‘Daily Right’ Archives
Daily Right 9/2/10
The President’s Speech I’ve got to be honest, I didn’t watch.  Almost every word the man says in public is a lie, so I feel more than safe reading the transcript the next day.  Let’s just say that my distrust for the President on this issue comes from his disdain for the surge that actually won the war. *Obama said this about [...]
Daily Right 8/31/10
*How dare you wing-nuts save money and pay down your debt, you’re destroying Recovery Summer! *You shall be re-educated comrade, count on it. “Re-education” has been a favorite effort by tyrannies over the past century or so, mainly (but not exclusively) communist.  The most notorious programs came in China, Cambodia, and Vietnam, [...]
Daily Right 8/30/10
Glenn Beck and the Restore America Rally *70 Percent of Americans Know They’ve Been Conned, by Hugh Hewitt. “Two years into what had been sold as a new politics and a new approach, the 70 percent are fully aware that they have been conned, suckered, and taken to the cleaners by a hyper-ideological amalgam of leftist public intellectuals, [...]
Daily Right 8/24/10
ObamaCare *For Obamacare Supporters, Judgement Day Approaches, by Byron York. *Medical Care Facts and Fables, by Thomas Sowell. Cordoba House *“It’s beyond Islamaphobia, it’s hate of Muslims.” Daisy Khan, co-creator of the Ground Zero Mosque. *Richard Cohen’s latest drivel hits most of the elite’s themes regarding those [...]
Daily Right 8/17/10
Ground Zero Mosque *Two MSDNC anchors, two forms of insanity.  1.  According to Keith Olbermann, those who oppose the Cordoba House are Nazi Indian killers and 2. Norah O’Donnell compares opponents to the 9/11 hijackers.  Jeff G. at Protein Wisdom sums these positions up quite nicely: “It’s come to this: if we don’t let the [...]
Daily Right 8/11/10
Political Ruling Class *Stimulus Pushers, at the WSJ. “So in the name of still another "stimulus," Democrats are rewarding their own political funders, putting the most fiscally responsible states into even greater distress, and postponing the day of reckoning for spendthrift states.” *Enough, by Peter Kirsanow. “The contempt [...]
Daily Right 8/3/10
*America’s Ruling Class—And the Perils of Revolution, by Angelo M. Codevilla. "Our ruling class's agenda is power for itself. While it stakes its claim through intellectual-moral pretense, it holds power by one of the oldest and most prosaic of means: patronage and promises thereof. Like left-wing parties always and everywhere, it is a [...]
Daily Right 7/28/10
Malaise *How to Bankrupt a Country in Three Easy Steps, by Roger Kimball. “What is happening all around us is like a real-life dramatization of those pages Alexis de Tocqueville devoted to “democratic despotism.” There are two sides to this novel form of tyranny. The fundamental political question, said Lenin, is “Who-Whom?” For [...]
Daily Right 7/27/10
The Administration *Obama: Post-Racial, Post-Partisan, or Post-Sanity, by Dan Miller. “The beatings must continue until morale improves; besides, the beatings mean more government employees to administer and regulate the beatings which the “little people” of the country will feel but can’t comprehend. This stimulates employment and [...]
Daily Right 7/20/10
*Do Not Trust the Republicans, by Kevin D. Williamson. “Check out the spending under your guys, Senator McConnell. Notice how it doesn’t go down? This is why nobody trusts Republicans on spending: because Republicans have not earned anybody’s trust.” RELATED: Lott Confirms He’s a Paid Tool of the Washington Establishment, by [...]
Daily Right 7/16/10
President Obama *We Only Expected Competence, by Abe Greenwald. “It somehow has never dawned on the Obama devotees who like to cite the administration’s “inherited mess” that this president’s failures don’t exactly reflect the over cautiousness of a leader constrained by a crisis. Taking over one-sixth of the private sector in an [...]
Daily Right 6/14/10
*It’s Not “Just the Economy, Stupid” This Time, by Sean Trende. “The bottom line is that Obama’s approval ratings are almost certainly influenced by economic conditions. But a controversial energy bill, a prolonged, contentious fight over health policy, and yes, even a “snakebit”response to the oil spill, have had a substantial [...]
Daily Right 6/13/10 (Delayed)
Religion of Peace *I know this is going to shock you, but the artist who started “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” has been marked for death. *The Muslim Civil War, by Barry Rubin. *Bedtime Stories for the Muslim World, by Rich Lowry. “The short version of the story is that in the battle between science and religious obscurantism in [...]
Daily Right 7/7/10
Economy *Dare we say the D word? “The US is still trapped in depression a full 18 months into zero interest rates, quantitative easing (QE), and fiscal stimulus that has pushed the budget deficit above 10pc of GDP. The share of the US working-age population with jobs in June actually fell from 58.7pc to 58.5pc. This is the real stress [...]
Daily Right 6/30/10
2nd Amendment *Gun Shy, by Jacob Sullum. “In their dissenting opinions, Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer (joined by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor) worry that overturning gun control laws undermines democracy. If "the people" want to ban handguns, they say, "the people" should be allowed to implement that desire [...]
