13 Year Old Ordered to Take American Flag off His Bike….Denair, California

In an article written by Elissa Harrington, “School Makes Boy Take American Flag off Bike!”  we learn the following:

“Thirteen year old Cody Alicea rides with an American flag on the back of his bike.  He’s had the flag on his bike for two months, but Monday was told to take it down.”

I think it was Fox which picked up the story giving the incident a bit of news.   Here is what an Ed Parraz wrote representing the school authority presented  to the public regarding the incident:

“Denair Unified School District”

November 12-2010

Dear DUSD Community:

As most of you are aware, we’ve had a school issue that has risen to the level of national news coverage.  This incident occurred on Monday, November 8th when a campus supervisor asked one of our middle school students to remove and American flag from his bicycle while he was on school grounds.  The request was based on concerns for the student’s immediate safety, and to give school staff time to investigate a potentially dangerous situation, involving threats to the student.

While it is our responsibility to ensure that all students are safe at school, we also support every students’ Amendment rights, we are dealing with the students who threatened to disrupt the school environment.  And the student involved in this incident is now again proudly displaying the flag. 

We recognize we live in the greatest country in the world and that we should all be proud to display the American flag.  It’s unfortunate that the entire story of this issue has not been fully portrayed in the media.  Denair is a wonderful community, filled with hard working committed citizens who support our schools and our democracy.

I’m proud to lead the schools in this community and sincerely hope we can return the focus to our children and their education.  We will be addressing the issue with our Board at our regular meeting, Thursday, November 18, in the District Leadership room located at 3460 Lester Road, Denair.

Sincere Regards,     Ed Parraz      phone 209-632-7514      Denair, California”

Comment:   These public school entities are like fortresses run by kings or queens  who usually behave in lock step authority.   They are always  in fear, whether there is fear near or not.  It is likely there is real fear here….only a guess.  The school authority pumped up everything with all the right words.

It is nature that school authorities attack outsiders.  If they could only be left alone to do their …….well whatever they want to be left alone to do. 

It is this Mr. Ed Parraz that has chosen not to tell the whole story.   The reporter apparently has it quite correct according to what is allowed to be known……..a boy,  an innocent boy rides his bike to school and has done so in the same manner as he has done for two months carrying an American flag on the back of the bike.  He is “asked” according to the school authority, Ed Parraz, to remove the flag…..(“asked” is the educators’ word for “do-it-or-else understanding).   We assume the boy obliged.   And we are told by the authority that it was done for the boy’s own good……a cliche among educators throughout the public school world forty years ago as well as today……for the boy’s own good, but the authority does not tell the public what the boy’s own good was.

It is mentioned the student might have been threatened.   But the student is punished by having his flag removed.  The school authority avoids any description of the threats and who initiated them and what has been corrected regarding the matter.

Yet, the school authority, Ed Parraz, blames the media for an incomplete story…..suggesting that if only the media had the facts there would be no incident……which, by the way would be a lie.

A boy was punished by having school authorities confiscate an American flag from his bycicle.    That doesn’t sound like a good lesson to teach…….

By the way, I’d bet no American flag is displayed in the classrooms in Denair Unified School District.  I am wondering about illegal alien problems no school authority would ever want to talk about.

Do any of you readers actually know what is going on in your school these days of Marxism in America?

Liberals Reject the Facts of Life to Satisfy Feeling Good: Rearrange the Facts to Make Them Politically Correct

The following article by Dennis Prager, “The Liberal Mind Rejects Sad Facts” should be required reading for all who read.  No one knows the Liberal-Left formulae at all levels better than Dennis Prager.  I note only that the Liberal mind is the Female mind, the preference for feelings to soothe, salve,  and calm.  As Dennis notes the female, the left,    emote, rather than  prescribe, test,  and risk-take  to be rational, to seek reason, to be curious  in order to solve problems……the masculine instinct.  

It is the boy who probes by nature.  It is the boy who puts the hairpin into the light socket….who lights a match to alcohol to see what happens……who catches the frog to feed to the snake.

