Shout First, Ask Questions Later: 2010-02-14

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Busy Day Will Post Round-Ups Tomorrow

Sorry. I dropped the ball.

And the stick. Oops.

Friday, February 19, 2010

TEA Party Post from Instapundit

I thought this was good enough to repost here.

A VIDEO RESPONSE to Keith Olbermann. What big-media coverage doesn’t show, because it doesn’t fit the narrative. Meanwhile, I’m still waiting for Olbermann to apologize for working at such a lily-white organization. Racist.

UPDATE: Reader Fred May writes:
I just viewed Keith Olbermann’s video about where are the black faces (minority) in the Tea Party crowd? I happened to be in San Antonio on spring break with my wife and kids last April 15th. We found ourselves at the Glenn Beck sponsored Tea Party at the Alamo in downtown San Antonio unexpectedly. What struck us was the number of black families holding the same kind of protest signs as their white counterparts, as well as Hispanics. The uniformity of their responses, the camaraderie and the general respect and acceptance of everyone there underscored the fact that across minority groups, citizens of all stripes were worried and pissed. Keith Olbermann needs to get a grip, come down from his frigging ivory tower and mix with us common folk. He might learn a thing or two. America is not nearly as segregated as he would like to believe. Also intelligent citizens from many backgrounds get it and don’t need his whining and hand ringing to tell us we are really racist and stupid. I saw it myself, people gathering together with a common cause, protesting the usurpation of the rights of a whole generation. It made me proud to be an American and not just a white American as Olbermann and others would have us believe. Sheesh!
Talk of racism is an important tool for marginalizing ordinary Americans and making them feel insecure. You don’t really expect the likes of Olbermann to give that up voluntarily, do you?

And hey, Tea Partiers are more diverse than David Letterman’s staff . . . .

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Mike Donovan writes:
Esteemed Prof – today’s reader comment by Fred May about the racial diversity present at the San Antonio TP event he attended is pretty much the exact situation i personally witnessed at 2 very large (several thousand people both times) events in Sacramento’s Capitol Park last year: Black WW2 vets in their VFW hats mingling with Hispanic and Asain families with kids and of course lots of white folks, coz thats the largest demographic in the country. What a shock.

I dare say…at least at the events I personally attended…the racial makeup was/is far more diverse than the near-exclusively white anti-war, Bush-is-a-Criminal hatefests common to every big city in America before the Age of Obama. You know, when dissent was the highest form of patriotism.

Olby and his ilk must not be allowed to get away with this abjectly untrue characterization of the diverse nature of people attending TP events. They haven’t gotten away with it yet though, because almost everyone in the country with a fair open mind either attended a TP or knows someone who did. And what they see on TV and in the papers doesn’t match what they saw and continue to see with their own eyes.

Keep up the great work.
Yes, the racism claims are kinda iffy, to say the least. But they’re all they’ve got left.

How I Was Not Al Gored Into Submission

(Myron is one of my husband's colleagues from CEI. Check it out. By the way, that's really him playing. He's a huge bluegrass fan.)

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

In Economic Woes 02-17

Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families

The Geithner Effect on Taxpayer Attitudes

D'UH - Florida's McCollum: Cut Taxes Now to End Recession

Watch and vote on dueling GOP and Dem stimulus ads

Nightfall in America The Obama deficits portend a gloomy future.

Did the Stimulus Save Us?

Stimulus funds going to slashed programs

Rubio on the Stimulus's First Anniversary

Bulk of Stimulus Spending Yet to Come. Most Cash So Far Has Gone to Services, Government Jobs; Infrastructure Surge Unlikely to Put Big Dent in Unemployment

Nice job if you can count on it - Census workers who did no work were paid

Patrick Kennedy, whose late father left an estimated estate of $50 million, eligible for $47,000 annual congressional pension

Personally, I have more faith in Rep. Ryan's Roadmap for America's Future than I do in this joker's opinion. Social Security is gonna fail. It is unsustainable. Private savings (and personal responsibility) is a much better road to travel than the one we are currently on. A Roadmap for killing Social Security

Agency may be public option of financial regulatory reform

The Dead-End Debt Commission

Tax-Funded Clowns in Connecticut

A Quincy Tale: Crony Capitalism in Local Government

Will Obama Do to America What Corzine Did to New Jersey?

