Unca Darrell

FEBRUARY 28 / Rush is having great fun today . . .

. . . with the new "My Brother's Keeper" program, by pointing out that . . . 

FEBRUARY 26 / The declinist thesis rests on numbers such as . . .

. . . this one: 43. 

President Obama's approval rating at Real Clear Politics -- the purveyor of political numbers trusted by Unca D -- is in the 43s, down a bit from recent 44s.

Last fall the number dipped briefly into the 39s. That's when healthcare.gov ran in the ditch. It's also when . . .

 

FEBRUARY 25 / Why Obama's raid on the military budget can't lose

IT MIGHT succeed. That's not likely. (See below.) But if he succeeds in bringing the American military down to pre-WWII levels, Mr. Obama will have fundamentally transformed [read, essentially destroyed] yet one more basic American institution.

The ideological faction of the modern American left -- the progressives who set the agenda for their party and our nation -- intensely dislikes the military. The money could be better spent, Obamistas believe, for programs to make even more Americans dependent on the welfare state. 

More likely, however, is that Republicans and vulnerable Democrats will restore some, perhaps most, of the proposed cuts. This will also help Mr. Obama and his party in several ways.

FEBRUARY 23 / Toljaso, false messiah edition

THIS QUITE USEFUL little essay by James W. Ceaser -- "The Great Disappointment of 2013: What happens when a political messiah fails?" (weeklystandard.com, March 3, 2013) -- borrows ideas from a classic text of social psychology -- the book that invented the term cognitive dissonance -- and applies them to . . .

FEBRUARY 22 / Unca D's triumphal toljaso tour continues

IN 2009 NEWSPAPERS dutifully reported President Obama's bold and deceitful claim that if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan under Obamacare.

That promise has now been exposed as a lie.

Not a mistake, folks; a lie. L. I. E. A deliberate falsehood. 

But observers with common sense -- a category that includes Unca D -- figured it out immediately. Remember this post . . .  

FEBRUARY 21 / As Venezuela falls apart . . .

. . . it's a good time to remember the longtime love affair between the news desk at the Houston Chronicle and the author of that country's misery, the late Hugo Chavez. Who can ever forget the Chavista love letter disguised as . . .

FEBRUARY 19 / Stephen Tipps's famous judge list

HARRIS COUNTY judicial elections are a challenge for even the most conscientious citizen. There are too many judges and too many candidates to keep up with. Bringing order to this chaos, as usual, is respected Baker Botts attorney Stephen G. Tipps, now retired. You could do worse than to follow his recommendations. I will. Go here: 

FEBRUARY 17 / Why the Volkswagen workers of Chattanooga . . .

. . . said no to the United Auto Workers. 

Because the unintended side effect of the UAW is a disease called . . . 

FEBRUARY 15 / Yellowstone Academy

WE'VE HAVEN'T done enough recently to support this wonderful project. Let's make up for lost time.

Yellowstone is a first-class . . .

FEBRUARY 14 / Jonathan Turley is no rightwing . . .

. . . rhetorical bomb thrower, but he is out front, loud and clear, on President Barack Hussein Obama's abuse of our precious Constitution.

"I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies," he says, "but in our system it is often [read always] as important how you do something as what you do."

These clips are startling in their force, accuracy, and clarity: