WILL BARACK OBAMA BE A ONE-TERM PRESIDENT? Yes, he might last that long.

IT’S OUR FAULT HE FAILED. “What doomed Obama politically was the way he dealt with the financial crisis in the first six months of his presidency.... [H]e allowed the right wing to define the terms.”

Excuses, excuses.

Linked from Hot Air.

PROPERTY “RIGHTS” IN NEW YORK: another case of misuse of eminent domain.

BUILDING DIALOG (last Twitter item).

EXCELLENT QUESTION: "How do you screw up so titanically that even an opposition held in disgrace as recently as two years ago starts to look good by comparison?"

DEEP THOUGHT: "Yes, the 9/11 attacks were horrific, but they were more about optics than actual harm. The economy was already taking a hit before the Twin Towers fell. The reaction of the nation to seeing two major buildings in New York fall on T.V. has boosted the attack out of proportion."

And they wonder why we think they're irrational.

SIXTY PERCENT OF CURRENT WORKERS believe they’ll never see a dime from Social Security.

Hopefully they’re right and that Social Security will have been privatized by the time they reach retirement age. They’ll get a much better deal than I’ll get in just over 3 months.

THE LEFT IS unpopular, undisciplined and ill-tempered.

BACKING AWAY: "I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque [near Ground Zero." You’d think after the “beer summit” Obama would have learned to shut up.

THE RACE CARD has maxed out.

THE FEDERAL RESERVE has roughly $2 trillion of our money and is thoroughly insulated from the control of elected officials. Is this a bug or a feature?

ONLY IN AMERICA: Heartwarming. Especially the comment about “Marine English.”

WHO’D A THUNK IT? Lousy lawmakers, not low taxes, created fiscal woes.

CHARLIE RANGEL: "If I can’t get my dignity back here, then fire your best shot at getting rid of me through expulsion."

Pass the popcorn. This should get interesting in the run-up to the November elections.

BAILOUT FAVORITISM AND CRONY CAPITALISM, it turns out, are not vote-winners. Do tell.

SPECIAL INTERESTS UNDERMINE THE PUBLIC INTEREST: The public employee sector spent $40 million on lobbying in the first six months of this year -- more than health maintenance organizations, commercial banks and the defense/aerospace industry combined.

More reason to dramatically scale back the power of government.

ELITE COLLEGES FAIL; legacy media notices.

PATRIOT TELEVISION NETWORK.



Well, there should be a Patriot television network. The link is here.

WHEN WISHFUL THINKING REPLACES THOUGHT on the “principled left” you get this kind of drivel.

NOTE: the print edition version (15 August) is at least edited.

STOP SIGN PLANTER


Persistence. The plant stem is within the post all the way from below the ground surface.