tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-56081 2009-11-06T12:20:58-05:00 "Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy." --Teddy Roosevelt, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1910. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6b1df0f970c 2009-11-06T12:20:58-05:00 2009-11-06T13:02:56-05:00

Obamanomics shovel-ready? ... the unemployment rate for production jobs, such as factory workers, jumped to 14.5% from 14.1% The jobless rate for workers in construction, maintenance or natural resources industries such as mining rose to 15.5% from 14.3%. photo: Thorney Lieberman, Honoring America's Coalminers

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/unemployment-surpasses-10.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a65c10d0970b 2009-11-06T09:36:10-05:00 2009-11-06T10:35:28-05:00

Is the president simply a disgrace, or a catastrophe? You decide. OBAMA'S FRIGHTENING INSENSITIVITY FOLLOWING SHOOTING by Robert A. George at NBC-Chicago President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships. After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/first-ever-africanamerican-or-antiamerican-president.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a65bde85970b 2009-11-06T08:39:40-05:00 2009-11-06T08:55:46-05:00

Victor Davis Hanson: Bush deficits? Obama quadrupled them. Bush unemployment? It climbed to nearly 10% after trillions were borrowed and spent. Bush polarization? He never tried to politicize the NEA or give a nut like Van Jones or Anita Dunn free rein.... The more the talk of togetherness, hope and change, and healing, the more the daggers come out: it has been ten months and still Bush is blamed daily by the President for all his assorted ills. Imagine had a Harry Truman every day lamented, “Damn that FDR — he left me with WWII, the bomb decision, a traitorous...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/about-blaming-bush.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a65b9de9970b 2009-11-06T07:25:37-05:00 2009-11-06T09:07:43-05:00

If this doesn't wake up America, what will? According to Atlas Shrugs, here's what we know about the latest in a series of Muslim mass murderers: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a U.S. Citizen whose parents are "palestinians" from the "West Bank" according to the Washington Post. He wrote Allah on his door, according to a neighbor, in Arabic. Allah on the door. Hasan was put on probation early in his postgraduate work at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He was disciplined for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues, according to...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/day-of-mourning-for-massacre-at-fort-hood.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6ace275970c 2009-11-05T14:16:07-05:00 2009-11-05T14:16:07-05:00

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/are-we-venezuela-yet.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a657621b970b 2009-11-05T13:51:03-05:00 2009-11-06T10:12:20-05:00

It's being reported that there are 10,000 in revolt at Capitol Hill, with more buses arriving all the time. Follow attendees at twitter: http://twitter.com/search?q=%23housecall#search?q=%23housecall Funny how BHO just interrupted Robert Gibbs' press briefing to praise AARP and AMA for their support of ObamaCare. All tv news channels bowed to him, and took coverage away from the rally. What a baby... and a bully.

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/sons-daughters-of-liberty-make-house-call-to-kill-the-bill.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6a81bcd970c 2009-11-04T09:44:51-05:00 2009-11-04T12:15:46-05:00

PS, I think they can hear us now.

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/the-morning-after-analysis-1.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6a7b8b6970c 2009-11-04T07:15:56-05:00 2009-11-04T09:52:36-05:00

Who knew America was building a "new foundation" ? Somebody should send this -and this- to Glenn Beck. It gives me the creeps. National Service in California: "More than 240,000 people of all ages and backgrounds are helping to meet local needs, strengthen communities, and increase civic engagement through 406 national service projects across California. "Serving with national and local nonprofits, schools, faith-based organizations and other groups, these citizens tutor and mentor children, coordinate after-school programs, build homes, conduct neighborhood patrols, restore the environment, respond to disasters, build nonprofit capacity and recruit and manage volunteers. This year, the Corporation for...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/82600000-of-your-tax-dollars-at-work-in-california.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a6a78eb0970c 2009-11-04T05:16:35-05:00 2009-11-04T05:21:30-05:00

Very interesting insider piece at the LA Times about how Team Obama is working the Healthcare issue. This is my favorite sentence: The White House message is that if healthcare fails this year, that could spell trouble for Democrats in the 2010 midterm election. Funny, that's the same "message" I hear from the right-wing resistance. See? Left and Right are not so far apart after all; we do agree on some things :) But here's something my right-wing / tea party friends may not know: Over the summer, it seemed the Obama plan could fail... The White House concedes that...

Yael http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2009/11/quote-of-the-day-the-white-house-message.html