Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who
feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in
the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side
of the Atlantic.
Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack Obama’s
claims about “creating jobs” with one plain and inescapable fact —
“there hasn’t been one day during the entire Obama presidency when
as many Americans were working as on the day President Bush left
office.” Whatever number of jobs were created during the Obama
administration, more have been lost.
How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so
much of what they see on television shows adults acting like
children?
The know-it-all smirks and condescending laughs of Vice
President Joe Biden, when Congressman Paul Ryan was speaking during
their debate, were a little much from an administration presiding
over economic woes at home and disasters overseas — and being
caught in lies about both. Like Barack Obama, Joe Biden has all the
clever tricks of a politician and none of the wisdom of a
statesman.
If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must
believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites
are.
One of the most foolish, and most dangerous, things one can do
is to take love for granted, instead of nurturing it and
safeguarding it as the prize jewel of one’s life.
Whenever you hear people talking about “a living Constitution,”
almost invariably they are people who are in the process of slowly
killing it by “interpreting” its restrictions on government out of
existence.
Do either Barack Obama or his followers have any idea how many
countries during the 20th century set out to “spread the wealth” —
and ended up spreading poverty instead? At some point, you have to
turn from rhetoric, theories and ideologies to facts.
I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal —
instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not
politically correct.
Whatever happened to Julie Banderas of the Fox News Channel? She
had brains, looks, wit and personality. Has she met with foul play?
Or has some zillionaire married her and taken her off to his own
private island?
The question to be asked of people in the media, and that they
should ask themselves, should be: “Is your first loyalty to your
audience or to your ideology?” The same question should be asked of
educators, especially those who see themselves as “agents of social
change,” even though that is not the job description under which
they have been hired and paid.
People who complain about “negative” campaign ads miss the
point. It is perfectly legitimate to criticize your opponent. The
question is whether the ads are about serious things that matter to
the future of this country, and whether they are telling the truth
or lying.
If you believe Barack Obama and others who oppose what they call
“tax cuts for the rich,” you might want to consider what the late
Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said: “You are entitled to your own
opinion, but not to your own facts.” If you want to see some
documented facts about tax rates and tax revenues, there is a box
titled “Tax Cuts” on my website. Click on it.
In baseball, switch hitters are said to have an advantage. But
the highest lifetime batting average by a switch hitter (.319 by
Frankie Frisch) is more than 30 points lower than the highest
batting average for either left-handed hitters or right-handed
hitters. The highest batting average in a season by a switch hitter
(.365 by Mickey Mantle) is more than 50 points lower.
If there is ever a Hall of Fame for confidence men, Charles
Ponzi and Bernie Madoff will have to take a back seat to Barack
Obama. Obama is the gold standard — or, perhaps more
appropriately, the brass standard.
I have never known a word to become absolute dogma, without a
speck of evidence, the way “diversity” has.
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