Obama's Attack Machine—II by Kim Strassel at The WSJ:
The White House is deflecting questions about its ugly budget by hammering on Paul Ryan's plan:
'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it," wrote Saul Alinksy in his "Rules for Radicals." The White House would appear to have a copy.
His agenda stymied and his approval numbers sinking, President Obama has realized this year's midterm election is shaping up as a referendum on failed Democratic governance. The new White House plan? Change the discussion, talk about Republicans, and frighten the nation about GOP ideas.
This is the way to read Mr. Obama's sudden re-embrace of his opposition—his unexpected appearance at the House Republican retreat, and his more recent invitation to Republicans to a "bipartisan" health-care summit. And it's the way to understand the recent Democratic targeting, freezing, personalizing and polarizing of Rep. Paul Ryan. Read more…
No, Senator Grassley. Just Say No!
Liberals and Scientific Method by Mona Charen at townhall.com:
True to their mission as the organs of the liberal establishment, Time magazine and The New York Times ran stories in the midst of the great snowmaggeddon warning us against drawing any politically incorrect conclusions.
It isn't the snow outside that has discredited global warming. It's the chill the warmists have imposed on scientific inquiry. They are acting as enforcers of orthodoxy, not seekers of truth. Read more...
Want to see where California is headed? Then maybe US? Just watch Greece! Then watch what the EU does to try to save Greece. Then do the opposite! Sure hope we let California fail.
The Fallacy of "Fairness": Part IV by Thomas Sowell at townhall.com:
Mixed up with the question of fairness to individuals and groups has been the explosive question of whether individuals and groups have the innate ability to perform at the same levels, if they are all treated alike or even given the same objective opportunities.
Intellectuals have swung from one side of this question at the beginning of the 20th century to the opposite side at the end. Both those who said that achievement differences among races and classes were due to genes, in the early years of the 20th century, and those who said that these differences were due to discrimination, in the later years, ignored the old statisticians' warnings that correlation is not causation…
Fairness as equal treatment does not produce fairness as equal outcomes. The confusion between the two meanings of the same word has created enormous mischief, much of it at the expense of lagging groups, who have been distracted from the things that would enable them to catch up. And whole societies have been kept in a turmoil pursing a will o' the wisp in the name of "fairness."
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FLIP-FLOP Watch! Our 'agnostic' president about to break income tax $250,000 threshold promise?
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