war that’s jailing people who get caught at it: a disproportionate number of them young black men. Cretin.

New York City’s tallest skyscraper is now the 1WTC. Not a new bulls-eye, they say, but a middle finger to al-Qaeda. I was a surprised to see this. I’ve been busy with other things and forgot it was going up. Nice work. Pity, though, that there aren’t two of them.

“So what went wrong? All the available Keynesian levers for achieving economic growth have been pulled, yet the recovery is one of the weakest since World War II. The problem lies with the way the ‘stimulus’ was carried out, the uncertainty of looming higher taxes, and the antibusiness rhetoric and regulatory strong-arming of this administration.” [...]

This good 2008 book by Burton Folsom, Jr., a professor of economic history at Hillsdale College, is a grand debunking of FDR’s effort to tame the Great Depression. He didn’t. The buildup for World War II and the war itself did. FDR succeeded only in laying the foundation of the modern welfare state. These debunkings—another good [...]

One of Mrs. Charm’s uncles, who lives in a corner of northwestern Virginia, photographed this Bald Eagle near a creek behind his home, the first example of the national symbol he’d ever seen there. UPDATE:  Meanwhile, the useless Green wind turbines (which don’t earn a dime without government subsidies and still fall apart from lack [...]

Not the immaculate conception, exactly, just one more example of Uncle Barry’s penchant for mendacity. Roger L. Simon applies the edge of Occam’s razor. “Reading the extraordinary revelation about Barack Obama’s youthful literary career on Breitbart.com — that his agents published a promotional book in 1991 with a bio of Obama saying he was born in [...]

Victor Davis Hanson on the promise of November, specifically about high-debt California but also about the rest of us: “Give Obama some credit. He has framed the 2012 election as a conflict of visions unlike any of our time. It’s our choice now, no excuses, no one left to blame. Change is coming, and with [...]

This time it wasn’t on behalf of an insulted white woman, but for the alleged murder of “the son President Obama never had.” Well, the plump-cheeked 13-year-old in the old photo the media loved, not the gold-grill, petty-thief, new thug version. And the black man? That would be George Zimmerman, recently vindicated by the evidence: [...]

“So, the Save Bill Powers [Facebook] page was essentially a ghost town, and essentially the entirety of the social media operation to that point was astro-turfed by a P.R. firm.” All in reaction to Gov. Rick Perry’s attempt to lower tuition at the state’s flagship U of Texas which has climbed 23 percent in four [...]

This meme of Obamaloot bites dog is becoming a trend, at least among conservative and libertarian bloggers. It is funny, I think, though it always reminds me of my little tour in the Southeast Asian War Games in 1969. American military advisors (as I was to the South Vietnamese light-infantry militia) had to spend at [...]