 Marxism, Liberalism and the left in general  are attractive to the female  to satisfy her  drive  to find comfort, peace and security for her more preferred contented life.  

If a woman’s husband is her provider and problem solver, she needs to look no further.  A century ago and even more recently, husband and wife voted as one, because it was in the best interests of the breadwinner of the family, the male.

Human females dream the human is born good.   Boys and parents of boys usually figure out fairly early that born good is only a dream.   

Dennis writes:

“I recently devoted my biweekly column in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles to analyzing why most Jews believe that people are basically good despite the fact that this belief is neither rational nor Jewish. In a lifetime of teaching and writing on Judaism, I have never encountered a single normative statement in 3,000 years of Jewish writing that asserted that man is basically good.

As I expected, the reaction — apparently all from Jewish liberals — was entirely negative. Almost an entire page of the journal was devoted to letters attacking me. One of the seven letters — from a prominent Hollywood screenwriter — bordered on hysteria.

The question is, why?

Why would liberals in general, and Jewish liberals in particular — given the Jews’ singularly horrific history at the hands of other human beings — react so strongly against someone who wrote that people are not basically good?

In my original article, I offered one explanation: Since the Enlightenment, the secular world has had to believe in man (or “humanity”) because if you don’t believe in God and you don’t believe in humanity, you will despair.

But one critic opened my eyes to an even deeper reason most liberals do not acknowledge that people are not basically good.

This is what he wrote:

“What a sad world it would be if we all believed as Dennis Prager that mankind is inherently evil.”

And this is what I responded:

“I did not write that man is inherently evil. I wrote that he is not basically good. And, yes, that does make the world sad. So do disease, earthquakes, death and all the unjust suffering in the world. But sad facts remain facts.”

“A distinguishing characteristic of liberals and leftists,” I concluded, “is their aversion to acknowledging sad facts.”

Years ago, a woman writer, whose name I have unfortunately forgotten, first made me aware of this. She wrote about liberals rejecting many facts about male and female natures. She used the French expression “les faits de la vie” — the facts of life.

The left, she wrote, rejects les faits de la vie.

I believe this is so for two reasons.

First, as with my correspondent above, people on the left tend to be unwilling to accept the sadness and pain that recognition of such facts creates. Leftism is often predicated on avoiding pain. That is a major reason why the left dislikes capitalism and free markets. Free markets create winners and losers, and the left does not like the fact that some people lose and some win.

This antipathy to having losers expresses itself on the micro level as well. Many liberals oppose children playing in competitive sports because they can lose — sometimes by a big score. That is why many schools now emphasize “cooperation instead of competition.” They do not want children experiencing the pain of losing, let alone losing by many points. That is also why liberals introduced the absurd idea of giving sports trophies to all kids who play, win or lose. God forbid that only the winners receive trophies; the kids who didn’t win may experience pain.

Second, the left lives by theories and dogmas into which the facts of life must fit. That is why left-wing ideas are usually wishful thinking.

Though either explanation suffices, the two explanations reinforce each other.

Here are four descriptive statements rejected by the left for these two mutually reinforcing reasons.

1. People are not basically good.

Leftists tend to reject this because a) It is too painful to accept, and b) it undermines the leftist dogma that people do bad because of outside forces — poverty, capitalism, racism, etc.

2. Men and women are inherently different.

Leftists have rejected this idea because some of the differences are too emotionally upsetting to accept. Men are variety-driven by nature? Too upsetting. Women may have less yearning for, and ability in, math and engineering? Only a sexist like former Harvard president Lawrence Summers would say such a thing. Moreover, the belief that men and women are inherently different violates the left’s foundational principle of equality. Many liberals admit that they reject talk of male-female differences because it can easily lead to gender inequality.

3. Black males disproportionately commit violent crime in America.

Leftist reactions to this truly painful fact are to label one who notes it a racist and to decry American society as racist because there are more black males in prison than in college.

