Unca Darrell

NOVEMBER 20 / The one and only thing . . .

. . . you need to read to understand why President Barack Hussein Obama is doing what he is doing, why it is wrong, and how he will get away with it. By Charles C.W. Cooke:

NOVEMBER 14 / How the Houston Chronicle deliberately . . .

. . . suckered its readers, part the umpteenth.

HOUSTON CHRONICLE editors today . . .

NOVEMBER 13 / But I'd rather have this law than not

Dr. Jonathan Gruber, MIT economist, Obamacare architect, explaining how passage of Obamacare demanded lying to the stupid American people:  

It’s just, you can’t do it politically. You just literally cannot do it. Okay? . . .

NOVEMBER 12 / Finest George Friedman column I've ever read

GEORGE FRIEDMAN, chairman of Stratfor Forecasting, Inc., is not everybody's cuppa tea. It's not because he's not good at what he, Robert Kaplan, and other Stratfor analysts do, which is global intelligence. They're fabulous. It's because old-fashioned balance-of-power geopolitical analysis is out of fashion. Moralists right and left agree that realpolitik is too darned amoral, too Kissingerian, to deserve respect. And, in a way, they're right. All Stratfor-style analysts have going for them, compared to the alternatives -- neoconservatists, neoisolationists, pacifists, and all the others -- is that the Stratfordians are more often right than wrong. The others can't make that claim.  

Mr. Friedman has written more than his fair share of great columns, but the best I've ever read came yesterday: "What the Fall of the Wall Did Not Change." 

I'm not going to summarize the essay. You should read it yourself. What I will do . . .

NOVEMBER 11 / Proving the obvious . . .

. . . one more time.

Barack Hussein Obama'a approval rating today at Real Clear Politics is 41.8 percent. His approval rating on November 11, 2013, was . . .

NOVEMBER 10 / The midterms repudiated . . .

. . . BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, his policies and politics, progressivism, hard liberalism, Occupysters, faculty lounges far and wide, community organizers, Hollywood millionaires, obligatory white guilt, collegiate sophomores, fundamental transformers, and all manner of idiots, idiocy, and plain old meanness. It also repudiated . . . 

November 8 / Living Water International

LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL is a Houston-area Christian charity that drills deep water wells in Africa and elsewhere.

You and I take clean and readily available for granted. Yet millions are condemned to risk cholera and dysentery daily by drinking water from shallow and easily conteaminated hand-dug wells. Today would be a good day . . .

NOVEMBER 5 / Republican Senate candidates crushed the polls

The dust has settled. The decision is in. The GOP gained seven seats in the Senate for sure, eight when the sore loser in Alaska either gives up or is loses whatever fight he decides to mount, and a likely ninth when Louisiana holds its December 6 primary. 

Hallelujah! Repudiation city! 

Seven seats gives the GOP a 52-48 advantage, exactly what Real Clear Politics "Senate No Toss Ups" suggested. The pickups so far: Arkansas (Cotton), Colorado (Gardner), Iowa (Ernst), Montana (Daines), North Carolina (Tillis), South Dakota (Rounds), and West Virginia (Capito).

Alaska (Sullivan) is poised to fall to Republicans and, I suspect, Louisiana (Cassidy) after the December 6 primary. That will make nine, well ahead of the RCP quasi-projection. Then what happens to vulnerable Democrats like Joe Manchin of West Virginia? Will we see any party switches? 

Here are the numbers for key states, based on vote totals early this afternoon.

NOVEMBER 4 / Republicans gained in the last polls before . . .

. . . the election, but Real Clear Politics still sees the Senate race at 52-48 on the screen for "Senate No Toss Ups." 

By the way, a good screen companion while you watch the results tonight is this page, "Election 2014," also from RCP.

Here's who had momentum in the last few days of the campaign, measured from the numbers last Friday. It was mostly Republicans, but not enough to move any race out of the toss-up or leaning categories. 

NOVEMBER 3 / Right on! Right on! Right on!

"THIS ELECTION is about . . .