Monday, March 8th, 2010

Daily Archive

Randall Hoven in American Thinker

“Mr. President, I’ll try to be brief.  There’s a lot to talk about.  I’d like to focus it though on the deficit, impact on the deficit, which we’re all talking about.  And I must tell you, maybe I’ve been around too long, but I am always reluctant, after being here 37 years, to tell people what the American people think.  I think it requires a little bit of humility to be able to know what the American people think.  But — and I don’t, I can’t swear I do.  I know what I think, I think I know what they think, but I’m not sure what they think.”  Vice President Joe Biden (winner of the Biden-Palin debate of 2008), Feburary 25, 2010.

Posted by Jim Bass under Biden , Big Government , Obamanomics  Monday, March 8, 2010 at 9:50 am
 

my father’s garden

My Father’s Garden from Mirko Faienza on Vimeo.

Posted by Jim Bass under Nature , Photography  Monday, March 8, 2010 at 9:33 am
 

A victory lap in Iraq

Tigerhawk

According to the BBC, which has never shown enthusiasm for Operation Iraqi Freedom or its aftermath, the good guys won. Or rather, they proved they won today.

These elections will certainly be seen as a big success – despite the depressing level of violence, which demonstrates that it is still altogether untrue to suggest that Iraq is now a country at peace.

But it is reasonable now to include Iraq in the world’s list of democracies.

This is the second parliamentary election in seven years which has been properly conducted.

The threat to the polls here does not come from government interference with the voting system or the count.

We did something great there, and its consequences have only begun to be felt. They may yet turn ugly, but our war there has not only been a huge victory for freedom in the Arab world but — if we do not deny it and apologize for it — a geopolitical triumph for the United States. That second assertion particularly is, obviously, in the deep minority, but if the present trajectory sustains itself history will respect it.

Posted by Jim Bass under Iraq  Monday, March 8, 2010 at 9:31 am