Facebook and Twitter are creating a vain generation of self-obsessed people with child-like need for feedback, warns top scientist
They’re just going to have to find a way to tolerate the rest of us who find them pitiful
Barack Obama’s vulgar Twitter spamming campaign is a classless act of desperation by the US president
White House, Republicans Strike Tenative Deal To Raise Debt Ceiling
After all the demagoguery and bullying, Obama flinches
Sessions Slams Obama on Senate Floor: ‘The President Thinks It’s All About Him!’
It always has been
WaPo Buries News of How Obama’s Ratings Are Dropping Due to Debt Ceiling Deadlock
Hoping the bad news will just go away
The Man With No Plan Accuses House Republicans of Irresponsibility
Obama is now the punchline
NYPD bows to Islam at annual Pre-Ramadan Conference
Short memories
Cool! Cuba lifts restrictions on air conditioners, fridges
That’s very nice of the Castros
Whither the center? Moderate politicians an endangered species
And guess which “extremists” they really have a problem with?
Man accused of Facebook bomb threat
Muslim assumes the ‘Christians and Jews’ he wants to kill won’t fight back
Rank behavior: Liveshot mum about pal’s disgrace
Sanders should have known what kind of friend John Kerry would be
Reporter Shot With BB Gun During News
And I’m criticized for being too judgmental on today’s youth…
Annihilating Democracy with the Tea Party
We should be more critical of irresponsible politicians who opened us up to criticism from the likes of Germany
The Facts About Spending Cuts, the Debt, and the GDP
Someone need send this link to the socialists at Der Spiegel
Charles Krauthammer Scolds Margaret Carlson for Saying Tea Party ‘Strapped Explosives to the Capitol’
Just toning down the rhetoric
Education or violence: The two-pronged revolution of Bill Ayers
The biggest joke is how much parents pay to have their kids radicalized
CNN’s Don Lemon And Sen. Rand Paul Clash Over The Tea Party’s Role In The Debt Crisis
Libs in denial they are carriers of taxandspenditis
Rightward Tilt Leaves Obama With Party Rift
Why Voters Tune Out Democrats
Stupid Americans are vomiting up the Kool-Aid
As drawdown approaches, U.S. commanders in Afghanistan reluctant to leave
The Taliban are waiting them out and the subsequent local bloodbath will be epic
US economy: The Tea Party is a real threat to America
Tea Party economics could get the whole world in a stew
Progressives around the world see the Tea Party as the wrench in their machinery
Replica of Wright brothers 1910 plane crashes in Ohio, killing 2
Some things are just not meant to be repeated
Nobel chairman warns Europe’s leaders over ‘inflaming far-right sentiment’
Equating conservatives with violent radicals (Muslims and anarchists)
27 Rifles Stolen from California Military Base
Fast-and-Furious wannabes
Rock ‘n’ conservative
And what does it say about the “tolerant and inclusive” liberal entertainment wing when superstars have to stay in a closet?
Park service to thin out Yosemite’s growing crowds — of trees
The federal government owns way too much land that gets neglected
Trump: I May Run for President if Economy Stays Bad
Fool me once…
What led to “Project Gunwalker’?
Hmmm… a pro-gun control agenda to smear supporters of the Second Amendment maybe?
Obama’s and Bush’s real effects on the deficit in one graph
The New York Times doing everything they can to save this hapless president
Annihilating Democracy with the Tea Party
We should be more critical of irresponsible politicians who opened us up to criticism from the likes of Germany
From the lead of the article: “Democracy depends on compromise and the American government depends on all branches working together. The Tea Party movement shuns both, preferring instead to drive the state into bankruptcy. On principle.”
Actually, the assertion that “democracy depends on compromise” is misleading-unto-falsehood. A workable and lasting democracy – and the United States of America was emphatically *not* set up as a democracy – depends upon the citizens and their rulers doing always (or almost always) the right thing, and putting the good of the polity ahead of their own personal interest.
To put it another way, a workable and lasting democracy depends upon human beings consistently behaving as though they were angels. How likely is that?
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Again, the assertion that “the American government depends on all branches working together” is blatantly false. The Constitution of the United States of America was intentionally designed to set the branches of the federal government as odds one with the others … and at odds with the States, to which most governmental authority is reserved.
A government in which “all branches [are] working together” is a government either by angels or by demons. Since human beings emphatically are not angels, such a government by humans must inevitably become demonic. Thus, our Founders set up a system to limit the scope of government by setting interest against interest.
Again, the assertion that “The Tea Party movement shuns both, preferring instead to drive the state into bankruptcy. On principle” is false. The state is *already* bankrupt; the question is, will we admit it *now*, when we might still have some hope of a degree of control over the situation, or, will we continue to deny it, until reality blows up in our faces?
Ilion, this is excellent. Thanks!
You're welcome.
"…To put it another way, a workable and lasting democracy depends upon human beings consistently behaving as though they were angels. How likely is that?…"
In my most humble opinion, this idea has been wonderfully expressed by Bill Whittle: http://thpatriots.blogspot.com/2011/01/bill-whitt…
Thanks for the link.
Trump: I May Run for President if Economy Stays Bad
Fool me once…
Myself, I suspect that Trump has been acting as a "beard" for Obama. That whole "show us the birth certificate" stunt of his? I thought from the start that it was a stunt made in coordination with Team Obamanation.
"…Trump has been acting as a "beard" for Obama…" LOL!
US economy: The Tea Party is a real threat to America
Tea Party economics could get the whole world in a stew
"Progressives around the world see the Tea Party as the wrench in their machinery"
Afraid the rest of the world will watch "Progressivism" fail on the world's most prominent economic stage?
Or, afraid of having to explain the halt of America's decline, and her subsequent return to a "freer market capitalism"; to the people living under their thumbs?
Rank behavior: Liveshot mum about pal’s disgrace
"…the decision to strip Sanders of his Silver Star had nothing to do with his 2009 child-pornography conviction…."
Is John F"raud" Kerry trying to keep the "medal strippers ", at bay?
Tea Party economics could get the whole world in a stew
With over 10% of our economy in the last 2 years derived from the accumulation of debt. With nearly 50% of the population receiving welfare (i.e., non-contributory entitlements). With a public debt and near-term liabilities matching our GDP. With a rate of increase exceeding our GDP growth. This editorial would qualify as parody.
Humpf… I thought it WAS parody. You mean, they were serious?!?
What was I thinking??
Compromise is a fool’s combination of emotion and half wit intelligence. What the fool doesn’t realize is that the unscrupulous ideologue will just double his demands so you compromise with half. Slavery wasn’t ended with compromise. The innocent don’t get half the jail sentence that was asked for. If the pervert comes to your door and demands both your daughters, you don’t give him one. Compromise is feel-good emoting. If you give Obama half of what he wants, he just doubles his demands.