Boker tov, Boulder!tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-560812009-11-20T10:02:54-05:00"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it." -- Patrick Henry TypePadThe nature of pietag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6bb1433970b2009-11-20T10:02:54-05:002009-11-20T10:33:59-05:00President Zero Sum Goes to Asia President Obama took his declining dollar to the Asia-Pacific economic conference, and he added to it a declinist opinion of America's economy. His big message? Don't count on American consumers to lead the world from recession to recovery and beyond. His second big message? In the U.S., we must save more and spend less. Huh? This is the same limits-to-growth, central-planning wisdom we hear so often these days at home. It's also tone deaf, to say the least. Despite a sinking greenback that is wreaking havoc among the Asian economies, and in the face...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/the-nature-of-pie.htmlWhat a great word, Smugtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2012875bcbe56970c2009-11-20T09:36:09-05:002009-11-20T09:42:18-05:00Having been a lefty myself for more decades than I care to admit, it never ceases to amaze me - now that I've come over to the Dark Side - that lefties so often feel entitled to opine on subjects about which they know nothing, or next to nothing. David Limbaugh: Perhaps [Sally] Quinn wouldn't be so smug [On Faith: Sarah Palin's 'rogue' Christianity] if she were to do the slightest bit of thinking or reading about the concepts of God's sovereignty and free will -- ideas that have challenged the finest minds for 2,000 years and contributed to denominational...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/what-a-great-word-smug-1.html(How) Can Leftist Hatred Be "Overcome" ?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6bab6ff970b2009-11-20T07:55:40-05:002009-11-20T08:10:07-05:00I have a hard time choosing an excerpt from anything written by Victor Davis Hanson, and this piece is no exception; every sentence is delectable. I especially relish his descriptions of Sarah Palin: a "Wasilla, you betcha, no abortion, Christian PTA mom... with an Idaho BA" "an independent female, who was an up-from-the-bootstraps small-town council member, mayor, state regulator and governor" "snazzy, breezy, winking Sarah—happy, good-looking, a mom, and in no need of a rich husband or well-connected dad" a "can-do, have a Down’s Syndrome child in her 40s, shoot-moose persona" It's become obvious that the reason Palin is feared...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/i-have-a-hard-time-choosing-an-excerpt-from-anything-written-by-victor-davis-hanson-and-this-piece-is-no-exception-eve.htmlHow can you "keep your eye on the ball" when there are so many balls in the air?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6b81ca8970b2009-11-19T17:49:47-05:002009-11-19T18:03:14-05:00Victims at Fort Hood of a politically correct military establishment, ew-dirty-coal and capntrade, HEALTHCARE, the White House bowing to foreigners and dissing the Jews... not to mention peace-processing, Iranian nukes and KSM in the Big Apple. Oh, and there's Kim Whassisname in North Korea. And Russia's Putin, the Honduran constitution, the Islamization of Europe and "the unhinged left's obsessive sexist hatred of Palin" (only Omri). Sheesh, how can you possibly "keep your eye on the ball" when there are so many balls in the air? So much to worry about, so little time, and it gets harder and harder to...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/how-can-you-keep-your-eye-on-the-ball-when-there-are-so-many-balls-in-the-air.html"For generations to come, all will be told . . ." tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2012875b8a785970c2009-11-19T12:51:51-05:002009-11-20T08:16:10-05:00Thirty-Six Years Ago Today, Richard Nixon Saved Israel —but Got No Credit by Jason Maoz [....] As for Meir herself, to the end of her life she referred to Nixon as "my president" and told a group of Jewish leaders in Washington shortly after the war: “For generations to come, all will be told of the miracle of the immense planes from the United States bringing in the materiel that meant life to our people.” Wrote Nixon biographer Stephen E. Ambrose: Those were momentous events in world history. Had Nixon not acted so decisively, who can say what would have...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/for-generations-to-come-all-will-be-told-.htmlAmerica's Most Irritating Clichetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6b5d309970b2009-11-19T08:45:40-05:002009-11-19T09:41:43-05:00"In a liberal's reckoning, diversity is good when we have both Muslim jihadists and patriotic Americans serving in the U.S. military." -- Ann Coulter Ann Coulter: It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity ... is a strength." As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and Catholic populations, Canada with its French...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/americas-most-irritating-cliche.htmlCongress playing same game that landed Enron execs in jail?