The Brainy Bunch

Thomas Sowell

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

It was, after all, Franklin D. Roosevelt's brilliant "brains trust" advisers whose policies are now increasingly recognized as having prolonged the Great Depression of the 1930s, while claiming credit for ending it. The Great Depression… Continue

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Obama's next push is amnesty

Jeffrey T. Kuhner Sunday, September 20, 2009



Amnesty is back, and with a vengeance. This was the dominant theme I heard at this week's annual talk-radio gabfest in Washington sponsored by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the country's leading anti-amnesty organization.

"As we gather here in the nation's capital, another illegal alien amnesty bill has been introduced in the Senate," FAIR President Dan Stein… Continue

"Let's Talk About Race"

BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Let’s talk about race. As an African-American son of the south, I grew up in a time and place where you didn’t have to divine intent or deconstruct code words to find racism. When it raised its ugly head it was like a blunt instrument waved in your face to keep you in your place. It was as unmistakable as it was demeaning.

Unfortunately, with political waters getting rough for the first time for our… Continue

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The left still doesn't get it

By Geoffrey P. Hunt September 19, 2009



Despite steady progress in achieving their ambition, lefties have acquired neither clue nor interest in how things actually work. Imagine the destruction when the revolucion has transferred power from the oppressor class to them. Suffice that whatever works now isn't controlled by lefties, which is why whatever does work, works.



The lefties' only work experience has been organizing protests,… Continue

The Toxic Card of Racism Trumps Hearts

Elizabeth Scalia

September 9, 2009

A few months ago, during the Obama-at-Notre Dame controversy, I had a conversation with a journalist, during which I opined that the whole issue of life versus death was—and has been since the time of Moses—a contest between light and dark, and would continue to be so. The journalist said, “you just said ‘black and white,’” and teased me for being a racist.



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Tall tales from a president's speech

By Charles Krauthammer



You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He ... well, you judge.



Herewith three examples within a single speech — the now-famous Obama-Wilson "you lie" address to Congress on health care — of Obama's relationship with truth.



(1) "I will not sign [a plan]," he solemnly pledged, "if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future. Period."



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Jimmy Carter and the Elvis Factor

Larry Elder

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Jimmy Carter strikes again!

The former President is not content having left office with high inflation, high interest rates and high unemployment. Nor is he content with having signed into law the Community Reinvestment Act -- strengthened by President Bill Clinton -- which played a major roll in the eventual housing market meltdown. Nor is he content with having cut the legs from under the Shah of… Continue

Why Are Jews Liberals?

I'm hoping buyer's remorse on Obama will finally cause a Jewish shift to the right.

By NORMAN PODHORETZ

One of the most extraordinary features of Barack Obama's victory over John McCain was his capture of 78% of the Jewish vote. To be sure, there was nothing extraordinary about the number itself. Since 1928, the average Jewish vote for the Democrat in presidential elections has been an amazing 75%—far higher than that of any other ethno-religious… Continue

Will be ON FOX AGAIN tomorrow, Sunday 9 pm.

Incredible, how our troubled public schools are forcing Leftist,

anti-American, factually incorrect, text books on American Children. Also

requiring k-5 to read books and take gay, lesbian and bisexual sensitivity classes; without allowing parents the option to opt out their kids, (4, 5 6 7 yrs old?) or allow parents to raise their own

children! The books make no mention of the fact, that all of the 9-11

terrorists were… Continue