Obama's cronies thrive at intersection of K and Wall

Today's Sovereign Debt Crisis

Washington experts disagree on whether Americans recognize long-term fiscal problem

Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a Debt Crisis

Federal deficit at $430.69 billion through January

WHERE ARE THE JOBS? A look back at one year of so-called "stimulus" AND Stimulus, They Cried

Cutting spending in N.J. Garden State governor offers Obama an example of fiscal courage

U.S. risks crisis without fiscal action. Kansas City Fed chief calls for pre-emptive strike on tax, spending policy

Federal Jobs Look Too Good Not to Have Big Price

Pay-Go a No-Go on 'Jobs' Bill

White House Adviser Says Employment Stable

Speaker Pelosi bets the House on success of $787 billion stimulus I don't gamble and I REALLY resent other people gambling with my money.

Drowning in Debt: What the Nation's Budget Woes Mean for You. Economists Predict Cutbacks, Tax Increases That 'Aren't Even Imaginable'

Obama Defeats FDR (in Spending Other People's Money)

Admin. official: Obama to appoint deficit panel

The Demise of the European Welfare Nation

China Cuts Back on U.S. Treasury Bond Holding

Obamacare Daily Round-Up 02-17

Choice and Reward vs. Force and Punishment

Are High Health Care Costs Tied To Evidence-Based Medicine?

Sebelius: Current bills will be starting point for health summit

GOP Sees Possible Upside in Health Summit

The Limited Benefits of First Dollar Health Care Coverage

Reconciliation Alive Despite Health Care Summit

Dems Nearing Reconciliation Deal?

Biden pushes health care reform

Republicans Will Press Lower Premiums, Cost Cutting at Healthcare Summit

PJTV Video (Medically Incorrect) - House of Pain: The Politics of Domestic Violence

Junk Science 02-17

Climategate 2.0 — The NASA Files: U.S. Climate Science as Corrupt as CRU (PJM Exclusive — Part One) Chris Horner filed the FOIA request that NASA didn't comply with for two years. Now we know what took so long. (This is Part One of a four-part series.)

PJTV Video (Specials) - Climategate’s Frost/Nixon Moment: Steven Mosher Follows The FOIA

The natural history of the planet Earth is full of extreme events that would wipe out humans if they occurred today.

The Green Death This is about Carson's Silent Spring. My husband's book - Really Inconvenient Truths - covers the astonishing death rate of Silent Spring here (scroll down to page 31).

Companies leave US climate coalition AND Defections Shake Up Climate Coalition

Who doesn't trust science now?

Fancy carbon footwork: How Climate-Change Dance Theory spells the end of a movement

Did Nature misreport fraud issue with Jones?

"Avoid the term 'global warming'," Thomas Friedman says. "I prefer the term global weirding.'”

The EPA’s Carbon Footprint. Federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will impose new controls on millions of Americans. There's no concern for the environment here, this is a political power grab.

Business challenges how gases to be curbed

Exxon Hits Peak Oil... Reserves

Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules

Climategate Overview:

Bad Politicians Bad 02-17

CNN poll: 52% say Obama doesn't deserve reelection in 2012

RealClearPolitics Poll Averages

Congress poll is Capitol hell

The Upper-Class Downer

Illinois Republicans see unique chance for victory

The Left’s Pernicious Redistricting Strategy

The Mystery of the ‘Disappearing’ Soft Money. More evidence that Democrats have benefited disproportionately from campaign finance reform and want to preserve their gravy train.

This could be a good idea - Give the people the home-court advantage

Clinton Plotting Tea Party Counterattack AND Clinton Part of a 'Tea Party Counterattack'?

Dems' blues: States reverting to red

GOP Risks Being Swept Away Unless They Adopt Tea Party Principles. Republicans are playing with fire if they continue to ignore the call for fiscal conservatism and respect for traditional values.

Democrats risking their majority in Congress with political infighting

Nightmare election cycle developing for Democratic campaign boss Menendez

Why everyone's sick of Washington

Another Liberal Crackup. The real reason Evan Bayh wants out of Washington.

Susan Bayh and the appearance of impropriety

With Dems sinking, GOP better come up with a plan

Obama's cronies thrive at intersection of K and Wall

The left spits some venom: If liberal pundits get their way, Obama will get even more partisan

Forget Talk of Democratic Realignment

What's Obama's beef with India?

GOP Set for Rebound in New England? All across the region, Republicans are finding a more receptive audience for their message.

Cheney Vs. Biden AND Biden on capital: 'Washington right now is broken' Who broke it Joe? Who broke it?

Obama is Ruining His Presidency and His Party. You say that like its a bad thing.

