Nixon got a lot of blue-collar votes. Reagan got more. In our earlier lives, Democrats represented the working man. Republicans were for the rich. So why is it that Republican working voters are often styled racist and ignorant by Democratic candidates? Aren’t they the same people (or from the same families) who were OK when they voted Democratic?
‘Does the GOP Need the Educated Class?’
“In the aftermath of the Republican disaster of 2008, some conservative writers hoped that the party could gain support from elite demographics—'the educated class,' as David Brooks calls it, meaning not so much 'everyone who graduated from college' but more like 'the kind of people we knew at school.' The results of the 2010 election, hugely encouraging for Republicans, indicate that the party’s gains came from almost all parts of the electorate except the elite demographic. I think it is extremely risky in a period of what I call open-field politics to make straight-line extrapolations from the results of one election to the next. But I also think that those conservatives aiming their pitch at their fellow Ivy League graduates, etc., are aiming in the wrong direction.”
http://www.american.com/archive/2010/december/does-the-gop-need-the-educated-class-1
Linked from maggiesfarm.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Doesn't matter whether you want it
The government says you will have it.
“Because of the nature of supply and demand, Plaintiffs’ choices (not to buy health insurance) directly affect the price of insurance in the market, which Congress set out in the Act to control.” – U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon, in suit filed by Liberty University against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009, explaining why an individual’s act of not buying something is under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution of the United States.
http://aca-litigation.wikispaces.com/file/view/District+Court+opinion.pdf
Moon cited Wickard v. Filburn, 1942, a unanimous decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled that farmer Roscoe Filburn was incorrect in believing he could grow as much wheat as he wanted on his land, when the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 gave the federal government power to say how much wheat farmer Filburn could grow, even though Filburn did not sell any wheat outside his local area. Charlie Flagg faced the same bureaucracy in Elmer Kelton’s The Time It Never Rained.
http://orderinthecourt.org/Cases/Wickard-v-Filburn/
Linked from: http://volokh.com/2010/12/02/why-not-purchasing-health-insurance-isnt-an-activity/
“Because of the nature of supply and demand, Plaintiffs’ choices (not to buy health insurance) directly affect the price of insurance in the market, which Congress set out in the Act to control.” – U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon, in suit filed by Liberty University against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009, explaining why an individual’s act of not buying something is under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution of the United States.
http://aca-litigation.wikispaces.com/file/view/District+Court+opinion.pdf
Moon cited Wickard v. Filburn, 1942, a unanimous decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled that farmer Roscoe Filburn was incorrect in believing he could grow as much wheat as he wanted on his land, when the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 gave the federal government power to say how much wheat farmer Filburn could grow, even though Filburn did not sell any wheat outside his local area. Charlie Flagg faced the same bureaucracy in Elmer Kelton’s The Time It Never Rained.
http://orderinthecourt.org/Cases/Wickard-v-Filburn/
Linked from: http://volokh.com/2010/12/02/why-not-purchasing-health-insurance-isnt-an-activity/
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Perspective
“In many respects the Vikings were the medieval equivalent of organized crime,” says Simon Keynes, a professor of Anglo-Saxon history at Cambridge University. “They engaged in extortion on a massive scale, using the threat of violence to extract vast quantities of silver from England and some other vulnerable western European states.”
“Certainly the Vikings did all these things, but so did everyone else,” says Dagfinn Skre, a professor of archaeology at the University of Oslo. “Although admittedly, the Vikings did it on a grander scale.”
Also: Dublin, one of the largest Viking cities in the British Isles, became a major European slave-trading center, where, historians estimate, tens of thousands of kidnapped Irishmen, Scotsmen, Anglo-Saxons and others were bought and sold.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/A-Viking-Mystery.html?c=y&page=1
One thing leads to another thing and that to another and first thing you know, William of Normandy is king.
“Certainly the Vikings did all these things, but so did everyone else,” says Dagfinn Skre, a professor of archaeology at the University of Oslo. “Although admittedly, the Vikings did it on a grander scale.”
Also: Dublin, one of the largest Viking cities in the British Isles, became a major European slave-trading center, where, historians estimate, tens of thousands of kidnapped Irishmen, Scotsmen, Anglo-Saxons and others were bought and sold.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/A-Viking-Mystery.html?c=y&page=1
One thing leads to another thing and that to another and first thing you know, William of Normandy is king.
‘Napolitano Eyes Tighter Security for Trains, Ships, Mass Transit’
Nobody saw this coming, right?
"I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime," she said. "So what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?"
But a Homeland Security official told Fox News that the use of such full-body scanners is not under consideration, saying they "would not be feasible in a system with hundreds or thousands of access points."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/25/body-scanners-headed-trains-ships-mass-transit/
Nah, they’ll never put those full-body scanners anywhere but at airports. Never.
"I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime," she said. "So what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?"
But a Homeland Security official told Fox News that the use of such full-body scanners is not under consideration, saying they "would not be feasible in a system with hundreds or thousands of access points."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/25/body-scanners-headed-trains-ships-mass-transit/
Nah, they’ll never put those full-body scanners anywhere but at airports. Never.
Wanna cut government spending?
Larry Elder says its easy. Sell federal land, AMTRAK, the postal system, Hoover Dam, the Tennessee Valley Authority. And do a bunch of other things.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder120210.php3
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder120210.php3
Dumba$$ Iranians
Star of David sits on roof of Tehran airport main terminal.
“The six-pointed star was discovered by an eagle-eyed Google Earth user recently, over three decades after the building that houses the national airline of the Islamic Republic was constructed by Israeli engineers.
“Israel and the Shah’s Iran maintained good ties until the Islamic Revolution of 1979 ended the relationship. Before 1979, Israel brokered arms deals with Iran, and there were regular flights between Teheran and Tel Aviv.
“Once the existence of the Star of David was reported in Iranian media, government officials called for the immediate removal of the apparently offensive Jewish symbol.
“The discovery of the symbol came three months after the Iranian public learned of the existence of a Star of David on the roof of a building in Teheran’s Revolution Square.”
From jammiewearingfool.
The ultimate prank or a trick of the light?
(I don’t think it’s lights and shadows.)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334706/Iran-outrage-Satellite-image-shows-Star-David-Tehran-airport-HQ-roof.html#ixzz16sM1bioZ
“The six-pointed star was discovered by an eagle-eyed Google Earth user recently, over three decades after the building that houses the national airline of the Islamic Republic was constructed by Israeli engineers.
“Israel and the Shah’s Iran maintained good ties until the Islamic Revolution of 1979 ended the relationship. Before 1979, Israel brokered arms deals with Iran, and there were regular flights between Teheran and Tel Aviv.
“Once the existence of the Star of David was reported in Iranian media, government officials called for the immediate removal of the apparently offensive Jewish symbol.
“The discovery of the symbol came three months after the Iranian public learned of the existence of a Star of David on the roof of a building in Teheran’s Revolution Square.”
From jammiewearingfool.
The ultimate prank or a trick of the light?
(I don’t think it’s lights and shadows.)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334706/Iran-outrage-Satellite-image-shows-Star-David-Tehran-airport-HQ-roof.html#ixzz16sM1bioZ
It is to laugh at the stoopids
Progressives pay tribute to "iconic" animals of the Arctic, including penguins, saved from evil oil companies.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/254303/democrats-winter-robert-costa
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/254303/democrats-winter-robert-costa
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