ITEM: My co-blogger, Bruce Henderson, has a post over at the New Ledger about the proposed legislation to give the President “emergency control of the Internet”: S773 makes no attempt to outline and describe what form of emergency would trigger the use of these broad new powers to limit communication, nor any means by which […]
![The Obama cult of personality [updated x3]](http://andstillipersist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/20090902_bethechange.jpg "The Obama cult of personality [updated x3]")
OK, this Obama cult of personality is getting a wee bit out of hand. I don’t begrudge his supporters waxing rhapsodic about his many virtues (as they see them), but this whole nationwide address to students — and the accompanying letter from EdSec Arne Duncan to teachers and administrators — is getting a bit too […]
While many recent poll numbers are looking better and better for the Republicans, here’s a wake-up call from Rasmussen: Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republican voters say their party’s representatives in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters nationwide over the past several years. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 18% of […]
Conservatives have long complained that liberals screaming about “massive cuts” in government programs are actually talking about reducing the hard-wired growth of spending — that is (for example), a plan to limit the year-over-year growth of a welfare program to, say, 8% instead of 10% is a “cut”. With that context, I guess you can […]
Your Saturday morning entertainment, with a hat tip to The American Spectator. ..bruce w..
As Rasmussen reports this morning: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval […]
MORNING LINKS — again, blogging will be light this week, due both to work and to hardware problems ITEM: If there’s any question whether the departure of Sen. Arlen Specter (ID-Ego) from the Republican Party is a good thing, he settled it this weekend: Mr. Specter continued: “If [the Republicans] had pursued what President Nixon […]
[For those of you coming in from Ace of Spades HQ, here’s the Atlas Shrugged review.] AFTERNOON LINKS ITEM: Visualization is always a good thing. The Heritage Foundation graphically illustrates the minuscule nature of Obama’s proposed — and far from realized — cuts (hat tip to Instapundit): MORNING LINKS — things are heating up a […]
Sandra and I rode the Denver Light Rail (first time!) from Lincoln Avenue up into downtown Denver. Our first clue that there might be a good turnout was the fact that the train were were on was full of people with signs: And as we walked up to the Colorado State Capitol, we saw that […]
MORNING LINKS –first two are bumped from overnight links Item: (April Fool’s joke): The 2010 All New Omobile! ITEM (ah, if only it weren’t a joke): Obama forces GM chief out, puts Reid, Pelosi on leave ITEM (not a joke, but wouldn’t it be ironic?): Penn State researchers have discovered how to use microbes to […]
