“He doesn’t just blow cocaine up his nose; he snorts it off the tip of a dagger. He likes to kill people when he gets drunk and even disembowels one of his father’s best friends at a party. We see him prowling the streets . . . in his sports car and abducting young girls in school uniforms — including one still wearing braces — and taking them back to his bedroom to drug and rape them. He rapes another woman on her wedding day while she is wearing her wedding dress; a few minutes later, he is annoyed when she throws herself off a balcony. . . . ‘Everything I want, I just take for myself,’ he says.”
Now, some may say this guy wasn’t a typical liberal, but he really hated America, and he especially hated President George W. Bush.
Harold Krent, dean and professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, said large law firms hire 50 percent fewer graduates than four years ago. That makes a huge difference for students who hope to a get a “$165,000 payday,” he said.
But, Krent said . . . many students go to law school not for that $165,000 payday, but for the chance to make a difference. . . .
“Many people do wonderfully creative and interesting things with a law degree other than practice law, including being a journalist or being an investor or being a counselor.”
What would be a good analogy to spending, at this particular moment in economic history, $55,000 a year to go to a second-tier law school to prepare for a career in, of all things, journalism? Getting a PhD in Marxist-Leninist political theory in order to become a travel agent? Acquiring a doctorate in phrenology on the road to becoming a blacksmith? The mind reels . . .
My son-in-law just started law school and specifically plans to become a criminal defense attorney, which isn’t an especially lucrative legal specialty, unless you’re working for the Democratic National Committee or some other organized crime racket.
But the point is, he plans to become a practicing attorney, a career goal he has had in mind since he was a boy, as opposed to the apparent motive of some kids who go to law school because . . . Well, because they finished college and didn’t want to go to work.
You don’t need a law degree to “make a difference.” Hitler didn’t go to law school and look what a difference he made!
“Rick Perry says he’s one tough hombre on spending,” the ad says. “But what’s his record? Rick Perry doubled spending in a decade…..And he’s supposed to be the tea-party guy?”
The ad ends with an image of Mrs. Bachmann and the line: “There is an honest conservative, and she’s not Rick Perry.”
Dear PerryBots: I didn’t produce this ad. Nobody asked me to approve this ad. I’m merely reporting what the ad says. And yeah, sure, sharing it with a few thousand readers.
Obama directed several federal agencies to identify “high-impact, job-creating infrastructure projects” that can be expedited now, without congressional approval.
Doesn’t this go beyond the usual “What if a Bush had said that?”
It may sound like a reactionary take, but, given the last two years of creepy hijinks from this Administration, one is left to wonder where this is all going.
Furthermore, just what is the Administration going to do that won’t cost more money, when there hasn’t been any for some time? Oh, and this is the last month of the fiscal year. What strange, graft-laden mockeries will emerge?
This is the time to go after the nanny state with a cleaver, not expand it. I hope John Boehner tells the good President to talk to the hand, and that the American people back Boehner to the hilt. Enough of this noise.
During the past few months Ron Paul’s fans/supporters have gone out of their way to promote his candidacy at every corner of the web. You’ll find them in the comments of every post about an opponent and they’re very active in message boards and discussion forums.
One of the biggest complaints made by these folks is that some of the more “mainstream” tea party organizations do not give Ron Paul a platform to speak from. They argue Paul is being actively silenced in some parts of the movement and they strongly advocate more opportunity for Paul to speak out through these organizations.
Which brings up a very puzzling situation. You see, the Tea Party Express is rolling through 29 cities right now, some of them being in early/battleground states. Iowa, New Hampshire, Virginia, South Carolina and Florida for example. I’m told that Ron Paul has repeatedly been invited to speak at ANY rally on the tour, yet has not once confirmed he wishes to do so. . . .
Read the whole thing. Unlike some other conservative bloggers, I try not to alienate the Paulistas because (a) I’ve got a pretty serious libertarian streak myself, (b) some of my good friends support Paul, and (c) I’m a gutless weasel who doesn’t need a bunch of crazies attacking me in the comments.
It’s bad enough having to deal with left-wing trolls like Anamika, why should I go out of my way to antagonize libertarians?
During the mid-term election campaign last fall, nearly every GOP congressional candidate was slammed by attack ads accusing them of favoring “tax cuts for companies that ship jobs overseas.” That accusation was made routinely (and misleadingly) against Republicans who had signed a no-new-taxes pledge from Americans for Tax Reform:
But it wasn’t just the DCCC that made that accusation, and it wasn’t just in TV attack ads. It was also President Obama, in his weekly address on Oct. 16, three weeks before Election Day:
“Republicans in Washington have consistently fought to keep these corporate loopholes open. Over the last four years alone, Republicans in the House voted 11 times to continue rewarding corporations that create jobs and profits overseas — a policy that costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year.”
Let’s just pause for a moment to consider the perversity of that accusation: Lower taxes (described as “corporate loopholes”) are a policy that “costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year,” according to the Keynesian-in-Chief. But while accusing the GOP of imposing such costs on taxpayers, Obama described himself as an advocate of lower taxes in the very same speech:
The president said in the coming months he intends to fight for tax breaks for small businesses and manufacturers. “We should reward the people who are helping us lead in the industries of the future, like clean energy,” Obama said. “That’s how we’ll ensure that American innovation and ingenuity are what drive the next century.”
Ohhhh. Now we understand: When Republicans are against raising taxes on corporations, that’s bad. But it’s OK for Obama to advocate special tax breaks for “the industries of the future, like clean energy.”
President Obama faces political catastrophe in the form of Solyndra — a San Francisco Bay area solar company that he touted as a gleaming example of green technology. It has announced it will declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy. More than 1,100 people will lose their jobs.
During a visit to the Fremont facility in spring of 2010, the President said the factory “is just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly the best workers in the world.“ . . .
The President was celebrating $535 million in federal promises from the Department of Energy to the solar startup.
The White House caused a ruckus Wednesday by attempting to schedule President Obama for a speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7 — which just happened to be the date, scheduled months ago, of a GOP presidential debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California.
Say hello to “separation of powers”: Nobody at the White House had bothered to clear the Sept. 7 date with the Speaker of the House, who suggested moving the date to Sept. 8 and — after some partisan grumbling — the administration was forced to back down:
“Today, the President asked to address the Congress about the need for urgent action on the economic situation facing the American people as soon as Congress returned from recess. Both Houses will be back in session after their August recess on Wednesday, September 7th, so that was the date that was requested. We consulted with the Speaker about that date before the letter was released, but he determined Thursday would work better. The President is focused on the urgent need to create jobs and grow our economy, so he welcomes the opportunity to address a Joint Session of Congress on Thursday, September 8th and challenge our nation’s leaders to start focusing 100% of their attention on doing whatever they can to help the American people.”
Coming soon to a left-wing blog near you: “He caved again.”
It’s as if the administration, unwilling to fight for anything important — or too politically weak to win any important fight — with the Republicans, decided to fight for something trivial. And the fact that they lost even this juvenile pissing match will only further erode the presidential image.
Which means it’s time for the liberal media to produce another story about how dumb Republicans are.
