On Tuesday’s Joy Behar Show, HLN host Behar again suggested that an activity by the state of Arizona could be compared to Nazi Germany, as she discussed plans by the state’s education department to stiffen English-speaking requirements for teachers. Introducing the subject with comedians Mo Rocca and Colin Quinn, after taking a shot at former President Bush’s speaking skills, she asked does the requirement “remind you of any country, 1940ish?” (more…)
Archive for May, 2010
Behar Suggests Arizona Like Nazi Germany for Requiring Teachers to Speak English Well
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Marx, Keynes, Pelosi : And why conservatives beg to differ
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010“It is all about a four-letter word: jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. We are all about jobs.”
—Nancy Pelosi, May 4, 2010
“We see [health care reform as] a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care. You won’t have to be job-locked.”
—Nancy Pelosi, speaking to musicians and artists
in Washington, D.C., May 15, 2010 (more…)
Times Carves Up ‘Tea Party Candidate’ Rand Paul on Front Page
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney and congressional reporter Carl Hulse carved up “Tea Party candidate” Rand Paul, winner of Tuesday’s Senate Republican primary in Kentucky, in a front-page story Friday: “Tea Party Pick Causes Uproar On Civil Rights.” (more…)
Global Moral Decline and Who’s to Blame for It
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010One of the many beliefs — i.e., non-empirically based doctrines — of the post-Christian West has been that moral progress is the human norm, especially so with the demise of religion. In a secular world, the self-described enlightened thinking goes, superstition is replaced by reason and reason leads to the moral good. (more…)
NPR’s Totenberg Touts Elena Kagan as Harvard’s ‘Superman’
Friday, May 21st, 2010Last Friday on TV, NPR legal reporter Nina Totenberg touted Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as “spectacularly successful” — twice. But that was mellow compared to her Tuesday report for Morning Edition, where she enthusiastically pitched her record as dean of Harvard Law School as a Superman legend. (more…)
Over the Rainbows : President Obama has failed to deliver on his promise of change
Friday, May 21st, 2010Falling Down (1993) was one of the worst political films of the last 20 years, but it had one memorable line. A stunned Michael Douglas asks, “I’m the bad guy? . . . How did that happen?”
Barack Obama should be asking himself something similar these days. He came into office promising rainbows and puppies for everyone and has, like Pizza Hut during a blizzard, failed to deliver. (more…)
Ho Hum: NYT Strangely Sanguine About Job Loss During Obama Administration
Monday, May 17th, 2010Thursday’s front-page story by economics reporter Catherine Rampell from Jacksonville, an entry in the paper’s “The New Poor” series, took an oddly sedate tone with a subject usually frought with emotional appeals: “In a Job Market Realignment, Some Workers No Longer Fit.” (more…)
Why Obama Chose Kagan : The nomination is all about his progressive agenda
Monday, May 17th, 2010In January, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court held that under the First Amendment Congress may not limit corporate and union funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections. The Court overturned one of its own rulings and a provision of the McCain-Feingold legislation enacted in 2002. The decision has drawn impassioned and frequent rebukes from President Obama, who said the day it came down that it would empower “special interests and their lobbyists” at the expense of “average Americans who make small contributions to support their preferred candidates.” (more…)
As Polls Show Overwhelming Support for Arizona’s Law, Nets Focus on ‘Uproar’ and ‘Spreading’ Boycotts
Friday, May 14th, 2010The night after two major national polls confirmed overwhelming majorities support Arizona’s impending immigration enforcement statute (59 percent per Pew and 64 percent per NBC/WSJ), CBS and ABC promoted the cause of activists in the minority. Both devoted full stories to the “uproar” and “emotional civil war” over the law and moves by a few liberal local government bodies to enact boycotts, only getting late in their stories to those who like the law. (more…)
The First Lady and Fat Government
Friday, May 14th, 2010We already spend billions shoveling food at those who need to reduce their intake, and the deficit is getting more obese every day. The closest thing on this earth to immortality,” Ronald Reagan once said, “is a federal program.” We still have a Rural Electrification Commission, for Heaven’s sake (though it’s been renamed) — FDR’s program to bring electrical power to rural areas. (more…)
