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Barnewall: Where's the Beef at AIG?

By Marilyn Barnewall

If the way Congress has mismanaged "The AIG Affair" doesn't tell you what a bunch of clowns represent you, nothing will. If you believe Congress is really trying to solve the AIG problem (which, to be totally truthful, Congress created) you should not read the rest of this article. It will make you angry.

Yes. To answer a popular question, Timothy Geithner, our inept Treasury Secretary, had to know about the employee bonuses being paid to AIG. If he did not know about the bonuses, he wasn't doing his job as the head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank (which he was, at the time the bonus agreement occurred). It's this simple: If he is so naïve or dumb that he did not know what was happening, he has no business being Secretary of the Treasury for the United States of America. And, these appear to be the only two possibilities: Either he lied, or he is dumb and naïve.

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Reader Email — The Fetal Position: A Prospective

Dateline Royter’s 3/10/2011-

In a plea for continuing funding for her research, Dr. Elita Desdemona (senior research coordinator at Harvard) asked President Obama this week to “please continue and enhance the governments funding of embryonic stem cell research.”

In her 1500 page report, Dr. Desdemona cited, “although we have not, to this day, delivered to humanity a cure for cancer, diabetes or Parkinson’s disease, it is very important that we continue our work.”  She continued, “You just never know when the day may come when a discovery will be made that will change life on earth as we know it.  Imagine the day when there will be no disease, no sickness; the great minds of this world could live on.”

Guest Piece: The Banality of Obama

By Bruce Walker

Pundits have been critiquing the new administration for its socialism, for its willful ignorance of foreign policy, for its puerile missteps, but the salient fact of the Obama Presidency is its banality.  He who promised change has dredged up the failed nostrums of the past as if they were something new and fresh.  In fact, the ordinariness, the dullness, the lifelessness of the Obama Administration is obvious.

Climate Change Con: Refuting Al Gore
This is a great video refuting the rank propaganda belched out by Al Gore. It features prominent climate scientists who aren't peddling an agenda so they can capture government grants. As for Gore, he quite simply is a liar.

Audio Commentary: The Meghan McCain Catfight

This is the first of what may become a regular feature at my site: Audio snap commentary.  For you folks who love the written word, don't worry, this doesn't mean I'm abandoning the pen.  But variety is the spice of Web life.  Let me know what you thnk.    

We Need Something Stronger than SteeleRNC Chairman Michael Steele is inside the box and inside the beltway all the way

By Selwyn Duke

Most of us place politicians down at the level of used-car salesmen, personal injury lawyers and Hollywood actors.  In fact, they’re much like actors, only, their acting is generally a bit better.  But we tend to miss the point about our leaders.  The problem with politicians is that they’re trying to please us.

Obama Gunning for the Second Amendment

By Selwyn Duke

This will seem like a strange way to open a piece of commentary, but the gun owners who voted for Barack Obama believing he respected Second Amendment rights remind me of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau.  Specifically, I think of the scene from "The Return of the Pink Panther" in which Clouseau was getting a real dressing down from his superior, Chief Inspector Dreyfus.  The issue was that Clouseau had naively stood by talking to a "blind" organ grinder outside a bank while the institution was being robbed.  After Dreyfus pointed out that the organ grinder was the lookout for the thieves and Clouseau said that such a thing was impossible because the beggar was blind, Dreyfus asked how Clouseau knew this.  Clouseau replied, "He told me so." 

Why 2010 Looks Good

By Bruce Walker

Pundits have already begun looking ahead to the 2010 midterm elections.  Is Obama like Clinton?  Is there a political agitator like Newt Gingrich on the Republican side?  Will the series of Obama goofs in cabinet appointments, the tension within the Democrat Party, and a downturn in the economy lead to massive voter dissatisfaction in 2010?  In some ways 2010 may look like 1994, but Republican hopes in 2010 rest less on how it resembles 1994 than in how it does not.  Begin with the basics.

The Soulless Beast of Science

Barack Obama has lifted the ban on embryonic stem-cell research, saying that scientific decisions should be “based on facts, not ideology.” But this is nonsense.

By Selwyn Duke

Few of us will soon forget President Obama’s answer to the question of when human life begins. “That’s above my pay grade,” he said. It was a flippant remark, yet it was perhaps one of the times he was perfectly honest. I’m not being sarcastic.

Like many people, Obama is confused about quite a number of moral issues. He is not the kind of man who could mount a compelling argument for when human life begins, for example (nor does he care). And the same kind of knowledge deficit is evident in Obama’s recent pronouncements concerning science and stem-cell research. Writes the Associated Press, “Promoting science ‘is about letting scientists . . . do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion . . . .’ Obama said.” But does this make sense?  

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