Can there now be any doubt in the mind of anyone with the smallest amount of perspicacity that Barack Obama is an ignoramus? He is an educated ignormamus, with an excellent scholastic resume, but obviously he has been interested in learning only that which reinforces his preconceived worldview. How can he not know the lesson taught by the Democrat demigod, FDR, that evil can only be destroyed through total, uncompromising victory? Obama says that the world must stand firm against evil, but only if it doesn't take too long or cost too much. Are you kidding me? This is worse than when Nixon said that America's goal in Vietnam was 'peace with honor', which was the same as saying 'make us a face-saving offer and we're gone'. Obama...

BHO's response to the political crisis that he helped to bring upon the Democrat party provides further proof that the man is living in a narcissistic bubble. He is so convinced of his own infallibility and his own superior gifts, that he believes failure can only be the fault of others. If the voters elect candidates for the expressed purpose of halting Obamacare, it's not because the legislation is flawed: it's because those voters are too stupid or uninformed to make rational decisions. Bill Clinton, when faced with the reality that he was traveling down the wrong political path, had strong-enough survival insticts that he moderated his policies. Obama has an egotistical obtuseness that makes moderation and compromise impossible....

The greatest intellectual hyprocrisy of our time is that of liberalism/progressivism itself. Here is an ideology that demeans people of faith as intolerant, unintelligent, uneducated, willfully ignorant, and dangerous purveyors of a thoroughly discredited form of emotional snake-oil. Yet the same ideology simultaneously defends, with extreme viciousness, a political and social program which has been empirically demonstrated to be false in all of its claims and destructive to those societies that have implemented it. The case against modern statism is settled. The debate is over. Nonetheless, the statists continue to believe that their ideas are superior to all others and that anyone who disagrees with their orthodoxy is a heretic. ...

The Obama candidacy was all about symbolism over substance. The Obama presidency is all about illusion and distraction. Obama's public relations department works overtime to create, like a good magician does, a rapid-fire series of attention-arresting misdirections - look at this hand (which is doing fancy nothings) so that what's happening elsewhere won't be noticed. Obama's public relations department wants the American people to focus on the fluff while the business of ruining the country goes on behind closed doors. The real lesson of Gardengate is that it demonstrates how dishonest this administration is, how far it will go to deceive the American people, and the extent to which the American media is complicit in the ruse.

Nothing that the Climate Change Alamists say makes any sense. Global warming is bad. But if global warming is bad, doesn't that mean that global cooling is good? Oops, I forgot: ice ages aren't especially desirable. But spontaneous global warming ended the last ice age, so global warming is good sometimes. Maybe it's only good when man isn't causing it. Perhaps both global warming and global cooling are bad. Then perhaps climate stasis is the condition for which we should strive? But history demonstrates that climate stasis cannot exist on a geologically dynamic planet. And what does climate stasis means anyway? What is the baseline? It can't be the same everywhere on the planet. So where are we? We can't stop climate warming....

Larry,
Mega-kudos! You are the only pundit I have read who has gotten this right. Evan Bayh is a sanctimonious, self-serving fraud who has spent his entire career tiptoeing around difficult policy decisions. Why? Because he doesn't want to leave a definitive ideological paper trail behind him. His moderation is nothing more than a disguise that he wears in order to maintain his political viability. Evan has always had his eyes on the next rung up on the political ladder. Now Obama is in the process of riding the Democrat ladder down to a hard landing, and Evan doesn't want to be injured in the fall. He wants to be waiting at the bottom, so that he can put the ladder back up and climb to the top. Typical Evan Bayh. Act in...

Liberalism posits the following:
Human nature does not exist.
Free will is limited by one's experiences.
Negative experiences lead to negative behaviors.
Material inequities within a society create rage and resentment among the materially deprived.
Material ineguities result from private property and free markets.
Government control of property and markets will eliminate material inequities.
Statutory redistribution of wealth is a moral imperative.
Increased government control of human behavior will lead to a more secure and just society.

Therefore, liberalism is simultaneously naive and cynical. Liberalism posits that human beings are powerless pawns who can create a perfect society. Liberalism claims...

Bravo to Jonah Goldberg. The state-run media deserves constant ridicule. A well-known conservative (whose name escapes me at the moment) once described the left-wing communications complex as 'the Hive'. One bee imparts to the collective a bit of information and the mindless swarm begins. The hack purveyors of public information formerly called themselves 'reporters'. Now they have adopted the more vague and psychologically satisfying term 'journalists' to describe their vocation. I believe that they became 'journalists' when they stopped reporting and started advocating, when they stopped describing events and began trying to change events. Unfortunately,(and your average 'journalist' isn't smart enough to understand this) when...

I believe, with Mr. Hawkins, that a fundamental flaw exists in the way liberals think. They seem to be unable, or perhaps they are unwilling, to critically analyze their belief system. They are obviously determinists, and believe that human beings are, at birth, a tabula rasa. From that point, the personality of the individual must be formed by a unique set of accumulated sensory and intellectual inputs. The individual has no control over this set of inputs, ergo the individual has no control over the behaviors that inevitably result from the inputs. None of us are responsible for our actions, because we have no, or very limited, free will. We are all products of the micro- and macro-cultures in which we find ourselves. This...