Early Voting

Julie and I early voted this afternoon for my boss, Governor Rick Perry. Below is the text of an email that I received from someone else who works for the Governor, explaining why it is important to vote for him in this primary as well as for Justice Eva Guzman. Early voting is underway. You [...]

why its a bad answer

Beldar has some thoughts on why Debra Medina’s answer to Glenn Beck was not just bad, but was actively disqualifying in her race for Governor. Those aren’t just wrong answers, they’re disqualifying answers. Public servants, to be effective at all, must be able to make good judgments. Indeed, they must be able to make good [...]

wow! bye bye Debra

Debra Medina is in the Republican primary for Texas Governor and has been making some progress in the polls against Governor Perry and Senator Hutchison. There was even some talk based on recent polling that she could finish second ahead of the Senator. I think that talk will be finished after this morning’s appearance on [...]

the spell is broken

Fouad Ajami pronounces the Obama Spell to be broken. do you agree? Here is the intro: The curtain has come down on what can best be described as a brief un-American moment in our history. That moment began in the fall of 2008, with the great financial panic, and gave rise to the Barack Obama [...]

Story of Stuff

for something different, here is an outstandingly well done critique of a bit of leftist propaganda being shown in school to nine year olds across the country. It is in four parts. So far I have only watched the first two, but bravo! part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4

couple of good ones

I have had a couple of windows open the last couple of days in order to post about them. one political and one theological. here we go. first the political: I believe it is crucial to understand that it doesn’t matter if the people engineering a collectivist state have sinister motives or not. In fact, [...]

“He’s Done Everything Wrong”

Mort Zuckerman of U.S. News and World Report is not happy. Probably everybody has seen this editorial by now, but wow. Zuckerman is not a conservative, but he is WAAAYYYY disappointed in President Obama’s first year. It is all interesting, but here are a couple of excerpts: Obama’s ability to connect with voters is what [...]

no man can serve two roles

James Ceaser has written a fascinating article about Barack Obama as the Leader of Humanity and the President of the United States. It is long but delicious. Combined with Jonah’s book it explains a lot of the disconnect that Peggy Noonan and Charles Krauthammer have been noticing. here is some of it regarding the intellectual [...]

james cameron’s intent

let’s ask the man what he intended with Avatar. my emphasis added below. the director with his star Zoe Saldana said that  “Avatar” — with its depiction of mineral exploitation on a distant planet and a cadre of trigger-happy mercenaries charged with instituting a scorched earth policy — is very much a political film. But [...]

retrospective on O’s first year

Peggy Noonan and Charles Krauthammer wrote pieces this week about Barack Obama’s first year as president and their view of what went wrong. Why did such a popular president crash so far in the polls so soon? Here is a small part of Ms. Noonan’s article that I think gets to the nub of it: [...]

Kay Bailey Hutchison on abortion

just now at the debate, Senator Hutchison ducked the question on whether she supports Roe v. Wade or not. She does. She has been explicit about her strong support for it in the past. Here she is in 1993: UPDATE: From Texas Alliance for Life [I]n 2003, [Hutchison] voted for a resolution that stated “‘It [...]

scott brown

I don’t know if a Republican can actually win in Massachusetts, but if one can, then Scott Brown looks like the one who can do it. I just love this advertisement: And I loved the debate the other night where he reminded David Gergen that this isn’t Ted Kennedy’s senate seat, it is the senate [...]

perfect book at the perfect time

on a secular economic and political note, Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism is celebrating its two year anniversary today. What a perfect book for today’s political climate. A fairly easy to read but still quite serious and unvarnished look at the historical antecedents for the progressives currently empowered in Washington D.C. If you haven’t read [...]

central planning example

brand spanking new government built fake city that sits empty thirty miles away from the old crowded real one. This is what you get with central planning and government “stimulus” dollars. fascinating. this is why China has been sucking up all the world’s steel and concrete. The comforting thing for China is that “investors” have bought [...]

African Aid

Keving DeYoung takes a look at Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo. Kevin says the book is: “a short, pungent, provocative book.” The thesis is simple and controversial: aid is the problem, not the solution. “In the past fifty years,” she writes, [...]

Health Care Reform

The Wall Street Journal is quoting John Cassidy from The New Yorker explaining what Obamacare really is and why Nancy Pelosi was willing to sacrifice the careers of several House members to get it passed: Mr. Cassidy is more honest than the politicians whose dishonesty he supports. “The U.S. government is making a costly and [...]

20 years ago today

the Berlin Wall came down. It was an amazingly euphoric moment in time celebrating the end of Stasi driven tyranny of the East German Government over its people. I remember Lech Walesa and Solidarity in Poland and just what an amazing year 1989 was for the world. Most of all, I remember a man in [...]

health care

Nancy Pelosi has pulled out an armtwistinghardballnoholdsbarredrazorthinpartisan “victory” in passing a plan for the Government to take over all of our health care decisions. Notice the bipartisan nature of the opposition. anyway, check out this very important Wall Street Journal editorial on the bill and what it means if it passes the Senate. Let no [...]

Los Angeles Times’ William Voegeli gets it

William Voegeli gets it and what he gets is in the title and the lede of yesterday’s Los Angeles Times column. The Golden State isn’t worth it Our high-benefit/high-tax model no longer works, especially compared with low-tax states like Texas. here are the first two paragraphs, but please go read the rest. In America’s federal [...]

He is winning everything in sight

look at him go. Here from Reason TV is the catalogue: HT to Veronique de Rugy

this is also amazing

this is also amazing, but in a different way. surely at some point people will get really sick and tired of being hectored by someone who thinks they know better than everybody else. surely? Doesn’t he realize this country has a system of local school districts that run and pay for schools? WASHINGTON — Students [...]

acting like teenage kids

never forget that the crowd running the show in Washington truly deeply believes that they are smarter than you and care more than you do about things. from Drudge here is exhibit A in the condescension lalapalooza: Energy Secretary Chu: A teaching moment (AP) When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions, Energy Secretary Steven Chu sees [...]

global warming

if there is something about which the world has been certain (at least certain far left precincts of the world), it is that global warming is occurring and that it is man caused. the proposed remedy has been to wreck our economies and teach people to be satisfied with a lesser standard of living. what [...]

WSJ on Van Jones

Jennifer Rubin points to an important Wall Street Journal editorial on who Van Jones was and his important standing in the leftist community in this country. the editorial makes two points very well and is well worth a read in its entirety. 1. that Van Jones was well known and celebrated in the far left [...]

the departure of Van Jones

before the “Green Jobs Czar” who resigned in the middle of the night on Saturday/Sunday of Labor Day weekend disappears into the memory hole, take a moment to consider that his hiring was not accidental. His radical views did not “slip past” the White House vetters. Here is Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett talking about Van [...]