President Obama, at a news conference in Europe:
“There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian — wheeling and dealing, and people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics,” he said in response to an Austrian reporter’s question.
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There is [...]
Posted on April 6th, 2009 by pwyll
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Here is the theory, as propounded by the venerable sage Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals:
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but [...]
Posted on March 14th, 2009 by pwyll
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A comment on Don Surber’s blog explains Obama’s less than stellar performance so far:
Hey, it’s his first real job!
Posted on March 11th, 2009 by pwyll
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Ed Kaitz, writing in American Thinker:
Some years ago at a major university out west I was hired to teach minority students courses in expository writing. Most of my students were African-American. They were part of a “bridge program” at the university that allowed “provisional” students (those whose entrance scores were sub par) to [...]
Posted on February 25th, 2009 by pwyll
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Blake’s Auguries of Innocence begins with the immortal words “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower”. Is it really possible to see a world in a grain of sand?
A group of NYU students staged something purported to be political action. They created a triumph of dadaist [...]
Posted on February 24th, 2009 by pwyll
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On Feb 16, a 200 lb chimpanzee named Travis attacked and seriously injured a woman in Stamford, CT. Police later shot and killed the animal. The sad, strange story received world-wide press coverage.
Two days later the NY Post ran this editorial cartoon.
The storm of faux indignation was immediate. The Huffington Post:.
A cartoon [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2009 by pwyll
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