The "Recruiting More Terrorists" Myth Continues

It's the salient myth of those against defeating Islamo-Arab imperialism - "we create more terrorists than we kill" and its variant, that when America (or Israel) defend itself, "we've given the terrorists a perfect recruiting tool." Yet nowhere in history is there one example of anything like this happening - nowhere is there any example of the enemy gaining recruits or strength because the US fights back; on the contrary, the pattern has always been that the enemy only gains strength when it sees we won't fight back.

Yet The Man On The Way Up buys this nonsense. The piece asks what planet Obama is from - it certainly wasn't from the planet this sci-fi icon came from - he would have told off Obama and taken charge of the situation.

The Treason Of Terrorists And Their Enablers

The father of Daniel Pearl notes the treason of terrorists and their enablers such as Jimmy Carter and the UCLA.

The Palestinians: A Failure Of A People

The Palestinians are a failure as a people. That much should be obvious from their continued inability to make peace, their belligerence and obsession with waging war, and their economic indolence. This examination of the Palestinians shows them as addicts to war, and it's hard to factually dispute it.

Who Runs The Capitalist Show

What fuels economic growth? You had to ask. And who runs the show in the economy? It isn't companies.

None of this should be revalatory to anyone who understands anything about economics.

Sham Stimulus

This is what Republicans and anyone else genuinely concerned with the economy should be doing - fighting the Democrats' sham "stimulus" package - a package in keeping with The Man On The Way Up's program for "change."

One should also keep in mind what a real stimulus looks like.


UPDATE: This piece examines a central failing of stimulus packages.

UPDATE #2:The biggest beneficiary of Obama's phony stimulus? The gang that helped his political career.

Sham Greenism Continued

Not only is The Man On The Way Up an ignoramus on Middle Eastern war states, he's an idiot about global warming and "Green" jobs.

Iran Starts Schooling Obama

The Man On The Way Up wanted to "reach out" to the Iranian empire. The Iranians thus began schooling him while they rebuild their war machine.

It is part and parcel of Obama's stupidity on the Middle East, shown in his ignorant verbiage about America's non-existent "partnership" with Middle Eastern war-states launching terrorist attacks when they weren't launching missiles or fighter planes - or invasions of Kuwait.

Morons For Hamas

Speaking of morons, Jimmy Carter is back, defending the Hamas war machine.

Morons For Che

Check this superb look at Hollywood's twisted love of Fidel Castro's primary killer, Argentine mass-murder Ernesto Guevera.

President MOTWU Starts Breaking His Rules

This post keeps getting bigger. We start with a repost from January 22:

** It took all of one day for The Man On The Way Up to start breaking his own rules. It's the first encounter with the real world in President MOTWU's administration and it won't be the last.

** UPDATE #1: The Man On The Way Up got snippy when a reporter actually asked him about him breaking his own rules.


** UPDATE JANUARY 26:Democrats then began balking at The Man On The Way Up so blatantly breaking his own rules with regard to former Raytheon lobbyist Bill Lynn.

** UPDATE JANUARY 27:Related to the snippiness with the reporter is Barack's "promises" of transparancy, but - you guessed it
- they're a sham.

Resistance In Name Only

Check this blurb on the chutzpah of people calling "Bush's so-called war on terror" a failure.

What "Politicizing Intelligence" Looks Like

Remember all those claims that Bush was "politicizing intelligence?" Obviously a lot of people don't know what the term means, as evidenced here with regard to waterboarding.

UPDATE: It isn't limited to intelligence - now The Man On The Way Up does the same to the Justice Dept. by appointing thug Senator Chuck Schumer's former hatchet man.

Obama Summons Forth

Obama summons forth!

No, some of Obama's White House staff had been subpoened in investigation of Rod Blagojevich corruption.

Figures.

Barack: Week One

Check this look at the ugly, good, and bad of Barack Obama's first week.

Terrorists On The Way Up - To Home

The Man On The Way Up is sending 94 terrorists from Guantanamo back to Yemen, which is a terrorist safe haven. This is what passes for "change" from The Man On The Way Up - giving in to the enemy.

Barney Frank At It Again

Yep, Barney Frank is at it again - helping subsidize a corrupt bank. No wonder he's The Teflon Congressman.

Filmmaker Prosecuted For Speaking Truth To Islamic Power

Geert Wilders is a Danish filmmaker who made the recent short subject FITNA. It is a 15-minute short using quotes from the Koran married to appropriate images of Islamo-Arab violence, to illustrate the genocidal bloodthirstiness inherent in the reign of Islam that is behind the waves of terrorist attacks that have killed so many over the last quarter century-plus. The government of Holland has indicted Wilders for "inciting hate" with his film. It is a reflection of the cowardice so widespread when it comes to dealing with Islamo-Arab imperialism.

MOTWU Reality Check #2

The Man On The Way Up got another reality check, this one on his useless "stimulus" package.

Why Obama Will Fail

The Man On The Way Up is now President - and he will fail. Because the gasiness of his rhetoric can't change that his philosophies are contradictory, poorly conceived, and are not based on any kind of realworld executive experience. This fundamental weakness showed in the flatness, triteness, and doubletalk of his inaugural speech.

Haste Makes (Nuclear) Waste

Nuclear processing is considered "too expensive to be practical" and "not safe" as an energy technology. That claim, though, is wrong.

Allies In Aggression

Remember the lie that "Iraq would never work with Al Qaeda" because of their supposed "differences?" It's being repeated with regard to Iranian support of Al Qaeda. And now the US Treasury gives the "no alliance" lie its comeuppance.

Obama Be A Law

First is this repost from August 12, 2008:

How many lawyers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Yeah, yeah, you've heard that one before. It's worth asking as one checks Barack Obama's poor record in law studies and how that record reflects his staggering ignorance of real people and the world in general.


UPDATE: Man On The Way Up's ignorance of the law continues unabated.

Antisemites On The Net

The corruption of the "documentary" filmmaking genre has been a prolonged process that predated Michael Moore but which was escalated by him and his followers. One of them is Max Blumenthal, and his latest act of drive-by video shooting is a pathetic attempt to mock supporters of Israel's attack on Hamas killers in Gaza. The sheer dishonesty of Blumenthal's drive-by video shooting gets examined here and further proves the worthlessness of the "documentary" genre.

Nothing From Nothing Leaves Nothing

Check this interesting piece on the mindset behind "stimulus packages" that never work.

Hate Criminals At Work In San Francisco

The unseemly pictures are here. Particularly disturbing are the very young girls dressed in the garb of Arab terrorists and the fact the SFPD didn't bother the antisemites, but instead stopped a protester against Hamas.

President MOTWU's Tax "Cuts"

The Man On The Way Up's economic illiteracy shines again with Obama tax cuts that aren't.

George Soros And The Oil-For-Food Scam

A look at George Soros' financial relationship with a UN official who covered for Kofi Annan over UN involvement in Iraq's Oil For Food scam and how Norm Coleman found this out, hence Soros' financing of the effort to steal the Minnesota election from Coleman.

Hamas: Kill Charley Barrack

Israel responded to a prolonged period of rocket attacks from Gaza by the terrorist army Hamas by invading what had once been its own territory but which it gave back as a peace gesture - which one we've forgotten, since Israel has done nothing but make peace gestures all these decades it's difficult to keep track of the number of such. Israel's action has garnered a surprising consensus in its favor here in the US, but loud voices against it are still there, and some of them have come out into the open in response to an air attack that blew up Hamas thug Nizar Rayan, his four wives (how come those gays protesting Mormon votes against gay "marriage" by claiming Mormon approval of polygomy never notice things like this?), nine of his children, and a weapons depot (how convenient that terrorists from Vietnam to Lebanon and all points between house civilians onto military targets). The weapons depot part of course gets short-shrifted.

We'll lobby to change the name of Palestinian/Arab terrorists from whatever name they use to Charley Barrack.

Watergate's Real Legacy

"Deep Throat" was the mythical source for the Mainstream Media's coverage of Watergate, and the man tagged as Deep Throat passed away recently. The source's name derived from a porn movie that was popular at the time. But the true legacy of Watergate went beyond the destruction of the Nixon Administration; it went into the real beginning of the cult of the "heroic" reporter.