4. The United Nations is a moral wasteland.

Since before the U.N.’s founding in 1945, liberals placed much of their hope for a peaceful world in the United Nations. That the U.N. has turned out to be an abettor more than a preventer of violence is a fact that the left finds too painful to acknowledge. And it violates the left-wing belief that nationalism is evil and internationalism is the solution.

It is generally believed that as people grow older, they reject much of the liberalism they believed in when they were young. This is true, and one reason is relevant here: As we get older, we tend to make peace with painful faits de la vie.

Further comment:   Women read fiction for a reason.     When I taught “Modern Problems” to sixteen and seventeen year old public school students, a class covering  contemporary issues in America’s democracy, political and social,  no matter who the boy was, when it came to indentifying social problems framing  them similar to algebraic equations  and especially when judgments were a given known, and the problem was to discover  the reasoning for the judgment,  they got excited every time we did such an exercise.  Girls remained girls.   They wanted good grades, were competitive, but they wanted to know what to read.

I so agree with Dennis that the damage the feminist movement has done to screw up the wonderful natural differences between the sexes, the venom still passed on by the rules of Political Correctness, is as criminal as a crime can be.  It is true that many can be trained far beyond the limits of their nature, but girls should be first celebrated for their natural proclivities  and boys for theirs…….training should never eliminate the truths of nature.

Sarah Palin’s Alaska

Below is a Powerline review, by John Hinderaker.   Well, maybe I have stretched the membership of the review, but Mr. Hinderaker’s view will do:

“Sarah Palin’s Alaska” made its debut on TLC last night. A remarkable five million people, a record for a TLC premiere, tuned in. I’m not surprised: other than sports, I make a point of watching a television show maybe once every six months, but I did tune in to see the Palins. It was a good show: the Palin family is likable, and politics, while often the subtext, rarely intruded overtly.

The Palin family is obviously braver than most. There was spectacular footage of the Palins fishing in shallow water, a few feet from a couple of grizzlies. They fly everywhere in the sort of bush planes that frequently crash, and near the end of the show, Todd and Sarah went rock climbing in Denali National Park. The Palin kids, meanwhile, could easily succeed as sitcom characters. At one point Bristol said to her mother, “Mom, take your prom hair back home.” Piper was prominent last night; she described Sarah as addicted to her Blackberry, and did a pretty funny imitation of her mother typing on an imaginary smart phone.

The real star of the show was Alaska. The program is gorgeously filmed; just about anyone watching must have been jealous of the Palins for having such a spectacular playground.

Naturally, politics colored viewers’ perceptions of the show. Advertising Age began with snark, but had to admit that “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” had no trouble attracting advertisers:

You’d think former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin would be too divisive a figure to attract mainstream advertisers. You might crack that the only marketers likely to consider sponsoring a TV show about her would be a gas-and-oil concern (she has advocated for drilling in Alaska) or an early-pregnancy test (her daughter, “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Bristol, has run into challenges with her ex-boyfriend after getting pregnant).

Would you be incorrect? You betcha!

A bevy of mainstream advertisers lined up to support the debut of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” on Discovery Communications’ TLC channel Sunday night.

Confounding liberal “sophisticates” is easy. Palin could do it in her sleep. From a friendlier perspective, what does the TLC show do for, or to, her political prospects? So far, at least, it appears that the program will cement Palin’s status as on icon of the right. The Alaska imagery and emphasis on family will reinforce her fans’ image of her. While some have criticized the idea of a potential Presidential candidate participating in a reality show, I didn’t see anything last night that would be damaging to Palin’s career; on the contrary. My own complaint is entirely aesthetic: I find the tone of Palin’s voice grating. But her fans don’t seem to care.

I’m still not sure whether Sarah Palin wants to be a Presidential candidate or a kingmaker and cultural leader, but either way, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” strikes me as another stroke in a brilliantly-executed marketing campaign.”

Comment:  I had heard S. Palin had some soap opera type program cooked up for television about her family and Alaska.  I remember smiling….and said, (to myself), I’ll be she’ll pull it off. 

