Pelosi’s Made-Up Numbers

Wow, the recession is worse than I thought. Did you know that 500 million Americans lose their jobs every month?

Millions, billions, gadzillions — what’s a few numbers among friends, eh?

Thug-in-Chief

Michelle Malkin reviews a catalog of strong-arm tactics used by the Obama White House to force its way on those who do not agree with its policies. “Hope and Change came to the White House wrapped in brass knuckles.”

This is the kind thing you would expect to see in a banana republic, not in a free democracy.

They Have to Teach THIS??

A program sponsored by the city of Wichita, the Sedgwick County Extension Service, and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks is teaching kids–get this– how to play outside.

When I was growing up, kids lived outdoors. We rode our bikes all over town, hunted crawfish in the ditches, built forts in a nearby pasture, or just lay in the grass and picked out recognizable shapes in the clouds moving overhead. Playing outside just came natural to kids then.

Are children today really so overwhelmed by modern technology and creature comforts that they have no idea how to play outside? Apparently so, according to one of the program organizers, who points to a recent book by Richard Louv,  “Last Child in the Woods.”

The book describes “nature deficit disorder” — the idea that kids today are not spending enough time outside and are losing the physical and mental benefits of hands-on outdoor activities.

This is sad.

A Teachable Moment, Indeed

President Obama called the Gates affair a “teachable moment.” But as Jennifer Rubin points out, what it teaches us is not at all what Obama intended.

It was, to put it mildly, exactly what Obama didn’t need. A polarizing event — confirming the worst fears that he is arrogant, not at all post-racial, and prone to play last-and-loose with the facts — is not what he needed in the midst of the biggest political challenge of his young presidency.

His media synchophants are holding their noses and pretending this is not significant, but a majority of Americans are finally learning who this man really is. And they’re not liking what they see.

Okay for Thee, But Not for Me

If the Democratic health plan is so great for the nation, why have its authors exempted Congress from it?

The irony here is that under the health reform he is sponsoring, it is unlikely that Sen. Ted Kennedy would have gotten the treatment he needed for his brain tumor if his case had to be reviewed by some cost-effectiveness board.

The likelihood is that if Ted Kennedy were British and subject to the tender mercies of that nation’s National Health System, he’d be dead by now.

The Recession Just Got Personal

I lost my job this morning.

Over half the department got laid off, along with a good chunk of the rest of the company.

So when you hear the next unemployment numbers, know that my name is buried in there somewhere.

Thank you, President Obama. Your stimulus plan is just peachy.

How to Fix the Health Care Mess

In the midst of a bruising debate over what kind of government health care plan Congress should implement, a small town newspaper editor suggests two simple steps that would dramatically reduce the cost of health care — without government intervention.

Huh?

In an AARP town hall meeting, Vice President Joe Biden made the following statement concerning Obama’s health care plan:

“People . . . look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’” Biden said. “The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.”

So according to Joe, we have to spend money to keep from going bankrupt.

If that is the logic that drives this administration — and the American people are okay with it — there is no hope. I tell you, we’re doomed.

The Consensus is Weakening

Finally, even the MSM cannot ignore the growing cracks in the bogus “consensus” position on global warming. A recent study of natural climate swings eons ago reveals that carbon dioxide cannot explain all the warming, a finding which throws  current climate models in question. According to one of the study’s authors,

“There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models.”

Skeptics have been questioning this assumption for years, but the press and the politicians have generally refused to listen to their concerns. Maybe true science will rescue us from the madness after all.

The Dems’ Health Plan

And this is supposed to be an improvement??!!

Where Is Your Freedom?

An Ohio family is terrified after being attacked by a gang of young black thugs in their own front yard. The family and a couple of friends, all of whom are white, were roughed up by a group of young men shouting, “It’s a black world!” and “This is our world!”

The  father, Marty Marshall, is shaken up after the attack.

This makes you think about your freedom. In all reality, where is your freedom when you have this going on?

Indeed. And where is Obama’s Justice Department on this case? The police are not investigating it as a hate crime, but reverse the skin colors and see how fast the Feds would come down on it.

Even the Press is Getting Irritated . . .

. . . At the Obama administration’s efforts to tightly manage the news about The One. Here is an exchange between Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, and two journalists, Chip Reid and Helen Thomas, over the obviously phony “town hall” meetings that feature staged questions designed to make Mr. O look good.