Obama and His Changes
July 8, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, News | No Comments
-By Paul Young
As Obama entered the Oval Office a sense of satisfaction rose up in his breast and filled him with pride. The time line called for 3 years but everything rolled right along and fell into place more quickly that they had imagined. Little did he know that it would be only a year and a half after being elected and taking the oath of office that the plans for change would be completed.
Well, not quite completed. there was still a bit of work to be done. Engage the new Congress. All of the new members were ready to step in months ago. - Present the new Constitution. Hard to believe it was written in the 70’s and although never implemented (Yet!) it withstood the test of time and needed no revisions. - Convince the people that all of the changes are, of course, for their own benefit. “After all. They elected me for ‘Change’.” he thought.
What changes there had been! Nationalizing the health care system, the energy system, communications systems and the transportation industries. All government controlled and he was in charge of the government. People had clamored for him to fix things and soon all would be running with a precision that only a well run government could implement.
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Google’s Cerf floats trial balloon: “Why not nationalize the Internet?”
July 8, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Google, Inernet, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Scott Cleland, Society/Culture, Technology | No Comments
-By Scott Cleland
Google’s Internet Evangelist, Vint Cerf recently asked publicly: “Should the Internet be owned and maintained by the government, just like the highways?” according to a post by Erick Schonfeld on TechCrunch.
- Since the Government neither owns or maintains the Internet today, Google may have much grander plans for ‘nationalizing the Internet’ than anybody appreciated.
- Maybe we should take Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt much more seriously when he declares: “The goal of the company is not to monetize anything,” and “The goal is to change the world — and monetization is a technique to do that.”
Let’s dissect how radical and destructive Google’s notions for nationalizing the Internet are.
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An Open Letter to General Wesley Clark (Ret.)
July 8, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, Military, News, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Vince Johnson, War on Terror | No Comments
-By Vince Johnson
Dear Wesley:
Your recent comments on MEET THE PRESS June 29, 2008 are disturbing and entitled to rebuttal:
For example: You said: “He (John McCain) hasn’t held executive responsibility. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn’t a wartime squadron.”
Don’t you realize that the entire United States Senate will be unhappy to learn that you do not believe serving in either House of Congress involves executive responsibility?
Do you really believe it is wise to belittle John McCain’s six years in the House and his twenty years in the Senate when your candidate, Barack Obama is in his first term in the Senate? This also invites your opposition to point out that your candidate has never been qualified to command any “large squadron” at any time in his life.
Your most shocking statement was this: “I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”
As a retired general with your many years of service, you should know there is a huge difference between flying an airplane and riding in one. In your eagerness to belittle John McCain’s background, you have insulted every pilot that ever flew a fighter plane since World War I.
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Flight 93 Memorial Update…
July 8, 2008 | Filed Under Flight 93, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, News, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, War on Terror | No Comments
Calling Michelle Malkin, Charles Johnson, A.J. Strata, Ed Morrissey, Richard Fernandez and Ace of Spades
When the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 was unveiled in September 2005, these six high profile conservative bloggers were instrumental in raising the public protest that forced the Memorial Project to agree to a redesign. Charles Johnson stayed with the story until the summer of 2006, and Ace has done two links since 2005, but for the most part, these conservative heroes seem to have decided that the “circle of embrace” redesign is okay.
It is NOT okay. Architect Paul Murdoch described his original Crescent of Embrace design as a broken circle. The redesign is still described as a broken circle, and the unbroken part of the circle (the crescent) remains exactly as it was in the original design.
Reuters: Accuses US of Being Against the Rule of Law
July 6, 2008 | Filed Under Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, The Law, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
It looks like Reuters is trying to say that the United States stands against the rule of law with their latest piece on a recent ruling from the so-called World Court — the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The ICJ wants the U.S. to vacate the death penalty sentences of several Mexican nationals that sit on death row in prisons in several states and Reuters is shaking its finger at the nasty Americans that deny the jurisdiction of the self-styled World Court.
Mexico has been agitating with the World Court to force the United States to vacate (or at least revisit) the convictions of 51 Mexican nationals now on death row because they claim that these murderers were not alerted to their right to seek consular assistance before they went into the American court systems.
Naturally, the ICJ happily complied with Mexico’s request and demanded that the U.S. comply with the World Court decision. Bush made an unfortunate decision in 2005 to ask the various states to comply with the ICJ, but the issue has since been settled by the Supreme Court of the United States. Fortunately, just this month the SCOTUS said that our courts are not bound by the ICJ rulings.
Of course, Reuters seems to imagine that the U.S. now stands against the rule of law because we have told the ICJ to take a hike. The Reuters report is filled with the stern scolding of a U.S. that “violated” international law and how the U.S. is “in breach of its international obligations.”
The Socialist Political State in Action
July 6, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Taxes, Thomas Brewton, War on Terror | No Comments
-By Thomas E. Brewton
Speed and efficiency have never been the hallmarks of the socialist political state.
New York’s slow and extraordinarily costly shamble in rebuilding the World Trade Center after 9/11, now almost seven years ago, is a typical example of socialist state planning. This fiasco is a model for what so-called progressive liberals, led by Senator Barack Obama, intend for socialized strangulation of the entire economy.
In its June 30, 2008, edition, the Wall Street Journal reports:
The rebuilding of the World Trade Center will be pushed back into the next decade and will cost up to $3 billion more than planned. The Port Authority is set to release a report detailing significant delays and cost overruns on construction.
This may be disturbing to taxpayers who foot the bill, but it’s really good news for liberal-progressive-socialist politicians, of whom New York State and New York City have an ample supply.
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