A great deal about Watergate remains shrouded in liberal distortion, and it may never be fully removed, for hatred of the Nixon Administration even surpassed the absurd hatred of the W. Bush decade. Yet eliminating the shroud will remain necessary to reveal the truth about what happened and more importantly what did not happen.

The NY Times Coup In Baghdad

The New York Times gets it wrong again? SAY IT AIN'T SO, RUSS BRALEY!!! SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!

That Iraq coup attempt you may have read about is like Monty Python's mongoose compared to a monsoon - it isn't.

Retiring The Bailout

An interesting alternative to a federal bailout is presented here.

The Minnesota "Recount"

From November 18:

By now it should be known that Minnesota's Senate race is undergoing a "recount" to determine if former comedian Al Franken - by all accounts a detestible excuse for a person - becomes a US Senator. The recount is happening because of vote-rigging in favor of Franken, and this examination of the phony recount notes the role of leftist financier George Soros, who is to the Left what billionaires are to drug dealers - accomplices in murder.


UPDATE: The recount shows Franken-Stein's gap at 303, but Franken claims to be leading by 22 votes, a claim unbelievable on its face.

UPDATE #2: It would appear the election is being stolen for Franken.

UPDATE #3: Is Franken-stein trailing by just two votes?

President MOTWU & Governor Blago

The Man On The Way Up has a problem with Kleptocrat Governor Blagojevich, namely the two are part of the same crooked Illinois political machine. Check this look at the recent Man On The Way Up-Blago On The Way Down standoff stands.

Wagner Act Unionism & Detroit

A good look is to be found at the "very structure of Wagner Act unionism" and how it is a primary culprit in The Big Three's downfall.


UPDATE: Detroit in July 2013 filed for bankrupcy.

It Was Government, Not The Private Sector

Presented is a needed reminder that the Wall Street crunch was caused by government.

Where Private Initiative Can Help With Deficits

Check these two ideas for the government to pay off deficits. Selling government land to private owners is especially interesting with so much land going unused because government owns it.

Economic Illiteracy Run Amok

The bailout of GM Ford & Chrysler has serious problems to it - namely Congressional requirements to build "green" cars despite their worthlessness. Meanwhile the housing crunch and economic illiteracy within gets a look here.

Illinois Corruption As Usual

The governor of Illinois gets indicted for corruption?

SAY IT AIN'T SO, RICHARD DALEY!!!!!!!!!

Actually this situation involving Rod Blagojevich is insane even by the standards of Illinois political corruption, as he sought to sell everything he could and shake down anyone he could - even a children's hospital - for money. And it involved people such as Tony Rezko, one of Barack Obama's prime financiers (who it would seem helped put Blagojevich in jail) and even The Man On The Way Up himself may have some role with Blagojevich, especially as this October 30, 2008 Chicago Tribune piece notes - also worth checking is this excerpt from Roll Call.

This Is A Recession?

Some calm rationality is needed with regard to a recession that, as is usual with the MSM, isn't what they say it is. The supposed start of the recession - December 2007 - doesn't make sense, either.

The Iraq War Saved Lives

Not just the lives that would have been lost by Saddam Hussein's continuing war by proxy against the West and potential actual war with N-B-C weaponry. It has saved 40,000 children a year who were destined to die under Hussein's continuing regime.

London's See-No-Evil Policy With Syria

They're kidding right? Britain has reestablished intelligence cooperation and diplomatic ties wth Syria despite Syrian sanction of Islamo-Arab terrorism. Working with the enemy has never been sound policy.

Unions And The Big Three

A lot of ink - online and literal - has been spilled on the Big Three automakers and their alleged problems. Not that they don't have problems, but the justifications they have made for mammoth federal bailouts increasingly look flimsy. There is the claim that "1 in 10 jobs" are generated by The Big Three, a figure that is wildly exaggerated, and there is also the premise that the Big Three are hemmorhaging money, which isn't necessarily the case. That they have problems is true enough, shown in a look at how they became an oligopoly, though the often-repeated argument about Detriot's lack of fuel efficiency is oversold.

The role of the UAW in the Big Three's problems has been surprisingly undersold by pieces actually exmaining that role. A look at the decline of union power offers a look at how damaging union power has been. The UAW's role shouldn't be undersold because for whatever level of mismanagement has happened with the Big Three (and there's been a substantial level of it, but some of the stories sound less like documentation than sour graping), it is impossible to believe the Big Three would not have turned things around faster with a saner salary and benefits structure than it presently has thank to the UAW.

