There are days for sunny morning walks in the garden, where dew-bejeweled roses release their fragrance on the light breeze.
These are not those days. These are days of harsh realities demanding sharp answers. This is now … time for thorns.

A parable with Obama…

If you don’t know where this country is being taken by His Oneness,  read  this,  learn from it,  and get off your ass!    It is up to us to provide the spine-stiffening needed by politicians we pay to represent us.    It is also our job to help them think,   an activity they try to avoid for the most part.

If you wait for someone else to do it, you will be the guy in the parable,   and learn first-hand that it is a hell of a lot harder to take back a country than it is to fight to keep it.

Obama approval dropping…

Check out the Rasmussen poll,  the Gallup poll,  and the  Quinnipiac University poll.     Does this mean Americans are finally starting to wake  up as their country is being destroyed?

I’d like to think so,  but I’m not betting on it.    Mainstream media is still the eager poodle of His Oneness and simply doesn’t report his flat-out lies.    In fact,  I think only FOX News reported on his whopper in Moscow about meeting his future wife in a college class,  which simply is not true.

If the Bush White House had a garden which tested positive for lead, do you think this is the only story you would have seen about it?   True,  the major outlets did mention it in passing,  but the focus was on the fact that the level was so low it posed no danger.    And almost none of them mentioned that children had been working on the plot and eating things grown there.     Eight months ago the headline would have read:  “Bush tries to poison children!”

The most you’ll get on the Obama administration is such amusing bloopers as this .

Obama, op-ed writer…

“Rebuilding Something Better” — that’s the title of Obama’s op-ed today in the Washington Post.

The title rubbed me the wrong way,  and the whole piece is a whine by His Oneness that the fiscal mess isn’t his fault,  never mind that every action he has taken seems designed to make it worse.

Stephen Spruiell presents a brutal annotation of the piece.

I don’t imagine His Oneness actually wrote any of the column, but it reminds me of all the jobs his job-killing,  wealth-destroying actions were going to create,  and then it was all the jobs they would save or create.    Now he is positioned to take credit for any economic recovery,  which will most certainly be in spite of his policies,  not because of them.

Obama is a skilled politician,  but a disastrous leader,  unless you like following lemmings hurdling over cliffs.

Keith Hennessey has also taken a meat cleaver to the op-ed.

Thomas Sowell, Part V…

In the final installment,  Sowell argues that the Obama administration is a great deal less intent on reviving the economy than on forever altering the relationship of Americans to the federal government, and he uses health care reform to prove it.

Cap ‘n trade music…

Watch this short, amusing video about cap and trade,  featuring Uncle Sam.

The Iranian drama continues…

Rather to my astonishment,  a group of leading clerics have called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate.  That they would dare act in defiance is surely a sign that the regime has been weakened.

Amir Taheri has some thoughts on the subject here.     I do think Steve Clemons is correct in saying that Khamenei’s mystique has been shattered from an Iranian viewpoint.      If nothing else good comes of this,  at least  the theocratic thugs have been distracted,  as a terrorist group is complaining that Iran’s regular payments aren’t coming to them.

The Weekly Standard has a useful piece, and Christopher Hitchens wonders if toppling Saddam in Iraq led to current events in Iran.

Thomas Sowell, Part IV…

Sowell explains why New Deal economics flopped eight decades ago and will fail again today in its modern iteration.

This link takes you to the main page so you can catch up on any segments you missed.

Obama’s eye caught…

The New York Post is sure to be one of the very few places in American media that you’ll see this photo of His Oneness and French president Sarkozy checking out the view of a very fetching young lady.    What I found amusing is that Obama looks so physically awkward and off balance, in contrast to the cool grace the media repeatedly mentions.    Atlas Shrugs has another picture of our president checking out a different comely female.

I find it far less amusing that members of the media attended Obama’s July 4th party,  agreed to keep it totally off the record,   and evidently hoped to conceal the fact by using a half-assed pool report.

Bruce Walker at the American Thinker savages the press and government’s influence on it,  here.

Ward Churchill stays jobless!

A federal judge has refused to reinstate Ward Churchill as a professor at the University of Colorado,  despite a jury ruling in April that his firing was politically motivated.    It still amazes me that a jury reached that conclusion in the face of a small mountain of evidence of misconduct in research and writing.

I don’t actually know whether Churchill is gainfully employed or not, but since the ruling not only denies his return to the university,  but also nets him no back pay,  he doesn’t have that expected revenue stream.

Of course the far-left prof will appeal.

Thomas Sowell, Part III…

The third part of the Robinson interview with Sowell is now available.