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2012875b79821970c2009-11-19T08:30:47-05:002009-11-19T08:30:47-05:00Our friend Bill knows more about this than I do, so I'll just let him put this to you himself. Every country with "universal" healthcare has a value added tax; that is where we are headed but Congress knows that if they tried to do this now all healthcare bills would fail so instead they play accounting games of the same type that Enron executives went to jail for ... When the costs by necessity escalate then the VAT will have to be passed or everyone will lose their insurance. {Shudder}Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/congress-playing-same-game-that-landed-enron-execs-in-jail.htmlNo We Can't (WV-54 no longer "exists")tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2012875b780d1970c2009-11-19T07:52:16-05:002009-11-19T08:03:01-05:00Just when The Husband was preparing to run for Congress, and just when we were about to start raking in the campaign donations, the folks over at dotGOV go and purge all the 'phantom' congressional districts from their Obamanomic Recovery website. The 54th District? Easy come, easy go. It's too bad. For a minute there, I thought we might see some real Hopenchange. Oh, and by the way, when you next visit that paragon of Government Accountability and Transparency, please make sure that you take time to fully appreciate (the first half of) its $18 million "redesign" ~ courtesy of...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/no-we-cant-wv54-no-longer-exists.htmlHealthcaretag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2012875b3ee2c970c2009-11-18T16:25:47-05:002009-11-18T16:25:47-05:00If I never don't see another Healthcare Reform bill, it will be too soon. If that makes sense. Dick Morris has a ninety-some-year-old father, who is still alive because the folks who made his medical decisions were doctors, not bureaucrats. He writes in part: Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians -- the second-largest doctors' group in the country -- confirms that "the supply of doctors just won't be there" for the 30 million new patients President Barack Obama wants to cover. Noting that the doctor shortage is "already a catastrophic crisis," Stubbs noted that underserved areas in...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/healthcare.htmlHot Spit: Eight years’ worth of peace-processing in one year and the score is "not zero"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6b19acb970b2009-11-18T16:16:22-05:002009-11-18T16:21:21-05:00The following excerpt is from Rick Richman's post today at contentions: Gilo and Diplomatic Dismay. We pick it up at the State Department press conference, where you have to feel sorry for poor Ian Kelly. His job, of saying nothing that will incriminate the administration in which he is embedded, is nearly impossible. Rick's commentary follows. [....] QUESTION: But previous Israeli administration — previous Israeli governments had agreed to that already. MR. KELLY: Okay, all right. QUESTION: So in other words, the bottom line is that, in the list of accomplishments that Mitchell has come up with or established since...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/eight-years-worth-of-peaceprocessing-in-one-year-and-the-score-is-not-zero.htmlYou become what you hate: ADL DEFAMES Conservativestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6aed2dd970b2009-11-18T07:30:43-05:002009-11-18T07:57:13-05:00MISSION STATEMENT "The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens." ADL Charter October 1913 ((( ZIONEOCON ALERT ))) CALL THE ADL IMMEDIATELY! You can find the office nearest you by using this map. "If you encounter bigotry, hate or discrimination, there is a place to...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/you-become-what-you-hate-adl-backs-white-house-defames-conservatives.htmlOy, we're in the Animal Farm barnyardtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6ae6d4e970b2009-11-18T04:38:46-05:002009-11-18T04:39:42-05:00VDH is the best, even when he scares me (like now). Victor Davis Hanson: The Acornization of America Given all the "seas recede/planet cools" rhetoric, Greek temple sets, and vero possumus schlock of the campaign, some of us thought that Obama administration's requests that citizens identify "fishy" critics of Obamacare were a little Orwellian. Others thought the NEA had turned into the Ministry of Truth, with its quid pro quo conference calls and praise of Obama as the new Caesar, man of letters. Then there were the Anita Dunnisms about a deluded captive media and dear old Chairman Mao battling...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/oy-were-in-the-animal-farm-barnyard.htmlGive me liberty . . . tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6ac17ce970b2009-11-17T17:14:37-05:002009-11-17T17:14:37-05:00Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775 No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own...Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/give-me-liberty-.htmlMid-afternoon Funnytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e2012875ae1a0e970c2009-11-17T16:06:43-05:002009-11-17T16:06:43-05:00As we know from the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, political correctness is rampant (even in the ARMY?!) and it's literally life-threatening. So why would anyone continue to operate under its strictures? The only way to get rid of political correctness is to stop being politically correct. Now the funny part:Yaelhttp://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/midafternoon-funny.html