Energy Frauds Discussed

A good summary of the delusions that drive energy policy debates is presented here, and makes the point that a lot of "energy transitions" have been forecasted over the decades - and either not happened or were far less important than hyped. The fraud of "energy independence" is one of the salient delusions of energy policy debates and The Man On The Way Up-Elect favors a "green jobs" policy that, like everything else in Obama's ideology, doesn't work. And just for good measure, The Man On The Way Up-Elect will also deal with a proposed "cap and trade" system that - you guessed it - can't work.

And the premise behind all of this is global warming, but a gaffe by Dr. James Hansen has badly injured the credibility of temperature records cited to justify the global warming scare.

Credit Munch And GM Bail-Ins

"We're in a credit crunch." Maybe not.

"GM needs a massive bail-out." GM's overseas sales (and those of the other members of the Big Three) indicate they're stronger than they're given credit for.

Now, does this mean those problems we've heard so much about are not there? Probably not, but they do show that we've been lied to by some alarmists to a significant extent.

Economic Good And Bad News

The bad news - if you still think unions do anyone any good, the trouble in the US auto industry should make people think again.

There is, though, good news, seen in dropping electricity prices.

The (Non) Recession Of 2008

All the talk is about a recession. The problem is the actual data doesn't show one.

Why Rolling Stone Has No Credibility

Rolling Stone magazine has been around for over four decades and it covers political issues as well as rock music - and has long been known for its in-your-face and contrary-to-the-truth leftism. As such it has always been a magazine impossible for readers wanting some level of objectivity to take seriously - it is always wrong on all the issues. The magazine's vendetta against Republicans in general has always been vindictive and thuggish, and it reaches a new low with Tim Dickinson's assembly of lies on McCain that relies heavily on incorrect sources and utter ignorance of the real world.

It is just another reason why Rolling Stone has no credibility. Other magazines at least try to tell the truth - Rolling Stone lies.

Debunking Continuing Deregulation Myths

Two pieces take on continuing myths about deregulation - This one pertains to the repeal of Glass-Steagall while a 2004 SEC change is attacked by Barack Obama but which was not deregulation.

Will SNL Retract Its Own Sarah Smears, Too?

Check this note on refutation of a CNN smear of Sarah Palin.

It's Conservatism's Fault?

The MSM's theme of recent is that recent troubles are the fault of conservatism. But the problem with the premise is it's wrong.

Democratic Chutzpah Part Deux

First, this repost from September 30:

The House vote on the $700 billion bailout has seen the usual chutzpah by Democrats, such as this admission by a prominent leftist to wanting economic disaster just to score political points. There is also the windfall the idiots named Pelosi, Frank, and Dodd are trying to reap here.

Amid all the talk about economic crisis, some sobering data comes to light about just how well off the country is - in the process illustrating just how over-the-top the rhetoric about the mortgage crisis is.


POSTSCRIPT - The repost is necessary to lead into this examination of the Democratic Congress' manipulation of the market (note in particular the role of Senator Chuck Schumer) in fostering the present economic trouble.

Also worth noting is that amid economic panic, there is improvement beginning to arrive.

Terrorist On The Way Up

The Man On The Way Up has a growing problem - his alliance over the years with terrorist William Ayers, an alliance McCain is attacking with apparantly growing success.

Letting Markets Solve The Credit Crisis

Worth reading is this examination of how markets are better suited to solve the credit "crisis" than government.

Also worth reading is this roundup of research during the recent month of panic in Congress and on Wall Street.

McCain On The Attack

Given the whiny responses of Man On The Way Up Obama to previous attacks, John McCain's renewed offensive can work. First McCain notes Obama's lack of answers to tough questions, then notes The Man On The Way Up's role in the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae fiascos. McCain's camp also goes after falsification of his health care plan (Selish note: Man On The Way Up's ads attacking McCain's health care proposals kept getting in the way of MRN Radio's Talladega coverage, making me hate Obama even more).

Also worth noting is the McCain camp's response to Obama attacks on McCain's role with "the Keating Five."

