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Blaming The Guy Who Came Before Doesn’t Work Long

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, June 12, 2009 4:43:52 PM
Even NYT feels Obama’s “blame Bush” shtick is wearing thin
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Alarming Intelligence Failure

Posted by Always To The Right on Sunday, June 07, 2009 4:10:28 PM
“This document is toilet paper for the Americans if they want it”
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Identity Politics Are Not 'Progressive'

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, June 05, 2009 3:17:16 AM

Progressive Americans — the kind who voted for President Obama — champion progress, change and new eras of, well, everything as hallmarks of their success.

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Revealed!

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, June 04, 2009 4:02:27 PM

Now it can be told: Obama has “Muslim roots”

During a conference call in preparation for President Obama’s trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said “the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to — or before he’s been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world — you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father — obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago.”…

Since the election, however, with the threat of the rumors at least somewhat abated, the White House has been increasingly forthcoming about the president’s roots. Especially when reaching out to the Muslim world.


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Philosophy

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 7:18:35 PM

Oh my: Sotomayor made nearly identical “wise Latina” comment in 1994, too

Leave it to Greg Sargent to conclude that the big scoop here is that no GOP senators pressed her on the earlier remark at her ‘98 appellate confirmation hearing, where the scrutiny’s normally a fraction as intense as it is for a SCOTUS appointment. The real significance, of course, is that it puts the lie to the White House’s feeble spin about how Sotomayor supposedly misspoke in 2001, a position the nominee herself has been forced to adopt even though people on her own side admit it’s nonsense. Evidently, the idea that her biology makes her a superior judge has been with her for decades. The only wrinkle: In 1994 she insisted it was her gender that made her “better” and by 2001 that notion had evolved to include race as well. Nice to know that her progressivism became more “sophisticated” over time.

The opportunity on Sotomayor, part II

Last week, I wrote that the Republicans have an opportunity with the Sonia Sotomayor nomination not to conduct filibusters or fire-breathing sermons, but to calmly and dispassionately demonstrate that neither she nor Barack Obama represent the opinions of the majority of Americans on identity politics.  A new Quinnipiac poll underscores that opportunity.  A majority of voters across a wide swath of demographics oppose affirmative action and race- and gender-based setasides in government, education, and academia

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Both Obama And Bush White Houses, Actually

Posted by Always To The Right on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:08:35 PM

Court sides with WH on Bagram detainees, temporarily

The novelty over the last few years has come from the federal judiciary.  The Constitution gives them no role in waging war, especially abroad; it leaves the declaration of war to Congress and the management of it to the executive branch.  Asserting a role in the explicitly military role of assessing prisoners captured on a battlefield or in intelligence operations not only creates an untenable tension between military/intelligence procedures, it also arrogantly declares a jurisdiction outside of the boundaries of the US.

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No Universal Health Care

Posted by Always To The Right on Monday, June 01, 2009 2:08:01 PM
Ted Kennedy and the government bendover of health care

The Massachussetts version of healthcare reform has been an abject failure, as judged by everyone from Reason to the Boston Globe. That would explain the New York Times report that a split had developed between Kennedy and Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), chairman of the Finance Committee, who is preparing his own bill. Baucus and Kennedy later issued a joint statement Saturday, saying they intend to cooperate so their committees pass similar bills. Kennedy’s bill serves the function of making whatever bill Baucus produces — which will likely be similar to Kennedy’s — seem more moderate by comparison.

Ultimately, as the Washington Post notes, the Democrats’ proposed government takeover of healthcare is being sold as cost-containment, but the Democrats’ proposals will run into the same basic problems as always

Asking Americans to pay more for less healthcare is a loser, and the Congressional Budget Office continues to be a thorn in the side of Congressional Democrats trying to pay for their program with faerie dust. As for comparative effectiveness research, Americans will get to hear about how it is already killing cancer patients in Britain. They will also hear about how it would tend to require real colonoscopies instead of virtual ones. Some politican or talk show host will figure out there’s a useful metaphor in that example.
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That Crazy, Crazy Town

Posted by Always To The Right on Sunday, May 31, 2009 2:21:54 PM

Blaming Obama for the night on Broadway?

Why use Gulfstream planes at all?  Why not just use Air Force One, which would likely have kept at least one of the other planes on the ground, instead?  Perhaps the White House wanted to emphasize the non-official nature of the visit; I suspect they didn’t want AF1 to return to New York City’s skies so soon after the Scare Force One fiasco.  However, AF1 is built to keep the President in close touch with the government in times of crisis.  It exists for precisely that reason, and is meticulously maintained to ensure the safest possible flight.