Sarah Palin is her weight in dynamite.  I think I like everything about her, especially the caribou slayer part, her energy, her small town refreshing spirits, her values, and usually her performances and accomplishments.   But her voice is so abrasive it grates against all the good smiles, tones and deeds she performs.  It’s an outstate northern Minnesota tongue that one gets used to unless the speaker of that tongue is a national figure.

Hillary had an abrasive tongue and still does upon occasion when she forgets where she is.  I confess she has polished up the clips and flat piercing tones.   Maybe she’s simply getting old and isn’t as abrasive over all as was her early calling.

Some of the worst sounding tones in American noise  come from the mouths of the bimbo models at Fox Television news.   The human ear was not made to endure such punishment.

I do like Sarah Palin, but  I am not sure that includes a presidency in her future.   She knows how to live in a democracy and is willing to defend it.   How American can one get.

One postscript.  I forecasted John McCain would pick the Governor of Alaska for his veep candidate in 2008.  I have witnesses to prove this, one of my few  correct guesses in politics.  I thought it was a great decision and still do.  She has proven to be all the good talked her way at the time.  

But at this point in the picture,  she is not a natural as an  antiObama candidate…….one who will overwhelm him by merely being  present in the same room  and control the topics of debate and conversation especially  those  in so many  areas in which the president  is repeatedly  disingenuous.   She will never be the person to make him tail spin as is Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, for example.  

I hope she does not seek the presidency.    I might have to tune in to  one of her Alaska shows though.

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Massive Voter Fraud Reported in Massachusetts

This article was found at Pajamas Media.  The alleged schemers are, of course, Democrats performing a public service helping elect Democrats.   I’d guess that public funds aids and abets these frauds:

The Pajamas article:

“Neighbor to Neighbor describes itself thusly:

Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts is a progressive organization of working class, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic people working together to build political and economic power to improve the quality of lives in our communities. As members, we lead the change ourselves through education & training, issue & electoral organizing, policy advocacy, alliance building, community-controlled economic development, and holding decision-makers accountable.

We seek to create a powerful movement for economic and social justice that builds a participatory and responsive democracy to transform people’s lives and the political and economic structures that impact them.

You get the drill. Needless to say, N2N declared VICTORY! following the election day’s results. What went into it? Let’s hear from some witnesses:

Attached is a photo I took when a Neighbor to Neighbor organizer escorted a voter into the booth as an “interpreter” [See above]. Funny; the ballots were bi-lingual so I didn’t see the need for an interpreter. She was coaching voters to vote all “D’s” and on a few occasions she actually had the pen in her hand.

I was almost kicked out by the police officer who was sitting in the room when I took this photo but I told him I’d be more cooperative and sat back down. Soon after this photo the Baker legal team [Charles Baker, Republican candidate for governor] was able to convince the warden and the officer that this woman was not allowed to escort any more voters to the booths. She quickly changed tactics and started sending people in with a sample ballot filled out so the voter would just copy it. Incredible!

If you look closely at the photo, the Neighbor to Neighbor logo is a big fish eating a little fish. The big fish is a collection of dozens of little fish. I asked one of the organizers who was poll watching as well (that’s another story), what the logo meant and she said it represented the “people” eating people like you. I responded that the logo to me more aptly represented all of us together as Americans eating the government. She did not respond; go figure.

This Neighbor to Neighbor team was a combination of a local leader who knew everybody and some out of state help to bang on doors and coordinate driving people to the polls. They are very good at what they do.”

Comment:  Books have been written about voter fraud for decades.  Nearly all such frauds on  a grand scale,  occur in the inner cities throughout  the country.  

Charlie Rangel, Showman, Disappears from His Ethics Trial…..Claims Poverty

Weeks and weeks, months and months have dragged on; stalling, stalling, and today, Charlie Rangel’s day to broadcast loudly and clearly that he was too innocent to be accused of graft….too effective a politician,  too dedicated in perfrming public service for his New York…..and  today was the day for his pronouncement of total innocence and proof of total innocence,l, the poor beleagured Harlem Representative had whined.

