The Ramble for 12-21-11

Fultonville, NY– I’m at a rest area along the New York Thruway, after having turned around 500 miles today. Not much to report, really.

• Saithood?  I commend to your reading an article by Thomas Sowell. I made a point

How dumb is Dumbo, from Monty Pelerin, American Thinker:

Two hypotheses are often cited to explain why things have gotten so much worse:

1. Obama is incompetent.
2. Obama knows what he is doing and is deliberately destroying the country.

Leaders lead, Dumbo shucks, from Daily Caller:

A cascade of bad economic and political news knocked President Barack Obama off his game today, and prompted him to revive his 2008-style criticism of his predecessor, and also to suggest

Bye-bye binny, from New York Times:

WASHINGTON — The adult sons of Osama bin Laden have lashed out at President Obama over their father’s death, accusing the United States of violating its basic legal principles by killing an

Question Mr. President, from Ann Althouse:

So… was bin Laden shot because he resisted — the official story — or because a live, captured bin Laden would have torn the Obama administration apart?

More over, did the White

Dumbo relents, three years after Mrs. Clinton raised the issues and after months of the media claiming that it was legally impossible, Barack Obama finally  releases his long form certificate of live birth, from William Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Who we Paleface? From Gail Collins, New York Times:

As if we didn’t have enough wars, the House of Representatives has declared one against Planned Parenthood.

Maybe it’s all part of a grand theme. Last month, they voted to

The smartest democrat in Congress, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (TX -18), from Philip Klein, American Spectator:

Arguing that the Commerce Clause provides the constitutional basis for ObamaCare, Jackson Lee said repealing the law by passing Republicans’

Ain’t no free lunch, from Thomas Sowell, RCP:

Once you buy the idea that the government should be a sort of year-around Santa Claus, you have bought the kinds of consequences that follow.

The results are not pretty,

Self-Promotion, from by Jay Tea, Wizbang:

I Want A Promotion!

Published: October 5, 2010 – 11:00 AM Hey, Kevin? I think it’s time we once again reconsidered my title around these parts. After all, if Andrew Sullivan’s blog

Professor Thomas Sowell – 1, Dumbo – 0, Obamcare meets Basic Economics, loses, Patteico’s Pontifications:

So what do you think might happen if you sought to make health insurance more widely available for children — by simply mandating

Disarmament is fool’s gold, Thomas Sowell, RCP:

But the only country we can disarm is our own. The only countries we might be able to persuade to disarm are countries that intend no harm in the first place.

Libtards against choice I, Boston Globe:

No surprise, then, that ADL takes a hard line against school-choice voucher programs, which give parents the wherewithal to rescue their children from failing public schools and enroll them in private schools

Liberal is synonym for stupid.   Dim witted Senators want to wreck economy to solve imaginary problem:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new Senate bill aimed at battling global warming would impose new limits on carbon dioxide pollution from

Disgusting, TFD, from Elizabeth Scalia, Anchoress,    I have a few suggestions for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to tell Dim Won where he can put his finger.   Suggstion?

Tea Party getting results, Sean Higgins, Investors Business Daily