Tag Archives: Obama

Roe V. Wade

Sounds like someone’s name. In a way, it is. Two people. Thirty-six years ago today, the US Supremes handed down their decision in this Texas case–establishing a right to abortion under the Fourteenth Amendment. Almost immediately it became the political cause celebre that has preoccupied the country ever since.

Reinforcing the right by forcing the rest of us to pay to promote them abroad was one of the first things Barry did was expected to do. It’s long been said that black women get the most abortions. I’ve always supported it, with restrictions such as banning them in the third trimester unless the life of the mother was clearly threatened. But for some who still fight "the culture of death" that’s never been enough.

Waiting for Barry

A Treasury Secretary who will oversee the IRS but hasn’t paid his own taxes for four years, a Commerce Secretary who stepped down before confirmation after being caught in a payoff scheme, and a reversal of a much-pubicized 95 percent tax cut "promise." Despite those and a few others I haven’t enumerated, I’m still waiting to see just what kind of president Barry is going to be. Since I don’t expect much besides corruption and incompetence, anything better will be interesting.

UPDATE:  This is funny. But, if anything, it probably underestimates the certain calamity ahead.

The Road Not Taken

His political idol may be JFK, but his poet is no Robert Frost. Instead, Barry–our alleged new racial healer–has chosen a lightweight, preachy racial whiner to deliver an inauguration poem. Camelot, this ain’t.

Via The Seablogger.

The carbon dioxide cult

As Barry prepares to raise the price of electricity, gasoline, heating oil and diesel fuel (via taxing carbon emissions to reverse "global warming"), scientific skeptics are gathering allies:

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” — Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group."

Read. It. All.

Via Soob.

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The babysitter

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Following the crumbs back to Barry

The Blagojevich scandal does not surprise me. What do people expect from the "Crook" County swamp? It’s been amusing to watch Barry’s Big Media buddies scurry to exonerate him without asking any questions. Even the prosecutor got into the act, explicitly waving off any prospective bloodhounds from Barry’s track. Fat chance. The evidence trail from Blago to Barry O. is clear enough for those who care to follow it and ask the right questions. Not that anyone will.

UPDATE:  Well, maybe someone will. As usual, it’s the cover-up, not the crime, that gets you.

Ending the drug war

Since a continuation of the culture war (anti-gay marriage, etc.) has been cited as one reason the Reps lost the election, it would seem to be a perfect time to end the drug war, which has failed to do anything but strain government spending, raise the price to the consumer and destablize producing countries like Mexico, Columbia and Afghanistan.

Plus, if you’re going to nationalize health care, anyway, which Barry seems intent on doing, it would be a perfect time to offer "free" drug treatment to all who need it. But pols are such cowards, never doing anything that might cost them re-election. So we stumble along, with cops devoting too much energy to seizing marijuana and cocaine and, increasingly, needing automatic rifles to defend themselves against the foot soldiers of the drug cartels. Can Barry fix it? Yes, he can! If he only has the nerve.

UPDATE:  It’s not a unique idea, of course, but I knew that. On the other hand, it may be a bit much expecting a progressive to end drug prohibition, considering it began on FDR’s watch. Alcohol prohibition, the previous failed effort, was pushed through by "progressives," as well.