The day came, and so did Charlie Rangel.  So did the Ethics Panel.  But Charlie had a better idea than to plea innocent…..He pled poverty, and left the proceedings.

The following is an article written at Politico by John Bresnahan

“After his dramatic walkout from a high stake ethics trial, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) now awaits judgment from the ethics panel that has heard the evidence against him and has ended the public portion of the trial.

The ethics panel, after an unexpected 40-minute private session Monday, rejected Rangel’s request to delay the trial and forged ahead with its business, plowing through piles of evidence about Rangel’s corruption case. The witness chair where Rangel was supposed to sit was empty, a sobering sign of Rangel’s refusal to participate.

 

Now, the special panel hearing the case decided to accept a motion stating all the evidence presented by ethics committee lawyers on Rangel’s guilt was fact. The panel then retired to deliberate in secret over Rangel’s fate.

It was a fitting end for a wild day, and the only question now is whether Rangel will be found guilty or innocent. Judging upon the way things have gone so far, the chances of Rangel being cleared appear very low.

The Rangel trial, overseen by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who is also the chairwoman of the full ethics committee, began with fireworks.

As soon as he was allowed to speak, Rangel asked for a continuation of his trial, arguing that he had parted ways with his lead defense attorney – the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder – just a month ago and needed more time to prepare his case.

Rangel split with Zuckerman Spaeder last month after paying the firm $1.6 million during the two-year investigation into his personal finances. The New York Democrat said the firm wanted an additional $1 million for the trial, funds that he no longer had available after running through his campaign account. Members of Congress are allowed to use campaign funds to cover legal fees incurred as part of their official duties.

“I am being denied to the right to have a lawyer right now because I don’t have the opportunity to have a legal defense fund set up,” Rangel complained to the “adjudicatory subcommittee” hearing the case. “And because I don’t have a million dollars to pay my counsel.” 

Zuckerman Spaeder released a statement Monday afternoon, saying it did not end the relationship with Rangel.

“It has been a privilege for Zuckerman Spaeder to represent Congressman Rangel, who has had a long and distinguished career in public service,” the firm said. “This law firm did not seek to terminate the relationship and explored every alternative to remain as his counsel, consistent with House ethics rules prohibiting members from accepting pro bono legal services. Out of respect for Congressman Rangel and the House Ethics Committee we will not comment further at this time.”

Once a top fundraising draw, Rangel stepped down as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee earlier in the year, damaging his ability to raise money. The long-running ethics scandal has also damaged his reputation with potential donors.

The 80-year-old lawmaker said he was only told two weeks ago by the ethics committee that he could set up a legal-defense fund to cover his attorney fees, and Rangel claimed that he hadn’t had time to so yet.”

Comment:  “Colorful and likeable”, they say of Charlie Rangel, and above the law? 

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Still Curse the American Economic Scene

How to Shut Down Fannie and Freddie

Although Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played a central role in causing the recent economic crisis, they are absent from the reform plans of Congress and the Obama administration, says Emil W. Henry, the CEO of Henry, Tiger, LLC, and an assistant secretary of the Treasury from 2005 to 2007.

The Treasury doesn’t need Congress or an academic assessment in order to tackle the most important reform goal: eliminating the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) and moving their activities to the private sector.  Secretary Geithner himself can immediately reshape the mortgage markets — by withholding his approval of new debt issuances by the GSEs.  That’s the best way to begin curtailing the GSEs, and it can be done unilaterally.

• If the Obama administration is serious about addressing the GSEs, it should re-establish a rigorous process to review all GSE debt issuance.
• That process should require the GSEs to provide Treasury with full financial data and justification for issuances, including statistics that show the creditworthiness of the agencies after each offering.
• In addition, the Treasury secretary should have to approve all new debt issuances personally.

The administration should also announce that in 2012 the Treasury will begin to deny a portion of GSE debt issuances with the goal of reducing their debt 50 percent by 2015 and 100 percent by 2018.  This eight-year period of adjustment would allow the private markets ample time to provide secondary market liquidity, says Henry.

