SITYS: Jimmy Carter (redux)

David Reilly

Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama is starting to look like the second coming of Jimmy Carter. If he’s going to avoid that fate, the president had better take radical action — and fast.

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• POPULISM? Frankly, I have always had my difficulties with political populism.  But it strikes me is nothing shy of hilarious that

Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard, thinks the use of the word professor in a political oontext is racist,  Inside Higher Education:

If the term professor is used in politics, it’s seldom a compliment, and instead “implies dry, hectoring, unemotional, self

Rush Limbaugh uses the term ‘retarded” a lot,  video:

Hat tip video: Media Spatters.

Tim Shriver, Special Olympics, soils his nappies, from Ben Smith, Politico:

But the Special Olympics, which organized a delegation that ultimately accepted Emanuel’s apology and

Word from the AP that a serious threat was brought to justice in DC today:

WASHINGTON — A man was taken into custody and later hospitalized for a mental observation after he took off all of his clothes and began

Radicial Islam has been waging war on the United State at least since 1993.

Yet the dim one, b/k/a President Barack Obama continues to find attacks against in and against our country to be “incomprehensible.”    Claudia  Rosett, Forbes, try

The purpose of an Army has been described as kill people and break things.   As such people who excel at leading units dedicated to such tasks, killing people and breaking things, are not noted for nuance.   Case in point,  William

There’s a  number of people last night heaping praise on Obama’s speech at Ft Hood yesterday.  Predictably,  Marc Armbinder is one of them:

Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they’ll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was

I actually like the headline James Joyner puts up at a bit better:

House Trades Freedom for Health Coverage, Senate’s Move

The House passed a trillion dollar bill that will force Americans to buy health insurance, force even small businesses

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We’re in November already. The kids around here spent evening before last one drink from door to door demanding candy or what

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• THE OBAMACARE FALLOUT: The Politico’s David Rodgers scored an interview with Queen Nancy yesterday. It’s posted here. Says Rodgers:
  

  Even before

Even Howard Dean called this “reform” plan crazy! “Reform” is in quotes because calling this reform is a lie.This is not reform it’s a complete socialist take over health care with rationing of care for the old and undesirable. If

George Will, Washington Post,  October 5:

Presidents often come to be characterized by particular adjectives: “honest” Abe Lincoln, “Grover the Good” Cleveland, “energetic” Theodore Roosevelt, “idealistic” Woodrow Wilson, “Silent Cal” Coolidge, “confident” FDR, “likable” Ike Eisenhower. Less happily, there