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Saturday, February 28, 2009

IN CASE YOU’RE WONDERING WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES IS LOSING READERSHIP AND MAY GO UNDER…..

Have a look at JOHN HINDERAKER’S ANALYSIS over at the blog called POWERLINE.
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In this blog post, he compares the Times’ reactions to GW Bush’s budget proposals back in 2004, and the analysis they applied at that time, to what is being said about the current spending plans in Washington D.C. 
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Here’s a short excerpt:
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NYT, September 2, 2003:

      The White House serenely brushed off a detailed caution from the Congressional Budget Office last week that the growth in the deficit is more likely to roar than retreat across the next decade, fed
      by the three Bush tax cuts and other debt-fattening indulgences. If that warning was not enough, how about the concern reported at the International Monetary Fund that the administration has no
      credible plan to restore budget balance? Yes, the I.M.F., which must lecture the profligates of the globe, is worried that a structural deficit will push up interest rates and restrain growth as America
      ceaselessly borrows to steer red ink from imbalanced budgets onto future taxpayers.

Now that his planned deficits are four times larger, does Obama’s budget contain “debt-fattening indulgences?“ Has the Times denounced them? Does the Obama administration have a “credible plan to restore budget balance?“ Given that Obama’s intended budgets—put aside how optimistic his numbers may be—far exceed the actual deficits during the Bush administration, is the Times still “worried that a structural deficit will push up interest rates and restrain growth as America ceaselessly borrows to steer red ink from imbalanced budgets onto future taxpayers?“ If not, why not?

READ THE WHOLE THING

Posted by Earl on 02/28 at 10:19 PM
Politics • Domestic • Economics • Media Bias •

WHO DO YOU SUPPOSE IS *MOST* IN FAVOR OF GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION?

Who do you think?
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Democrats?  BZZZZZZZZZ!  Wrong answer.
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Women?      BZZZZZZZZZ!  Wrong answer.
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The Brady Center?  BZZZZZZZZ!  Wrong answer.
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The Right Answer?

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Posted by Earl on 02/28 at 09:47 PM
Politics • Domestic • Second Amendment •

Sunday, February 22, 2009

ED FREEMAN—SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

I wonder why you don’t…...it used to be that our heroes were publicly celebrated.  What happened to our culture, that we have so many people who are famous for being notorious, or (seemingly) for their vapidity, or just for their celebrity? 

Well, here’s Ed Freeman (RIP), someone different:

Medal of Honor citation

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty:

  Captain Ed W. Freeman, United States Army, distinguished himself by numerous acts of conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary intrepidity on 14 November 1965 while serving with Company A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). ...Captain Freeman risked his own life by flying his unarmed helicopter through a gauntlet of enemy fire time after time….After medical evacuation helicopters refused to fly into the area due to intense enemy fire,Captain Freeman flew 14 separate rescue missions, providing life-saving evacuation of an estimated 30 seriously wounded soldiers—some of whom would not have survived had he not acted….Captain Freeman’s selfless acts of great valor, extraordinary perseverance and intrepidity were far above and beyond the call of duty or mission and set a superb example of leadership and courage for all of his peers. ...

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Posted by Earl on 02/22 at 10:43 AM
Miscellany • HEROES •

Saturday, February 21, 2009

A FILM EVERY AMERICAN OUGHT TO SEE….

  * FEBRUARY 19, 2009, 8:46 P.M. ET

GUARD OF HONOR

By Dorothy Rabinowitz

It was impossible to imagine, beforehand, all the ways a film like “Taking Chance” (Saturday, 8-9:30 p.m. EST, on HBO) could work its power. There are no conflicts, no warring sides, no mysteries of character—the usual stuff of drama. The story’s outcome is clear from the beginning. Yet it’s no less clear that “Taking Chance” is not only high drama, but a kind that is, in the most literal way, breathtaking—watching parts of it can make breathing an effort, and those parts come at every turn. It’s no less obvious that this film, about a Marine killed in combat, could have gone wrong in all sorts of ways and did so in none of them. There is in this work, at once so crushing and exhilarating, not a false note.

The credit for that belongs to Lt. Col. Michael Stroble, U.S. Marine Corps, on whose journal the film is based; to producer, writer and director Ross Katz; and, not least, to Kevin Bacon, whose portrayal of the devoted Col. Stroble is a masterwork—flawless in its fierce economy, eloquent in its testimony, most of it wordless, to everything that is going on.

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Posted by Earl on 02/21 at 07:34 PM
REVIEWS • Movie •

RICK SANTELLI SPEAKS FOR EVERYONE WHO FAITHFULLY PAYS ON A MORTGAGE FOR A HOUSE HE CAN AFFORD….

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Posted by Earl on 02/21 at 07:30 PM
Politics • Domestic • Government Outrage • Economics •

Saturday, February 14, 2009

MUZZAMMIL HASSAN STARTED A NEW YORK TV STATION TO COUNTER ANTI-MUSLIM STEREOTYPES…..

In this photograph,
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That’s Muzzamil on the right…....but his efforts at improving the image of Muslims would appear to have failed.

Why?
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Posted by Earl on 02/14 at 08:26 PM
Miscellany • Religion • SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE • Politics • Domestic • Iraq •

ARE YOU WONDERING ABOUT “PORKAPALOOZA”, AKA “THE STIMULUS BILL”?

REASON MAGAZINE has an analysis, including a big list of projects that made it into the bill - that OUGHT to make your blood boil.
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It’s a terrible bill, in other words, both on its face and in the details. For the reasons I detailed HERE, it won’t stimulate the economy. It violates many of President Obama’s promises. Most of the deals that created it were made behind closed doors, meaning that there is virtually zero transparency and no real way to track where, how, or why money is being spent. On top of that, the bill is still packed with items that any vaguely impartial observer would call pork.

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. READ THE WHOLE THING…..and weep for our children and grandchildren, who will be paying for our lack of restraint for many decades.

Posted by Earl on 02/14 at 08:13 PM
Politics • Domestic • Healthcare • Government Outrage • Economics •
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