February 2012
9 posts
News alert via Weekly Standard blog . . . and no,...
From: White House Press Office Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:01 PM Subject: Readout of the President’s Meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 8, 2012
Readout of the President’s Meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan
President Obama met today with his national security team as a part of his regular meetings on Afghanistan and...
Wake up call to Tea Partiers on Fast & Furious . .... →
Daily Caller scores dinner with Obama pal and... →
Frontier Lab and the Tea Party - Check it out. →
“I will not stop fighting for our conservative causes. I ran because I believed...”
– Rep. Michele Bachmann, looking better and better in retrospect, as a presidential candidate who does know the language of conservatism, and who can articulate our kind of solutions.
Taxpayer alert: New Trier High School adding IPads...
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that New Trier’s administration is looking at supplying some students with IPads - not just in the classroom but for their 24/7 personal use as well. With this technology solution in hand, now they just have to come up with a curriculum need to match. Maybe they should check with Wilmette District 39, which recently purchased IPads for fifth graders. Guess...
No hope or change in Chicago →
For anyone who thought the OccupyChicago movement had closed down for the winter, watch out: Chicago is hosting what will become an historic uprising by the far left at the May 2012 G8 convention.
Dan Biss is one former U of C math prof who...
Illinois State Rep. Daniel Biss (D) (and current candidate for State Senate in the 9th District) is the poster boy for the Illinois union-muscled political frat that has brought us 1) crushing taxes, 2) fiscal insolvency and 3) pension fund obligations that are absolutely over-whelming. Guess a summa degree from Harvard in math doesn’t translate into anything resembling common sense.
For a...
January 2012
37 posts
“What Governor Romney just said is that government-run top-down medicine is...”
– Rick Santorum, responding to Mitt Romney in the GOP debate, 1/26/12
“What results is a society built not on mutual benefit, as with capitalism, but...”
– Jonathan Hoenig (Capitalist Pig blog) gives the libertarian response to the State of the Union address and his solution to what ails America. http://sm.wsj.com/xg18kw
SOTU omission: no good wishes for Sen. Mark... →
“The trouble with a bad show,” he sighed, “is that you can make it better but you...”
– Mark Steyn, National Review, The Corner. http://bit.ly/zCMcXz
“The portrait of the first couple in Jodi Kantor’s new book, “The Obamas,”...”
– Maureen Dodd in the New York Times, http://nyti.ms/x1dlEj.
Why Tea Party conservatives understand we need...
Newt Gingrich probably is as surprized as anyone to find himself the victor in the South Carolina Republican primary. The coastal pundits are tearing their hair out to undermine his win over the well-primed Mitt Romney: Democrats, because Newt undermines their master campaign plan (a.k.a. Occupy Wall Street/class warfare); establishment Republicans because Newt challenges the conventional wisdom...
Some Democrats come around to the need to stop the...
Chicago Public Schools still fight for the bottom of the heap - aided and abetted, as always, by the teachers’ unions. While Mayor Emanuel appears to be taking the high road by challenging the established bureaucracies running the (failing) city public schools, the forces for the entrenched unions always seem to find new ways to put students last. Two years ago, a movement began to unionize...
IL 9th District taxpayers: here's your... →
via RebelPundit
Illinois wins the race to the bottom: Gov. Walker... →
via MarathonPundit.
“If I were in South Carolina, I’d vote for Gingrich.”
– Sarah Palin
“He was simply unwillingly to make the Faustian bargains with the Right that...”
– David Axelrod, of the Chicago School of Politics, speaking about the departure of Jon Huntsman. #RINO1% Read more at http://bit.ly/yE6EV1.
War is hell, especially when you send in the... →
RebelPundit goes nuclear.
G8/NATO/OccupyChicago: who will pay and how much?
Lots to wonder about in the upcoming media and Democrat-base circus - also know as the G8/NATO meetings - this May in Chicago. How will the OccupyChicago moochers fit into the campaign to destroy the Axelrod-annointed GOP candidate, Mitt Romney? Well, it’s pretty obvious who will be paying for all that extra (no longer temporary) police power attached to Mayor Rahmulus: the crony capitalist...
“Republican politicians don’t know who they are … Their voters know...”
– John Kass in the Chicago Tribune. http://trib.in/wYZo8w
Can it be? Is the stale New Trier Township...
New Trier Township, located on Chicago’s North Shore, might be characterized as a microcosm of the political realm that is reasonable, careful, moderate - and about two decades out of date. The township’s regular Republican organization met today (1.14.12) to endorse candidates in contested elections for the March 21st primary; about 24 people (out of six-plus villages) showed up to...
Whenever you hear the argument, "it's old news,"...
http://bit.ly/xXTUP7
“Democrats and their media allies have been busy measuring Romney for the Occupy...”
– Have the Not-Mitts given up - and will we all end up settling for the “most electable” who actually will ensure Obama’s reelection? Read more: http://nyp.st/Anail9
“No matter how much we borrow, no matter how much we raise taxes and fees, no...”
– IL State Senate candidate Dr. Arie Friedman, responding to the downgrade of Illinois’ bond rating from A1 to A2 last Friday. www.friedmanforsenate.com
“But when Congress refuses to act, and as a result, hurts our economy and puts...”
– Shaker Heights, OH on CNN. 1.5.12. Why we are afraid of this statist, imperial presidency.
“When a civilisation loses its faith, it loses its future. When it recovers its...”
– British Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. Read his entire essay on the importance of the Judeo-Christian underpinnings to our poltical and cultural freedoms: http://www.chiefrabbi.org/ReadArtical.aspx?id=1843. H/T Joseph Morris.
December 2011
26 posts