Daily Right 6/29/10
2nd Amendment.  Victory.  Supreme Court overturns Chicago gun ban, recognizes (again) individual right to bear and keep arms. *Gun Prohibition, R.I.P, by David Rittgers. “A generation from now, legal and policy discussions will look back and see gun control for the sham that it has always been. The real shame is that it took decades of [...]
Daily Right 6/22/10
*Of Course It’s a Shakedown, by J.E. Dyer. “Joe Barton (R-TX) is right: the $20 billion escrow fund is a shakedown. Not because BP isn’t liable for the oil spill, and not because BP shouldn’t help the people losing their livelihoods on the Gulf Coast. But because Obama extorting the escrow fund from BP is an exercise of executive [...]
Daily Right 6/21/10
*Tea Partiers Late to the Party, by Matt Patterson. "The painful truth is this: To give them the kind of government that the Tea Partiers they would like, the new and virtuous Republicans we are promised would have to abolish whole swaths of the federal government as it is currently constituted, including extremely popular programs, [...]
Daily Right 6/16/10: Speech Roundup Edition
The President’s Address: *Obama Promises a Brighter Day (Details to Come), by Roger Simon. *Obama’s Disaster of a Disaster Speech, by Ed Morrisey. “During the 2008 campaign, we repeatedly criticized Obama’s lack of executive experience, but perhaps even Obama’s critics might be surprised to see how badly Obama has performed in [...]
Daily Right 6/15/10
*Obama’s Destruction of Capitalism, by Dr. Tim Ball. “Ultimately, environment and climate change are of no consequence to this administration. Despite all the rhetoric they’ve done virtually nothing to deal with the oil disaster in the Gulf and they’ve let BP fumble. It suggests political opportunities of denigrating industry outweigh [...]
Daily Right 6/14/10
*The Other National Debt, by Kevin Williamson.  $130 Trillion and counting my friends.  130 Trillion seconds ago, the first hominids were starting to walk upright. *Beating up protestors and journalists, not just for unions anymore: *Cap and Traitors, at IBD. “This country was born over anger at taxation without representation. [...]
Daily Right 6/11/10
*Helen Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel, by Victor Davis Hanson. “I used to think that oil, Arab demography, fear of Islamic terrorism, and blowback from its close association with the United States explained the global double standard that is applied to Israel. But after the hysteria over the Gaza flotilla, the outbursts of [...]
Daily Right 6/10/10
*Free Speech, Use It Or Lose It, by Paul Hsieh. “But free speech is important not merely because it facilitates some progressive notion of the “public interest.” Free speech is essential to human life. Man’s primary means of survival is his mind. In order to live, we must be free to reason and think. Hence we must be left free to [...]
Daily Right 6/9/10
*Prince Charles more than half-way converted to Islam: “Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic “spiritual principles” in order to save the environment. In a high-profile speech, the heir to the throne argued that man’s destruction of the world was contrary to the scriptures of all religions — but particularly [...]
Daily Right 6/8/10 (Updated: Links fixed)
*The Limits of the Welfare State, by George Will. “Wilsonian progressives believe that History is a proper noun, an autonomous thing. It, rather than nature, defines government's ever-evolving and unlimited purposes. Government exists to dispense an ever-expanding menu of rights -- entitlements that serve an open-ended understanding of [...]
Daily Right 5/27/10
*Why the Surprise? By Mark Krikorian. “Notwithstanding recent events, the main political divide in the coming years is not going to be between right and left, big vs. small government, pro-life vs. pro-choice, etc. These fights will continue, of course, but overarching them will be the divide between patriots and post-Americans. Andy writes [...]
Daily Right 5/25/10
*The House Divided, by Andrew C. McCarthy. A nation is a big, bumptious thing. It needn’t agree on everything. It can even bitterly disagree on major things. But to be a nation, a People, it has to agree that it has a shared destiny: that its unique culture, core principles, and independence are worth preserving, protecting, and [...]
Daily Right 5/17/20
*Crony Capitalism: From GM to Greece, the lies keep growing, by George Will. “Now American taxpayers also own a little bit of a small nation. They provide the U.S. contribution of 17 percent of the assets of the International Monetary Fund, which is giving Greece $39 billion (the IMF also is contributing $321 billion to a "stabilization" fund [...]
Daily Right 5/12/10
The Economy (What’s Left of It) *The Case for Doom and Gloom, by John B. Judis. “Brenner’s analysis of the current downturn can be boiled down to a fairly simple point: that the underlying cause of the current downturn lies in the “real” economy of private goods and service production rather than in the financial sector, and that [...]
Daily Right 5/11/10
*Regaining My Religion: The Rise of the Cult of Obama, by Ace. "The article discusses (obliquely) what I think is an important driver in all this, that great masses of Americans have rejected and repudiated, they think, the non-rational desire for religious meaning in their lives. But what they've actually done is only reject and repudiate [...]