Blarney Frank's Comeuppance

He's been among the most sanctimonious and thin-skinned bullies in House history, one who managed to get away with being a pimp for homosexual prostitutes as well as for violating at least one Congressional page, and his every speech betrays a level of arrogance and condescension that is inhuman even by the low standards of leftism. In the wake of the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae fiasco, Barney Frank has been on the counterattack as is his wont. But this dissection of Frank's role in Freddie and Fannie debunks his stock attack answers.

Look Who's Attacking Man On The Way Up

And in the process he's making McCain & Palin's points for us.

MOTWU A Flip-Flopper?

Apprantly so.

Mark-To-Market

Worth checking is this piece noting the accounting rule called mark-to-market. The piece makes a strong point - the search for solutions to big problems always seems to focus on expensive solutions while smaller, cheaper alternatives get short-shrifted. That should never happen.

MOTWU Attacks Deregulation

The Man On The Way Up has tried to blame deregulation for the recent mortgage confusion out there. As usual, the facts don't support him.

Manufacturing Crisis

This examination at Barack Obama and a lengthy history of liberals manufacturing crises is worth a look. While some of the rhetoric used in the piece is a bit overheated and the present economic crisis seems more overheated rhetoric - the increasingly frequent "we could plunge into a Depression" cliche ignores the economy is infinately stronger than in the 1930s, a point made here - than something the regular market can't handle - this piece on a potential positive from the bailout plan would seem to indicate there is less danger than opportunity from the present crisis - the piece makes salient points about Obama and liberals in general - among liberalism's distinguishing characteristics is refusal to accept responsibility, shown here.

A Look Back To 1907

This look at The Panic Of 1907 suggests what might happen in a similar crisis 111 years after that panic.

The Fraud Of Climate Science

This paper on climate science shows how the question posted in the title - is climate science designed to answer questions - is "No."

Mortgage Anti-Crisis

Amid all the talk about the mortgage "crisis," we have some hard indication the housing bubble won't burst, but is in fact deflating normally.

Who's REALLY At Fault?

Already the verbiage over the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street has begun, and as is to be expected it is nauseating. As expected the "Wall Street fatcats" fall guy is being dredged up, but it requries a closer examination of that angle. Also, one should check this roundup of the Wall Street mess including the Congressional exculpatory fable being peddled about mortgages - see also this look at the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae debacles.

Amid a lot of MSM panic, the old class-war cliches liable to be peddled if they aren't already get another factual beating.

MOTWU Opposes Iraq Withdrawal

The Man On The Way Up worked to delay troop withdrawals from Iraq. Amir Taheri caught Barack Obama with his hand in the foreign policy cookie jar and this caused The Man On The Way Up to attack Taheri, whose rebuttal shows Obama's utter confusion on foreign policy in general. It is this kind of confusion that Obama always tries to mask to justify his positions on Iraq.

The Man On The Way Up As Community Slum Lord

Barack Obama's claim to fame (and claim to qualification for President) is his role as a community leader. It was a role that involved enriching slum lanlords and allies in the area housing industry, at the expense of the South Side of Chicago.

Som Empirical Data On Globalization

As usual, empirical data debunks the leftist lunatics.

Bob Woodward At It Again

Bob Woodward has a reputation as one of the gresatest journalists in American history, yet his work is riddled with errors from his misunderstanding of Watergate on down. His latest gaffe concerns a "secret killing program" in Iraq, a program he compared to the Manhattan Project but which sounds presumably closer to a "Project Phoenix" for Iraq - Project Phoenix was a counterinsurgency program in Vietnam was eliminated the remaining elements of Vietcong infrastructure and is often condemned as an "assassination" program by people who refuse to understand what it actually did.

Well, one has reason to doubt Woodward's story.

Palin Discovers What Liberal Cuts Look Like

One of the hoariest of Democratic smears is the "cut social spending" smear aimed at reductions or other changes in spending increases - because actual spending increases at a different rate than what was initially proposed, it's called a cut by the Democrats. Sarah Palin is thus ripped for "cutting Special Needs spending" because as Alaska governor in the 2006-7 period she implemented a spending package - a package initiated by the outgoing Frank Murkowski administration she had defeated in that state's elections - that reformed the state's education finaning system and increased special needs student spending over a larger area of the state.

