He’s lived a life that’s full, he’s traveled each and every highway. But more, much more — waaay more — than this, he continues to do it his way. And this is a good thing.
h/t Robert
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Bring Science back to the WH
National Review Online has an interesting article up about how Romney schools Obama on science.
tldr; Romney wins. But don’t take my word for it, read what our non-conservative friends at Slate have to say.
But, then, like I said earlier, more special needs than Harvard grad.
Apparently, Congress has a no-zero policy.
Voter ID laws bad; Military votes bad
Last week, however, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported that attempts to locate and contact IVAO offices at overseas military installations failed about half the time.
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Do 45%+ of Americans consider this Vancouver born woman to be inspirational and representative of those “leaders” who will rescue them financially?
Some are asking an interesting pair of questions:
Was Jennifer Granholm Drunk? Or just Canadian?
Related: A superb summary of the DNC Convention by Peggy Noonan:
What a fabulously confident and ingenuous-seeming political narcissist Ms. Fluke is. She really does think—and her party apparently thinks—that in a spending crisis with trillions in debt and many in need, in a nation in existential doubt as to its standing and purpose, in a time when parents struggle to buy the good sneakers for the kids so they’re not embarrassed at school . . . that in that nation the great issue of the day, and the appropriate focus of our concern, is making other people pay for her birth-control pills. That’s not a stand, it’s a non sequitur. She is not, as Rush Limbaugh oafishly, bullyingly said, a slut. She is a ninny, a narcissist and a fool. And she was one of the great faces of the party in Charlotte. That is extreme. Childish, too.
h/t John G.
Trudeau: Man On Horseback ? (in a Merc, actually)
Or, the imperial prime ministership: Richard Anderson, formerly known as Publius, on our political and media rot:
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Thus began two of the great themes of modern Canadian political life, the centralization of power in Ottawa, while in Ottawa power became centralized in the PMO. Cabinet ministers were transformed increasingly into clerks while MPs became ciphers. This was driven ultimately by the increasing size and scope and government, but aided mightily by Trudeau’s own authoritarian instincts. There is a long tradition in French speaking society, as in most Latin cultures, of a strong man heroically leading his people to glory. When they executed their monarch they simply replaced him with generals on horseback (Napoleon) or tank turret (de Gaulle).
Trudeau’s method of government, necessarily expanded upon by his successors of both parties…
…In the United States any backwoods Congressman can raise, usually in the most histrionic fashion possible, awkward questions of the powers that be. A figure like Paul Ryan, an intelligent critique of the Bush-Obama State, simply could not emerge in Canada. North of the 49th he would have been swiftly silenced by the party whips. In America the elected class is more afraid of the electorate than their leadership. I believe the Yankees call this sort of thing democracy.
While far from perfect America’s democratic politics, fitted sometimes uncomfortably with its constitutional republican structure, allows for actual debate and criticism. Not always, but enough to keep new ideas churning into the body politic. Few new ideas are allowed to churn in Canadian politics without having first passed through the brain of a federal party leader, an often arduous and unfruitful process. Our rigid political oligopoly has helped breed our modern political stagnation…
Now is the Time at SDA When We Juxtapose
Sept 7, 2012: Canadian Jobs Report is three times economists expectations.
Sept. 7, 2012: American Jobs Report fails to meet expectations.
Related, Rick Santelli: (TY, Melinda Romanoff)
Clint Speaks – “President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,”
Clint Eastwood said the outpouring of criticism from left-wing reporters and liberal politicians, followed by an avalanche of support on Twitter and in the blogosphere, is all the proof anybody needs that his 12-minute discourse achieved exactly what he intended it to.
It was only after a quick nap a few blocks from the convention site, Eastwood mapped out his remarks. “There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down,” Eastwood said. “When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.” – read more HERE
“The gun not only could go in the register; turns out it was in the register.”
The invaluable Colby Coshes our major media.
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Reader Tips
Tonight, lively and passionate Master Blender Richard Paterson (“If he sees you holding a whisky tasting glass the wrong way, he’ll kill you”) of Glasgow distillers Whyte & Mackay shows us the correct way to drink whiskey.
h/t
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@SarahPalinUSA sends her sympathy
Connecticut First Lady Cathy Malloy broke the law, made the news, complains.
“When people need to make the choice if they want to get into public office or not, they say, wow, do we really want to subject our children to this? Or our wives to this? Or our husbands? It’s a big decision because the media just won’t let up.”
h/t: Instapundit
The Debt Decade
Japan, after a decade of Keynes, decides that the results of the experiment are conclusive.
Trade will benefit.
Dutch Disease this
I saw this from CAPP last night. It impressed. More, please.
Excuse me, Mr. Poilievre
….would you like a really good talking point to further conservative politics? – PSAC.
Today’s Sun News Network Poll:
Following PSAC’s public announcement of support for the PQ, Ottawa MP Pierre Poilievre says he will push for legislation to allow workers to opt out of paying union dues. Would you support such legislation?
Who would have thought the Public Service Alliance of Canada was a part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
Comedy needs to thank Eastwood
He gave them permission to do what they do best.
Daily Show Mocks Obama’s ‘Messiah Complex’ at the DNC
Hope! Change! Incompetence!
Fury, hubris, and finally muted; Bob Woodward’s new book isn’t exactly the glowing tribute to Obama that Woodward’s younger peers would write.
I mean, when you get taken to task by a staffer from Harry Reid you just know you’ve hit Richter scale levels of incompetence.
h/t: David Southam
So what the -blank- could possibly go wrong?
From EBD in the comments a hilarious take on Obama care.
Democrat National Convention News
As a follow-up to the many excellent comments here regarding the “We All Belong to the Government” video, comes the following interviews:
If these folks represent the majority of American citizens then the end of their nation is near.
Reader Tips
Tonight, we listen to Casey Alberta Flugadi perform the romantic classic “Volare” (“Fly“) in Esperanto.
Or, variously, we proceed straight to the Reader Tips.