Large banks may be wary of this solution because the federalization of the GSEs has offered them a stable vehicle for off-loading their mortgages.  Policymakers, meanwhile, will worry about impairing the recovery if a private market is slow to materialize.  But the alternative is keeping the flawed system whereby liquidity depends upon distorted price discovery, permanent subsidization and the economic judgments of bureaucrats.

Source: Emil W. Henry Jr., “How to Shut Down Fannie and Freddie,” November 11, 2010.

Obama’s Care for Israel, Its Settlements, and the Arabs

The following is an article found at the American Thinker, by Vel Nirtist, posted by Thomas Lifson:

 

“As Americans are salivating in anticipation of the blessings of ObamaCare, the Israelis are about to experience the thrills of another wonderful emanation of the Great Mind — the ObamaLogic.

As is well known in certain circles which for some reason call themselves “progressive,” and of which our President is a great enthusiast and illustrious leader, the Arab-Israeli conflict is the root of all that is wrong with the Middle East. Establish a Palestinian state — and Sunnis will embrace the Shias, Arabs will fall in love with the Iranians, Iranians will fall out of love with the atom bomb, Darfur will turn from the scene of butchery to that of brotherly love, Iraq will become a paragon of peaceful coexistence, the Taliban will permit the Afghan ladies to freely pursue their education and whatever else that may contribute to their happiness, and peace, freedom, equality and brotherhood will reign in the Middle East forever and ever, amen. And — I forgot to mention — the lion will lie with the lamb, and they will beat their swords into the plowshares.

It is precisely in the light of the latter consequence of the establishment of the Palestinian state that I find the key part of the deal that Obama administration is offering to Israel (and which is apparently embraced by Israel’s Netanyahu) extremely puzzling. According to the New York Times, “Netanyahu Agrees to Push for Freeze in Settlements”:

 ”in return [for the 90-day settlement freeze that will allow the Palestinians back into the talks on the establishment of the Palestinian state], the Obama administration has offered Israel a package of security incentives and fighter jets worth $3 billion that would be contingent on the signing of a peace agreement.”

Here is why I am so puzzled. According to Obama’s above-described  position, once the Palestinian state is established and the root of Middle Eastern unhappiness thus removed, there will be eternal peace in the Middle East. What are then the security incentives, and the combat aircraft that are the key part of the deal for?

That offer would make logical sense if and only if the anticipated result of establishment of the Palestinian state is the worsening, rather than the improvement, of Israel’s strategic position. But Obama’s entire premise is that this will not happen. On the contrary, peace will reign forever and ever.

So why are these twenty planes offered?

Perhaps, in Obama’s view, there is just not enough swords in the Middle East so he wants to add some more so there is enough high-tech steel to beat into plowshares.

Or, perhaps, he reasons a little differently — and strictly along the “progressive,” pro-Islamic lines. The Palestinian state will indeed be a mortal blow to Israel, and that blow needs to be offset with a tempting offer. Put into the form of the classical ad, “twenty combat aircraft — three billion dollars. Destruction of Israel — priceless.”

That kind of reasoning on Obama’s part would make his offer logical indeed.” 

More Praise for Renee Elmers……Democracy Still Works and Is Noble

Citizen Renee Elmers was the Person of Praise at a Powerline article today.  I was aware of the name, for she was a citizen who became the opponent of Representative Eldrige for his Congressional seat.  Eldridge is the guy who made the news some time ago by roughing up a Fox News  camera reporter, something no thinking politician of any stripe should do especially in front of a camera.   It was mentioned election night on Fox News that she had a narrow lead with all of the precincts tabulated.

Have we forgotten in America that what you will be reading here is what American democracy is all about.  There is no power class whose blood line determines who runs the country no matter what today’s American Left would like you to think.  Here is the Powerline article:

“According to the Raleigh News Observer backgrounder, Renee Ellmers is a registered nurse who ran a practice and a wound clinic with her husband, a general surgeon. Ellmers had previously been involved in local civic groups, but only became politically active during the summer of 2009 as a result of the debate over Obamacare.

