Quote du jour

Judgment, serendipity and something left over to wrap the fish, all neatly folded, in living color, and thrown at no extra cost into the bushes. All for just a few cents a day. It’s called a newspaper.

-"Punch" (father of "Pinch")Sulzberger of the NY Times

Well, he got the part about wrapping the fish right!

Allen West's SSN Revealed By Opponent

Could it be because he's black?? Sorry! I was just channeling some of my liberal acquaintances there! In the Democrats-Have-No-Shame, Dirty Tricks department, Allen West's Democrat opponent has dug up a five year old tax lien against Mr. West, which has since been resolved, which they published along with his Social Security number!

Didn't the Dems do something similar when Michael Steele, then Lt. Governor, was running for office in Maryland?

BALTIMORE -- Federal prosecutors have opened an inquiry into allegations that two Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee employees illegally tapped into Lt. Gov. Michael Steele's credit history.

Maybe the canard about how unfriendly the Republican Party is to black candidates would evaporate if the the supposedly liberal, Liberal Democrats would stop violating the privacy of any conservative black who runs for office and stop assassinating the character of conservative blacks like Clarence Thomas?

I suppose that's too much to ask for!

H/T Riehl World View
Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel, Say Anything, Lady Cincinnatus

Quote du jour

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors"

-Plato

New Ten Buck Friday Poll is Up

This week's Ten Buck Friday poll is up. Make your voice heard! We've seen a lot of encouraging victories lately, but we cannot ease up yet. November is almost upon us...



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Eleanor Holmes Norton Puts the Arm on Lobbyist

Did you hear this tape? Big Government had a piece on it last week. I heard it on the radio, but was locked in mortal combat with Bill Gates' Windows, so this is my first chance to comment on it.

Eleanor Holmes Norton first came to my attention back around the Clinton administration or maybe just a little before. She was a friend of Hillary and a big advocate for liberal causes, most of them surrounding The Children™.

She was always big on being appointed to posts where she could affect policy, mostly around the District of Columbia, but to my knowledge, has never won elective office.

But, it's not just putting the arm on a lobbyist, who apparently contributed to many of her colleagues, but not her (give you any hint, Eleanor?), note the clumsy and banal fashion in which she does it: She leaves him a cotton pickin' voicemail, for heaven's sake! (I almost forgot to work "Cotton pickin'" into this piece!) She wants to hit this guy up for money but she drones on and on to a tape recorder? Whatever happened to the personal touch? Why not, "Hi! This is Eleanor Holmes Norton and I have a couple of things I'd like to talk to you about. My number is 555-GiveMeMoney, please call so we can chat sometime!" And then at least have the decency to put the arm on him in person!

Instead, she leaves him a message with all the warmth of a melting glacier and the personal touch of a xeroxed Christmas letter.
The only way it could have been worse is if she had opened with: Dear "insert name here"!

DTV Shredder

...for those who like their skateboards armored! Gentlemen: Start your Christmas lists!



The DTV Shredder looks like what the Segway should have been: All terrain. Top speed 30 M.P.H. Remote control awesomeness! What more could a guy want???

H/T Carolyn

Obama's Middle Class Honesty Cuts

Obama would much rather control the narrative than control the economy. This is nowhere more apparent than in the administration's attempt to spin the extension of the Bush era tax cuts into "Obama's middle class tax cuts".

An extension would merely maintain the status quo. Your tax rate in January would be the same as it is today. No cut. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. But in Democrat-speak, not raising your taxes the way the Democrats wanted (it was they who voted to make Bush's tax cuts temporary), is granting you a tax cut.

This hearkens back to the old Congressional accounting system where a tax increase was proposed, Congress Critters would vote for a figure smaller than the one proposed, that was still a tax increase, yet they would brag (with the MSM as their willing accomplices) that they had "cut taxes" (from the proposed increase, not actually).

Thus, anyone advocating not raising anyone's taxes in our currently weak economy, is advocating...wait for it..."tax cuts for the rich". Or what we call in a little place I like to call reality: Leaving things the way they are.

Raising taxes in a recession is a bad idea. The fact that the Obama administration is contemplating raising anyone's taxes, borders on malfeasance if not incompetence.
The fact that they want to portray not raising your taxes as a "tax cut" either speaks of how ill acquainted these guys are with reality or honesty (or both). It also illustrates the liberals' view of who your money belongs to. It belongs to the government, according to them. For letting you keep a portion of that, you should be grateful.

The fact that they want to portray not raising taxes on small businesses and "the rich", as a tax cut", (i.e., people who might be in a position to actually create jobs), Obama, Pelosi and Co. demonstrate that they would much rather control the narrative than to provide meaningful or effective leadership to the country and an end to Obama's Economic Malaise.