Thanks, CNN.

It's Still The Ecomony, Stupid

And we're still better off under George W. than we were under the Clintons.

Sarah Palin Getting Borked

This summary of the war being waged by the Dominant Media Culture on Sarah Palin nicely illustrates the stereotypes the Dominant Media Culture suffocates from in issues such as the qualification of Ms. Palin for the potential job of Vice President. It also helps illustrate how unlike Hillary Clinton Ms. Palin is - namely a woman who rose through political ranks due to actual work, actual competence, and not through accepting bribes via rigged stock market investments etc.

The real Sarah Palin is examined by the author of the most recent biography to be published.

Incidentally, another difference between Palin and Hillary Milhous Clinton is shown in this comparison with one of the first American leaders of the 20th century.

Reminder Of The Truth About Iraq

Because the "Bush Lied People Died" mantra isn't going away, some fact-checking remains necessary.

End Energy Socialism

For all the genuine differences that exist between the Republicans and Democrats, there are still a needlessly high number of policy similarities between the two, notably on energy policy. This piece on those similarities nicely illustrates the fundamental flaw in energy policy - its refusal to allow competition and its stifling of realworld solutions. Increased drilling for oil manifestly is part of the solution yet is treated as part of the problem; biofuels are treated as part of the solution when they are part of the problem.

Powell Gets Man On The Way Up Treatment

How does The Man On The Way Up treat people, even potential cabinet level advisors? He throws them under the bus.

Man On The Way Up In Annenberg

Check out this examination of Barack Obama's role in a disasterous Chicago education reform effort. It contains examination of the coverups that are requisite of corrupt practices. The Man On The Way Up is on his way up again - to more trouble.

TMOTWU Takes On The Blue Meanies

After his Saddleback embarassment, The Man On The Way Up lashes out at how "mean" the Republicans are. Of course all the Republicans have done is point out the truth about The Man On The Way Up and the utter illiteracy and incoherence of his entire view of the world.

The Taxes On The Way Up

That's the gist of The Man On The Way Up's economic "plan", a plan based (like all Democratic plans) on punishing the successful to reward the failed and the hackerama.

Barack TMOTWU Gets Schooled

You have to laugh at the sheer chutzpah of Obama's promises to a school he had named after himself. That he did something dictators from Stalin on down have always done (that darned cult of personality) is funny (and disturbing) enough; that he screwed this Kenyan school royally is even funnier.

The Erosion Of The Man On The Way Up

It would seem that John McCain won in a rout in the mini-debate held with Barack Obama at Saddleback. Certainly there was no evidence from his serial evasions that The Obama On The Way Up won; on the contrary, the shrillness of left-wing responses indicated understanding that their man was eroding, and rather quickly, further shown by Obama's choices for advisors as stated by him.

The Man On The Way Up - not this one.

Why Do Bad Things Happen To "Good" Pundits?

That's the recommended title of this look at a media pundit's sense of betrayal by John "Clinton" Edwards, and it's an appropriate recommendation. That Edwards was a gigantic fraud even by Democratic Party standards should have been obvious to anyone with any level of objectivity. In the first excerpt cited within this piece, I counted the use of "I" and "my" four times, which may not count as a record but does reflect the narcissism of Walter Shapiro, the author of the jilted love letter piece on Edwards cited here.

Cited in Shapiro's piece is "an emotionally raw evening in Washington two weeks after the September 2001 attacks." What any Democrat could talk about in such a context is puzzling given the party's abdication of responsibility to defeat the Islamo-Arab inperialism at the heart of the attacks, an abdication one could see coming two generations away thanks to the party's abdication of responsibility for defeating any of America's enemies.

John Edwards pulls a Clinton and some in the media are surprised. Huh?

John Edwards Pulls A Clinton

That John Edwards is a despicable creature should have been known from the moment he became a serious political player with his belligerent and reckless wielding of power as a lawyer - of course despicable and lawyer are almost synonymous. Now he has been exposed as even worse than that with his sordid affair with a woman he hired to his political campaign. Amid all the talk about the affair - and the MSM's dishonesty in coverage - has been lost the striking parallel John Edwards has with Bill Clinton.