Ellmers began speaking to groups about her fears of what she saw as the consequences of a government takeover of health care. Ellmers and her husband traveled around North Carolina with Americans for Prosperity and spoke about the ill effects they believed Democratic proposals for health care reform would have.

Ellmers then decided to run for the Republican nomination to represent North Carolina’s Second Congressional District, a seat that had long been held by Democratic incumbent Bob Etheridge. What possessed her? “I’m running for Congress because I’m a mom and I’m very afraid of where our country is going and where the current administration in Washington is taking us,” Ellmers said, but there must be more to it than that..

I had never heard of Ellmers when Etheridge revealed himself to be something of a drunken bully, as it appeared to me, in his response to the young men who asked him on the sidewalk outside a Pelosi fundraiser if he fully supported the Obama agenda. Etheridge grabbed one of his two interlocutors, knocked their camera to the ground and asked over and over: “Who are you?” Etheridge still doesn’t know who they are, but he should have been able to answer or ignore the question and move on.

I went looking at the time to see if Etheridge had an opponent and found it was Ellmers. Indeed, Ellmers put the incident to good use in the video above.

Ellmers now appears to have prevailed over Etheridge by 1,489 votes, and should be certified the winner by the North Carolina authorities on November 23. Etheridge has demanded a recount that would be completed before certification of the results would take place. In the meantime, Ellmers is planning to take office with the new Congress.

Ellmers undertook an extremely difficult race in order to resist the nationalization of American health care. As a registered nurse, she had a pretty good idea what she was talking about. She ran a professional campaign. She was in the right place to benefit from Etheridge’s unhinged attempt to ascertain the identity of his sidewalk interlocutors. Then the Wave helped carry her to victory on November 2.

Ellmers will contribute to the ranks of congressmen who took a professional path outside of law, as will a few others in the new class of freshmen. For all these reasons, it seems to me, her victory is one to be celebrated and savored.”

Comment;  The more citizens participate in the American electoral exercise, the fewer potentates the system will create…..potentates such as Charlie Rangel, Dick Durbin, Charles Schumer, Harry Reid, Henry Waxman, Arlen Specter, Ted Kennedy, may he rest, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Christopher Dodd, James Oberstar, Orrin Hatch, John Kerry, and some might include John McCain…..and so many others who view their office as their personal seat for life.  

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Paul Krugman, Star of the N.Y. Times Left, Angry at Obama

If Mr. Krugman has a brain, and surely he must since he is employed by the New York Times and has winnings for bein a leftwing ecoonomist guru for the leftwing, it must be a lightbulb with flickers all of the time.

Despite the flickering, this Marx man has some negative words to say about his heretofore hero-president, Barack Hussein Obama, but not with the criticisms the more normal folks observe about the American “leader”.

The following paragraphs are from his today’s opinion page article, “The World as He Finds It”.  

“Right at the beginning of his administration, what Mr. Obama needed to do, above all, was fight for an economic plan commensurate with the scale of the crisis. Instead, he negotiated with himself before he ever got around to negotiating with Congress, proposing a plan that was clearly, grossly inadequate — then allowed that plan to be scaled back even further without protest. And the failure to act forcefully on the economy, more than anything else, accounts for the midterm “shellacking.”

Even given the economy’s troubles, however, the administration’s efforts to limit the political damage were amazingly weak. There were no catchy slogans, no clear statements of principle; the administration’s political messaging was not so much ineffective as invisible. How many voters even noticed the ever-changing campaign themes — does anyone remember the “Summer of Recovery” — that were rolled out as catastrophe loomed?”

I wonder if Mr. Krugman remembers anything about the Obama drive for the Government takeover of the American health industry.   Click on to read the full article and find out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/opinion/15krugman.html

We Need to Know More about Pelosi?

Jennifer Rubin gives us a better look from a variety of microscopes aimed at the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the former next president of the United States, if something dreadful suddenly happened to Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden. 

Did you ever think of that, America?

Click on here for this outstanding account in ‘Commentary’ of the former :”Madame Speaker” and her auras passed on to people over  whom she operates!

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/380562