Democrats have left a power vacuum. Someone will have to step in and lead if Obama can't

GOP hopes to capitalize on Latino disappointment with Obama

The Mount Vernon Statement Constitutional Conservatism: A Statement for the 21st Century Follow the link and you can sign the petition. AND Grover Norquist - Why I'm Signing the Mount Vernon Statement The truths we endorse once again have not changed since the American Revolution. They will not change in another 200 years.

Thomas Sowell - Politicians Taking Away Your Freedom

PJTV Video (National Security) - Score One For Us: Number Two Afghan Taliban Captured

Keeping the U.S. in the space race

Court's Campaign Finance Decision. I find it hard to believe that independent voters will be persuaded by direct advertising from either businesses or unions. It is only easy to believe if you consider the American voter to be a mindless idiot.

PJTV Video (The Hicks Files) - We Have Overcome: Race Hustlers Are Hung Up On The Past

GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR

American Red Cross must explain $175 million in unallocated Haiti donations

The Census and the Constitution

Since I believe that eugenics is inherently corrupt - Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a Question of Eugenics

Vermont Lawmakers May Apologize For Eugenics Program. State Sterilized 'Feeble-Minded' Citizens

Obama's cronies thrive at intersection of K and Wall

John Brennan's 20% Doctrine

Family Guy goaded Palin into a mistake Far be it from me to argue with The Anchoress but I will in Palin's defense say, as a mother, I can't think of a single thing I would not do to defend my children. If Palin was "goaded" into the mistake of defending her child - a very vulnerable child at that - then it was a profoundly understandable one

John Stossel - Education: Too Important for a Government Monopoly

The Battle of the Textbooks

TSA to swab airline passengers' hands in search for explosives

Napolitano Meets with Muslim Brotherhood Leaders. As part of a new "counter-radicalization" program, the Homeland Security secretary quietly met with individuals tied to the outlawed terror group. (This is Part One of a two-part article.)

MEDIA BIAS

Well, this is a good thing - TV Backlash: Sponsors Rebel Against Salacious Content, Create ‘Family Friendly’ Programming

Uncovering Left-Wing Contempt

The Incredible Shrinking Joe Scarborough

CNN Has Lowest Viewer Night in 4 Years; Lowest Demo Night in Nearly 9 Years

New York Times reporter accused of plagiarism resigns

Keith Olbermann's Plantation: 'Ask Yourself - Where Are the Black Faces?'

I'm really glad I happened to catch this video, c/o Bruce Miller at The Blue Voice and Blue Texan at Firedoglake. With every passing day I'm more and more convinced that President Barack Obama has worsened race relations in this country. It's something I've written about quite a bit, while rebutting the airheaded nihilists of the radical left. But Keith Olbermann, never failing to astound, really outdoes himself. A man with great power at MSNBC -- and thus the television media -- he hasn't the faintest inclination to responsibility. Anyway, it's a lengthy segment at the video, but worth a look. It illustrates the racist patronism of today's Democratic-left. After attacking citizen patriots as "teabagging racists," Olbermann implores tea partiers to ask themselves, "Where are the black faces" among you.

It's hard to be more racially offensive than this, for Olbermann's whole schtick essentially discounts America's achievement of the civil rights dream, one that culminated in the election of the nation's first black president in 2008. But it's more than that: After decades of Democratic Party policies that have systematically supressed black Americans (keeping them "in their place" through welfare policies of dependency, inner-city housing policies of ethnic warehousing, and voting rights policies of racial recrimination and ghettoization), Olbermann has the temerity to suggest that blacks just can't think for themselves. That's not to discount how the Democratic-left attempts to inculcate the young with the false consciousness of racial grievance and victimology. It's that on top of that Olby is asserting that black patriots need the "massa in de big house" to show them how to live.

The frightening truth for the left is that blacks and other minorities are extremely well represented in the tea party movement (and in fact, MSNBC has a history of trying to hide this). And of course it's leftist condescension in the extreme to suggest opposition to Obama is automatically racist AND that there aren't enough black faces in the crowd.

Janeane Garofalo and Rosie O'Donnell Attack Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Hume, Van Susteren and All That Listen to Them

Did Nature misreport fraud issue with Jones?

ACORN/BIG UNION/LEFTIE GROUPS

BWAHAHAHA - The Tasters "Weren't Entirely Happy." I LOVE blind taste tests. They expose so much!

Calif race-based admissions law challenged anew Whatever happened to America-the-Meritocracy?