The gist of the sordidness of both Clinton and Edwards is that they paid for sex with government/campaign jobs. Clinton bought sex from whoever he could by giving out government jobs, and this is what John Edwards did with the woman he impregnated. And both brought this corruption up every ladder of political power they climbed until they were finally ruined by it all.

It remains to be seen if Edwards' corruption hurts the Democratic Party. Given the traitorous slime that resides throughout the party one hopes it does.

Blockhead Barack's Tire War

Barack Obama's ignorance of the real world hits a new low with his absurd argument that people should inflate their tires instead of increase domestic drilling for oil. His knowledge of mechanics is as low as as his knowledge of everything else.

Iraq and Al-Qaida: Deny Deny Deny Part Deux

It is an article of faith to the Left that Iraq did not work with Al Qaida - this despite all evidence to the contrary and the absurdity of the premise to start with. It isn't stopping the Left. The latest denial comes from Ron Suskind and his new book claiming the White House had the CIA forge a document showing that Al Qaida leader Mohammad Atta trained in Iraq. Problem is Suskind's argument is laughably inaccurate. It includes some shots at Richard Cheney that reveal the Left's continuing ignorance of a lot of issues, notably Watergate.

What has to happen for the Left to admit Bush was right all along remains a mystery.

Obama: The Man On The Way Up

On WEEI-850 AM radio in Boston, the "Whiner Line" phone message segment is the most popular segment, where colorful callers leave deliberately abusive and obnoxious messages for comedic effect. One of the Whiner Line's regulars, however, has long been a source of vitriol by other callers and by the show's hosts. He goes by the moniker The Man On The Way Up, and his shtick involves a whining voice loosely patterned after Curly Howard of The Three Stooges; The Man On The Way Up boasts about his ego and how he is the primary reason for the Whiner Line's success; while the quality of his comedic bits is uneven, it is his raging self-love as well as the shots he takes at other callers and the show's hosts that gall a lot of people, to where genuinely angry retorts are left against The Man On The Way Up by other callers.

The Man On The Way Up is the increasingly strongest analogy one can offer to Barack Obama. His Landstuhl absurdity has been spun by his acolytes and it only made him more insensitive to American servicemen - and makes the McCain shot to the effect that Obama would rather lose a war than not score propaganda points all the more cutting and accurate. Indeed, the spin offered by Obama seen in the Washington Post makes him look even more idiotic and insincere, as scoring political points was clearly driving him throughout the whole issue.

It was a case of ego beginning to overflow. The windy self-congradulation Obama has serially offered in his speeches was ratcheted up a notch to where Democrats are trying to add "context" to what is clearly self-love unhinged. Obama thinks of himself as The Man On The Way Up - and clearly he is, without the deranged snickering "Yeah" sign-off or the certain level of charm the WEEI version has.

The election is between a flawed but generally capable leader and The Man On The Way Up.

The Vanity Of Audacity

Check this superb look at Barack Obama's level of narcissism - the kind of narcissim common to leftists such as John Kerry, Bill Clinton, and Michael Dukakis.

More From Barack Milhous Rodham

Barack Obama is starting to live up to Mary McCarthy's famous analysis of Lillian Hellman - Every word he utters is a lie including "and" and "the".

Even the New Yorker gave him a good shot with its cover depicting him as an Islamic toady and his wife as Angela Davis - though she more resembles the Ecumenical Liberation Army babe from Network. Rarrely does a political cartoon tell the truth more succinctly.

Speak English, Barack

Barack Obama flubbed embarassingly when noting he can't speak another language while in effect hectoring Americans to require children to be bilingual. It doesn't work anywhere in the real world and illustrates te inanity and inanity of the multicultra mindset. This is why most Americans support making English the country's official language.

Obama's Economic Stupidity

This piece on John McCain's economic plan and Democratic attacks on it illustrates the economic illiteracy that permeates the Democratic Party and also some of the flaws both parties have with economics - specifically their endorsement of cap-and-trade energy taxes, which cost jobs and do nothing for energy policy.

Sharia Trainwreck

So Sharia, the terrorist "law," is now legal in Britain. This look at the absurdity of the debate illustrates the absurdity of sharia as well.

Obama The Flipper?