But the real foolishness was the Gulfstream and helicopters for the media.  Are we to believe that the national news media has no reporters in New York City?  The BIg Apple isn’t exactly the Badlands of the Dakotas, or the remote peaks of the Rockies, in terms of media saturation.  It looks like Obama wanted to make this a media event and didn’t mind using three planeloads of taxpayer money to stage it.

And can anyone calculate the carbon footprint of three Gulfstream jets, three helicopters, and all the stalled traffic in New York City?  I’d say that it reaches Goracle-like levels.


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Politicized DoJ

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:15:36 PM

Who pressured Justice to drop case against voter intimidation in Philly?

Michelle blogged about this yesterday, and the Washington Times reports today that the Department of Justice has taken the “unprecedented” step of dropping a case which they had already won by default judgment. Political appointees at Justice pressured career prosecutors into giving up on the case of voter intimidation by the New Black Panthers group in Philadelphia, who attempted to frighten voters away from the polls in the presidential election

This looks significantly more like politicization of outcomes that anything alleged during the Bush administration, especially since the DoJ already won the case.  In fact, the government had prepared arguments for penalties against the men as late as May 5th, before the political commissars under Attorney General Eric Holder ordered them to withdraw.  Holder, during his confirmation hearing, had called career DoJ lawyers his “teachers” and the “backbone” of Justice.  Apparently, the political leadership trumps teachers and backbone when it comes to voter intimidation on behalf of Barack Obama.

Politicization of Justice, part II

Today, the Washington Post reports that the DoJ now appears to be taking on a political fight against a conservative and controversial figure in Arizona.   A new investigation about alleged civil-rights violations has Sheriff Joe Arpaio fuming over what he sees as a political attack

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More News

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, May 30, 2009 5:08:53 AM
Flashback: How Vicious Liberals Lie About Conservative Judges
Janice Rogers Brown, Sam Alito, Clarence Thomas and others: We catalogue how Democrats lied in an attempt to destroy their careers and derail their nominations.

Jan La Rue:   Sotomayor and White Wise Guys

"GM bankruptcy happens Monday. So what about all that money we threw away?  We can't find the $50 billion that Bernie Madoff swindled. You know what else we can't find?  The two trillion Obama spent so far, 'cause wherever it's gone, it hasn't had any positive impact."
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Sotomayor

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:55:55 PM

Video: Chuck Schumer, call your office!

Top Senate aides: GOP ready to roll over for Sotomayor

The opportunity on Sotomayor

Release the Sotomayor memos

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Those Who Gave Their Last Full Measure Of Devotion To Our Nation

Posted by Always To The Right on Monday, May 25, 2009 1:35:31 PM

Memorial Day

Today we honor those men and women who went into our nation’s service and never returned.  It originally began as Decoration Day shortly after the Civil War.  Its specific origins have been disputed; some say it started in Waterloo, New York, while others credit freed slaves in Charleston, South Carolina.  Both traditions combined into a national day of remembrance within a generation, but oddly did not become a federal holiday until almost a century later.  In 1968, Congress finally recognized Memorial Day as a federal holiday in its present form as the last Monday in May.

You can read more about the men and women who received our nation’s highest honor for their sacrifice at the US Army’s MOH archive.  Keep all of them, and all who have given their lives in war and peace to protect this nation, in your prayers and thoughts today.

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Supermax: No, We’re Not Ready, President Obama

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, May 23, 2009 5:23:08 PM
Michelle Malkin  •  May 22, 2009 11:05 AM

President Obama left the impression yesterday that Supermax prisons are ready, willing, and able to house Gitmo detainees.

Supermax officials in Colorado say otherwise

Not to mention that jihadi virus problem.
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Deja Vu

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, May 22, 2009 5:05:57 PM

New RNC ad on Gitmo: “Daisy”

. . . The real worry, in my opinion, isn’t that someone dangerous will go loose but (a) that defendants will use their courtroom access to the media in the U.S. to grandstand and propagandize for jihadism and (b) that closing Gitmo will represent a concession to demagogues who’ve labored in bad faith for years to paint it as some sort of gulag, the better to smear Bush as a quasi-Stalin. Bob Gates acknowledged just this morning that it’s “one of the finest prisons in the world,” before quickly adding that we have to close it anyway to erase the “taint” on America’s reputation.

If Obama was the international superhero the media tells us he is, you’d think he’d use some of his powers of persuasion to remove the “taint” by defending Gitmo and explaining why it’s necessary. That wouldn’t be very Change-y, though, would it? Exit question: Isn’t the real problem here that he’s unwilling to order the building of a new prison in the United States lest the state where it’s located turn on him in the next election?



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“Legal, Essential, Justified, Successful, And The Right Thing To Do.”

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:20:17 PM

Cheney: “In the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground”

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