While America Slides Off A Cliff, The Democrats Go To Sandra Fluke

The good news is that "we've also seen another America that we could choose. In that America, we'd have the right to choose," said Miss Fluke. This would be "an America in which our president, when he hears that a young woman has been verbally attacked, thinks of his daughters, not his delegates or his donors. And in which our president stands with all women. And strangers come together, and reach out and lift her up. And then, instead of trying to silence her, you invite me here, and you give me this microphone — to amplify our voice. That's the difference."

So, if you're looking for an America where strangers lift up Sandra Fluke and amplify her voice, that would be the box marked "D."

"I've seen what these two futures look like," she said. "And six months from now, we're all going to be living in one future, or the other. But only one."

Because you can't have two futures simultaneously, even under ObamaCare.

With respect to Sandra Fluke, I think there's a third future looming. The paperback edition of my book comes out in a week or so, and you can pretty much get the gist of it from the title: "After America." Mark Steyn - Investors.com - Click To Read More...

The Democrats' Soft Extremism

There was the relentless emphasis on Government as Community, as the thing that gives us spirit and makes us whole. But government isn't what you love if you're American, America is what you love. Government is what you have, need and hire. Its most essential duties—especially when it is bankrupt—involve defending rights and safety, not imposing views and values. We already have values. Peggy Noonan commentating on the Democratic convention in Charlotte - Wall Street Journal - Click To Read More...

Character, Not Audacity

There were parts of his speech that raised the old expectations. I liked the emphasis he put not on himself but on the word “you” — the idea that change comes organically from the bottom up. I liked his extraordinary self-awareness, his willingness to admit that often life on the campaign trail requires candidates to do silly things. I liked the sense of citizenship that pervaded his address, the sense of mutual obligation.

But what I was mostly looking for were big proposals, big as health care was four years ago. I had spent the three previous days watching more than 80 convention speeches without hearing a single major policy proposal in any of them. I asked governors, mayors and legislators to name a significant law that they’d like to see President Obama pass in a second term. Not one could. At its base, this is a party with a protective agenda, not a change agenda — dedicated to defending government in all its forms. David Brooks - New York Times - Click To Read More

It seems the liberal press is disappointed in the President's speech last night. (Always the danger after following Clinton. Just ask Rick Santorum after following the firebrand Hernam Cain in the Florida Straw polls.)

David Brooks is the first of many to speak out. For the first time the terrible fear is leaking into the room that perhaps Obama's vision is not what this country needs. Already seemly accepting the fact that this country is in debt, Brooks, Charlie Rose and other Democratic commentators are questioning Obama's ability to come up with a workable plan and the leadership to carry it out.

Whether they are ready to vote for Mitt Romney is another question. - DSMW

The Party That Obama Un-Built

Julian Castro is no Barack Obama. And for that, Democrats have themselves to blame.

The focus of this week's Democratic convention was President Obama. Lost in the adulation was the diminished state to which he has brought his broader party. Today's Democrats are a shadow of 2008—struggling for re-election, isolated to a handful of states, lacking reform ideas, bereft of a future political bench. It has been a stunning slide. Kimberly Strassel - Wall Street Journal - Click To Read More...

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Bill and Hillary And Huma And Anthony

As Bill Clinton once again takes center stage at the Democratic National Convention, let's amuse ourselves by screening the vilest soap opera in American history: Bill and Hillary and Huma and Anthony.

This one's got it all: two sham marriages, sexual perversions, and national treachery at the highest level.  Naturally, the "mainstream media" refuses to inform you of it, but that's why I'm here. Stella Paul - American Thinker - Click To Read More...

Taking a break from all the convention madness. Too irresistible not to read. - DSMW

Did The State Make You Great?

“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” 
 – Barack Obama, Roanoke, Va., July 13

And who might that somebody else be? Government, says Obama. It built the roads you drive on. It provided the teacher who inspired you. It “created the Internet.” It represents the embodiment of “we’re in this together” social solidarity that, in Obama’s view, is the essential origin of individual and national achievement.

To say all individuals are embedded in and the product of society is banal. Obama rises above banality by means of fallacy: equating society with government, the collectivity with the state. Charles Krauthammer - Human Events - Click To Read More...

The Rich Don't Pay Enough?

If you listen to America's political hacks, mainstream media talking heads and their socialist allies, you can't help but reach the conclusion that the nation's tax burden is borne by the poor and middleclass while the rich get off scot-free.

Stephen Moore, senior economics writer for The Wall Street Journal, and I'm proud to say former GMU economics student, wrote "The U.S. Tax System: Who Really Pays?" in the Manhattan Institute's Issue 2012 (8/12). Let's see whether the rich are paying their "fair" share.

According to IRS 2007 data, the richest 1 percent of Americans earned 22 percent of national personal income but paid 40 percent of all personal income taxes. The top 5 percent earned 37 percent and paid 61 percent of personal income tax. The top 10 percent earned 48 percent and paid 71 percent of all personal income taxes. The bottom 50 percent earned 12 percent of personal income but paid just 3 percent of income tax revenues. Walter E. Williams Professor of Economics George Mason University- Townhall.com - Click To Read More...

Want to get into more facts, charts and real backup about who pays and why read Stephen Moore's article for the Manahattan Institute - DSMW

On Clint Eastwood

I was traveling in a sleep-deprived state much of the day yesterday, so I haven’t had a chance to chime in here on the issue of Clint Eastwood’s speech act. I did write about it in the Goldberg File (after the bit about boob glitter and all that). Allow myself to . . .  repeat myself, to paraphrase Austin Powers:

Moreover, I think all of the people attacking Eastwood are doing Mitt Romney an enormous favor. The clips I’ve seen on the news aren’t incoherent, rambling, or even weird, as some of the talking heads are saying. By my lights they’re charming or funny. Jonah Goldberg - National Revew - Click To Read More...

Parting Shot Of A Convention Hard To Beat

As the night drew to a close, we took this last shot of the convention floor. Minutes before Romney's speech and the balloons came down we thought this was the perfect way to say goodbye.

Tampa, the GOP, the media, even the police and the demonstrators outside had a great time. Democratic Mayor Bob Buckhorn did a fantastic job and Tampa really did put on it's very best dress to show the rest of the country that it was ready for prime time. - DSMW