Toyota and the Union-Backed, Government-Led Witch Hunt

After failed labor board nomination, unions not too happy with Obama

FIGHTING CORRUPTION

Make the politicians stick closer to home - Give the people the home-court advantage

TEA Party – The Documentary Film viewed by sold out crowd at Hanover Tavern

REVIEW: ‘Tea Party: A Documentary Film’ Leave You Wanting More

10 Races Where The Tea Party Movement Could Make A Difference

Party Like It's 1773?

A civic reawakening: The Tea Party movement

Broad support for Christian student group reflected in numerous briefs filed with Supreme Court

Tea Party Movement Untamed

One man, lots of clean water

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Random Round-Up 02-16

Arnold’s Worst Idea. A draconian global-warming law will harm California’s economic recovery.

Daily Gut: Benevolent Racism

Uh-oh - Foreigners cut Treasury stakes; rates could rise. Foreign demand for short-term Treasurys tumbles, led by China; chance of higher rates looms

CNN: The Obama disco-jobs bill

The Velvet Philosophical Revolution. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the battle for political freedom goes on

Beware - Tea Party Imposters?

Guy Sorman: Unmasking the crusading judges with axe to grind

The Education of John Jay. America’s indispensable diplomat

Tea Party truths

Obama's challenge: Anger is replacing hope

Bidenism

No State Left Behind. How to get states to improve their tests

Democratic Indiana candidate says White House secretly backing Baron Hill

Debate over GM eggplant consumes India

Another green group targets Sen. Lincoln

Lonewolf Diaries: Bill Maher — Politically Correct Coward

Empire of Excess. New York’s top earners will soon be paying more in state taxes than ever.

PJTV Video (Middle East Special) - Sex Scandal Rocks Palestinian Authority

ACORN/Big Union/Leftie Groups 02-16

ACORN funder confirmed to head Corporation for National and Community Service

He's always been tightly associated with ACORN and Union groups - Obama’s Love of Labor Makes for One Unholy Union

The Truth About Pregnancy Resource Centers

Public sector: An anchor as we sink AND Public Employee Benefit Plans: Up to $1 Trillion in Unfunded Liabilities

The ACLU Giveth, the ACLU Taketh Away

Teachers Unions Spends Dues on Left-Wing Causes AND Ally of Robert Mugabe

Isn’t It Time to Finally Put the Interests of Kids First Rather than Catering to the National Education Association?

Unionized Rhode Island Teachers Refuse To Work 25 Minutes More Per Day, So Town Fires All Of Them

Acorn-ucopia

The Night They Burned Ranum's Papers

Iowa Lawmaker Tells PETA Not to Have a Cow Over Raccoon Kill

Bad Politicians Bad 02-16

RealClearPolitics Poll Averages

CNN: 52 Percent Oppose Obama Reelection

Zogby Poll: Obama Approval Holds Steady at 51%

CNN Poll: Anti-incumbent fever at record high

Obama at 50

As far as I am concerned, this is terrific news that California voters are waking up to the realization that Barbara Boxer is a corrupt, stinking political whore who's syphilitic thinking has helped ruin the Golden state. That and she was rude once to my husband. New poll: Now, signs of real vulnerability for California's Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer

Democrats may have to sue to get Rep. Griffith's donations returned 

It's not the people's seat, it's the Bayh seat! AND Sudden exit, lingering questions AND Bayh cites strident partisanship in leaving Senate AND Krauthammer's Take

This is rich coming from Barney Frank - Partisanship is out of control in Congress

Democrats Reeling Under Losses of Veteran Lawmakers, Declining Poll Numbers

Looking for Dems in All the Wrong Places . . .

Barack Millstone Obama

Moderate Dems a Vanishing Breed

Marion Berry Shocker - Barry Took Kickbacks, Council Investigation Finds

Scott Brown Schools Joey Plugs

PJTV Video (Afterburner with Bill Whittle) - KSM, Not Guilty: Why Obama’s 9/11 Show Trials Assault The Rule Of Law

WH ready to go up against Cheney… says anonymous source. Wait, what? #rsrh AND Dick Cheney: Obama’s worst nightmare

A Great One Term President?

Census Bureau Wasted Millions on 2010 Headcount Preparations, Audit Finds

'Tea party' activists filter into GOP at ground level. The conservative movement is urging its members to seek positions as Republican precinct representatives. Their goal is to remake the party - and U.S. politics - from within.

Tired of Walking the Plank?

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Obama's Big Plans for Justice Department Nominee Johnsen

Democrats Target Stimulus Critics Who Sought Funds. Some Republicans Who Slammed $787 Billion Program Also Sought Funds for Projects in Their Districts, Letters Show Because in the middle of a massive recession, pointing fingers is ever so productive.