I must admit I missed the whole Rick Santelli rant on CNBC this week. Most of my neighbors are Wall Street types who probably agree with Santelli. However I’ll go with John Amato of Crooks and Liars, Santelli needs to own that he is the loser and if it wasn’t for the gasbag insider crowd...

He sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, “Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more...

Actually, the Linkfest will be coming up, but I had to share Chris Muir’s great cartoon, (H/T Amused Cynic): Oh, come on, laugh! If you’re not allowed to laugh at your president, then you’re already not free! Check back for lots of links! Today will be a “day of continual lin...

Okay, I think I’m done. No one can say I was not exceedingly fair to President Obama over the - and even this morning about the Exec Salary Caps for bailout beneficiaries. I don’t like the precedent, but I understood the politics. But now, I think I’ve seen enough. Either this man,...

Those arrogant bastards. Or is it that the cops perceive them as arrogant bastards? *** I see that the lefty blog Crooks and Liars links to this story. It reprints a big block of text under the stock wisecrack "Well, color me surprised." It's not the whole text of the article though. It's cut off af...

Charles Krauthammer gets it exactly right in this piece: In these most recent 20 years — the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world — America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved — and resu...

Most of you who read this blog on a regular basis know that if it wasn't for spell check my posts would read like some ancient Egyptian language. And even with it, I sometimes manage to misspell a word or two. I must confess that I am one of those people who thinks that spelling is way overrated. (I...

Shame on us. Shame on us, progressives. At no time in history, at least not that I know of, has there been a more energized progressive movement. Yet, progressive institutions like the Rockridge Institute, our struggling (they have closed). We have to do better. All of us. I understand that we are i...

Posted by Brad Jacobson Bob Schieffer's coverage during the George W. Bush years, weighed against his hushed compromising relationship with the president, belies the CBS newsman's projected image as an unimpeachably principled journalist and typifies the way our media class operates. In a Sunday pos...

holy crap...! i am sitting here at ezeiza (the buenos aires international airport), cruising on the hospitality lounge wifi, waiting for my flight to sao paulo, where i change for dubai and then on to kabul... i just checked in with the blog and found that traffic is going through the roof thanks to...