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Article Roundup for June 11, 2010

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Much to catch up on!

Iran and the ‘Freedom Recession’ – Fouad Ajami of the Wall Street Journal comments on the wretched response of the current president to the plight of Iranian dissidents being crushed by the mullahs.

The Cuckoo’s Nest – David Harsanyi of the Denver Post mocks the bitching and moaning of leftists who find normal people like Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman to be out-of-step kooks.

Brown: Goebbels crack ‘jogging talk’ – Maggie Haberman of The Politico writes on Jerry “California Über Alles” Brown’s nasty crack against Meg Whitman. No one talks to that lunatic because he is a gaffe machine that would make Vice-President Biden look as eloquent as William F. Buckley.

For Your Weekend Reading – If John Derbyshire is recommending books for your perusal, you may want to take him up on it. As a fine author on the subject of mathematics, he has impeccable taste in reading material. He will post his list at the Wall Street Journal, and I will place the link here when it’s up.

IPN announces Ninth Annual Bastiat Prize Competition – From the website: “For the ninth year, International Policy Network (IPN) is accepting submissions for its annual Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The Prize is open to writers anywhere in the world whose published articles eloquently and wittily explain, promote and defend the principles and institutions of the free society. Submissions must be received on or before 30 June 2010.”

Politically Correct Warfare – Arnold Ahlert of Jewish World Review wonders why the West has lost its spine when it comes to warfare.

Lee Harvey Oswald and the Liberal Crack-Up – An interesting essay by James Pierson of Commentary Magazine on where liberalism became unhinged.

New Silicon Graffiti Video: 1969—The Death of Modernism – Ed Driscoll offers more in regards to the liberal crackup.

Liberal Fascism: The Font – Another by Ed Driscoll. I love typography, and am probably among a handful of conservatives who enjoy avant-garde art movements. There’s something to the Helvetica font being utterly fascistic, though.

Conservatives for Kagan – Is Stuart Taylor at The Atlantic Magazine serious?! I didn’t know June 11 was a second April Fool’s Day.

A Special Relationship in Jeopardy – Eric Edelman comments on the sad state of affairs the Anglo-American relationship is in.

Clearinghouse Day

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Today is cleanup day for me. I ran the broken link checker, and to my surprise, only nine links died on me, and were easily fixed. I have thousands of links that need clearing from Firefox, so I leave you with this grab-bag of thought provoking articles I thought might be timeless enough to warrant your attention. Enjoy!

He’s Not Our Daddy

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Nothing is more obnoxious than condescension. It’s made even worse when it comes from an incompetent leader trying to masquerade as a father figure. Rich Lowry has more here, courtesy of National Review Online.

The Case Against Keynes (With Some Questions for Krugman, Too)

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

I have a dear friend of mine who has served as something of a spiritual mentor for years. He is brilliant in many ways, very conservative socially and religiously, but is a died-in-the-wool liberal from the 1960s who has yet to shake off the last vestiges of this poison. He insists Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning phony and hack for the disastrous Obama Administration, is worth taking seriously. I figure that when the Nobel cesspool that poses as a committee shows more balance in its choices rather than reflexively giving their doorstop of an award to hacks like him, they may be worth listening to again. In the meantime, Krugman, the great champion of economist John Maynard Keynes, boasts that “America is not Greece” when it comes to the nation’s fiscal disarray. “It’s worse,” says William Galston of The New Republic, a left-wing paper if there ever was one, as he sees America’s economy turning into one similar to the Japanese one which has been moribund for nearly three decades.

Rush Limbaugh: I know I’ll be destroyed eventually

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

I find it rather hard to believe that someone as so powerful and ubiquitous to political discussion such as Rush Limbaugh would consider himself a target for destruction. For the past 20 years, he has swatted the gnats who attack him with ease and amusement. If he was ever marked for destruction, it probably would have been under the Clinton presidency. Still, there is a segment of American society who drool at the prospect of Limbaugh being taken out. Such is the price for success in political pugilism.

Cuba Bites

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

As if one needed any more proof, Jay Nordlinger of The Corner at National Review Online write on and links to video showing protester and filmaker Alexandra Joner getting attacked by the Cuban Ambassador’s wife, all while she insulted Joner with names beneath the dignity of her station. Norway should give the biter in question a boot to the rear and consider penalizing the Cuban Embassy as well for this disgusting display.

Go back to Mexico

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

The disgusting display but on by Mexican President Felipe Calderón raised the ire of many Americans who have tired of the growing lawlessness in the borders of the Southwest portion of the country. I myself live in California, about 1 1/2 hour’s drive from San Diego, where we have our fair share of border-jumping. As there has been no serious effort to curb illegal entry (to call it immigration smacks the face of those who worked so hard to enter the country by legal means), states like Arizona are forced to deal with the issue themselves, federal government be damned.

The Washington Times excoriates the cretinous Mexican president, who has a large plate of domestic problems he should be handling (like controlling his own southern border, where Mexican federales routinely abuse Central Americans) and handling narco-trafficking scum rather than serving as a lackey for the current administration by mouthing their talking points. We need no lectures from a failed leader.

NKorea Warns of War on Sinking Row

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

Newsmax reports that a skirmish in where a South Korean ship was sunk has placed the Korean peninsula on the brink of war. North Korea, not surprisingly, continues using the sort of rhetoric that one would expect from a dying Communist puppet state in threatening war if sanctions are placed against it, but sinking a ship would be a valid excuse for South Korea to do all that it could to break the grip of the Kim clan on Pyongyang.

Editorial: Twilight of the Establishment

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Tuesday’s election cycle is boding well not merely for the Republican Party in battering the Democrats, but for a good cleasing within the walls of the GOP halls itself. It’s about time. I’m no fan of Rand Paul, but if people are angry enough to vote for anti-establishment candidates, this could force a change of behavior in Washington, D.C. The Washington Examiner’s Editorial Board comments on Tuesday’s implications here.

Setting the Record Straight on Grassroots Jihadism

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Scott Stewart of STRATFOR analyzes trends stemming from the failed carbomb attack perpetrated by Faisal Shahzad and possibly others.