Dean Barnett notes how Barack Obama's "shocking breadth of ignorance on a staggering array of issues" has translated into a collosally mindless groping for positions that betrays his inability to lead. Barnet asks the right, and mnost humorous, question - "Can you really flop when you never flipped in the first place?"

Mor seriously, do intelligent people really want this clown to lead?

Obama Milhous Rodham-Clinton

If you had harbored a suspicion that the Obamas resemble Bill and Hillary Milhous Clinton, you're on to something.

Delahunt Fights For Al Qaida

The incredible insensitivity of Congressman William Delahunt in tacitly advocating that Al Qaida assassinate Richard Cheney's chief of staff David Addington because terrorists were "waterboarded" is matched by the timidity of Republicans in their refusal to publically call out Delahunt for openly advocating enemy action.

It illustrates just how deranged the Democratic Party has become.

Democrats And Energy

Is it a coincidence that gasoline prices spiralled upward (as opposed to merely spiking up then dropping down 2005-6) since the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007?

A look at this semi-humorous list of areas of Democratic interference in sensible energy policies indicates it isn't.

More On Energy

From May 31:

Oil prices can't keep going up, can they? No, they can't. And there may be reason to see them come down sooner rather than later.


UPDATE: See also this look comparing oil prices to the housing crunch.

Expending On Energy Policy

Irwin Stelzer has a good look the wrong questions being asked about energy policy, questions at the heart of a surprisingly ludicrous Bill O'Reilly piece published entering Memorial Day weekend. The only realworld solutions that exist are massive increases in drilling and greater investment in nuclear power.

Bob Ryan Out-Shanks Shaughnessy

The Dan Shaughnessy Blog does a great job dissecting the absurdities of Dan Shaughnessy writing, and when appropriate they also include deserving writers like Tony Massaroti and his ludicrous attack on the Patriots and their fanbase in the wake of Matt Walsh's testimony to the NFL.

But now Boston Globe writer Bob Ryan outdoes Shaughnessy (and Ron Borges) with a bitter and illogical attack on Bill Belichick It is worth some comment.

Ryan seems incensed that Belichick "still hasn't fessed up." Fessed up to what? Like so many others, Ryan refuses to understand exactly what Belichick did in Spygate. In casting that Belichick "was engaged in practices he knew were against the rules," Ryan ignores the facts about Goodell's malicious ignorance of the rulebook. Belichick was not engaged in activity he knew was against the rules - a fact Roger Goodell inadvertantly acknowledged with his comment that other teams wanted to tape, not doing so only because they felt it would be to no advantage.

Ryan also is outraged because the Patriots are "the most despised franchise" in pro sports. All that does is reflect poorly on the haters, who are as short on facts and long on vitriol as Ryan is.

Ryan is also ignorant on Watergate, to which he draws constant comparison. Watergate was not about an illegal break-in (in which nothing was stolen and no resistance to police offered) but about Democratic hate-mongering using the break-in as an excuse to persecute Richard Nixon for the crime of accomplishing more than they did, spelled out best in the book Bad News: The Foreign Policy Of The New York Times.

Ryan needs to reexamine himself here and while he's at it he can check Jeffrey Standen's examination of the Belichick-Goodell brouhaha.

History Lesson For Obama

Barack Obama's stupidity was on display again with his idiotic remarks about John F. Kennedy's 1961 summit with Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev. He showed how his grasp of the real world is zero by whining about "this whole notion of not talking to people." That talking to the enemy only enables the enemy is totally lost on Obama and the larger Democratic Party and is why the US has suffered internationally as it has over the years. Summit meetings are always a dead end with the enemy - only victory over the enemy works.

Stop Talking And Start Drilling

The way to combat high oil prices is to start drilling for more oil. The problem remains the intransigence of the Democratic Party that has fought against new drilling efforts for nearly three decades.

We Have Met The Enemy

And he is the American Left. It shows in persistence in the "We make more enemies than we kill" myth and it shows in the fact the terrorist group Hamas has officially endoresed Barack Obama, and Obama is incensed that someone bothers to point this fact out.

Enemy Losses

That there is a gross double standard in MSM coverage of American wars shows in this look at enemy losses at Sadr City - losses far higher than Allied losses.

UPDATE: This look at the Allies' continuing offensive against Sadr City puts comparison of losses into perspective.